In this Book
- Lens on the Texas Frontier
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Texas A&M University Press
summary
Photographs of Texas’ frontier past are valuable as both art and artifact. Recording not only the lives and surroundings of days gone by, but also the artistry of those who captured the people and their times on camera, the rare images in Lens on the Texas Frontier offer a documentary record that is usually available to only a few dedicated collectors.
In this book, prominent collector Lawrence T. Jones III showcases some of the most interesting and historically important glimpses of Texas history included among the five thousand photographs in the collection that bears his name at the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University. One of the nation’s most comprehensive and valuable Texas-related photography collections, the Lawrence T. Jones III Collection documents all aspects of Texas photography from the years 1846–1945, including rare examples of the various techniques practiced from its earliest days in the state: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and paper print photographs in various formats.
The selections in the book feature cartes de visite, cabinet cards, oversized photographs, stereographs, and more. The subjects of the photos include Confederate and Union soldiers and officers in the Civil War; Mexicans, including ranking military officials from the Mexican Revolution; and a wide spectrum of Texan citizens, including African American, Native American, Hispanic, and Caucasian women, men, and children.
In this book, prominent collector Lawrence T. Jones III showcases some of the most interesting and historically important glimpses of Texas history included among the five thousand photographs in the collection that bears his name at the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University. One of the nation’s most comprehensive and valuable Texas-related photography collections, the Lawrence T. Jones III Collection documents all aspects of Texas photography from the years 1846–1945, including rare examples of the various techniques practiced from its earliest days in the state: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and paper print photographs in various formats.
The selections in the book feature cartes de visite, cabinet cards, oversized photographs, stereographs, and more. The subjects of the photos include Confederate and Union soldiers and officers in the Civil War; Mexicans, including ranking military officials from the Mexican Revolution; and a wide spectrum of Texan citizens, including African American, Native American, Hispanic, and Caucasian women, men, and children.
Table of Contents

- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Lens on the Texas Frontier
- Photographs from the Lawrence T. Jones III Collection
- Cartes de Visite
- pp. 45-64
- Stereographs
- pp. 65-104
- Cabinet Cards
- pp. 105-130
- Large-Format Mounted Photographs
- pp. 131-138
- A Collector’s Journey
- On Collectors and Collecting
- pp. 141-150
- Appendix 1: Unlisted Texas Photographers
- pp. 151-170
- Back Cover
- p. BC
Additional Information
ISBN
9781623491475
Related ISBN(s)
9781623491239
MARC Record
OCLC
869736247
Pages
224
Launched on MUSE
2014-04-08
Language
English
Open Access
No