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Official Texas Historical Marker resource list

Texas Historical Commission:

THC marker webpage:

THC Texas Historic Sites Atlas:

THC Marker Toolkit:

TexShare databases: (b&w Sanborn maps, Census, etc.)

UT-Austin PCL map collection:

(color Sanborns) (search “PCL Sanborn maps”)

(topographic maps) (search “PCL topo maps”)

Soil maps (Portal to Texas History; Cushing Library, Texas A&M University)

Earth Explorer (USGS)

General Land Office: (maps and land patents)

Texas Secretary of State records: , , :”Texas.+Secretary+of+State”)

TxDOT photo library:

Internet Archive: (Texas business directories, state agency reports, etc.)

Texas WPA photos:

Farm Securities Administration/Office of War Information photos:

FamilySearch main website: (genealogy)

FamilySearch historical record collections:

Texas death index, 1890-1976:

Texas death index, 1903-2000:

Texas State Library and Archives Commission:

Census records:

Texas digital archive:

Portal to Texas History:

Institute of Texan Cultures digital collections:

Fisk University Rosenwald Database:

Elmer J. Edwards Collection:

Texas Archival Resources Online:

Index of Texas Archeology:

Center for Archeological Research collection:

Texas Physicians Historical Database:

AMA Deceased Physicians File:

The Library of Congress: American Memory:

National Archives and Records Administration:

ArchiveGrid:

Chronicling America:

Lawrence T. Jones III – Texas Photographs (SMU):

Architecture guidebooks include:

A Field Guide to American Houses. Virginia and Lee McAlester. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.

A Visual Dictionary of Architecture. Francis D. K. Ching. New York: Wiley, 1996.

American Shelter. Lester Walker. Woodstock NY: Overlook Press, 1996.

The Houses We Live In. Jeffery Howe, general editor. London: PRC Publishing, 2002.

THC Historical Markers Program team

Bob Brinkman Lynnette Cen Sarah McCleskey

512.463.8769 512.463.6063 512.463.4149

bob.brinkman@thc. lynnette.cen@thc. sarah.mccleskey@thc.

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