The founder of Texas Heart Institute, Denton Cooley is interviewed by Dr. William H. Kellar. Dr. Cooley has pioneered many techniques used in cardiovascular surgery including the first successful human heart transplant and the first implant of an...
The founder of the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic in Houston, Dr. Mavis Kelsey, examines his career as a physician in the Texas Medical Center and the creation and development of the clinic.
The passion for sports writing was imbibed in Mickey Herskowitz from an early age. Growing up in Houston, he started writing for the Houston Post when he was only 14 years old. When the Chronicle purchased The Post, he started writing for the...
The Texas Company General Offices (Texaco Building). Excavation started, June 8, 1914. Building completed, May 1, 1915. Warren & Wetmore, architects. George A. Fuller, Contracting Company, builders
Bryant, Thelma Scott, 1905-;
Centenarians--Texas--Houston--Interviews;
Segregation--Texas--Houston--History;
African Americans--Texas--Houston--Social life and customs--History;
Oral histories
Thelma Scott Bryant, a centenarian from Houston, talks about her life as an African American growing up at the beginning of the 20th century. She describes the black community where she grew up; the churches, schools, theaters and businesses; and...
This imposing church building appears to be built with rough hewn white stone and a black roofing material. Located on a street corner the church design captures attention with a very tall square bell tower on the corner location, which is topped...
Top photograph: Houston Electric Company bus in downtown Houston. Placard above the bus reads: Convention Hall. A policeman and another man stand in the street near the bus. Middle photograph: Several Houston Electric Company buses lined up outside...
Two photographs of Downtown Bellaire. The upper photograph is of Cedar at Bissonnet Boulevard on May 17, 1973, by Peter Whitney. The lower photograph is at Rice Avenue and Cedar, wit the U.S. Post office visible on the right. The second...
Samuels, Vic;
School integration -- Texas -- Houston -- History;
Houston Independent School District -- History;
Citizens for Good Schools (Houston);
Oral histories
Vic Samuels talks with David Goldstein about his participation in the school integration movement in Houston in the 1960s.
View of downtown from the Southern Pacific R. R. Office looking south. A trolley can be seen as well as cars and horse and carriages. People walk in the street. On the right side, a church can be seen.
