Digitized Resources

This collection contains photographs, slides, and negatives dating from 1921 to the present which document seminary life and the buildings and grounds of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

View the Austin Seminary Photographs, and the Austin Seminary Records.

Interested in learning more about the Seminary's history? Check out these digital exhibits:

• Austin Seminary and the African American Experience: Toward Beloved Community
• Winsome Winners: The Polity Bowl
• For Home & Country: Austin Seminary during World War I
• Wintertime: an exhibit of Christmas and wintertime images from Austin Seminary's history

The Theolog was the student publication of Austin Seminary from 1925-1968 and includes student writing; photographs of students, faculty, and staff; and descriptions of campus life. Click on the cover image to open up a PDF of the issue.

View the Austin Seminary Theologs

Thomas McHutchin (T.M.) Cunningham (1887-1979), a Presbyterian pastor and 1916 graduate of Austin Seminary and his wife, Hilda Lydia Hugon (1898-1989), were very active in the Presbyterian Church in Texas. The full inventory for the Cunningham papers is available here.

Hilda L. Hugon North Texas State Normal College Scrapbook

This scrapbook was created by Hilda L. Hugon Cunningham when she was a student at the North Texas State Normal College in Denton, Texas (the predecessor to the University of North Texas) from 1916-1918. Click on the cover and then use the arrow keys to page through, or search for a name or word to find specific content. You can also browse through all the pages here.

Access the Hilda L. Hugon North Texas State Normal College Scrapbook (on the Portal to Texas History).

Thomas McHutchin and Hilda Cunningham family scrapbooks

These images come from three scrapbooks that were most likely compiled by Hilda Grace Cunningham.

Access the The Thomas McHutchin and Hilda Cunningham family scrapbooks

A collection of photographic negatives taken by William H. Foster, Jr. (a 1942 graduate of the Seminary), during his time in Austin. Images include the construction of the Shelton Chapel, other shots on the Austin Seminary campus, The University of Texas at Austin, University Presbyterian Church, the Zilker Park Clubhouse, the Colorado River, and other Austin-area locations. A full inventory of the Foster papers is available here. 

Contact the archivist if you can identify any of the people or places in these shots!

View the William H. Foster, Jr. photographs (on the Portal to Texas History).

Cecil H. Lang (1891-1974) was ordained to the ministry in the Presbyterian Church in 1916, and served as a US Army Chaplain during the world wars and as a pastor at several churches throughout the South. A full collection inventory is available here.

Access selected digitized items from the Cecil H. Lang papers.

This is an artificial collection of Presbyterian-related photographs which primarily document the early 20th century history of the Presbyterian Church in Texas and the southwest. Selected images have been digitized. You can view the complete inventory here, and an online exhibit featuring some of the images is available here. 

View selections from the Presbyterian photographs collection.

Texas-related photographs and slides from this collection were digitized as part of a grant by the University of North Texas and are hosted on the Portal to Texas History.

Access the Texas-Mexican Presbytery photographs and slides (on the Portal to Texas History).

A group of twelve 16mm films from this collection were digitized in cooperation with the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI). Access the Texas-Mexican Presbytery records 16mm films.

More information on the Texas-Mexican Presbytery records, including a complete inventory of the collection, is available here.

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Photo caption: A group of people in front of the Iglesia Presbiteriana Mexicana, possibly in San Antonio, Texas, undated. From the Texas-Mexican Presbytery records, Austin Seminary Archives, Stitt Library, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Austin, Texas.

Frank Hall Wright (1860-1922) was an evangelist in the western United States. Wright was born January 1, 1860 in Oklahoma (then considered Indian Territory) to a father who was a chief of the Choctaw Nation and a mother who was a Presbyterian missionary. After his ordination, he traveled the United States preaching as an evangelist and missionary to Native Americans. This collection consists of typed sermons delivered by Wright at First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio in January 1916. These sermons were a component of special evangelistic services intended for both Christians and the general public. View the collection inventory here.

The complete sermons, as well as related clippings and correspondence from the Arthur Gray Jones papers, have been digitized. View the Frank Hall Wright sermons.