SHC-PrintsandPhotos
Sam Houston Center
Prints and Photographs collections
The Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center’s Prints and Photographs collections include original photographs and prints in a variety of processes and formats, including daguerreotypes, tintypes, glass plate negatives, film negatives, photographic prints, cartes de visite, slides, and transparencies. The collection also includes prints created through mechanical processes, such as engravings, lithographs, and other processes. Also present are reproduction copies such as copy prints, copy negatives, and photocopies. The majority of the Prints and Photographs collection relate to Texas government, history, individuals, and events in the 10 southeast Texas counties of Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Newton, Orange, Polk, San Jacinto, and Tyler.
The Texas Digital Archive includes only digitized items from collections. Full collection information is available in the finding aids linked in the collection overviews below and at: https://www.tsl.texas.gov/shc/index.html#Collections.
See copyright statements at the item level for more information regarding the copyright status of images. Please credit “image number, Courtesy of the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center, Texas State Library and Archives Commission” when reproducing an image.
Please contact Sam Houston Center staff at samhoustoncenter@tsl.texas.gov for more information regarding image requests.
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Greg D. Box Photograph Collection, about 1900-1910![]() Batson Oil Gusher Collector: Box, Greg D. Click here to enter the records Click here to access the online finding aid |
Don Kelly Southeast Texas Postcard Collection, about 1898-about 1997![]() Beaumont: The Town of Towns postcard Collector: Kelly, Don, 1940- Materials after 1932 are not available in the TDA due to concerns about copyright. Click here to enter the records Click here to access the online finding aid |
Jean Laffite Collection, 1773-1986, undated![]() Julius (Jules) Laffite, 1858 Creator: Laffite, Jean The collection is organized into nine series, of which the following have been digitized: Government and other official documents, Journals/Diaries, and Photographs. Click here to enter the records Click here to access the online finding aid |
Clyde and Thelma See Glass Plate Negatives Collection, about 1905-about 1920![]() Man on horseback with young child Collector: See, Clyde A. (Clyde Alan), 1922-2002 Click here to enter the records Click here to access the online finding aid |
Horald V. Watson Collection, 1917-1920s, about 1940, 1954, 1957, undated![]() Grady Barnhart and four men in Batson, Texas, oilfield Collector: Watson, Horald V., 1901-1977 Only photographs from this collection have been digitized and are part of the Texas Digital Archive. Click here to enter the records Click here to access the online finding aid |
L.J. Whitmeyer Glass Plate Negatives Collection, about 1890-about 1910![]() Group portrait in front of porch Collector: Whitmeyer, Jack, Jr., 1921-2010 Click here to enter the records Click here to access the online finding aid |