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- The Dick Dowling CANNON'S ROAR volume 11, number 4 1981
- Schedule for April meeting: Joe Plaza of the Houston Civil War round Table will speak about Mexico's experience during the Civil War
- Dick Dowling Collection
- The Ethylwayne
- Gaff-rigged bay sloop in regatta off Sylvan Beach with pier in background. Possibly Dan Kennedy's Ethywayne in Houston Yacht Club regatta of 1902.
- Houston Waterways
- They beat the heat on the bay. The Houston Chronicle, August 9, 1952.
- Relaxation during the heat of the summer at the Houston Yacht Club.
- Houston Waterways
- Three men in a fig orchard.
- Agriculture
- Three men in a fig orchard. Tree in foreground bearing fruit. Dwelling in distant background.
- Schlueter Photograph Collection
- Three men looking at a racecar
- Automobile racing
- Three men looking at a racecar at Bellaire (Tex.) sometime during the 1920's. In background are open touring cars. White streak across middle of the picture caused by deteriorating film..
- Image Collections
- Threshing Rice
- Gulf Coast Country
- Overseer on horseback, four to five men working with teams of mules pulling flatbed wagons to bring harvested rice to threshing machine. Foreground has many bags of rice prepared from the threshing machine. Flag flying over machine. Bay or marsh...
- Postcard Collection
- Houston Gargoyle, volume 2
- periodicals
- Books
- Tinsley, Eleanor
- Tinsley, Eleanor, 1926-2009; City council members -- Texas -- Houston -- Interviews; School integration -- Texas -- Houston -- History; Houston Community College (Houston, Tex.) -- History; School board presidents -- Texas -- Houston --...
- Eleanor Tinsley talks about her years as president of the board of the Houston Independent School District, and as member of the city council. She was involved in the school integration movement and was instrumental in the creation of the Houston...
- Houston Oral History Project - Mayor Bill White Collection
- Train station
- Railway ; Buildings
- Texas & New Orleans (Southern Pacific) Englewood Yard with 0-6-0 No. 138 (in center foreground), other locomotives and cars down tracks. Yard office with semaphores to right of No. 138. Icing platform in background.
- Image Collections
- Traveling down a country road
- Traveling down a country road with farmhouses and fields in the background
- Image Collections
- Treatment plant
- Buildings ; Public Works
- City of Houston sewerage treatment plant, Adams Street Bridge in background.
- Image Collections
- Two men near stream of petroleum flowing on the ground.
- Oil Industry
- Two men near a stream of petroleum flowing on the ground. Pipelines emerge from oil well in background. Site: ""Hull Oil Field near Marshall & Abel Lease.""
- Schlueter Photograph Collection
- Two men on horses walk next to small stream.
- Landscapes
- Landscape photograph. Two men on horses walk next to stream. Hill dotted with bushes in the background.
- Schlueter Photograph Collection
- Unidentified couple
- Unidentified couple, possibly the owners of the home in the background.
- Gregory School Collections
- Unidentified yacht moored at the Houston Launch Club
- Yachts ; Houston Launch Club ; Houston Waterways
- Unidentified yacht moored at the Houston Launch Club seen in background of photograph.
- Image Collections
- USS Texas Berthed Near San Jacinto Monument
- Ground-level view of the museum ship USS Texas with the San Jacinto Monument visible in the background
- Image Collections
- USS Texas Guns on Deck
- San Jacinto Monument ; USS Texas ; Artillery
- Anti-aircraft guns on deck of USS Texas with San Jacinto Monument visible in background.
- Image Collections
- Vaughan, Gene
- Gene Vaughan, 1933-; Business men--Houston (Tex.); Financial planners--United States--Texas--Houston; Investment advisors;
- In this interview, Gene Vaughan talks about his multifarious interests and activities. In 1970 he started the Vaughan Nelson Investment Management Company. He became Chairman of the Greater Houston Partnership and President & Chairman of the...
- Houston Oral History Project - Mayor Bill White Collection
- View across fenced in fields
- View across fenced in fields. A small dwelling in the background.
- Image Collections
- View looking northeast of the center of the shipyard
- Shipyards--Texas--Houston ; Warships ; Shipbuilding--Texas--Houston ; Shipbuilding--Equipment and Supplies ; Ships ; Gantry cranes ; Cranes, derricks, etc
- 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...
- Image Collections