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Texas
 Websites presented in alphabetical order The 1900 Storm: Galveston Island, Texas 
 This site provides information about and images of the hurricane and tidal wave of September 1900 in southeast Texas. Includes contemporary film clips and photographs of the aftermath, statistics, the work of the American Red Cross under the leadership of Clara Barton, personal accounts, and recommended reading and websites. From the Galveston County Daily News. http://www.1900storm.com Topics: Hurricane Katrina, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place, Weather Last updated Apr 27, 2006 The American Southwest: A Guide to the National Parks and Natural Landscapes of Southwest USA
This travel site covers national parks and related natural wonders in Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and California, including the Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, Carlsbad Caverns, and Yosemite, among many others. Though the information is brief and there are no links provided to the official sites for each park, there are photographs and some maps making it a good starting place for people planning a trip through the Southwest. Information is also provided on state parks and related areas of interest. http://www.americansouthwest.net/ Topics: Geography, Geology, Parks, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. Travel Last updated Jan 21, 2002 Bonfire of Liberties
An exhibit about the history of censorship in the humanities, complete with photos, illustrations, and political cartoons. From the Texas Council for the Humanities. http://www.humanities-interactive.org/literature/bonfire/ Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Social Issues Last updated Sep 20, 2004 Border Studies: Texas-Mexico Border
An exhibit of "36 photographic studies of people and places along the Texas-Mexico border, from El Paso/Juárez to Brownsville/Matamoros." This exhibit displays a series of maps showing how the border has moved over time and continues with contemporary images of both sides of the border. There are related readings and learning activities. http://www.humanities-interactive.org/borderstudies/border_studies_exhibit/exhibitindex.html Topics: Photograph Collections: Regional, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Nov 2, 2001 Claudette Goux: Places of Worship, Vernacular Churches in Houston and Los Angeles
An exhibit of 20 contemporary photographs of "vernacular churches in the inner city neighborhoods of Houston and Los Angeles," taken by Claudette Goux. Includes brief essay. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/goux/ Topics: Architecture, Christianity, Museums, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Jun 10, 2006 The Dust Bowl
An exhibit "featuring Documentary Photographs from the Farm Security Administration file and Companion Photographs taken in the late 1970s by Bill Ganzel," with "texts adapted from oral history interviews with Dust Bowl Survivors." Includes learning activities for students and lesson guides for teachers. http://www.humanities-interactive.org/texas/dustbowl/ Topics: Agriculture, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, United States History, Weather Last updated Dec 19, 2008 An Introduction and Virtual Geologic Field Trip to the Permian Reef Complex, Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains, New Mexico-West Texas
"A virtual field trip to the classic Permian reef complex and other geologic features of the Guadalupe Mountains" of west Texas and southeastern New Mexico, where 250 million-year-old, salt-dwelling bacteria were found in 2000. This site contains "an introduction plus several roadlogs with diagrams, photographs, and movies, as well as an extensive bibliography." Written for college-level geology students. From New Mexico Tech. http://geoinfo.nmt.edu/staff/scholle/guadalupe.html Topics: Geography, Outdoor Recreation, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Mar 17, 2005 Key Deer Research Project
"Key deer, the smallest of all white-tailed deer, is a subspecies of the Virginia white-tailed deer." These deer live only in the Florida Keys. The site presents information about a study of "the effect of urban development on Key deer movements, habitat use, and behavior" that employs radio-telemetry ("radio transmitters attached to collars") to track animals. Includes fact sheets and photographs. From Texas A&M University. http://apc.tamu.edu/keydeer/ Topics: Animals, Mammals, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Mar 26, 2004 Lone Star Junction
An "on-line resource about Texas and its early history." Includes brief biographies of pre-1900 notable Texans, a timeline of important events, information on the major settlements at the time of the Republic, documents and full-text books about Texas and the Southwest, songs, photos, a family register for genealogists, and more. (Note: "Texians" database not working). http://www.lsjunction.com/ Topics: Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place Last updated Apr 10, 2009 Migrant Labor Camps (Texas, Date Unknown)
Digitized photographs, with annotations, documenting conditions in Texas migrant labor camps in the 1930s. From The George I. Sánchez Papers, Benson Latin American Collection of The University of Texas at Austin. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/photodraw/sanchez/migrant_camps.html Topics: Agriculture, Labor, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Apr 23, 2002 National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame
"The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame [in Fort Worth, Texas,] honors and documents the lives of women who have distinguished themselves while exemplifying the pioneer spirit of the American West." The site includes information and photographs of the nearly 200 honorees in the Hall of Fame. Includes annotated bibliographies on cowgirls, African American women and the American west, horses, artist Bob Wade, and more. Also includes a virtual tour of the museum. http://www.cowgirl.net Topics: Mammals, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, United States History Last updated Jan 31, 2005 Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery
A searchable collection of images to assist with the identification of plants. Currently 600 species of vascular plants are available including those of grasses and grasslike plants; forbs; and trees, shrubs, and woody vines. Browse by common, family, and scientific names. Information may include species and family names, longevity, season, origin, height, the flowering period, and a brief description. Photographs are mostly of plants found in Oklahoma and Texas. http://www.noble.org/WebApps/PlantImageGallery/Index.aspx Topics: Biology, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Plants, Plants by Name, Science, Science Last updated Sep 17, 2009 The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection
A collection of over 8,000 photographs (including glass negatives, lantern slides, nitrate negatives, prints, and postcards) of South Texas and the Mexican border, taken by commercial photographer Robert Runyon. Features images of the Mexican Revolution, Fort Brown, and the Rio Grande Valley. Searchable by keyword and browsable by subject. Also contains a brief biography of Runyon and maps of the lower Rio Grande region. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/runyon/ Topics: History By Place, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, U.S. History By Place Last updated Oct 16, 2009 Southwest Jewish Archives
"Dedicated to collecting and recording the dramatic history of pioneer Jews in the Desert Southwest, covering Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas," including the Crypto-Jews who trace "their family histories back to Spain and Portugal." Features materials on Jewish pioneers, railroad builders, ranchers, and merchants; synagogues and religious objects; Crypto-Jews; finding aids for the archive's collections; and transcripts of over 20 oral histories. Includes photographs. From the University of Arizona. http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/bloom/ Topics: History, History By Place, Judaism, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Dec 24, 2004 Vascular Plant Image Library
This site contains thousands of plant images. Access is by family-level browsing (Latin names) or by string query search. From the Digital Flora of Texas Project at Texas A&M University. http://botany.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm Topics: Biology, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Plants, Science, Science Last updated Jan 19, 2009 The Vietnam Project
"In addition to its mission of collecting materials concerning Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and Southeast Asia, the Vietnam Archive currently administers two projects, the Oral History Project and the Virtual Vietnam Archive." The site features oral histories, documents (such as official military records) and photographs. Also includes operations and acronyms databases. Searchable. From Texas Tech University. Note: Some material not available online due to copyright/donor restrictions. http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/ Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Mar 17, 2004 |
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