A gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas.
About the Portal Take a Tour DonateThe catalogs and bulletins of Abilene Christian University describe the governance, history, course offerings, and campus life of the university …
The Ballinger Daily Ledger, The Banner-Ledger, and The Ballinger Ledger represent Runnels County and the county seat of …
These materials focus on World War II and the immediate postwar period of the late 1940s. In addition to materials …
The Sanger Area Newspaper Collection hosts the Sanger Courier, the first newspaper published in this city, starting in 1900, …
The City of Galveston Development Services Department has a collection of slides of buildings located in the Lost Bayou Historic District. The slides are associated with the historic building survey which resulted in the designation of the area as a historic district. The Lost Bayou Historic District is the only one of our four historic districts that has documentation of the buildings immediately before the designation of the area as a historic district. The Lost Bayou Historic District consists of more modest structures than the other locally designed historic districts. The area served as housing for immigrant and working‐class families.
The UNT Libraries recently published Through the Lenses of Ray Bankston and Don Shugart, a captivating sample of the extensive collection of prints and negatives held in the Libraries’ Special Collections.
Ray Bankston and Don Shugart were two of the most prolific photographers of American Quarter Horses and horse show events in the South and Southwest during the last four decades of the twentieth century.
Their work is also featured in The Portal to Texas History’s Ray and Joyce Bankston Dalco Photography and Don Shugart Photography Collections.
Hundreds of years of Texas' cultural heritage exist in the physical holdings of communities across the state. The Portal seeks to digitize originals, preserving and presenting online copies for the long-term. Doing so highlights hidden collections, builds statewide connections, and provides access to you, regardless of the time or your location.
Texas History for Teachers provides Texas social studies teachers access to evidence-based historical content and resources for teaching Texas history, with all content mapped to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards.
Find Teaching MaterialsLearners of all ages can use TDNP to stand in the shoes of people from over 180 years ago to the present. Through our newspaper collection, we provide an understanding of the lives of Texans across history and miles.
About the Program"The newspaper digitization project places our library in position to reach out toward the future. By taking a piece of the past and bringing it with us, we are sure to grow and learn, appreciate and respect what was, what is and what will be."
Leslie Whitaker, Claude Public Library
The Portal to Texas History periodically offers mini-grants for its Rescuing Texas History series. Each grant provides up to $1,000 of digitization services to libraries, museums, historical societies, and other groups that house historical materials. All of the materials are scanned at UNT Libraries and hosted on the Portal.
Submit a Project"I collect old Texas photographs. Thanks to the Portal, they can now be viewed by the world."
Brad Willis — T. B. Willis Photograph Collection
Last month, we counted 1,206,416 uses of items on the Portal by people all over the world. Many were provided by small communities and funded by the generosity of donors like you.
Information for libraries, museums, schools, historical societies, civic groups, and individuals interested in the digital preservation and sharing of cultural heritage materials on this site.
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Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
