[1929], 134 Texas Sugar Refining Company plant in southeast Texas City [1930], 138 Ferry boat Jefferson crossing from Galveston to Port Bolivar. Shows Seawall during Storm of 1909. Donated by Fay Sappington. All Past; All; Event Date/Time Agenda; Bolivar Heavy Trash Day: 03/03/2023 - 03/04/2023: Not Included: Other: Bolivar Trash Day 2023 : Good Friday: . Approx. 6. lithograph of the interior and exterior of Star Drug Store. Color snapshots. 200 items and one album. The images show hotels, restaurants, streets, beach, and wharf scenes. [1930], 139A Ciucci Grocery Store, 3901 Ave. O [ca. The print is of 3324 Avenue L (demolished). Originally stored in the Name File. Also included are a contract for John Egert to raise Sealy Hutchings' residence at 2805 Avenue O in 1906 and a certified list of registered voters in Election Precinct No. Most of the negatives and photographs were maintained by Eugene L. Porter, who taught at the University of Texas Medical Branch. These visual collections include images of Galveston's buildings, citizens, social life, and environment. Raphael M. Ray Schornstein (1894-1995) was a son of Jacob Schornstein, a clothing store proprietor. 28 Roy Harm at Galveston, ca.1925. Of special interest: unloading schooners (G), U.S. Election Information Voter Information Resources Candidates & Officials Current and Upcoming Elections Election Night Results Past Election Results Poll Workers + Election Information Past Election Results Font Size: + - Share & Bookmark Feedback Print Election Results Two asterisks denote a portfolio of prints donated by Rebecca Snow of Moore Memorial Public Library in Texas City. 500 items, Mostly negatives and a few prints produced by Galveston photographer Mary Clayton. Title: Souvenir of the Galveston Fire Department 1897. Owned by Mrs. Emil Wieselberg. North Jetties. Dunlap had a State of Texas Commission as a Branch Pilot for the Galveston Bar and Houston Ship Channel. Although the images are nearly completely unidentified, at least some were taken in Galveston. COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS. Locations include the Letitia Rosenberg Womans Home, Galveston Golf and Country Club, Fort Crockett, bathhouses, wharves, the Texas Heroes monument, Hotel Galvez, and John Sealy Hospital. The series are the same as those in the records. Henry Brown as of 1856-57 19 Galveston Disaster. Of special interest: bodies, salvage work and workers, Reuters Saloon, Masonic Temple, Church St., Ave. N, Roma (steamer), Sacred Heart Church, 22nd St., St. Mary's Infirmary, John Sealy Hospital, First Baptist Church, 23rd St., Lucas Terrace apartments, harbor and wharf scenes, 19th St., Fort Crockett, St. Patrick's Church, Ursuline Academy, Market St., Ball High School, and Galveston Orphans Home. Stored in oversized drawers. Donor: Elizabeth Head. Of special note: John Focke residence (1228 Ave. D), Austin-Fox residence, James Moreau Brown residence, Hendrix residence, Heye residence, Pelican Island, Sacred Heart Church, and UTMB. Felix Stella was director of the Galveston Municipal Band as well as its fore-runner, The Galveston Melody Orchestra. The collection contains images of the Clark family before and after they emigrated from England, the exterior and interior of their homes in Galveston, as well as photographs of Galveston beaches, other Texas cities, and Washington, D.C. Donated by William S. Donaldson in 1997. This collection features various Galveston buildings and scenes. The council-manager form of government was adopted in 1961. Many of the portraits were taken in Charlottesville, Virginia. The albums were found stored in GTHC, and are believed to have been given to Galveston Mayor Eddie Schreiber in the 1960s. CITY, MAYOR Elkhart, Joe B. Burris ANGELINA. There are also negatives and proof sheets, a Grand Opera House booklet, and a small amount of correspondence. K and L. between 21st and 22nd Sts. 1898-1900. 1941-1943.Portfolio of photographs. Listing for: Midtown Motor Co. Full Time position. Collection ca 1921 to late 1930s. Donor: Harry Wayne Brown, Jr. Brown (1927-2007) served as a commissioned officer in the Coast Guard Reserves. Donated by Sanders Cazedessus. Photograph album, [1880s], 1919-21; 1 item. Donated by Bob Westerlage, May 1997. The photographs include Schornstein in U.S. Army uniform, surf bathing, the Central High School fire in Houston, and staff members of the Texas Company in Port Neches. James F. Smith of Arkansas took these photographs during his visit to Galveston during July 1937. Portraits of family members and friends,including Stephen Moylan Bird, Victoria W. Campbell,Robert Dabney Johnson, Martin H. Royston, Raimundo de Ovies, and Joseph Weldon Bailey. Includes newspaper clippings on the House. The Photo Albums and Special Collections contain photos on a variety of subjects, families, and events. Of special interest: Gulf Bathhouse, bathers, Murdoch's Bathhouse, Pagoda Bathing Company, Texas Saloon, Kuder's Restaurant, Beach Hotel, Ocean View House, and Olympia Pavilion. 100 images. I; First Methodist Episcopal Church; Sacred Heart Church (including interior), St. Marys Infirmary, Garten Verein and Ursuline Convent; Walter Gresham residence, 2 U.S. Court of Civil Appeals and Galveston County Courthouse; Steele residence; Brazos (steamship); James Moreau Brown residence, 3 Texas Heroes Monument; Bolivar lighthouse; causeway, 4 Ball High School, Galvez Hotel, Seawall; surf bathing, 5 Surf Bathhouse; Sui Jen Caf;; aerial views. Painting by Julius Stocklfeth. Raymond Proclamations; State of the City Address 2020; State of the City Address 2019; . It is the largest city in Galveston County. Fourteen photos from 1947 and five from 1955. Collection, 1984, 1986; approx. Maurer photos. Topics include: U.S.S. [1926], 115 Gill Building, as seen from 21st St. looking north towards Market St. [1927], 116 Silbermann Flats Building, 23rd St. and Ave. N [1927], 117 American National Insurance Company, northeast corner of 21st St. and Ave. D [1927], 118 Crystal Palace and Murdochs Bathhouse [1927], 124 U.S. Army Air Corps planes at Fort Crockett [1927], 129 League City Pavilion at Galveston County Park [1929], 130 Miramar Tourist Courts, 3402 Seawall Blvd. Williams Memorial Park (AKA Hillcrest . Photographs & Book Plates, ca. 1952*, 11-14 People (nearly all unidentified and undated). 16, 1915, 14 Steamship Harlesden aground at Texas City, 16 Wrecked street car tracks (foreground); 2100 block of Ave. P (background), Including Vinson Hotel (2120 Ave. P 1/2), 17 Wrecked residences along Seawall Boulevard, 18 Wrecked houses; utility pole laying in street (right), 19 Wreck of Schooner in Side of Sea Wall, Aug. 16, 1915 (remnants of Alison Doura), 20 Piles of debris, including wrecked carousel; Crab Pavilion (background), 21 Horse standing amid wrecked structures, 22 Workers and wagon moving past demolished building near waterfront, 24 Workers standing on Seawall Boulevard; wrecked carousel (left) and Crab Pavilion (background), 25 Old City Hall (right), with people standing in flooded street, 26 Fishing boat Eleanor tied up at debris-covered pier, 29 Derailed freight cars (foreground); same steamship aground as in #27 and #28, 30 Wrecked causeway and interurban car; temporary trestle (background), 32 A Bad Wreck, Galv., Aug. 16, 1915 (showing collapsed two-story houses), 33 Partially covered streetcar track (foreground); wrecked houses (background), 34 Street scene (showing dislodged brick pavement and wrecked houses), 35 Pile driver inserting pilings to extend the temporary railroad trestle, 36 Wrecked causeway (foreground); temporary railroad trestle (background), 37 Cotton Sheds, Ave. C (showing railroad tracks and debris), 39 U.S. Army soldiers carrying trash can on top of Seawall; Fort Crockett (left background), 42 East End Boat in front residence/Scenes in East End, 43 East End Boat in front of residence (near duplicate of #42), 44 Woman standing next to streetcar track; sand drifts and palm trees (background), 45 Fence half-buried in sand drifts; houses (background), 46 People observing ruins after a downtown fire; see also #52, 49 Heavily damaged two-story building; see also #55, 51 Wreckage of schooner Alison Doura, which crashed in the Seawall, 52 Group of people observing the remnants of a downtown building after a fire; see also #46/Sunday on the Beach Boulevard, 54 Frame of shed being covered with lumber, 55 Heavily damaged two-story building; see also #49, 56 Boy (Frank Newnam?) An undated tintype photograph of the Hughes family house, a typescript of the 1900 Storm account dictated and signed by Carrie McAlpine Hughes, newspaper clipping and transcript of a 1937 article from the Dallas Morning News that includes recollections of the storm by Mattie Mae Hughes, and a newsclipping of a September 8, 1957 article from the Palestine (Texas) Herald-Press chronicling Irby Bennett Hughess memories of the storm. A. Griffin 1898-1914 Special Collections are photograph collections donated by creators or collectors of the material. Lantern slides used to illustrate Raimundo de Ovies' lectures on civic art, American sculpture, and American mural painting. [1900 Storm view. Packet, ca. [1930], 140 St. Johns Lutheran Church [1930], 144 Market St. looking west from 20th St. before the sidewalks were narrowed to widen the street in the spring of 1930 [1920s], 145A Market St. looking east from 25th St. after the sidewalks were narrowed in order to widen the street in the spring of 1930 [1930s], 145B Purdys Book Store, 2717 Ave. D [1925] (Not listed in original inventory), 146 Drays loaded with cotton at Pier 39 [1930], 147 Fishermans Wharf Market early 1930s, 148 Texas Star Flour & Corn Mills, 2028 Ave. A [1931], 150 The new United States Public Health Service Hospital, 4400 Ave. N 1932 (fall), 154 The new Galveston Municipal Airport. People: Individuals and groups. 1956; three items. Of special interest: Spoor family; gym class; scenes along Lake Michigan; basic training at Allentown and Guths Station, Pennsylvania; gas masks; encampment at Genoa, Italy; Italian lira and llire; scenes near Verdun, France; Kaiser Wilhelm II,and General Paul von Hindenburg. Nitrate negatives and contact prints of Mardi Gras costumes. A sign posted on the driver-side door emphasizes his identity. Yet these historic homes also reflect a city whose peak was over a century ago. They have been separated from the Committees Research Index (MSS #2002-0039). Also: a group photo of women taken by L. Tobler at Breakers Bathhouse, 5-6 Other Named Individuals (including Estelle Trube Hay, Bertha Trube (d. Denver, Colorado, 1917), and W.F. Job in San Antonio - Bexar County - TX Texas - USA , 78208. (? Donated by Danny Allen (son of Gus Allen and Galveston City Councilman) in 1995. 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. Includes two photographs of Forman and two group images of the First Annual Safety Conference, Galveston Engineers District, District Boat Yard, 1940. Photos include the Aviation Camp members in Galveston, the National Aeroplane Company, French aviator Paul Studensky receiving U.S. Aerial Mail at Galveston, Curtiss type bi-plane, Aviation Park in Galveston, accident of Hamiltons Machine in 1912 at Aviation Park, and Lester V. Bratton of the National Aeroplane Company. The Texas Maritime Academy, Galveston College, and the Marine Biomedical Institute were established. Mayor & City Council. Principal economic support is provided by the Port of Galveston and related interest, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, and other health institutions, financial institutions, tourism, shrimping, and fishing. Of particular importance are photos of President Franklin D. Roosevelts visit to Galveston in 1937. Past mayors reflect on Texas City's history Photo by Kevin M. Cox Sep 17, 2011 0 Centennial Chairman Emken Linton speaks about the four living Texas City mayors Matthew T. Doyle Carlos Garza Charles Doyle and D.D. Two photograph albums contain personal snapshots. Album, 1875; 1 volume (and one duplicate). Several images also have color 11x15 prints. The 9 Night Western Caribbean Cruise visits Galveston, Texas; Yucatn, Mxico; Cozumel, Mxico; Puerto Costa Maya, Mexico; Belize City, Belize; Roatn, Honduras and Galveston, Texas. Of special interest: Portraits of Fr.[M.] For additional Galveston Tourism Information, visit the official website of The Galveston Island Convention & Visitors Bureau The Galveston Island Convention and Visitors Bureau. Horse-and-buggy driving along beach below Seawall. Rosenberg Library was expanded. 10,000 photos). Alaska Cruises. Postcards of Galveston ca. 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. Donated by Alfreda Houston in February 1996; separated from MSS# 96-0002. Galveston Hand Colored (booklet with color illustrations). _____ [Reinchapelain],James H. Savage, Fr. Subjects: Anchor Mill - Fire (ca 1920); 2816 Ave O - decorations for H. W. Hildebrand's 50th Wedding Anniversary, 1921; Flowers at Conklin Funeral; Mayflower (sailing vessel) - visit to Galveston; Railroad scenes & locomotive wreck; Storm - 1930s; Transportation; World War I - U.S. Marines, Wharf scenes. Of special interest: Ashbel Smith Building. A few years ago at a family dinner, Johnson-Kunz noticed a major injury on his leg. 1930] (Not listed in original inventory), 139B John P. Deppens Restaurant, 3838 Seawall Blvd. Due to the fragile nature of the album, researchers are permitted to use photocopies only. These include: Galveston Islands North and South Jetties, 1938, (17 images); construction of the East End Extension of the Seawall, 1918-1925 (15 images). Fifty-two 5x7 b/w prints and 256 2.5x2.5 negatives showing various scenes in Galveston during the late 1930s. 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