Formats - Photographs
The Center for American History owns more than four million photographic images spanning the period from the late 1840s to the present. Photograph collections, archives, and subject files cover in great depth and diversity such themes as ranching, the oil and natural gas industry, Mexican-American life in Texas, recreation, railroads, agriculture, domestic life, architecture, entertainment, business, and politics in the Southwest, the South, and the Rocky Mountain West and, increasingly, important national and international events beginning with the 1950s, including the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, Watergate, and conflicts in the Middle East.
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All photographs are available in the Center's Research and Collections Division, which is located in Sid Richardson Hall Unit 2 on the University's main campus in Austin. Photographs are stored in closed stacks and must be used in the James Stephen Hogg Reading Room. Inventories and guides exist to many of the discrete photograph collections and to the photographic components of archival collections available at the Research and Collections Division. A Visual Materials Index (VMI) is now searchable online, and many digital images can be searched and viewed in the Digital Media Repository (DMR). Some collections are temporarily unprocessed, closed, and/or restricted. Patrons seeking photographic reproductions from Center holdings should consult the Photoduplication Policy, Prices, and Procedure.