View of Humble Oil Refinery Company's Houston Ship Channel location in Baytown, Texas. from channel bank. Large pipes and machinery with platforms in foreground. Elevated view of dock showing railroad gondolas loaded with pipe, dredge, disposal...
View of Humble Oil Refinery Company's Houston Ship Channel location in Baytown , Texas, from the channel bank. Large pipes and machinery with platforms in foreground. Elevated view of dock showing railroad gondolas loaded with pipe, dredge,...
Eckels, Robert, 1957- -- Interviews ; Houston Independent School District (Tex.). Board of Education--Interviews ; County commissioners--Texas--Houston--Interviews ;
Oral histories.
Lyons, E. A. (Everett Augustus)--Interviews ; County officials and employees--Texas--Houston--Interviews ; County council members--Texas--Harris County--Interviews ; Oral histories
Blackmon, Willie--Interviews ; African American students ; Houston Independent School District (Tex.) ; African America college athletes ; African American college students--Scholarships, fellowships, etc. ; Integration ; Texas A & M University ...
Judge Willie Blackmon discusses his life growing up in Houston including high school and college athletics, integration of Texas A&M University, serving in the United States Air Force and completing his Juris Doctorate at Texas Southern University.
Glassell, Alfred C. (Alfred Curry), 1914-2008;
Gas industry--Texas--Houston;
Businessmen--Texas--Houston--Interviews;
Businessmen--Texas--Houston--Biography;
Houston (Tex.)--History--Anecdotes;
Oral histories
Alfred Glassell, the founder of Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp -the first gas transmission system from Texas to New York- and founder of the Glassell School of Art, talks about his life in the military during World War II, and his...
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...
Rae, Strange--Interviews;
Rice University -- History.
Mrs. Rae Strange reminiscences about her life in Houston before and after the Depression. Her interest in writing the history of Rice University was noteworthy.
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.
Three oil wells at Barbers Hill (Mont Belvieu), TX. Two unidentified men standing beside open-air, earthen oil storage tank watching petroleum flowing out of a pipe into the storage tank.
Oil from an oil well pipe flowing toward an open reservoir. Portion of machinery in background. Pipes of differing diameters connected to the well or can be seen above flowing petroleum at a Gulf Coast Oil field.
Oil field scene: open earthen storage tank being filled with oil flowing out of a pipe. Thirteen oil derricks in photograph. Man stands near earthen storage tank. Includes: Pure Oil Co.
