Contains the annual report for the Public Schools of the Independent School District of Houston for the fiscal year 1912 - 1913. Annual report contains remarks from the school district superintendents, a list of graduates from the districts schools...
"In connection with which are published the Charter of the City of Houston, as amended to October 1913, and Extracts from the Constitution, the Revised Civil Statutes of 1911, and the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to Municipal...
Advertisements (00:08); Text reads (in order): "Advertisements. Good old advertisers." -- W.E. Woodruff Company Contractors: Footage from their job sites. Text reads (in order): "W.E. Woodruff Company Contractors. Here we show activity on one of...
Store front service station (Texas Company Service Station No. 1 address: 1000 block of Texas Avenue) with tank truck backed up to curb, gasoline pump with notice "Customers will please not tip our employees," seven men holding gas cans and...
Barnstone, Gertrude, 1925- ;
Theater -- Texas -- Houston -- History;
School board members -- Texas -- Houston -- Interviews;
School integration -- Texas -- Houston -- History;
Houston (Tex.) -- History -- Anecdotes;
Oral histories
Gertrude Barnstone talks to Jane Ely about her life in the theatre arts, her memories of Houston and Houstonians and her election to the Houston School Board during the desegregation of the Houston School System.
Leon Hale talks about his career as a writer for the Houston Post and the Houston Chronicle, as well as about the books he has published over the years.
Sakowitz, Robert, 1938-;
Businessmen--Texas--Houston--Interviews;
Retail trade--Texas--Houston;
Sakowitz Department Store -- History;
Family-owned business enterprises -- Texas -- History;
Oral histories
Robert Sakowitz talks about his family business in Houston, the Sakowitz stores; about the city of Houston at the time the stores were established and developed; and the personalities he met while doing business.
Image of Rice Hotel at the corner of Main Street and Texas Avenue ; there are people walking on the sidewalk in front of it and two cars are parked on the street.
Street view of Fannin Street looking north from McKinney Avenue ; the Y.M.C.A. building is in the foreground on the left and Rossinian flats in on the right ; a trolley is in the middle of the street.
Street-view of Main Street from Rusk Avenue ; buildings are on the right side of the street and trees are on the left ; there are horse and carriages parked on either side of the street. Handwritten note on the image says ""This is the street of...
Street view of Main Street looking south from capitol Avenue ; business signs can be seen, including Stowers, Gimbel's, and The Texas Company ; people are walking on the sidewalk and two horse and carriages are in the street.
Image of Franklin Avenue looking west from Main Street ; the Commercial National Bank can be seen next to the Southern Pacific R. R. Office Building ; horse and carriages and cars can be seen parked along the street
Streetview of Travis Street looking south from Congress Avenue. The street is busy with a trolley running down the middle of the street and horse and carriages and cars in the street and parked along the side. A church can be seen on the right and...
