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African American Photograph Collections

collage of several military portraits

The Photograph Collection contains images from the 1800s to the present, documenting all aspects of life in Texas, with an emphasis on Houston. The digital collections represent a range of subjects from within the archive's physical holdings. This is not an exhaustive list of the images held within the manuscript and photograph archives of the African American History Research Center.

Burns Family - PH 0022

The Burns Family collection contains images of individual family members during the 1800s-1950s.

Bonner Family - PH 0028

The Bonner Family collection consists of various images of the Bonner family descendants in Houston and Chicago from the 1930s- 1980s.

Ora L. Gibbs - PH 0031

The Ora L. Gibbs collection consists of images of descendants of Ora Gibbs and various newspaper clippings.