Represents a complete set of air images commissioned by the City of Dallas and photographed by Sherman Mills Fairchild in October of 1930 flying out of Love Field. SMU's Edwin J. Foscue Map Library retains in its collections all but eight of the original 93 images, as well as a photo image of the master grid map.
Contains several thousand items from the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection, which contains photographs, postcards, ephemera, family collections, documents, postal history, and three-dimensional objects.
Dallas Newspapers
Over time newspapers' names may change. The Dallas Morning News was known as the The Dallas Times Herald from 1954-1991. To find all Dallas newspapers we have access to, use "Dallas (Tex.) -- Newspapers" in the Subject field of the Library Search.
Free online access (1989-2011), this publication is devoted to the history of Dallas and North Central Texas as a way to examine the many historical social, ethnic, cultural, and political legacies that have shaped the modern city and surrounding area.
Preserves and protects collections of written, visual and audible materials that document the history of the Dallas Jewish community, and makes these materials available to the public and researchers.
The collection of materials at this division of the Dallas Public Library is one of the largest of its kind in the nation. Holdings span many aspects of the diverse history of not only Dallas and the surrounding area, but the entire state of Texas.
Includes approximately 10,000 items pertaining to the history of Fort Worth and Tarrant County. These items include city and county government documents, newspapers, directories, cemetery association records, maps as well as popular and scholarly books written by local authors or about local subjects.
This branch, located in Fort Worth, holds historical records that date from the 1800s to the late 1900s and include letters, photographs, maps, architectural drawings, and other documents received from over 100 Federal agencies and courts in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. Highlights include NASA's records and records of the Dawes Act.
