RECTO: Colorized image of three boats on the Ship Channel. Caption reads: ""Houston Ship Channel: Houston Pleasure-loving People Are the Owners of Over 300 Pleasure Boats."" VERSO: Typed message reads: ""We will meet next year at Houston The...
RECTO: Colorized image of boat landing at San Jacinto Battleground. Caption reads: ""San Jacinto Battlefield - Near Houston, on the Houston Ship Channel, and Where Texas Won Her Independence."" VERSO: Typed message reads: ""We will meet next year...
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
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...
Recollections of Captain Gibson Kuykendall, Abraham Alley, and other early colonists. Additional research about the Houston Land Office and the first Texas railroad and the