Texas Transportation Archive exists to provide free access to special collections material relating to transportation history of Texas and the surrounding states. Our primary emphasis is on railroad history, and those industries that operated their own transportation departments, such as lumber mills, mines, etc. Secondary emphasis is on the region's riverboat and stagecoach history.

TTA is non-profit in nature, and all funds go directly toward acquisition, digitization, and maintaining free access to the collections.

Employee Database
The Employee Database lists names and information on over 10,000 individuals who were employed by transportation companies or companies that operated their own transportation departments, such as the many East Texas lumber mills who routinely operated private railroads, and payrolled whole departments in their maintenance and operation. Information includes full name, duties, years of service, residence, birth and death dates, names of spouses, and in some cases, biographies and obituaries.
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Photographs
The TTA currently maintains a large collection of photographic images in the private collections of Lester Haines and Murry Hammond. Additional collections have been donated for access through the TTA, most notable of which is the sizeable collection of the late Richard W. Keeling, whose photographs and negative number into the thousands. The TTA will move Richard Keeling's entire collection online over the course of 2007 and 2008.
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Manuscripts and Maps
Searchable manuscripts include the correspondence of Richard W. Keeling, newspaper abstracts, biographies, etc. and can be searched through the main search engine. Other manuscript material such as maps, articles with illustrations, company profiles, etc. can be found through the indexes in the TTA Library.
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Genealogy Pages
TTA maintains individual county and community pages, linking to maps, photographs, directories, published articles, etc. Rare material on lumber camps and vanished communites may be found here.
>>Go to the Genealogy Index.

City Directories and Telephone Books
Historic city directories, telephone books and subscriber lists. Significant items include a large number of individual community listings abstracted from the 1914 Texas State Gazetteer and Business Directory, and Dun's Mercantile Directories from 1919 and 1923. All digitized directories are accessed through the TTA Library.

Additionally, we have a large private collection offline of approximately 300 city directories, which we will do lookups for a small donation to the Archive.
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