Grand Central Depot and Brazos Hotel, includes landscaping in the foreground. The Brazos Hotel is to the left in this postcard view with Grand Central Station center, and the long railway terminal to the right.
Impressive stone church building. Possibly a limestone or yellow brick with white stone grand architectural embellishments. The grand entrance has two columns at least two stories in heighth capped with Ionic style caps and a massive frieze above...
Impressive stone church building. Possibly a limestone or yellow brick with white stone grand architectural embellishments. The grand entrance has two columns at least two stories in heighth capped with Ionic style caps and a massive frieze above...
Advertisement for the Hagenbeck-Wallace and 4Paw-Sells Bros. Combined Circus. Elephant in blue on a yellow background. Performance: Thursday, October 24 through Friday, October 25, 1935.
Contains copies of the River Oaks Corporation advertisements ; house plans of River Oaks homes ; Annual report of the Houston Chamber of Commerce, 1935 ; McCall's Home of the Month, April 1936.
Contains copies of the River Oaks Corporation publications, Homes For All Times, and River Oaks ; newspaper articles about the death of Will Hogg ; advertisements for River Oaks.
Frank J. Schlueter, photographer, standing beside his automobile in Houston Central Business District. Rice Hotel in distance. Includes: Schlueter, Frank J.; Schlueter Photo.
RECTO: Colorized image of man in a row boat on San Jacinto River. Caption reads: ""6259 - Scene on San Jacinto River, Houston, Texas."" VERSO: Handwritten message: ""I hate to quit exchanging but I am almost run to death answering about 20 cards...
These papers describe the history of the Rice Institute from the new foundation and endowment for education to the departments on campus in the 1920s. The Rice Institute later became Rice University.