Transcription of an interview with Fay Butcher Lathrop, resident of Baytown, Texas, since approximately 1920. Topics include the Houston Riot of 1917.

Interview with Willadene Hines, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include her life growing up in Baytown.

Transcription of an interview with C. M. Dickerson, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the petroleum industry and trade in the city.

Transcription of an interview with Mrs. Edward L. Scott, a resident of Baytown, Texas, since approximately 1920. Mrs. Scott is the daughter of former Texas poet laureate John P. Sjolander, whom she discusses in her interview along with the history of Baytown and Goose Creek.

Transcript of an interview with Jimmy Carroll, an early resident of Baytown, Texas. Carroll describes working conditions and the operations of the Humble Oil Company in Baytown, including describing some injuries and fatalities that occurred at the plant. Carroll continues on to share stories about safety and working conditions as well as segregation and the Ku Klux Klan.

Transcript of an interview with Barney Webber, a resident of Baytown, Texas since 1920. Webber answers general questions and describes life in early Baytown including crime, schooling, transportation and social life.

Transcript of an interview with Pat Ruyle, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include Robert E. Lee High School history, Goose Creek history and Baytown history.

Transcript of an interview with Phyllis Busch, a resident of Baytown, Texas, since approximately 1920. Topics include her early life and family background, including a description of a tent city, Horace Mann school, 1923, the picture show in Pelly, and her religious and community life in Cedar Bayou.

Transcript of an interview with Norman Brooks Culver, administrator of the Humble Hospital, the hospital owned and operated by the Humble Oil Refining Company in Baytown, Texas. Culver tells of his experiences working for Humble and the medical care provided to company employees, as well as a few anecdotes concerning the history of Baytown, such as Humble Day celebrations, the founding of Baytown's Volunteer Fire Department, and the founding of the charitable organization now known as East Harris County Community Chest.

Transcript of an interview with Grover C. Edge, a resident of Baytown, Texas since 1921. Topics include the early history of Baytown and the Humble Refinery, the VFW and the Bayshore Rod, Reel and Gun Club.

Interview with Sara Snyder, a resident of Baytown, Texas, since approximately 1920. Topics include her arrival in Baytown and Baytown history.

Transcript of an interview with B. E. Wilson. Topics include the Humble dormitory, work in the refinery, the 1930's, company benefits, World War II era and post-World War II, and his Civil War interests.

Transcript of an interview with Blanche DuPlantis, a longtime resident of Baytown since approximately 1920. DuPlantis explains her role in founding the first Episcopal church in Baytown, Trinity Episcopal Church, and its ascension to parish status in 1936. Most of her stories revolve around the church and the original congregation from the early 1920's.

Transcript of an interview with Charles A. Young, who arrived in the Baytown area in 1916. Mr. Young discusses his youth in Evergreen, Goose Creek and Orange Field, Texas. Young moved back to Baytown as an adult, and describes oilfields in the area as well as working conditions in the Humble Refinery, where he was employed.

Transcript of an interview with Raymond Kilgore, a resident of Baytown, TX since approximately 1920. Mr. Kilgore discusses his family life and the early history of Cedar Bayou and Baytown, including the brickyards, the pontoon bridge over Goose Creek, the Interurban to Houston, the fig orchards of Highlands, and life and schooling in Cedar Bayou.

Transcript of an interview with William T. Busch, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include his early life and youth in Cedar Bayou, his early employment, and his involvement in World War I, employment in banking institutions of Baytown, TX, development of Goose Creek after the oil field boom, and the effects of the Depression on Baytown, Texas.

Transcript of an interview with Bessie Jane Kilgore Busch, a resident of Cedar Bayou, Texas circa 1900-1925. Busch details her childhood and early life in Cedar Bayou as well as the oil boom and early days of Baytown, Texas.