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Verkin Photo Company Collection
The Verkin Photo Company was located in the city of Galveston, Texas, but also conducted business in the surrounding area including Texas City and parts of East Texas. Photographers included Paul Verkin and his three sons. The majority of photographs in this collection represent daily life in Galveston throughout the first half of the 20th century (1900–1945). Many also document its famous events such as the 1900 and 1915 hurricanes. 
Yarborough campaign onlookers. The Russell Lee Photograph Collection
The Center for American History is proud to present an online version of our traveling exhibit of photographs by renowned documentary photographer Russell Lee. Drawn from the magnificent archive that he donated to the Center just prior to his death in 1986, this exhibit offers a rare glimpse into the remarkably accomplished images he produced in 1935 and 1936 when he first took up a camera and goes on to highlight the vast body of important work that Lee produced from 1947 through 1977.  
Calvin Littlejohn self-portriat (e_cl_0173) Calvin Littlejohn Photographic Archive
For nearly six decades, Calvin Littlejohn photographed the African–American community in and around Fort Worth, documenting its political, spiritual, and even recreational aspects.  His vast collection of portraits, dating from the mid-1940s, as well as his close association with area schools, further provide a rich visual account of this community following World War II.
Portrait of Iris Meeks and family (DI 01214) The Harry Forrest Annas Photograph Collection
Harry Annas, the "town photographer" of Lockhart, Texas, from the 1930s through the 1970s, spoke of the variety of life he documented—"Portraits from glamour girls to family groups, meetings, parades, school pictures, everything, we took them all."
R.C. Hickman photograph of NAACP meeting The R.C. Hickman Photographic Archive
The photographs of R.C. Hickman, which document Dallas news events and include photographs of nationally popular entertainers and Dallas nightclubs, schools and universities, funerals, and notable Dallas citizens.
Jimmie Dodd photograph The Jimmie Dodd Photograph Collection
Commercial photographer Jimmie A Dodd’s images of Kingsville, the King Ranch, Kleberg County and other Texas subjects, 1937–1966.
Almetris Duren with group A Gift of Love: A Celebration of the Life of Almetris Marsh Duren, 1910–2000
Pena Death "To Whom Was This Sacrifice Useful?": The Texas Revolution and the Narrative of José Enrique de la Peña"
Alamo Texas, Texans and the Alamo
 Rhone The Rhone Family of Fayette County, Texas
Runyon

The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection of the South Texas Border Area - Part of the Library of Congress American Memory Project