Donor: Margaret Schlankey. H. Sinclair 1889-93 1900-1970; 165 items. Postcard Collection, ca. 448. Collection donated by Mr. Reid in 1973. The Galveston Island Convention and Visitors Bureau. Four prints by Don E. Davis of Jennie Sealy Hospital, Sealy & Smith Professional Building; R. Waverly Memorial Pavilion, and John W. McCullough Outpatient Clinic. Some negatives are damaged (see Box 1). Photos of Charles Fowler residence (Ave J--2508). The Gulf of Mexico at Night, Sea Wall Showing Rip Rap, Galvetson, Texas 1910, Bathing in the Surf, Greater Galveston, Texas 1913. Bathing in the Gulf of Mexico/In the Surf, Showing Murdochs Bath House at Galveston, Texas, New Municipal Free Fishing Pier, Galveston, Texas. H. Leonard 1879 : 15, 16, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. Includes many Trube and Edworthy postcard photos. Unidentified portrait of girl. Shows entrance to second Murdochs Bathhouse (1901). A. Lyons, Jr. 1934 Complete list of the names is in the first folder. Parish Publishing Co. in 1894. The May McLemore Matthews files contain photographs of the Ursuline Academy Class of 1932 and the Oleander Duchesses. 8 Mosquito Fleet; Grasso & Son, Inc. (background). Some photographs predate 1940.Most photographs taken by Paul Murphy of the Houston Chronicle. Coll. Albums & Photographs, 1921-22, nd; 2 albums. The Strand area became the Wall Street of the Southwest. R. Cheesborough 1914-23 Janice Coggeshall is the Mayor of Galveston. B. Andrews 1857-60 Most of these collections have not yet been digitized or cataloged online. Pier 35 fire (1920), which destroyed local plants operated by Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. and Anchor Milling Co. 1943 Storm. Cuban authorities have accused the U.S. government of being "complicit in piracy" for granting political asylum to a pilot who fled to Florida on a small "kidnapped" plane last October. Of particular interest: U.S. Of special interest: commercial, churches, hospitals, hotels, residences, monuments, recreation, and transportation in Galveston. Of special interest: gasworks, gas line and gas main installations, company picnic, snowstorm--1940, hurricane--1932 (includes Rosenberg Library),Virginia Point survey, gas explosion--Ave. M--3821, Oriental Hotel, and many views of Galveston streets and alleys. Also photographs from events in Galveston's black community, such as Juneteenth parades, Prayer Circle on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, and Community Christmas Party for the needy. Three teachers are unidentified. 87 near High Island 1939 (Aug.), 187 Broadway looking east from 25th St., showing the YWCA Home for Women [1940], 191 Gun battery at Fort Crockett 1941 (Sept.), 192 Anti-aircraft sound locators at Fort Crockett [1941], 193 Night firing of anti-aircraft guns with search lights at Fort Crockett [1941], 195 Ave. C looking west from 22nd St. [1942], 198 Broadway Baptist Church, 35th and Broadway [1942], 200 S. S. Galveston Hotel, 8th and Seawall 1942 (Mar. Notable persons are: These photographs have been separated from the Galveston Historical Foundation. Glass negatives only (no prints available). 1816 - The first settlement was established on September 13, 1816 by French privateer, Louis-Michel Aury, who was sent as the Mexican governor of Texas to create, first, a port from which to launch See first folder for detailed inventory. One print has been transferred to oversize. ]; scenes onboard ship; a photo of the Texas City Athletics baseball team; interior shots of the newspaper office; and a photo of Bill Ross. Also in the collection is a loose postcard describing William Ross and being in Galveston. D Industrial Agents Convention, Buccaneer Hotel, Galveston, Texas, Sept. 25, 26 and 27, 1947. Collection, ca. See first folder for detailed inventory. More specific inventory of images will be added later. William Donor unidentified. Printed illustrations of San Antonio. Galveston Postcard Collection, 1874-1929. Sea Wall, Galveston, Texas. Album owned by Charles Fowler. Of special interest: Battle of Galveston re-enactment, Mardi Gras, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rotary Club of Galveston, UTMB dedications, Grand Opera House, Galveston personalities, Ships, Dickens on the Strand. Shows Surf Bathhouse (backround) and Seawall. Shows completed section and riprap. The images were separated by Casey Greene from MSS #88-0019, Maco Stewart, III, Papers in November 2011. 1 Italian Vault ceremony, Calvary Cemetery, Oct.11, 1992. Of special interest: cultivation of cane fields; "sugar boiling;" convict workers; Sugar Land, Texas (includes aerial views); Cunnigham Sugar Mill; Texas Sugar Refining Corporation (Texas City); Edward H. Cunnigham; W. T. Eldridge; Daniel W. Kempner; Harris L. Kempner; Isaac Herbert Kempner; Isaac Herbert Kempner III; G. D. "Gus" Ulrich; commemorative coins; raw sugar handling facilities at Galveston. Of special interest:aerial views (1912, taken from balloon by Frank A. Stern), loading & unloading--cotton, portraits, Mirabeau B. Lamar,Samuel May Williams, and David G. Burnet. See first folder for a detailed inventory. 44 Aves. Approx. Of special interest: Jean Laffite, harbor views, Galveston Bagging & Cordage Company, streetcars, Magnolia Ice & Cold Storage Company, Texas Star Flour Mills, John Sealy hospital, Ball High School, waterworks, causeway, Galvez Hotel, a radio station (interior), Broadway esplanade, and wharf scenes. Of special interest: Portraits of Fr.[M.] A more detailed sketch of his life and work record is located in the Subject File. Photo Album #5, undated. 27 Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Galveston. For detailed inventory, see the first folder in the collection. This collection consists of materials removed from an album compiled very likely by a member of the Stubbs family. K and L. between 21st and 22nd Sts. The photo album includes waterfront and aerial views of Galveston, Texas Star Flour Mills (in a small wooden building), early bathhouses, and sailing vessels, circa 1880s. Chars. Comprised of photographs taken in the late 1970s to the early 1990s, this collection has a variety of subjects such as: Architecture, Business & Commercial, Ceremonies/Awards, Ribbon Cutting, Culture, Education, Events, Flora and Fauna, Fundraising, Government, Medicine, Organization, Other Cities and Places, People, Social Science, Sports & Recreation, Tourism, Transportation, and many other subjects. The remaining groupings are artificial collections developed by library staff. Of special interest: Woollam's Lake, Olympia Pavilion, nurses' residence, parade, fort, St. Mary's Infirmary, 1900 Storm aftermath (includes 35th St and Ave S, Sacred Heart Church, Ursuline Convent, Avenue M Public School, Elevator A, Lucas Terrace, Rosenberg Free School, Ball Ave and 24th St, First Baptist Church, St. Patrick's Church, Galveston Cotton Mills, Ashbel Smith Building, and Ursuline Convent). Mint condition. 1952*, 11-14 People (nearly all unidentified and undated). This booklet has exterior and interior views of the Beach Hotel (1883-1898) and the Tremont Hotel (1876-1928). Mary Batterson: Wife of William J. Batterson of Galveston (1870 federal census). Photographs, photocopies, news clippings, and ephemera. Photos taken by Morris of causeway-related scenes. First Lutheran Church Choir (including Elsie Hildebrand and her sister-in-law Greta Oppe) (oversized), 3-6 Our Home and Our Family (photographs separated from album), 3 Galveston Bay/Galveston Maniland Bridge, 4 The Press. Galveston News Office./Cotton Exchange, 8 Surf View at Beach Hotel (Pagodas Bath House), 10 Galveston Wharf Ships Loading Cotton, 11 Gulf, Col. And Santa Fe General Offices/Tremont House and Tremont St./Mechanic Street. A. Yeager 1963-65 Offices. Men, women and children posed, ca early 1900s, none are identified. His mother died in 1823, and his father left him in the care of friends and relatives. The Strand Theatre Photograph Albums contain five albums of photographs of stage productions, performers, and other activities at the Strand Theatre (now Island ETC) from 1994 to 2008. She had one son, who lived in Washington, DC, at the time of her death. Mayor Sussman will not be seeking re-election. Fortunes were made in cotton, mercantile house, banks, publishing and printing, flour and grain mills, railroads, land development, and shipping. The relative dearth of photographs of African Americans in the Galveston and Texas History Centers collection has prompted the retention of the photographs of unidentified persons, who were obviously members of the family or their associates. These photographs concern activities of the U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Committee, Galveston, which Darst headed. Of special interest: Avenue K School; Galveston Memorial Park Cemetery; J. Of special interest: corner of Tremont St. and Ave I, Hutchings residence, Grace Episcopal Church, Afro-Americans (including children), dredges, streetcar, interiors of Hurricane (steamer), Seawall (back, before filling), and Breakers bathhouse. Nicole (Nikki) Johnson-Kunz, famously known as the "Texas Shrimp Diva", and her father-in-law, Captain Jerome "Pops" Kunz, have been shrimping together on Galveston Bay since 2018. J. Lyons 1940 Loose photographs, and an album with numbered pages pertaining to Margaret Jeannetta Stafford and the Mary Kate Crow family. John Nichols residence, 5000 Park Ave. [1910], 41 Gill Building, southeast corner of 21st St. and Ave. D [1910], 46 The Crossroads (store) at 61st Street and Stewart Rd. Features Buccaneer Hotel. Its president was Stanley E. Kempner. Shaw Jewelry Store), 88 Tremont Street (showing Marcus Mott residence) (1905), 89 Looking West from Ball High School (showing Herman Marwitz residence) (pm 1911), 93 Galveston County Court House (ca. Of special interest: first air mail, first postal meter, King Vidor film festival, hurricane of 1933, Hollywood Dinner Club, snowstorm of 1973, Mardi Gras of 1931 and 1985, also photos of notable Galvestonians. Of special interest: Broadway Public School at 38th and Broadway; exceptional image of the County Courthouse. (? Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, and Mayes Middleton, R-Galveston, matched with House Bill 2127 from Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, would "return the historic . Photograph Collection. If you miss today's episode, you can catch it at 8:00 p.m. or the next morning at 8:00 a.m . Donors will provide more information in the future. Of special interest: Electric Park; several shots of the grade raising; Galveston Boat & Yacht Club; several interesting shots of boats and ships. Includes some copies of older photos (1930-61), particularly of the Afro-American and Mexican-American communities. This collection consists of 16 cartes de visites from the Confederate Signal Corps Blockade Runner Album kept by Lt. Albert Lindsay who was stationed in Houston. 27 years old (1880 federal census). "Pageant of Progress" lecture given by J.O. Fifty five images are of the destruction following the 1900 Storm, the other five show the city probably shortly before or after the storm. Workmen standing on top of section of wood form. 150 items. Horse-and-buggy driving along beach below Seawall. 13 In the Heart of Galveston after Hurricane, great pools of stagnant water endangered the health of survivors. Of special interest: Mayer family residences at 3414 Ave M and 1404 39th Street; Red Cross Galveston branch campaign and workers; camp life at Fort Crockett; wharf activities during World War I; aboard USS Tacoma. Processing pending. At least one photo for each individual in this collection has been digitized. Galveston Sea Wall, Galveston, Texas. Wharf and harbor scenes shot by Verkin. See also Spec. Images of Galveston's businesses, homes, beaches, monuments, and events may be found among the postcards. "Moreau B. Sweeney, 244 Bdway, Galveston, Texas" is written inside the album. As the storm hit the island city of Galveston, Texas, it was a category 4 hurricane, the second strongest designation on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale. Terminal building (right). Clemente Nicolini, his family, friends, businesses, and home. standing next to streetcar track; sand drifts on both sides of track, 57 Men standing or seated; demolished buildings (background), 58 Wrecked freight cars (foreground); grounded steamship (background)/Destroyed railroad track and derailed interurban car, 62 Group of men and women standing in the middle of debris-strewn intersection, 65 Work train with pile drive at work atop of temporary trestle, 66 Bystanders seated and standing, some of them observing a heavily damaged Crab Pavilion along Seawall Boulevard (background), 67 Wreckage/Overturned residence and other damaged houses, 69 Same structures as in #68 but viewed from a different angle, 70 Wrecked buggies in a pile in the middle of flooded 24th Street (showing Alba Hotel, 420 24th Street, and signs for Malloys and C.S. This booklet includes photographs of street scenes, wharves, businesses, U.S. Army, and farming. Rough Sea at Galveston, Texas. James Theodore Dudley Wilson, Houston mayor, banker, and soldier, son of Margaret (Pendergrast) and Robert Wilson, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 4, 1820. Photograph Album, 1915, 1919, ca. The images may have been from an exhibited entitled Old Galveston, prepared by library curator Lise Darst in the Harris Gallery during the late 1980s or early 1990s. Photographs of various Galveston locations in early September 1911, taken by James Alty Crocker, USN, who received the camera used to take the photos for his fourteenth birthday on September 6, 1911. 19 Galveston Disaster. The Miscellaneous files contain photographs of Ida Zahn, Alice Brown Sweeney, the John W. Focke residence, and photographs possibly of Evergreen Cemetery and Lafitte's Grove.Photograph album #1 contains photographs of actor Robert Taylor arriving in Galveston and Governor James Allred playing baseball. Moore residence, #8 9th Ave. N. [1926], 112 League City Gulf Coast Fig Orchards Association plant [1925], 113 Freed-Tartt Auto Supply Company, 728 23rd St. [1926], 114 Commerce-Steel Building, 21st St. and Strand, following its modernization. Formerly the Adoue & Lobit Bank Building designed by Nicholas Clayton. 300 items. Snapshots and color slides. Most photos published by M. H. Zahner and sold by Griffith & Griffith. The images date circa 1940. Harm operated and managed the Mountain Speedway roller coaster, Old Mill, and other beachfront attractions. 3 1966 (Dec.), 273 The former Kemah City Marshals Office and Jail as it was prior to renovation in 1966, 274 Mount Olive Baptist Church, 3602 Ave. Ask The Mayor; Business, Economy and Consumer Affairs; COVID-19; Education; Elections . Mykawa is a road named for Shinpei Mykawa, who introduced rice cultivation to the Houston area. Photographs taken of the interior features of the Buccaneer Hotel before being demolished in 1999. See also Spec. 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