Featured Collections
Texas Cultures Online
Texas Cultures Online features local history materials from eighteen institutions depicting the diverse cultures of Texas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Burnet County Historical Commission, Anne & Mike Stewart Collection, Danish Heritage Preservation Society, Gillespie County Historical Society, Houston Metropolitan Research Center at Houston Public Library, Institute of Texan Cultures, Mexic-Arte Museum, Museum of the Big ...
Stonewall County School Annuals
Stonewall County Library presents their school annuals photographs and information about students, teachers, sports, school events and organizations. The Aspermont Independent School District yearbooks collection features 52 volumes of the Hornet from 1944 through 2000, the Old Glory School yearbooks collection features issues of The Pirate from 1941 through 1984, and the Peacock School yearbooks collection features issues of the ...
Crosby County Newspapers
The Crosby County Library presents The Crosbyton Review, a weekly newspaper that began publication on January 7, 1909, and covers local, national, and world news. The collection consists of newspaper issues held on microfilm at the Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum.
McKinney Democrat-Gazette
Representing sixteen titles, the McKinney Democrat-Gazette Collection on the Portal to Texas History spans 54 years, from 1880-1934. Published from 1884 to 1906, The Democrat comprises the bulk of the McKinney titles, of which nearly the entire run is available.
Texas Patents
The Texas Patents collection consists of United States patents filed by Texas inventors before 1900. A majority of the patents are for agricultural and industrial applications, such as seeding machines, harvesters, plows, wind and water propellers, and steam engines. Other inventions include timekeepers, remedies and firearms.
Featured Partner
Tarleton State University
Tarleton State University contributes its collection of school newspapers and serials The Texas Miner and Texas Mining and Trade Journal, published by the Texas Pacific Coal Company, that recounts company life in Thurber, Texas.