Records from TDL’s Summer 2024 DPLA Harvest are now available via TxHUB and the Digital Public Library of America website.
Institutions who participate in our DPLA Aggregation Service through TxHub share their metadata records with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Every three months, those records are updated in DPLA in our quarterly harvest. TDL’s aggregation service is part of the TxHub partnership with the Portal to Texas History. This quarter, TDL members shared nearly 134,000 records with DPLA through the metadata aggregation service.
The following are some highlights from TxHub collections harvested from TDL members.
The legal status of women in Texas. Neff, Lawrence W. DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University.
SMU
Among the recent harvest, SMU Libraries added several historic Texas documents on Black history and women’s history, including The Legal Status of Woman in Texas (1905), W.E.B. DuBois’ What the Negro has done for the United States and Texas (1936), and the Negro City Directories of Dallas, 1941-1942 and 1947-1948. The directories provide key information in the study of Black Dallas History, as they contain the names, addresses, and other information about every Black person “of high school age or older, residing in the City of Dallas,” as well as a list of local and state officials; a directory of Black churches, educational institutions, and other organizations; a list of Black schools and school teachers; a classified index of Black businesses; photographs of Black Dallas residents; advertisements directed to the Black community, and more. These documents are part of the Historic Texas Imprints: Digitizing Unique and Rare Texas Publications, ca. 1836-1936 project, which was funded by a TexTreasures grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC).
Rice
Community Artists’ Collective records: This collection consists of materials related to the art shows and outreach conducted by the Community Artists’ Collective. The Collective is a Houston-based nonprofit organization, which organizes exhibitions for local artists and educational and community development programs for inner-city youths and adults. Founded in 1987 by Michelle Barnes and Dr. Sarah Trotty, the Collective was meant to serve professional artists in Houston’s African-American community, with a special emphasis on female artists.
Howard Porper collection: This collection contains a slice of Houston’s early traditional folk music history. Howard Porper was a folk musician, mainly from the years 1952-1976. He co-founded the Houston Folklore Group, which became the Houston Folklore and Music Society, with John A. Lomax, Jr., Harold Belikoff, Pete Rose, Ed Badeaux, and Chester Bower. He performed in Hootenanny’s with Ed Badeaux, John A. Lomax, Jr., Lightnin’ Hopkins, and Mance Lipscomb, as well as Pete Seeger.
Houston Asian American Archive oral histories: This is a collection of oral histories with Asians and Asian Americans who reside or have resided in the greater Houston region. They have been conducted by the Houston Asian American Archive (HAAA) since 2010. HAAA is managed by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University.
Houston Area Rainbow Collective History (ARCH) oral histories: This collection contains oral history interviews conducted by the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality at Rice University as a result of a community research project. Students conducted the interviews earning course credit and prepared for them by researching their intended subjects for a month. ARCH, the sponsor of this project, was composed of a seven member consortium whose members intended to preserve LGBTQIA+ history and improve intellectual access to materials.
We welcome you to explore all of the rich cultural heritage collections found across Texas’ libraries and archives through our TxHub website at texas.dp.la. Through this site, you can search for all TxHUB records, including those contributed by the Portal to Texas History and via TDL’s metadata aggregation service.