Photographs

Photographs

The photographic collection of the Institute of Texan Cultures contains over 3.5 million images, including the photo archives of the San Antonio Express-News and the San Antonio Light, with news photos spanning the early 1920s to the early 1990s. The general photo collection contains thousands of images of Texas life dating from the 20th century to the present. The Zintgraff Collection documents San Antonio life from the 1930s through 1987.

Many of the photographs included in this site are available from the general photograph collection. To view any of the listings below, click on the caption. For information about prints, call (210) 458-2298.

In Abstracts:

In Reverend Claude William Black Jr.
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1. EN1988.1.6 frame 15 Reverend Claude William Black Jr., outside Mount Zion First Baptist Church, January 1988
2. #87-117 San Antonio, 1917
3. SAL Box 3810 Sign: STATE LAW Front Seats Reserved for White Patrons, San Antonio, 1949
4. #D1 Reverend Claude William Black Jr., San Antonio, Texas, October 1999
5. #90-67 United Ku Klux Klan Meeting in Vidor, Texas, August 20, 1971
6. SAL Box 7012 Reverend Claude Black Jr.
7. EN1955.4.13 NAACP pickets outside theTexas Theater, San Antonio, April 13, 1955
8. EN 1956.1.11 Katy Depot, January 11, 1956
9. D2 The church emblem of Reverend Black's ministry

In Brigadier General Lillian Dunlap
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NOTE: NIC—not in collection

1. NIC       Brigadier General Lillian Dunlap
2. NIC       Dunlap girls with grandfather
3. NIC       The family
4. NIC       Lillian with dog
5. NIC       Lillian walking on Houston St. with boy
6. NIC       girls in camouflage
7. NIC       standing outside a tent
8. NIC       Lillian with mom
9. NIC     Pinning ceremony
10. NIC     Lillian standing by palm tree
11. NIC     Lillian with father and sister
12. NIC     Lillian promoted by two generals
13. NIC     saluting troops
14. NIC     saluting troops (far shot)
15. NIC     Lillian on camel
16. NIC     Lillian trying to get off camel
17. NIC     group shot
18. NIC     Brigadier cutting cake
19. SAL7-5-91Dr. Amy Freeman Lee
20. SAL1189   Mayor Henry Cisneros
21. NIC     Lillian helping blood donor

In Bill Finck:
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1. Bfcolorportrait abstract page
2. Bffinckwcigar&box.jpg Bill Finck
3. Bfnewspaper.jpg 1861 newspaper published by Reinhold Finck
4. BFReinholdFinck.jpg Reinhold Finck, great-grandfather of Bill Finck
5. BFHWFinck.jpg Henry William Finck, Bill’s grandfather and namesake, who started the cigar company
6. Bffirstshop.jpg First home of the Finck Cigar Company, c. 1880
7. BFcigar1.jpg Label featuring Travis Club building
8. BFcigars4.jpg Travis Club cigar box label
9. Bfcigarsign.jpg Finck Cigar sign in early San Antonio
10. BFTraviscar.jpg Travis Club decorated vehicle in a Battle of the Flowers Parade
11. BFcigar2.jpg Travis Club cigar box
12. BFcigars3.jpg Finck cigar box
13. Bfauntlaura.jpg Aunt Laura became Mother Helena, Secretary General of the Incarnate Word Order, in the mid-1930s
14. Bfemployees.jpg (Left to right) Rafaela Sanchez and Liberata Fernandez, employed by Finck Cigar Company for over seventy years
15. Bffinckxmasparty.jpg 1936 Finck Cigar Company Christmas party with 250-300 employees
16. #72-3182 Bfcigarmold.jpg Early wooden cigar mold
17. BFmanwtobacco Luis, an employee moving the bins of tobacco at the factory
18. BFEd.jpg Ed Finck, Bill’s father, at his office in the cigar factory
19. Bfxmasparty.jpg Bill, age 5, sitting on the steps to the right of center with other children
20. BFEdCuba.jpg Ed Finck buying tobacco in Cuba in 1955
21. Bftobaccofield.jpg Tobacco field, Cat Spring, Texas, 1970
22. Bfstriptobacco.jpg Employee operating tobacco-stripping machine
23. Bffinckfamily.jpg Bill Finck family, c. 1970 (Left to right) Bill holding Laura, Hilda, Caroline, Kathleen, Julie, David, and Billy
24. Bfcolorrep.jpg Bill Finck in the Texas Legislature, 1971
25. Bflegislature.jpg Bill Finck in the Texas Legislature, 1971
26. Bfelectionsign.jpg Bill Finck runs for Bexas County Treasurer and wins.

In Thelma Rawls Fletcher:
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1. Fletcher.jpg abstract page
2. ThelmaIWC.jpg Thelma at Incarnate Word
3. LittleThelma.jpg Thelma as a child with her brother Leslie on the ranch near Shafter, Texas
4. CowgirlThelma.jpg Cowgirl Thelma
5. IWCgirls.jpg Incarnate Word girls
6. #70-852 Francisco "Pancho" Villa, c. 1910-1920
7. TFPanchovilla.jpg Pancho Villa
8. Thelmachild.jpg Thelma as a young child
9. Thelmawfather.jpg (Left to right), J.F. Rawls, Thelma, Tom Rawls
10. #1508-C Judge Roy Bean in front of his Jersey Lily Saloon, c. 1900
11. #1508-B Judge Roy Bean and his children, c. 1890
12. Thelmaadobe.jpg Thelma with her horse near adobe house
13. #73-1028 Mules hauling wood in the border area
14. #76-646 Adobe building near Presidio, Texas, c. 1936
15. #93-306 Pantry of home-canned foods
16. #74-74 Rattlesnake with LOTS of babies
17. ThelmaJan1926 Thelma, January 1926
18. #9904 William D. Bloys
19. #88-64 Camp meeting in the early 1900s
20. #9911 Pushing cars across the arroyo trying to get to the camp ground revival at Skillman’s Grove
21. #70-458 Bobcat in a bed of prickly pears
22. #1341-C Women return from panther hunt, 1932
23. Zinkboots.jpg
24. Zinkfancyboots.jpg Boots by Lucchese
25. Z-1478o’hara Actress Maureen O’Hara getting fitted for Lucchese boots
26. #68-514 Adobe bricks drying in the sun
27. #76-648 Adobe bricks covered with stucco on a building near Presidio, Texas, c. 1936
28. Fletchermom.jpg Thelma’s mother at the ranch
29. Father.jpg J.F. Rawls, Thelma’s father

In Lasca Fortassain:
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1. #2108-H     Sarah Eager using a phone
2. #1534-MM Lasca Fortassain
3. #1534-NN Lasca answering the phone
4. #2199-B     Maury Maverick sworn in as mayor
5. #2203-J       model of La Villita
6. #2317-F     boys making bricks
7. #2340-G      making shutters
8. #2203-E     Cos house
9. #0752-D      lady with clocks
10. #2317-E   boy working on window
11. #1575-C   Emma Tenayuca
12. #2222-A   Emma with husband and union leader
13. #1541-L   Police on steps
14. #2222-D group with flag
15. #2224-F   people in auditorium for meeting
16. #2222-X   police with fire hoses
17. #2222-Y   boys holding hands over face
18. #2159-A   Maverick reading paper
19. #0864-D   Maverick with family and car
20. #0960-W   Maverick with FDR
21. #2108-H   Sarah Eager using a phone

In Rosa Guerrero:
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1. #99-682 Rosa Ramírez Guerrero
2. #RG-1 Rosa Ramírez Guerrero at age 3, 1937
3. #RG-2 Rosa's Ballet Folklorico performs in Washington, D.C.
4. #00C Rosa Guerrero at a festival in El Paso
5. #RG-3 Rosa at opening of El Paso elementary school named in her honor
6. #RG-4 Anne Richards and Rosa Guerrero, Texan Women Hall of Fame Induction, 1993
7. #RG-5 Rosa with dancers
8. #99-906 Back left to right: siblings Pete Jr., Nadine, and Daniel Ramírez; front left to right: Bill; Rosa, six months, sitting on the lap of her mother, Josefina Ramírez; George, c. 1935
9. #99-902 Members of the Rosa Guerrero Dance Company in an El Paso parade
10.#G-212 Rosa as a young woman

In Father Marion Habig:
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In Virginia Jones
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1. Courtesy of Jim's Restaurant, San Antonio, Texas
2. #TFF84-11F Cactus cafe booth at the Texas Folklife Festival, 1984.
3. Courtesy of Virginia and Monte Jones owners of the Cactus Cafe in Colorado City, Texas.
4. Frying the steak fingers in the Cactus Cafe booth at the 1994 Texas Folklife Festival. Courtesy of Lola Webb. Photograph by Donald r. Webb.
5. Cactus Cafe boothe at the Texas Folklife Festival. Courtesy of Lola Webb.
Photograph by Donald R. Webb.
6. All Saints Episcopal Church in Colorado City, Texas. Courtesy of Lola Webb.
7. Church members at the Cactus Cafe booth Texas Folklife Festival. Courtesy of Lola Webb. Photograph by Donald R. Webb.
8. The All Saints Episcopal Church members. Courtesy of Lola Webb.

In Travis Kuykendal
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1. NIC             Travis Kuykendal
2. TTF 1992   Kuykendal with mule
3. NIC             wagon with mules
4. 73-841       man with mules on wagon
5. NIC             box of detergent
6. TFF 1980  mule wagon at TFF
7. NIC             Travis Kuykendal with 2 white mules
8. #81-513     team of oxen outside store
9. TFF 1992  Travis with mule
10. NIC           past governor Dolph Briscoe
11.TTF 1992 Travis with his wife
12. NIC           sheriff
13. #1532-J   boys with trophies
14. NIC           border patrolman

In Dr. Isidore J. Lamothe
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1. NIC Dr. I. Lamothe
2. NIC  Dr. Lamothe in uniform
3. NIC  Dr. Lamothe and wife Grace
4. NIC The seven girls
5. NIC  Lady Bird Johnson
6. NIC Dr. Lamothe with nurse
7. NIC Dr. Lamothe during filming with Bill Moyers
8. 73-1032 U. S. Representative Barbara Jordan
9.       NIC    Dr. Lamothe with Ross Perot, Jr.
10. NIC  Dr. Lamothe speaking at White House Conference
11. NIC  In boy scout uniform

In Athol Ofsowitz
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1. #97 -8150 Athol Ofsowitz.
2. #097-801 Joshua Furman reading the Torah at his bar mitzvah, May 28, 1994.

In Frank O'Sullivan
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NOTE: NIC-Not in Collection
WOH-With Oral History

1. NIC, WOH Captain Frank O'Sullivan
2. NIC, WOH Frank O'Sullivan
3. #1559-A President Roosevelt's visit to Galveston, Texas
4. NIC, WOH Captain O'Sullivan pointing out molecular diagrams
5. #85-650 German scientists and technicians in Ft. Bliss, 1947
6. #0959-Q President and Mrs. Roosevelt in San Antonio, Texas, 1936
7. NIC, WOH Captain O'Sullivan in his office
8. #3050E Coffee service at a commissary
9. #2644-B Henry Wallace, U.S. vice-president-elect, 1941
10. NIC, WOH Cartoon showing the offensive in the Pacific Ocean
11. NIC, WOHColonel Frank O'Sullivan today

In Amado M. Peña, Jr.
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All images used in this oral history are courtesy of Amado Peña, Jr. None are available in the ITC collection.

In Emma Tenayuca:
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1. #1540-A Detail of Emma with workers
2. #2156-F A happy Emma
3. #75-774 Franciso Indelecio Madero in Juárez, Mexico, with his wife, c. 1922
4. #0001-D Governor "Ma" Ferguson, first elected female governor in the United States, 1925-27 and 1933-35, c. 1924
5. #90-67 United Ku Klux Klan in Vidor, Texas, August 20, 1971
6. #1541-D Emma at rally on the steps of City Hall, leading a rally against worker injustices
7. #0015-D Samuel Gompers, c 1924
8. BFEd Ed Finck, President Finck Cigar Company in the 1930s and 1940s
9. #1759-B Women shelling pecans by hand at the Southern Pecan Shelling Company during the pecan strike, February 13, 1938
10. #1759-G Policeman Pérez arresting a man during the pecan shellers' strike for blocking the sidewalk, February 11, 1938
11. #1739-F María del Refugio Ozuna, age 13, and Mrs. San Juan Gonzales, age 77, shelling pecans at the Southern Pecan Shelling Company, January 17, 1938
12. #0023-P Pecan strikers near the National Pecan Shelling Company, striking for wage increases, July 31, 1934
13. #1575-D Emma Tenayuca at 21, national committeewoman for the Workers Alliance of America, in jail for disturbing the peace in connection with the WPA sit-in, June 30, 1937
14. #1542-L City Police called out to evict Workers Alliance, April 27, 1937
15. #1541-J Members of the Workers Alliance stage a "sit-down" strike at City Hall, protesting the city's refusal to grant a permit to parade, April 27, 1939
16. #1739-E E. Gonzalez and Pete Torres breaking pecans with a lever-operated cracker at the Southern Pecan Shelling Company, January 17, 1938
17. #2223-B Emma with husband Homer Brooks and Elizabeth Benson attempting to hold a Communist Party meeting before a riot broke out, August 25, 1939
18. #01540 Emma Tenayuca organizing the Workers Alliance of America members in protest of beatings by the Borer Patrol, February 24, 1937
18. #1540-A Emma with other women in the Women's League for Peace and Freedom preparing tortillas to feed 1,000 striking pecan workers, February 9, 1938
20. #2156-B Emma with friends arriving at a train station after attending a Communist Party meeting, June 8, 1939
21. #1662-A Wedding of Emma and Homer Brooks, c. 1938
22. #1006-B Emma, at 19, waiting to see Mayor Charles K. Quin about better facilities to distribute relief supplies, July 16, 1936
23. #1662-C Emma, an official of the Workers Alliance, at City Jail being "booked" in connection with the pecan shellers' strike, January 31, 1938

In Jaston Williams
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NOTE: NIC = not in collection

1. NIC Jaston Williams
2. NIC Petey Fisck  Courtesy of the Greater Tuna Corporation
3. NIC    Michael Martin Murphy Courtesy of Wildfire Productions
4. NIC   Charlene Bumiller  Courtesy of the Greater Tuna Corporation
5. NIC  Caricature of Jaston Williams and Joe Sears Courtesy of the Greater Tuna Corporation
6. NIC Jaston with John Henry Falk Courtesy of Jesse Herrera
7. 83-153 Govenor Dolph Briscoe
8. NIC  Joe Sears and Jaston Courtesy of the Greater Tuna Corporation
9. 81-533 George Bush, Sr.

In Neal Wright
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NOTE: NIC--Not in Collection
WOH--With Oral History

1. NIC, WHO Mr. Wright spreading mayhawl flat mud on a cypress frame.
2. NIC, WOH Mr. Wright molding the mud and horsehair mixture.
3. NIC, WOH Log cabin
4. NIC, WOH Mr. Wright as a young man.
5. #0027-F Men rounding up pigs.
6. #0036-E Man holding pigs in stockyard.
7. #70-476 Rattlesnake
8. NIC, WOH Mr. Wright sitting on a fallen tree in Big Thicket.
9. #0348-B Girl holding her pet pig.