Photographs and Graphics

Special Collections documents the history of the North Texas region visually in its millions of negatives, thousands of prints and slides, hundreds of glass plate negatives, and a selection of daguerreotypes. 

Notable image collections are the photo archives of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and of commercial photographers W.D. Smith, Jack White, Squire Haskins, and Basil Clemons. The collections of J.W. Dunlop and the Arlington Citizen-Journal focus on Arlington history.  

Photographs are also found in numerous family, labor, and political collections and in the UTA Photograph Collection and UTA News Service Photograph Collection.

Graphics collections include engravings, lithographs, posters, sheet music, and other works of art depicting the Republic of Texas, the U.S. - Mexico War, and the early period of Texas statehood. Postcard collections illustrate buildings and landscapes of Texas cities, ca. 1903-1990s. 

Collection guides for the photograph collections are hosted on ArchiveSpace.