View looking northeast from Observation Platform near center of yard. Ship work on welding slabs in center and foreground. Receiving Building and Issue Building in left background. Ship Channel and bulkhead wall of Outfitting Pier in center...
View looking northwest from top of gantry crane number 6 between shipways 5 and 6. Shipways 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, with hulls 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2 from right to left, in center. Stiff leg derrick and revolving gantry crane along outfitting pier in center...
View looking North from top of Gantry Crane on number 6 craneway at inboard end of shipbuilding ways 5 and 6. Hulls 3, 4, 5, and 6, from left to right, on ways 4, 3, 2, and 1, respectively. Clyde Gantry Cranes and Derrick & Hoist Gantry Cranes in...
People swimming in Galveston Bay on July 4th. View from Gulf looking toward beach and seawall. Swimmers in water with Crystal Palace, other structures, and pier in background.
View of Freeport Harbor from channel bank. Large ships in foreground, with railroad tracks and a water tower visible in the distance. Two ships at dock, one ship in channel, work boat at dock. Trestle type loading facility at left. Railroad track...
View of Freeport Harbor from channel bank. Large ships in foreground, with railroad tracks and a water tower visible in the distance. Two ships at dock, one ship in channel, work boat at dock. Trestle type loading facility at left. Railroad...
Composite photograph: a building, unidentified (front reads Pier 8); on board a boat or ship, unidentified; photograph of cotton field, unidentified area.
Michel Moore talks about how he, as the city of Houston Mayor's Chief of Staff, his staff, and the city of Houston in general, handled the influx of evacuees from the city of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
Eckels, Robert;
County judges --Texas --Harris County --Interviews;
Harris County (Tex.) --Politics and government;
Hurricane Katrina, 2005;
Emergency management --Texas --Harris County;
Disaster relief --Gulf States;
Intergovernmental...
Robert Eckels describes his experiences as former Harris County judge. He discusses politics in Harris county and in the city of Houston, as well as his involvement in handling the influx of the evacuees from New Orleans during hurricane Katrina,...
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.