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: Colorized image of people boarding a boat at the boat landing at San Jacinto Battle Ground. Caption reads: ""The Boat Landing at the Battlefield of San Jacinto, Near Houston, Texas."" VERSO: Handwritten vertically on the left side: ""Hello...
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
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...
Businessmen Welcome Wilson has served as Assistant Director of Civil Defense for the city of Houston; assistant to former Mayor Roy Hofheinz; State Director for the Defense Mobilization headquarters in Denton, Texas; and real estate and financial...
Crowded ferry boat at boat landing at San Jacinto Battlefield State Park. Boy swimming in Buffalo Bayou in foreground of photograph. People sitting on boardwalk at left edge of photograph.
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...
Black and white photograph of people gathered for the landing of The Nicholaus. Caption on the photo reads: ""Copyright 1920 by Schlueter Houston, Tex.""
Black and white photograph of St. Claire paddleboat at Allen's Landing. S.L. Allen Compnay building can be seen in the background. In the foreground near the water and paddleboat are horses with wagons and men working.
Black and white photograph of people gathered at the boat landing at San Jacinto Battleground. The Nicholaus approaches. Other people are walking along the sidewalk.
Contains reminiscences of C. C. Cox and a group of recollections from other early Texans from the Austin papers published in 1903. Includes an article about the re-establishment of the Tejas missions.
