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Houston
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:250000
Date:
1977
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Houston
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:250000
Date:
1953
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Houston
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:250000
Date:
1969
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Houston
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:250000
Date:
1977
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Houston
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:250000
Date:
1963
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2007 Economic Census Map: Houston-Baytown-Huntsville, Texas Combined Statistical Area
Map showing the area of the Houston-Baytown-Huntsville, Texas Combined Statistical Area for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data during the 2007 economic census.
Date:
2007
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Day Trips from Houston in the Texas Forest Trail Region
Research about towns in the Forest Trail region of Texas compiled for a Texas Highways article describing historic sites, museums, parks, and other attractions near each town.
Date:
2003~
Creator:
Mallory, Randy
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Port Arthur Water Plant]
Photograph of the first Port Arthur Water Plant, located at Houston Avenue and Lakeshore. The building is two stories high, and there are two smoke stacks protruding from it. In the background, there are other buildings and a water tower. Text below the photograph says "Water Plant."
Date:
1912
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Petroleum City Gulf Oil]
Photograph of "Petroleum City" in Houston, Texas at night with lights and flames reflecting into the water of the Gulf.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Scaefer, Don
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Port Arthur Ice Company]
Photograph of Port Arthur Ice Company on 101 Houston Avenue. A sign on the building says "Port Arthur Ice Co." Three business trucks and two cars are parked in front of the building. The trucks say "Crystal Ice Co." and "Port Arthur Ice Co."
Date:
1933
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Early Day Port Arthur]
Photograph of a view of early Port Arthur. In the foreground, there is a wooden building on the left side of the photograph identified as Terminal Hotel on Houston Avenue. There are several other wooden buildings.
Date:
190?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Gerald Glidden and Car]
Photograph of a man identified as Gerald Glidden, District Representative of Gulf States Utilities Company, standing by a car and pointing to it in front of the Gulf States office on 101 Houston Avenue. The car is decorated with advertisements for the utility company. The back of the car says "Use Electrical Appliances;" the side of the car says "Water Pumps Ranges' Washers" and "General Electric Refrigerators." Text at the bottom of the photograph says "Gerald Glidden."
Date:
1917~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Light Crust Doughboys Collection, No.14 - The Doughboys on tour 1953 - 1955]
This home movie documents the Light Crust Doughboys (LCD) on tour in New Mexico and Texas in 1953 - 1955 and performing for various events including the March of Dimes in Lovington, New Mexico and a labor convention in El Paso, Texas. The film begins with band members boarding the Flagship San Antonio airplane and includes footage of Midway Airport and Carswell Air Force Base (01 min., 08 sec.); Paul Blount, Lefty Perkins, "Big Bill" Lister, Joe Bill, Johnny Hicks, Claude King, Bobby Williamson, Mr. and Mrs. Al Turner, Mr. and Mrs. George McCoy, Carol Hubbard, and Gene Bradley aboard an airplane (01 min., 30 sec.); aerial footage of Sweetwater, Texas (03 min., 03 sec.); arrival and takeoff at an airport in Midland, Texas (03 min., 30 sec.); arrival and interviews at the Lea County Airport in Hobbs, New Mexico (05 min., 17 sec.); actor Johnny "Mack" Brown (05 min., 47 sec.) and singers Tommy and Goldie Hill (06 min., 20 sec.) talking to news reporters; LCD band members and friends (Jim Boyd, Elizabeth Ann Boys, Bob Shelton, Johnny Gimble, Zany Blainy, Carol Hubbard, Paul Blount, Red Kidwell, and Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery) traveling to a labor convention in El Paso, …
Date:
1953/1955
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Port Arthur Ice Company and Rolling Equipment]
Photograph of a building identified as Port Arthur Ice Company on Houston Avenue. A sign attached to the building says "Port Arthur Ice Company." Several trucks and horse-drawn vehicles are parked in a row outside the building. In the background, there are other buildings.
Date:
193X
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Number Two Fire Station]
Photograph of seven men and one dog posing on fire trucks outside of the Number Two Fire Station on the corner of Thomas Boulevard and Houston Avenue. The trucks are a 1923 American LaFrance Pumper and a 1923 Model T Ford. The men are identified as Bill Woods, Ed Sykora, Eugene Ray, Shorty Robins, Jim Salyer, O'Neil Borel, and Pat Etheridge.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[WWH: Pig Stand]
Text about the Pig Stand, a drive-in restaurant chain established in 1921, that was published in the "When..." section of a September 1997 Texas Highways magazine article.
Date:
1997-09~
Creator:
Mallory, Randy
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Pamphlet: Bridges '88 Call for Entries]
Pamphlet containing a call for entries and entry form for the "Bridges '88" art exhibit that features Black artists from Houston and Beaumont. The pamphlet contains information about the exhibit and an event schedule.
Date:
January 1988
Creator:
Community Artists' Collective
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: NCAA basketball]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Class B title which went to Huckaby by 49- 48 over LaPoynor.
Date:
March 9, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Price Daniel to John J. Herrera - 1953-04-01]
Letter from Senator Price Daniel of Texas to John J. Herrera, dated April 1, 1953. Daniel is replying to Herrera's request for flags that flew over the Capitol to be purchased for LULAC Councils in Houston, Port Arthur and Freeport, Texas.
Date:
April 1, 1953
Creator:
Daniel, Price
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John J. Herrera to John B. Connally - 1963-05-18]
Onionskin paper carbon copy of letter from John J. Herrera to Governor John B. Connally, asking Connally to attend a LULAC banquet, for which Herrera will be serving as the master of ceremonies.
Date:
May 18, 1963
Creator:
Herrera, John J.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John B. Connally to John J. Herrera - 1963-10-25]
Letter from Governor John B. Connally giving John J. Herrera his regrets that it would not be possible for him to attend the February State LULAC Convention.
Date:
October 25, 1963
Creator:
Connally, John Bowden, 1917-1993
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Joe Goetschius to John J. Herrera - 1963-02-20]
Letter to John J. Herrera is from Joe Goetschius, Manager of the Trade Development Department at Beaumont Chamber of Commerce, thanking him for helping Beaumont to acquire the 1964 LULAC Convention.
Date:
February 20, 1963
Creator:
Goetschius, Joe
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Romeo Vera, Sr. to John J. Herrera - 1964-08-03]
Letter from Romeo Vera, Sr. to John J. Herrera on August 3, 1964, regarding an invitation to attend the District Nine meeting in Beaumont, Texas on August 9, 1964.
Date:
August 3, 1964
Creator:
Vera, Romeo, Sr.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John J. Herrera to Romeo Vera, Sr. - 1964-08-07]
Onionskin carbon copy of a letter from John J. Herrera to Romeo Vera, Sr. on August 7, 1964, regarding an invitation to attend the District 9 LULAC Convention.
Date:
August 7, 1964
Creator:
Herrera, John J.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History