This site is built primarily around postcards, but will also house a continuously growing list of
photographs and ephemera that relate to people and places of historical significance to Austin.
This is a wonderful collection of vintage Texas postcards, held by the University of Houston.
All of the postcards displayed on the Historic Texas Postcards web site were published between the years 1898 and 1924.
The "Southern Route 66" went from the Atlantic Ocean at Jacksonville, Florida to the lonely
town of Van Horn in west Texas. Here are some vintage postcards that commemorate the Texas section of
this wonderful road. From here you can also access similar pages for each of the other states that the
highway traveled through.