For more than 125 years, the University of Texas Libraries have been building a comprehensive research collection. With more than 10 million volumes and access to current digital journals, databases, and web resources, the Libraries support research, instruction, and intellectual exploration across disciplines.
Over the past two decades, the Libraries have fulfilled this mission also through digitization and digital preservation, providing online access to materials from our collections for students, researchers, scholars, educators, and the public. The items presented here, including newspapers, images, books, and maps, represent a portion of our digitized and born-digital holdings, with new materials added regularly.
The detailed information for each item includes the owning repository name.
All items have notes about rights and restrictions in their detailed information. The final determination of copyright status is up to the user. When in doubt, contact the owning repository. To find items that are more likely to be in the public domain, select “Public Domain Status” from the "Rights Status" search facet. Please also read the UT Libraries Web Material Usage Statement.
Please contact the owning repository for the item. Staff will investigate and remove the item from the discovery portal if infringement is confirmed.
Please contact the owning repository to request high resolution images.
This is currently a limitation of our portal. If you want to download an entire book or multipage item please contact the owning repository for the item to make a request. We also publish all of our IIIF manifests so that items and their metadata are portable to other IIIF viewers, where you can load and save your own local preferences and changes for items.
There can be a number of reasons why we are not able to display an item, although we still wish to share information about it. Please contact the owning repository for the item to request additional information.
Item IIIF manifests include descriptive and administrative information formatted in JSON, along with information for displaying and transforming images. We store structured metadata records for each item in an internal Digital Asset Management System. Please submit an inquiry using information from the Contact page for structured metadata needs.
Presently this is handled case-by-case by UT Libraries staff using our internal Digital Asset Management System. If you would like to pursue bulk downloads, please contact the owning repository for the items that interest you.