Verkin Photo Company Archive Finding Aid

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00510/cah-00510.html

This Web site is part of TARO (Texas Archival Resources Online). The Finding Aid inventories the complete collection of Verkin images housed at the Center for American History.

http://www.gthcenter.org

The Galveston Rosenberg Library has a small Verkin collection as well as a number of other online photo exhibits featuring events in Galveston’s history.

http://www.cah.utexas.edu/collections/photography.php

Web page for the photograph archives at the Center for American History. The Center for American History houses over 2 million photographic images spanning the 1840s through the present. The photographs cover a broad range of topics including ranching, oil production, Mexican American life in Texas, recreation, railroads, agriculture, domestic life, architecture, entertainment, businness, politics, the Civil Rights movement, Watergate, and conflicts in the Middle East.

http://www.pem.org/homepage/index-noflash.php

Between the years 1954–1957, the Peabody Museum acquired approximately 3,000 negatives as a gift from Paul Verkin senior. Included in this collection are images of freighters, French and German passenger liners, schooners, United States and foreign naval craft, and several other types of ships and vessels. These photos serve as an excellent record of Galveston’s sea port.

http://www.cah.utexas.edu/index.php

The main Web page for the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, home of the Verkin Photo Company Collection. As an Organized Research Unit of The University of Texas at Austin, the Center for American History facilitates, sponsors and supports teaching, research and public education in U. S. history. In support of its mission, the Center acquires, preserves, and makes available for research archival, artifact, and rare book collections and sponsors exhibitions, conferences, film and video documentaries, oral history projects, grant-funded research, and publications. The Center’s resources and services support the University’s curriculum and University faculty, student and staff research, as well as research by the general public.