Reproduction of the 1866 facsimile of the original version published in Houston by Gray, Strickland of Houston in 1866. Original title: Houston city directory for 1866 : with a map of the city, directory to streets and localities, names of city,...
View of Houston Ship Channel with pipes in foreground. Steam boat also in frame. Houston Ship Channel dredging operations. Barge with cotton and railroad cars on opposite bank.
Panoramic of new bridge over the Brazos River going to the Gulf of Mexico located in Freeport, Texas. New steel bridge, couple in buggy about to cross, crane in right corner, and construction material.
Kleinberg, Stephen L., 1940-;
Houston (Tex.) -- Economic conditions;
Houston (Tex.) -- Population;
Houston (Tex.) -- Environmental conditions;
Quality of life -- Texas -- Houston;
Oral histories
Steve Kleinberg, a psychology professor at Rice University discusses Houston's economy and demography, and the changes the city has experienced over a period of time.
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.
Manchester and Houston Waterways ; Canal construction and progress ; The preliminary steps ; The environing cost ; American cargoes ; Private corporation improvements ; Total millions of cost ; First steamer from America
Office of U. S. Army Corps of Engineers at Morgan's Point, TX during dredging of Houston Ship Channel. In foreground: Henrietta Freeman Humphreville with daughter, Susie, and son, George.
These documents contain the history of the early settlements in Galveston from the original Native American fishing camp to Spanish and Mexican military outposts to pirate headquarters and then to revolutionaries.
