[African American Military][WWI] Muller, William G. The Twenty-Fourth Infantry (1923) documents the service of a Black regiment in the United States Army, tracing its development from Reconstruction through the Mexican Border War. Written by Captain William G. Muller, the volume situates the regiment’s origins in the 1869 consolidation of the.....
Wakefield, Ben. U.S. field artillery soldier, photograph archive documenting National Guard mobilization and artillery training at the United States–Mexico border during the Border War, created in El Paso, Texas and surrounding areas in 1917. The photographs record the service of Ben Wakefield of Toledo, Ohio, a member of Battery C......
Photographic archive documenting U.S.–Mexico border conditions during the Mexican Revolution period, capturing American military presence, cross-border observation, and recorded instances of violence in northern Mexico between approximately 1908 and 1915. The group includes a real photo postcard captioned “Triple execution in Mexico,” presenting direct visual evidence of execution practices during.....
This compelling photo archive consists of 22 real photo postcards, most with white-ink captions in the negative, depicting U.S. soldiers, Mexican Federal troops, executions, trench-warfare scenes, and cross-border skirmish zones along the Rio Grande during the Mexican Revolution and the U.S.–Mexican Border War of the 1910s. Printed in sepia and.....
[Mexico] [Border Wars] United States and Mexican Border War photograph archive, circa 1914-1916, documents military operations and occupation scenes produced during the period of armed confrontation between the United States and revolutionary Mexico in the years surrounding the Mexican Revolution. Created during the escalation of cross border conflict that followed.....
Photographic archive of fifty-six vernacular images dating circa 1940–1945 documents African American family life during World War II, including military service, higher education, interstate travel, and middle-class domestic stability. Taken by and of members of a single family, the photographs situate Black civilian and military experience within the broader wartime.....
Japanese woman’s photo album documenting postwar family formation with an American serviceman between Japan and Texas directly following World War II. Centered on an unidentified Japanese woman later associated in the album with someone of the surname Lawson, the album follows her from youthful portraits and family scenes in Japan.....
African American school and youth education photographs dating from the early twentieth century through the 1940s document the institutional development of Black education during the era of segregation in the United States. The images record students and teachers in grade schools, college classrooms, and organized youth programs, illustrating the growth.....
[World War I] Fort Bliss soldier training and camp life photo album from El Paso, ca. 1918, recording the rapid wartime expansion of a border post into a large World War I training environment through tent rows, drill formations, truck convoys, gas-mask instruction, and group portraits of enlisted men in.....
[Texas History][Borderlands] U.S.-Mexico borderlands photograph album, 1905-1906, centered on El Paso and Juárez, with additional views in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, and Alaska. The album documents an early twentieth-century traveler’s movement through the southern border of the U.S., when El Paso and Ciudad Juárez were being promoted through rail.....
[US Colored Troops] [Civil War] Roll of Honor government publications issued by the United States Quartermaster General’s Office between 1866 and 1867 record the names and burial locations of Union soldiers who died in service during the American Civil War. These volumes document the sacrifice of both white and African.....
Brewer, John Mason. Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants documents African American political leadership during Reconstruction and preserves biographical accounts of Black legislators who held office in Texas following the Civil War. Published in 1935, the work situates these individuals within the broader transformation of Southern governance during Reconstruction.....
Unidentified press photographers, nine photographs of Texas prison facilities, 1961 to 1985, document incarceration practices, prison labor, and rehabilitation programs within mid to late twentieth century American penal systems. The images span multiple institutions, including facilities in Seagoville, Huntsville, Goree, and Sugar Land, and record both routine confinement and structured.....
Camp Mabry and Texas personal photo album documenting prewar military camps, domestic and civic life in Austin and San Antonio, Arkansas political rally activity, and Mexico in 1936 and 1937, with direct evidence of how one compiler moved between troop grounds, private homes, city streets, and cross border travel before.....
[Texas History][Industrial Disaster] Texas City Disaster photo archive, documenting search and recovery work, emergency relief, and widespread damage after the Grandcamp and High Flyer explosions, the 1947 catastrophe that became the deadliest industrial accident in United States history and a defining early test of the Federal Tort Claims Act. The.....
[War on Drugs] Press photographs of drug enforcement, addiction treatment, and anti-violence intervention in Houston, New Orleans, and El Paso, 1970-1992, documenting how the War on Drugs functioned across policing, rehabilitation, public messaging, and newspaper circulation. Several prints retain typed caption slips, assignment sheets, and Houston Chronicle stamps, locating the.....
Sánchez, Ricardo. Canto y Grito Mi Liberación (y lloro mis desmadrazgos.) established its author as a major voice in Chicano poetry and stands as an early and forceful statement of carceral experience, political self-fashioning, and cultural insurgency within the Chicano Movement. Published in 1971, shortly after Sánchez’s years of incarceration.....
[African American] [Latino History] [Criminal Justice] [Photography] Unidentified press photographers, War on Drugs photographs, 1974 to 1992 document law enforcement operations, arrests, and media coverage of drug enforcement in Texas during the expansion of federal and local anti narcotics campaigns. Produced for newspaper circulation by the Houston Chronicle and the.....
Two way telegram exchange reporting early news of the shooting of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. The document records a live transatlantic communication between a passenger aboard a French Line ship at sea and a correspondent in the United States during the first hours after the assassination.....
[Texas] [Labor History] [Environmental History] [Photography] Unidentified photographer, Texas oil field photographs, circa 1970s document petroleum extraction, industrial labor, and land transformation in the American Southwest during a period of sustained energy production and infrastructure expansion. The images provide direct visual evidence of drilling operations, mechanical systems, and work crews.....
Texas City disaster press photographs recording emergency treatment, industrial fire, body recovery, and civic mourning in Texas City, Texas, in the immediate aftermath of the April 16, 1947 port explosions. The SS Grandcamp, loaded with 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer manufactured from surplus WWII munitions material and bound for.....
Anonymous photographs of Black nannies caring for white children, produced c. 1920s–1940s, document the racialized structure of domestic labor in the United States during the Jim Crow period and provide primary-source evidence for the study of African American women’s work, childcare, and social relations within white households. The images show.....
Severin, Florence H. “World Peace” drawing and associated photographic materials of American soldiers, produced 1910s–1920s, document United States military experience during World War I and its immediate aftermath, providing primary-source evidence for the study of wartime service, propaganda imagery, and soldier life across both European and domestic settings. The archive.....
Photo archive of 11 silver gelatin photographs depicting drilling crews, derricks, lease camps, well stimulation, pumpers, machinery suppliers, and industrial worksites associated with the Salt Flat Oil Field (originally known as the Bruner Field) near Luling, Caldwell County, Texas, during the peak of the 1929 oil boom and the years.....
Press photograph archive, 1935–1978, documenting the transformation of ranching in Texas across the twentieth century, with emphasis on livestock management, environmental conditions, and shifting labor systems. The images include scenes of cattle herding, bison and cattle enclosed together, and ranch operations at varying scales, alongside evidence of severe weather events.....
