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This repository contains digital material from the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. A search by keyword(s) will return a list of images with information about the image, the collection in which they reside, and their call number. Each image is assigned a unique identifier that should be used when referring to the image.
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Adams, John Quincy Letter (TARO Finding Aid)
Manuscript letter from Secretary of State John Quincy Adams to President James Monroe, dated July 20, 1819, regarding the Adams-Onis Treaty.
Annas (Harry Forrest) Photographic Archive (TARO Finding Aid)
The collection consists of Annas's professional work done in Texas, including studio portraits, weddings, parades, fairs, school events, and other images of small town life.
Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive (TARO Finding Aid)
The Bob Bailey Studios Photographic Archive provides a pictorial history of life in Houston from the 1930s through the 1990s. The archive includes images of politicians and celebrities, the oil and auto industries, aerial views of downtown Houston, local movie palaces, and department stores.
Bentley (PF) Photographic Archive (TARO Finding Aid)
The archive includes 35mm negatives, contact sheets and prints from Bentley’s assignments covering Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole, and Bill Bradley. It also includes color transparencies from across his political, domestic, and international news assignments.
ExxonMobil Historical Collection (TARO Finding Aid)
Foundation and governance documents, legal agreements, correspondence and memoranda, publications, financial reports, press releases, speeches, news clippings, histories, advertising and graphics material, posters, ledgers and record books, drawings and blueprints, photographs, moving images, sound recordings, and artifacts and memorabilia document the activities and functions of four major corporate entities - Standard Oil Company, Mobil Corporation, Exxon Corporation and Exxon Mobil Corporation - and their predecessors and subsidiaries (1790-2004, bulk 1880s-1990s).
Gonzalez (Henry B.) Collection (TARO Finding Aid)
Correspondence, printed material, creative works, legal documents, financial documents, minutes, photographic materials, sound recordings, and works of art comprise the papers of Representative Henry B. Gonzalez (1950-1998, bulk 1962-1997).
Halstead (Dirck) Photographic Archive (TARO Finding Aid)
Dirck Halstead, award-winning photojournalist, has worked for United Press International and Time Magazine, and has also flourished as a freelance photographer and digital photography pioneer. He is best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War and as the Time-appointed White House Photographer for the United States Presidencies of Nixon through Clinton. The collection includes black and white and color prints (mounted and unmounted), negatives, transparencies, internegatives, slides, and manuscript materials.
Hickman (R.C.) Photographic Archive (TARO Finding Aid)
The R. C. Hickman Photographic Archive is comprised of Hickman's professional photographic work for newspapers, magazines, and the NAACP. The archive documents the social history of African Americans in Dallas during the 1940s,1950s and 1960s.
Johnson (Cynthia) Photographic Archive (TARO Finding Aid)
The archive consists of more than 130,000 images in various formats and focuses on American politics, especially American presidents and presidential candidates. Johnson primarily covered public events of the President and White House staff, such as press conferences and meetings with international leaders, as well as domestic and foreign travel of the president. The collection also includes images for features which were typically, although not exclusively, political in nature, such as portraits of American political figures or foreign presidential elections.
Lee (Russell) Photograph Collection (TARO Finding Aid)
Documentary photographer Russell Lee, born in 1903, took his first photographs in 1935. He worked for the Farm Security Administration from 1936 to 1942 and remained active in the field of documentary photography until 1977. The collection consists primarily of Lee's work after he left the federal government in 1946. Major series include a study of Spanish-speaking people of Texas (1949-1952), the Italy portfolio (1960), documentation of the campaigns of Texas senator Ralph Yarborough, and other community activities and industrial operations, mainly in Texas and the southwest.
Littlejohn (Calvin) Photographic Archive (TARO Finding Aid)
The archive consists of Littlejohn's professional work done primarily in the Fort Worth, Texas area, including studio portraits, group portraits at social gatherings, church services, school events, birthday parties, and other images of the African-American experience in North Texas.
McNamee (Wally) Photographic Archive (TARO Finding Aid)
The Wally McNamee Photographic Archive consists of more than 300,000 images in a variety of formats, including color and black and white negatives, transparencies, and prints, in addition to manuscript and printed material. The bulk of the archive is comprised of mounted 35mm color slide film.
Roberts (Bruce) Photographic Archive (TARO Finding Aid)
The images in this collection chronicle the Southern experience during a significant transitional period in its history: from the early Civil Rights years to the many signs of hope for change embodied in such social programs as Head Start, VISTA, and various rural health initiatives the 1960s and 1970s.
Runyon (Robert) Photograph Collection
The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection of the South Texas Border Area, a collection of 8,241 items, is a unique visual resource documenting the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the early 1900s. Donated by the Runyon family to the Center for American History in 1986, it includes glass negatives, lantern slides, nitrate negatives, prints, and postcards, representing the life's work of commercial photographer Robert Runyon (1881-1968), a longtime resident of South Texas. His photographs document the history and development of South Texas and the border, including the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. military presence at Ft. Brown and along the border prior to and during World War I, and the growth and development of the Rio Grande Valley.
Verkin Photo Company Collection (TARO Finding Aid)
Consists of photographs taken by the Verkin Photo Company in Galveston, Texas.
Winkelmann Photograph Collection (TARO Finding Aid)
The collection consists of photography from Winkelmann's Studio, founded by F.C. Winkelmann in Brenham, Texas, and successively operated by his son W.S. and grandson Norman. The studio primarily documented Brenham as well as communities in the surrounding Washington County area.
Wright (Tom) Photograph Collection (TARO Finding Aid)
Collection of photographs by Tom Wright, official photographer for the rock group The Who from 1967-1991, including photographs of other rock performers.