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A Texas Journey: The Centennial Photographs of Polly Smith
 By Evelyn Barker ; published by the Dallas Historical Society, 2008.
A Texas Journey In 1935, Texas was preparing for its biggest celebration to date: a world's fair to commemorate the centennial of its independence from Mexico. Centennial officials eager to publicize the event needed an abundance of photographic images that would put the state in the best possible light. They hired a young photographer, Polly Smith, who had recently returned from studying in New York, to travel the length and width of the state. Her mission was to capture the people and places that made Texas unique.
Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion, 1870-1925
 By William L. McDonald; introductory essay by A.C. Greene; published by the Dallas Historical Society, 1978.
Dallas Rediscovered examines a city of opulent Victorian Gothic mansions, of elaborate cast-iron commercial emporiums, and of sharecropper shanties where the poor struggle to survive. The book explores Dallas through its architecture, its system of spatial growth and land utilization, and through the developers, land speculators, and urban designers who were so important to the creation of the modern city.
When Dallas Became a City: Letters of John Milton McCoy, 1870-1881.
 Edited by Elizabeth York Enstam, foreword by Millicent Hume McCoy; published by the Dallas Historical Society, 1982.
This book, considered to be the most important primary source ever published about the history of Dallas, describes how Dallas was transformed from a Southern country market town into a boomtown. Reading like a novel, the letters of John Milton McCoy tell the story of daily life in a thriving frontier town and give insight into the customs and values of late nineteenth-century America.
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