The Austin Files Biography collection includes photographs of persons who have lived in Austin and Central Texas.
The Austin Files House Building collection includes content cataloged by address or street name.
The Subject Files document many parts of life in Austin including our cityscape, schools, churches, libraries, cultural groups, natural resources, streets and highways, organizations, and social and cultural issues.
The Austin History Center houses over 1,200 manuscript collections that contain the papers and records of City and County departments, local families, civic organizations, businesses, and institutions. These valuable primary research materials fill more than 3,000 linear feet of boxes. Additionally, many of our collection guides can now be found on ArchivesSpace: https://ahc.access.lyrasistechnology.org/
The Austin History Center has more than one thousand maps of Austin and Travis County from the mid-1800s to the present. These maps illustrate the City’s changing size and shape over the years and offer invaluable clues to the history of structures and landmarks long since gone from our landscape.
Digitized and born-digital collections cataloged with the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Materials include City of Austin records and reports, as well as, published works.
