I just ran across this site: https://texashistory.unt.edu/

Their description:

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The Portal to Texas History is a gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas. Created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries, the Portal leverages the power of hundreds of content partners across the state to provide a vibrant, growing collection of resources.

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Here's a search for A&M: https://texashistory.unt.edu/search/?q=a%26m&t=fulltext&sort=&fq=

It's a great tool.
I spent several years trolling through the online catalogs looking for images.

Here are two more for general Texas stuff:

Perry-Castañeda Library

UTSA Digital Collections

It's great for searching community newspaper archives that aren't on the local public library site or newspapers.com. Some photos too. Being able to search by county or resource type is a great feature.

So perfect for my long slow nights on shift at the plant?

I found newspapers from Celina and McKinney covering the death of my great grandfather and grand-uncle in a family home fire. I'd always heard the story but I always wanted to verify that the story was as told. The newspapers did that. Very cool resource.

My family owned a farm near Rhea Mills and did well because they had two cars and a two-story house. The house caught fire and my grandfather and his brother were asleep upstairs. My grandfather jumped down but his brother was trying to save something and could not escape. My great-grandfather went in after him and was burned badly. My 14-year-old grandfather loaded his dad in the truck and attempted to drive to town but ran out of gas on the way there.

JABQ04 said:

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So perfect for my long slow nights on shift at the plant?

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Very much so....

The Perry-Castaneda Link is very, very bad... Historic USGS Maps... Just write off half a day for me if I go there.

Civil War photos.... Library of Congress... The worst... days upon days... Damn you Gary Adelman...