RECTO: Colorized image of the Satilla docked at the Municipal Docks. Caption reads: ""Municipal Docks, Ship Channel, Houston, Tex. VERSO: Handwritten message reads: ""I. Susskind, 121 Rose St., Newark, N.J."" Handwritten at the top right: ""Gift...
Black and white photograph of people gathered for the landing of The Nicholaus. Caption on the photo reads: ""Copyright 1920 by Schlueter Houston, Tex.""
RECTO: Black and white image of waterfront. Handwritten caption reads: ""Water front view #5, San Jacinto Battle Ground. Photo by Happer and Co. Houston, Tex."" VERSO: Stamped vertically on the left side: ""Bequest of Mrs. Adele Lubbock Briscoe...
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.
These documents contain folklore and folk tales of southern Texas. They describe folk remedies for different illnesses and tell folk stories about Santa Ana and African Americans.
These documents contains information about several different radio broadcasting stations in Houston, Texas as well as describing the history of those stations.
This document describes one specific line of railroad from Sabine, Texas to Boon's Ferry. It includes descriptions of the train itself, a brief financial statement, the names of the directors, and a brief journal entry for January 2, 1900 in the...
Contains stories about early Texas settlers and German immigrants. Includes brief autobiographies about John Rice Jones, Jesse Burnham, Littleton Fowler, and Friedrich Ernst that were published in the Quarterly of the Texas State Historical...
