The Portal to Texas History is excited to announce the awardees for its 2025 cycle of the Rescuing Texas History program!
Each year, the Rescuing Texas History program offers up to $1,000 of digitization services to applicants. The materials the awardees share with the Portal come from a variety of places including libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and private collectors. This is the seventeenth year of the program, which has made more than 86,000 items from 463 projects. The resources added to The Portal to Texas History from these collections have had more than 20 million uses since the program began back in 2006!
This cycle saw an abundance of strong applications, all of which could add content that Portal users might find beneficial to their research. In the end, proposals from the following Portal Partners were selected:
| Humanities Texas | Sam Bell Maxey House State Historic Site | Wilson County Historical Commission Archives | The Texas Library of The Woman’s Club of Fort Worth | Dallas Municipal Archives |
| Texas Military Forces Museum | Private Collection of the Ritchie Family | Farmersville Historical Society | Bandera County Historical Commission | Mills County Historical Museum |
| Fannin County Museum of History | Magoffin Home State Historical Site Archives | Museum of the American Railroad | City of Galveston | Museum of the Coastal Bend |
| Texas Czech Genealogical Society | W. K. Gordon Research Center for the Industrial History of Texas | The San Antonio Conservation Society | Czech Heritage Society of Texas, Inc | Preservation Texas |
| Hidalgo County Historical Commission | Fannin County Historical Commission | First Methodist Church; Weatherford | Seguin Public Library | Private Collection of Dr. Teresa Marrero |
| Private Collection of T.B Willis | Fort Worth Jewish Archives | Private Collection of John Freese | Private Collection of Macedonio S. Tamez, III | Scottish Rite Hospital for Children |
We want to thank all of the amazing applicants. The thought, effort, and passion for Texas history that was put into each of the applications is greatly appreciated.
