Local History Collection
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The Fort Worth Public Library has approximately 10,000 items pertaining to the history of Fort Worth and Tarrant County. These items include city and county government documents, newspapers, directories, cemetery association records, maps as well as popular and scholarly books written by local authors or about local subjects. Among the most popular materials for researchers are:
- City directories, Fort Worth, 1877-present
- Criss cross directories, Fort Worth, 1930-present
- City directories, Arlington, 1964 -present
- City directories, Suburban Area, 1964-present
- Maps
- Telephone Directories, Fort Worth, 1910-present
- School and College Yearbooks
- Texas Writers Project, Fort Worth and Tarrant County Data **Collection is now part of our Digital Archive. Click here to view online.**
- Obituary index to the Fort Worth newspapers, 1966 -1992
- Index to Tarrant County cemeteries, 1955
- Everyname index to early Fort Worth newspapers, 1876-1901
- Grantee/grantor index to Tarrant County deeds, 1876 -1936
- Texas County Tax Lists, 1836-1910
- City of Fort Worth budgets, 1936-present
- Fort Worth Magazine
- Aura Magazine
- Jewish Monitor
- North Fort Worth News
- Fort Worth Labor News
- Fort Worth Mind
- Como Monitor
- Black History Month Pathfinder
The department also keeps a large vertical file (77 drawers) of newspaper clippings. These clippings date from the 1940s to the present. They are organized by subjects ranging from biographical materials, museums, and elections, to city government, hospitals, education, streets, civic organizations and so on.
Updated 23 December 2011