The Journal of the Life and
Culture of San Antonio
Tim Draves, Editor
San Antonio
Online Research Sources
1. Handbook of Texas online brief entries, 500 to 2000 words, over 1000 San
Antonio topics:
a. San Fernando de Bexar,
b. San Antonio Herald,
c. San Antonio Art League
d. See http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/index.html
2. Southwestern Historical Quarterly—in depth scholarly works and primary
sources, 1896 to 1997.
a. A young woman’s view of 1850s San Antonio, “Emma Altgelt’s
Sketches of Life in Texas;”
b. The Influence of Immigrant Germans: “Sankt Antonious: Germans
in the Alamo City in the 1850s,”
c. A social survey under Mexican rule: "Bexar: Profile of a Tejano
Community, 1820-1833” (De la Teja and Wheat)
d. See http://www.tshaonline.org/shqonline/index.html
3. The Journal of the Life and Culture of San Antonio
www.uiw.edu/sanantonio
a. “Arise at Once”: The Drive for Prohibition In San Antonio During the
First World War
b. “Mary Menger “
c. “Fritos in the Hands of the Doolin Family”
d. See www.uiw.edu/sanantonio Click “publications”
4. Google Books:
a. San Antonio de Bexar: A Guide and History, by William Corner 1890 - 166 pages - Full view
b. With the Makers of San Antonio, by Frederick Charles Chabot1937 - 412 pages - Snippet view
c. History and legends of the Alamo: and other missions in and
around San Antonio, by Adina de Zavala-- 1917 - 219 pages – Full
View
d. See Google Home Page, More (drop down menu), & click “ Books”.
Enter search terms, either book title, or subject term.
5. Bexar County Clerk: historic deeds, oldest handwritten, yet available
online in original script.
See http://www.countyclerk.bexar.landata.com/ Register for a user name;
access “Bexar County - 1837 - 1963 Historical Records”
6. Amon Carter Museum: digitalized versions of Koch’s Birdseye Views of
San Antonio 1873 & 1886.
See http://www.birdseyeviews.org/browse.php?artist_search=Koch ;
scroll to San Antonio
7. Express News Archives on Proquest: 1989-2008. At San Antonio Public
Library webpage, “Databases”
See http://www.sat.lib.tx.us/webcatalog/online_dbs.asp?ip=out&db=
Scroll to “Texas”; click “San Antonio Express News”
8. UT Tyler: transcriptions of Civil War news accounts,
See http://www.uttyler.edu/vbetts/newspaper_titles.htm
scroll to newspaper titles such as Alamo Express [San Antonio, TX],
1860 - 1861 and San Antonio Herald, November 1861 -- October 1863
9. New York Times Archives :search San Antonio mentions 1860-1976
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html
10. Sanborn fire maps: beginning 1885 for structures and town growth. At
San Antonio Public Library Texana Room site.
See http://www.sat.lib.tx.us/webcatalog/online_dbs.asp?ip=out&db=
Scroll to “Texas”; click, “Texas Digital Sanborn Maps”
11. San Antonio Archive (Godfrey). Online pdf images of San Antonio
newspapers, (circa 1875-1990)
See http://www.sanantonioarchive.com/Home.aspx
Rev. July 31, 2008