Binder containing documents and photographs concerning the Sesquicentennial celebration in Texas in 1985. Includes the history of Bellaire, information about the City of Bellaire government, organizations and festivals, along with maps, brochures,...
Cernan, Eugene -- Interviews;
Astronauts -- USA -- Interviews;
United States -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Born in 1934 at Bellwood, Ill., Gene Cernan discusses his first flight and space walk to the moon by Gemini 9, among his 5 trips to the moon. He commanded Apollo 17 and lived and worked on the moon for 3 days, assembled and drove a car and set up...
Shows numbered city lots and blocks, streets, structures, ward boundaries, and Buffalo Bayou. Title from cartographic flourish beneath portrait of Gen. Sam Houston. Scale of main map [ca. 1:4200] 350 ft. to 1 in. Relief shown pictorially. Insets:...
Letter from C. F. Richardson to Thurgood Marshall, NAACP Legal Staff, enclosing a copy of the suit filed in the United States District Court for Southern Texas by four members of the Houston Branch NAACP.
These documents discuss the history of the water supply of Galveston, Texas as well as the history of how the water formations around Galveston has changed over time.
These documents contain a brief history of the early churches established in Galveston,Texas. They cover the Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal, and Catholic churches as well as the German Lutheran Church, the German Methodist...
This folder contains biographical information about a series of men who immigrated to Texas to serve as soldiers, priests, etc., as well as a discussion of the missionaries sent out into what would become Texas to explore the territory and...
"These three volumes tell the story of a courtship that began between two people who had never seen each other, and lasted for fifty-six years. Most people know this couple as Rev. William and Mrs. Audrey Hoffman Lawson. Audrey wrote to William on...
Paulette Williams Grant talks about attending Gregory elementary school, a school that tended to black children during desegregation years, and race relations in Houston during those times.
