Blonde lady in a green dress holding orange flowers stands beneath the title heading and between two pots of plants. Silhouettes of dancing ballerinas and masks featuring various expressions are situated toward the bottom of the page. Pinstripes of...
Pink and white cover featuring white, pink, and red roses, with green leaves on brownish-gray branches. The title of the musical, composer, and lyricist are featured in a brown box outlined in green in the middle of the cover.
RECTO: Colorized image of crowds gathered at Allen's Landing awaiting the arrival of King Nottoc at the No-Tsu-Oh Festival. Building in the background reads: ""Wm. Cleveland & Sons Wholesale Grocers. Cotton Factory."" The word ""Jasmine"" is...
RECTO: Colorized image of the boat landing at the San Jacinto Battleground. Caption reads: ""Landing at San Jacinto Battle Ground, Houston, Texas."" VERSO: Vertically handwritten: ""Rec'd Mamy's letter, and expect you all to-morrow night. Papa went...
RECTO: Black and white image of a barge in Buffalo Bayou. The name Beach is in the lower left corner. Caption at the bottom: ""2222 Loading Cotton Barge on Buffalo Bayou. Houston, Texas."" There is an illegible handwritten note below that. In the...
List of officers and Directors, Houston Launch Club and Houston Yacht Club ; Features and Plans of the combined clubs, including property, boats, country clubs, golf courses, tennis courts ; History of Ship Channel, development of the Port of...
RECTO: Colorized image of downtown Houston. At the bottom edge is a train emerging from under the Main Street Viaduct. There is a boat docked across the bayou at the foot of Main Street. There are three trolley cars on Main Street as well as horses...
This folder contains documents related to the city of Orange, Texas. Included in the contents is a history of the city and information about local industry, government, clubs, schools, and points of interest.
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 contains information about several different radio broadcasting stations in Houston, Texas as well as describing the history of those stations.
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 documents discuss the history of Liberty county and how the events that occurred there helped the state of Texas to gain its independence from Mexico. The documents begin: "Little has been told of the early history of Liberty County and of...
These documents describe the Battle of Galveston which occurred on January 1, 1863 during the American Civil War. The battle was a victory for the confederate forces and left them with several Union warships. The last of these documents also...
These documents discuss the fortifications of Galveston which comprise the harbor defenses. The documents talk about the forts as they were in 1937 when the paper was written as well as the earlier history of the fortifications and who was in...
These documents describe several different tourist attractions for the County of Galveston, including Galveston Beach, Fort San Jacinto, and the Mosquito Fleet, as well as how to get to those places.
