Municipal Archives


​Dallas Municipal Archives​

Collection Guides and Inventories

​​​​(Note: approximately one half of collections have guides. This list is periodically updated.)​​

​​GUIDE DESCRIPTION
Guide No. 1Dallas City Charter - 1871 - Current (91-074)
Guide No. 2Dallas City Code - 1889 - Current (91-016)
Guide No. 3Annual Reports of the City of Dallas - 1888 - Current
(91-053)
Guide No. 4Annual Independent Audit Reports - 1931-1950 (91-080)
Guide No. 5Municipal Bond Certificates - 1874-1972 (91-111)
Guide No. 6JFK Collection/Dallas Police Dept Records
Related to the Assassination of John F. Kennedy 1963-92
(91-001)
Guide No. 7Dallas Police Department - Historical Reports
Records and Newsletters - 1930 - Current (91-019)
Guide No. 8City of Renner, Texas, 1953 - 1977 (91-108)
Guide No. 9Health Department Historical Reports - 1954 - 1972
(91-020)
Guide No. 10WRR Municipal Radio - 1930 - 1970 (91-024)
Guide No. 11Civil Service Board Reports - 1931 - 1972 (91-002)
Guide No. 12Floodwater Control and Water Supply - 1919 - 1968
(91-119, 91-120, 91-121)
Guide No. 13Employees' Retirement Funds & Police, Fire Pensions, 1952 - 1993 (91-023)
Guide No. 13-AEmployees' Retirement Funds & Police, Fire Pensions, 1952 - 1993 (91-023 [Addition], Floyd Knight File)
Guide No. 14City of Dallas Housing Department - 1938-1993 (91-022)
Guide No. 15Street Paving, Widening and Improvements - 1889-1930
(91-051)
Guide No. 16City of Fruitdale, Texas - 1937 - 1964 (91-063)
Guide No. 17City of Kleberg, Texas - 1956 - 1978 (91-064)
Guide No. 18Fair Park - 1888 - 1930, 1972 - 1992 (91-079)
Guide No. 19City of Dallas Parks, 1889 - 1995 (91-112)
Guide No. 21Park and Recreation Board Portraits -1905-1939 (92-018)
Guide No. 22 Vital Statistics 1931-1957 (91-052)
Guide No. 24City Hall - Main Street Land Abstracts - 1881 - 1914, 1954 (91-113)
Guide No. 26Financial Affairs: Budgets and Financial Reports, 1916 - Current (91-062)
Guide No. 28Dallas Power and Light Company, 1888, 1912 -1923, 1943 (91-043)
Guide No. 29-ADallas Water Utilities Records, 1882-1990 (91-060)
Guide No. 29-BDallas Water Utilities Records, 1882-1990 - Photographic Materials Series (91-060 [addition])
Guide No. 29-CDallas Water Utilities Records, 1882-1990
(91-060 [addition])
Guide No. 32White Rock Lake General Subject Files, 1921-1953
(95-022)
Guide No. 33Park and Recreation General Subject Files, 1911-1960
(95-023)
Guide No. 34Fair Park, 1905 - 1918; 1930 - 1952 (95-027)
Guide No. 35Dallas Citizens Charter Review Commission (91-109)
Guide No. 36Dallas Citizens Charter Review Commission
Files of Ray Hutchison, Chairman (95-019)
Guide No. 37 Park Board Annual Reports, 1911 - 1995, 2002 - 2003
(95-025)
Guide No. 38DeGolyer Estate - 1972 - 1990 (95-030)
Guide No. 39W.W. Samuell Estate, 1886 - 1977 (95-031)
Guide No. 40Dealey Plaza - Park and Recreation Department Subject Files (95-032)
Guide No. 42City of Dallas Staff Telephone Directories 1949, 1956-1999 (91-082)
Guide No. 43Municipal Building Contracts, 1913-1914 (97-020)
Guide No. 44Public Utility Service Corporation Annual Reports,
1911-1922 (97-021)
Guide No. 45Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, 1965 - 1992 (91-106)
Guide No. 48City Photographer - 1950 - 1997 (99-003)
Guide No. 49City of Oak Cliff, 1891-1904, 1930 (91-087)
Guide No. 51Kessler Plan - 1911 - 1930 (91-004)
Guide No. 53Parks - Works Progress Administration Records (95-043)
Guide No. 55Dallas City Plan Commission Minute Books, 1919 - 1983 (99-004)
Guide No. 57City Hall and City Hall Dedication, 1976-1978 (91-124)
Guide No. 60State Fair of Texas – Reports and Studies, 1908-1986
(95-045)
Guide No. 61Love Field Album and Photographs, 1918-1993 (01-003)
Guide No. 62Street Paving and Construction Plats - 1931 - 1932 (91-044)
Guide No. 63Engraving of George Mifflin Dallas - 1854 (91-002)
Guide No. 64Petitions and Documents Regarding Telephone Poles - 1881 - 1887 (91-006)
Guide No. 65Honey Springs - 1937 - 1947 (91-114)
Guide No. 69Redistricting Commission - 1991 (91-115)
Guide No. 71Railroads and the Union Terminal Company - 1890-1917
(91-033)
Guide No. 74Boards and Commissions History - 1971-1991 (91-130)
Guide No. 79Aerial Map Photographs of Dallas, 1930, 1949, 1974, 1979
(03-001)
Guide No. 80Uniform System of Accounts for Telephone Companies [Publication] 1913 (94-004)
Guide No. 81Southwestern Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1904, 1913 - 1917 (91-026)
Guide No. 82Court Services Scrapbook and Photographs, 1950 - 1957
(94-011)
Guide No. 83 Trinity River Trolley Bridge Plans and Construction,1930 (94-007)
Guide No. 84Ulrickson Committee Report - 1927 - 1930 (95-034)
Guide No. 85Elections - Opinions of the Texas Attorney General -
1952-1953 (91-014)
Guide No. 86East Dallas Water Supply Company - 1886 - 1890 (91-027)
Guide No. 87E. G. Bauer Petition to Mayor William L. Cabell - 1883
(91-007)
Guide No. 88Letter to C. J. Beam from R. S. Druly - 1872 (91-009)
Guide No. 90Songs - Official City Songs - 1961, 1970 (91-003)
Guide No. 91Petition from Fire Chief Charles Kahn to Mayor and Aldermen - 1882 (91-005)
Guide No. 92Letter From H. A. Dixon to City Secretary Earl Goforth - 1947
(91-010)
Guide No. 93East/West Expressway Resolutions - 1955 (91-015)
Guide No. 95Martinez Anti-Tuberculosis Fund - 1917 (98-009)
Guide No. 96Dallas Gas Company and Lone Star Gas Company - 1910-1917 (91-031)
Guide No. 97Public Works - Survey Division Cemetery Files, 1887 - 2005
(05-005)
Guide No. 98Municipal Auditorium Specifications -1938 (91-038)
Guide No. 99Callahan Construction Company and Garza Dam -
1924 - 1926 (91-037)
Guide No. 100Grauwyler Park and John and Emma Grauwyler,
1827 - 1963 (95-047)
Guide No. 101Lagow Independent School District Annexation, 1919
(91-069)
Guide No. 102Fairland Annex Segregated Housing Materials, 1920
(91-070)
Guide No. 103Petition Protesting Baptist Memorial Sanitarium, 1920
(91-067)
Guide No. 104Municipal Building and Fred A. Jones Company Bankruptcy, 1913 (91-048)
Guide No. 105Dallas Railway Company, Interurbans, and Electric Railway 1890-1933 (91-034)
Guide No. 106City Auditor Letter Book, 1906 (92-007)
Guide No. 107White Rock Lake, 1909 (91-011)
Guide No. 108Sewage Treatment and Disposal, 1912 (91-066)
Guide No. 109Municipal News and Views Newsletter, 1946-1947 (91-081)
Guide No. 110City Logos and Trademarks, 1972-1975 (91-078)
Guide No. 111Dallas Park and Recreation Department - Brochures and Publications 1977-1999 (91-101)
Guide No. 112Challenge to Municipal Bond Sales, 1927-1930 (92-014)
Guide No. 113Municipal Utility Franchise Annual Reports, 1912 - 1922
(97-021)
Guide No. 114Proprietary Schools Board Minute Book, 1968 - 1971
(91-017)
Guide No. 115Employees' Retirement Funds and Police and Fire Pension System, 1952 - 1993 (91-023)
Guide No. 116 Trunk Sewer Line, 1924 (91-042)
Guide No. 117 City of Dallas Personnel Rules, 1933 - 1996 (92-006)
Guide No. 118Oak Lawn Heights and Related Annexations, 1929 - 1934 (92-015)
Guide No. 119Dallas Water Utilities Project Documentation, 1960 - 1991
(02-003)
Guide No. 120Bartholomew Plan, 1943 - 1957 (98-004)
Guide No. 121Grade Separations in Dallas, 1915 - 1917 (91-032)
Guide No. 123Sanitary Sewer Construction Contracts, 1910-1915 (97-002)
Guide No. 124White Rock Lake Improvements, 1956 - 1982 (95-044)
Guide No. 125City-County Public Welfare Board, 1956 - 1959 (97-027)
Guide No. 126Dallas Planning Department Publications and Related Materials, 1966 - 1990 (06-001)
Guide No. 127Department of Aviation Policies, 1979, 1986 (95-001)
Guide No. 128Memorials and Monuments, 1936, 1959 -1982 (95-039)
Guide No. 129Sidewalk Paving, 1911 - 1918 (97-005)
Guide No. 130Street Paving, Widening, and Improvements, 1889 - 1941
(91-051)
Guide No. 131City of Dallas Telephone Directories, 1949 - 1999 (91-082)
Guide No. 132Dallas Water Hearing Proceedings and Report, 1939
(91-054)
Guide No. 133Winslett-Eldridge Company Contracts, 1910 - 1916 (91-015)
Guide No. 134Barber Asphalt Paving Company Contracts, 1900 - 1906
(91-014)
Guide No. 135Dallas Lime and Gravel Company Contracts, 1911 - 1917 (97-016)
Guide No. 136Dilution of Natural Gas at Joshua Plant Report, 1935
(97-013)
Guide No. 137Branch Library Service for Dallas Report, 1958 (97-011)
Guide No. 138City of Dallas Program of Services, 1975 (96-013)
Guide No. 139White Rock Lake Dredging, 1930 - 1942 (95-021)
Guide No. 140City-County Hospital System, 1933 -1940 (91-122)
Guide No. 141Inaugural Speech of Mayor Steve Bartlett and Farewell Address of Mayor Annette Strauss, 1991 (92-028)
Guide No. 142Atlas of Split Voting Precincts in the City of Dallas, 1991
(92-027)
Guide No. 143Operational Survival Plan for Dallas and Dallas County, 1958 (92-033)
Guide No. 144City of Dallas Civil Defense Administrative Files, 1958
(08-001)
Guide No. 145 City of Dallas Sports Commission, 1965-1971 (97-008)
Guide No. 146Report on the Dallas Park System, 1934
(03-015)
Guide No. 147Vector Control Photographs, Ca. 1935-1968
(03-014)
Guide No. 148Dallas City Council Inauguration Photographs, 2001
(03-013)
Guide No. 149Survey of Dallas Businesses, 1987-1988
(91-055)
Guide No. 150Economic Development Advisory Board -
Dallas Data Book, 1984 (91-059)
Guide No. 151City of Dallas Construction and Fire Codes, 1905-1997
(91-065)
Guide No. 152Redbird Airport Development Plans, 1970-1988 (91-057)
Guide No. 153Park and Recreation - Brochures and Publications,
1977-1999 (91-101)
Guide No. 154Dallas Population Handbook, 1960 (91-100)
Guide No. 155City of Dallas Sign Manuals, 1978 -1983
(91-102)
Guide No. 156An Introduction to the Voting Rights Act for City Attorneys
in Texas, 1975 (91-103)
Guide No. 157Dallas City Council Inauguration Planning Materials,
1981, 1985 (94-042)
Guide No. 158City Council Candidate Orientation Materials, 1991 (94-041)
Guide No. 159Human Resources Photographs, 1988-2000
(02-008)
Guide No. 160Park and Recreation Department General Subject Files, 1911-1960 [Addition] (95-023)
Guide No. 161Fair Park Mural Conservation, 1999-2000
(02-007)
Guide No. 162Advisory Public Health Board, 1947-1969, and undated
(97-010)
Guide No. 163Parks - Fair Park Improvements, 1941 - 1980,
and undated (97-023)
Guide No. 164Trinity River Flood and Levee Scrapbook, 1932-1935
(91-120)
Guide No. 165City - County Industrial School for Boys Board of Managers Minutes, 1938 - 1960 (97-026)
Guide No. 166Proposed Dis-annexation of Oak Cliff, 1990-1991 (94-050)
Guide No. 167Earl Hart Family - White Rock Lake Collection, 1926 -1948 (08-002)
Guide No. 168Friends of the Dallas Public Library - The First Forty Years, 1991 (96-026)
Guide No. 169Dallas Public Schools Estimated Budget Reports,
1934, 1939 (94-005)
Guide No. 170Five Mile Creek Flood Plain Management Plan, 1976
(96-016)
Guide No. 171Analysis of the Procurement Process and Function,
1980 (94-032)
Guide No. 172Park and Recreation Department Property History, 1959
(04-002)
Guide No. 173Southern Methodist University Sewer Contract, 1914
(91-028)
Guide No. 174Public Welfare, 1938 - 1946 (97-009)
Guide No. 175Dallas Museum of Natural History, 1967 - 1981
(96-032)
Guide No. 176Vision Report, Department of Street and Sanitation Services, 1989 (94-049)
Guide No. 177Report of the Dallas Citizens Council Privatization Task Force, 1988 (95-008)
Guide No. 178Dallas Museum of Natural History, 1967-1981 (96-032)
Guide No. 179Examining Board of Plumbers (91-096)
Guide No. 180Petition to Abandon Claim to Alley, W.J. McCray to City of Dallas, 1919 (91-046)
Guide No. 181Oak Cliff Election Precinct Creation (91-049)
Guide No. 182T.E. Shutt – Garza Dam Contract, 1924 (91-041)
Guide No. 183Anderson (Jim) - Planning Department Collection,
1965-1996 (10-003)
Guide No. 184DART and Dallas Transit System, 1971-1987 (91-056)
Guide No. 185Gill Well Bath House Agreement, 1905 (91-030)
Guide No. 186Carrollton Dam Contract, 1912 (91-047)
Guide No. 187Elections - Historical Resources, 1968 - 2003 (92-026)
Guide No. 188Bond Financed Capital Improvement Programs, 1972-1973 (91-104)
Guide No. 189Casanova (Miguel) Photographs, 1986 - 2001 (06-005)
Guide No. 190Stahl (Sid) Dallas Park Board Papers, 1975 - 1979
Guide No. 191Acquisition in Other Texas Counties, 1903, 1924 - 1927
(91 - 040)
Guide No. 192Dallas City Council Inauguration Materials, 1993 (94-047)
Guide No. 193Exposition Park Paving Petition, 1904-1921 (91-036)
Guide No. 194Abstracts of Title (Including Samuell Estate, 1902 - 1963 (05-003)
Guide No. 195Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Plan
(91-075)
Guide No. 196State of the City Address, 1996, 1999 (96-027)
Guide No. 197Department of Street and Sanitation Services Recycling Plan, 1990 (94-048)
Guide No. 198City of Dallas Mayor and Commissioners Property Inventory, 1909 (95-005)
Guide No. 199Dallas Zoo, 1952 - 1955, 1969 - 1980, 1991(95-035)
Guide No. 200Dallas Convention Center Master Plan Proposal, 1986
Guide No. 201City of Dallas Public Works and Transportation Department Photographs, 1926, 1944, 1972, 1979 - 1995 (02-004)
Guide No. 203City of Dallas Urban Rehabilitation Standards Board Minutes,1958 - 1986 (99-005)
Guide No. 204Notebooks on Decisions, City Attorney Alex Bickley 1960 - 1977 (94-014)
Guide No. 205Mayor Annette Strauss Plaques and Awards, 1985 - 1991 (92-001)
Guide No. 206Dallas Park and Recreation Department Centennial History Working Papers and Research Materials, 1972-1976
(96-003)
Guide No. 207Texas Coal Company Contracts with the City of Dallas, 1896 (91-117)
Guide No. 209W. W. Horner Stormwater Outlet Sewers and Drainage Report, 1931-1936 (92-010)
Guide No. 210Dallas Water Utilities Sewage Treatment Disposal and Water Purification, 1912-1938 (91-066)
Guide No. 211Municipal Water Reservoirs in Denton County, 1922 - 1928
(92-011)
Guide No. 213Dallas City Council Meeting Videotapes, 1989 - 1999
(01-001)
Guide No. 214Bound City of Dallas Traffic Ordinances 1950, 1959, and 1974 (92-025)
Guide No. 215Gittings Studio Portraiture Collection, 1931 - 1992 (92-017)
Guide No. 216Dallas Park and Recreation Department Photographs [Addition], 1942 - 2003 (03-002)
Guide No. 217Dallas Park and Recreation Department Planning Studies and Reports, 1964-2004 (04-006)
Guide No. 218City of Dallas Street Lighting Project Photographs, 1949-1968 (13-001)
Guide No. 219Annual Report of the Traffic Control Department, 1956
(94-038)
Guide No. 220Early Dallas City Council Minutes, 1866 - 1905
(91-090)
Guide No. 221Dallas Police Academy Motion Picture Film and Videotape, 1957 - 1973; 1984 - 1991 (01-004)
Guide No. 222Cole Purchase and Turtle Creek Land Acquisitions, 1914 - 1918 (98-001)
Guide No. 224Election Precincts, 1913 (91-049)
Guide No. 225Report of the Dallas Citizens Council Privatization Task Force, 1988 (95-008)
Guide No. 226Dallas Park and Recreation Department Plaques and Memorials Documentation, 1971 - 1979 (12-006)
Guide No. 227Land Transactions Map and Dallas City Hall,  1912,
1970 - 1971 (96-025)
Guide No. 228Public Utilities Hearings, 1969 - 1973 (97-028)
Guide No. 229City of Dallas Zoning - Early Ordinances, 1929 - 1965
(91-094)
Guide No. 230Dallas Municipal Archives Artifacts Collection, 1890;
1947-1987 (01-002)
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