Darst served as Curator of the Rosenberg Library Museum, 1978-2004. Separated from Gonzales Family Papers, MSS #89-0016. 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. Photos of storm damage and railroad interurban cars.Of special interest: causeway, waterfront, beached ships, Seawall, wrecked homes and industries, sternwheelers, and streetcar lines and equipment. Staff found the prints in the vault. Lewis The booklets were found in a cabinet in the reading room in 1999. An asterisk denotes a print donated by Westminster Presbyterian Church in 2007. Rose. Includes two photographs of Forman and two group images of the First Annual Safety Conference, Galveston Engineers District, District Boat Yard, 1940. Prints and information concerning the fire in the Ufford Building, southwest corner of 23rd Street and Mechanic, in 1977. Coll. Railroad ferry; Tremont St.; Texas Heroes Monument; Brazos (steamer); U.S. Life Saving Station and Federal Immigration Station; oleanders; cotton. [1900 Storm view. Categories include church buildings,congregations, events, groups, and individuals. Felix Stella was director of the Galveston Municipal Band as well as its fore-runner, The Galveston Melody Orchestra. 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 Of special interest: Galveston harbor and views of various boats and ships; people on the beach; Texas Heroes Monument; Murdoch's Bathhouse; Gulf View Hotel; residences along Ave J; cactus growing in Texas City. Of special interest: 1895 snowstorm. Edmund Mary Of special interest: portraits of Philip Crosby Tucker,Sr., Mary Catherine Millens McCloskey, Philip Crosby Tucker, Jr., Mary Cecilia Labadie, Philip Crosby Tucker III, Cecilia Tucker, Anna Tucker, Antoinette Tucker, Mary Cecelia Tucker, Anna Labadie Tucker, Archibald Tucker, Louis O. Tucker, Baldwin Tucker, Joseph Tucker, Sue Tucker, Mary C. Tucker, and unidentified, Williams-Tucker residence, and Freemasons. 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. Quality excellent. A. Lyons, Jr. 1934-40 Donated by Patricia Norton, daughter-in-law of Wallace Norton,in Oct. 1995. 10,000 photos). 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. _____ [Reinchapelain],James H. Savage, Fr. CITY, MAYOR Elkhart, Joe B. Burris ANGELINA. T. Clark 1872-74 Loose items found at the back of the album and filed in a separate folder include 1924 season's greetings from Henry Cohen; a photograph of a painting of ducks; 10 pen-and-ink drawing by Boyer Gonzales, Jr. Albums & Photographs, 1921-22, nd; 2 albums. View of the back of Lasker Home with the site of Clark House just demolished. Donated by the family of Samuel Munn who is descended from the families of Drew, Quirk, Phillipson, Nichols, and Munn (see MSS# 96-0015, Munn Family Collection). Collection, circa 1860-1865; ca. Of special interest: soldiers, state capitol in Austin. Church, South/First Presbyterian Church/St. Originally owned by Emma H. Rosenthal, donated by her niece Yvette C. Rosenthal in 1999 through John Hyatt. 1905), 61 Broadway looking east from 24th St. (shows James Moreau Brown residence), 62 Greetings from Galveston, Texas Broadway and 15th St. looking east (1907). ; portraits of members (include Valery E. Austin, Thomas H. Phillips, John S. Fordtran, Henry Wilkens, Fred Schneider, Julius W. Jockusch, Clinton M. Wolston, Frederick W. Erhard, Victor H. Davison, J. Stanley Clark, Maurice L. Ujffy, Gentry Waldo, H. S. Cooper, John W. Campbell, John W. Focke, Maury M. Spencer.Also individual portraits of Henry J.Runge, William J. Hughes, Edward T. Elmendorf, and two unidentified persons. 100 color snapshots of wooden fishing vessels from the Galveston Area. Lawder (1916-1991) worked 42 years for Todd Shipyard Co. on Pelican Island. The Miscellaneous Files (M-Files) contain photographs of areas outside of Galveston and Texas, including a rare photo of the Texas Infantry at Camp Quantico. The album was created by Mr. Sam Tipp and given as a gift to Mrs. Effie Erwin Nevill ca 1902 before her marriage. Approx. 40 b/w snapshots. The 1900 Storm typescript and the Dallas Morning News article transcript are copied by Irby Hughes. Due to the fragile nature of the album, researchers are permitted to use photocopies only. ; Galveston, TX. A few parade spectators are visible standing on the side of the road. The boom period of the "Queen City of the Gulf" ended with the great 1900 storm, which killed 6,000 people and left 8,000 homeless. 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. Photographs and negatives taken by brewery equipment manufacturer Eugene Charleton, Sr. during the late 1940s, documenting activities at breweries in Galveston, Houston, and San Antonio. Special Collection #276, the Clark and McLemore families photographs, contains photographs of Jeff McLemore, his wife May Clark McLemore, their daughter May McLemore Matthews, as well as photographs of the Clark family and friends of May McLemore Matthews. 9.6/5 (573 reviews) "We were blown away by this hotel and think it was worth being a bit out of . 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. 142* Hurricane Carla, September 1961 (Galveston scenes), 143 Somebody is waiting for you in Galveston/Theres a Reason, 144 Souvenir postcard Shell; surf bathing scene (inset), 145 Cotton Scene (cotton bales being loaded onto railroad cars), 147 Wreck of US Aeroplane No.11 at mobilization camp, Texas City, Texas (1913), 148 Galveston Flood Exhibition at Coney Island (1906), 150 Interurban-Queen Cigar and News Stand, birthplace of Douglas Corrigan, 21st St. and D Street (with inset of his infant photograph), 151 Galveston (scenes): John Sealy Hospital, Scene on the Wharves, and City Hall (old), 152 Greetings from Galveston (scenes) Residence of Mrs. H. Rosenberg, Texas Heroes Monument, Rosenberg Free School, and YMCA Building (gift of the late H. Rosenberg) (1899), 153-157 Acknowledgement cards from Texas banks received by S. Heidenheimer Bros., Galveston, (1879), Msgr. 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. R. Cheesborough 1914-23 Album #2: 1967-71, of special interest: ground breaking ceremony for the ANICO Tower, ships in port, two photos of exterior of the Balinese Room. Published by the Port of Galveston Magazine. Albums, ca. One album with news clippings and b/w snapshots of the City Cemetery, Sextons office building (including exteriors), a complete list of all City sextons from 1852-1970. [Martin Weinzophoel]. Photographs, photocopies, news clippings, and ephemera. E Convention: Of special interest: Isaac H. Kempner; Henrietta Blum Kempner; USS Texas (battleship); San Jacinto Battlefield; San Jacinto Inn, 1951; Banquet. 1000 items (ca. Unidentified portrait of girl. Alaska Cruises. Small collection of b/w snapshots, stock photos, and few professional portraits of Maco Stewart Jr., his family and friends (none are identified). Andrew Augustus Gus Allen Sr. (1905-1988) was a black civic leader and businessman. Approx. This collection is currently being digitized. This is a very good collection,however, some of the images are obscured by the damage on the original negatives. Transferred from MSS #91-0008. Album donated by the Rice University Fondren Research Center, Sept. 2000. Some were taken by Zeva B. Edworthy. A comprehensive index to the postcards is in the online finding aid and kept with the collection. Vernon Rabel, worship service, Pastor John C. Roehm. Also includes photos of the Dutch East Indies. NOTE: One folder of duplicate or inferior quality images is filed at the end of the folders. Over 12,000 people call Seabrook home, and why not? Seawall, Beach and Boulevard, Galveston, Texas, Sea Wall by Moonlight,Galveston, Texas 1906*, Sea Wall, Galveston, Tex. [19]11*, Bathing at Galveston, Tex. The library has three copies of the album, one donated by George Sealy, one by Charles Fowler, and one donor unknown. [1921], 88B First Methodist Episcopal Church, South [1915] (Not listed in original inventory), 89 German Evangelical Association Church, 1828 Ave. H [1915] (Number assigned to another photo in original inventory), 94 DeRango Auto Company, 1913 -23rd St. [1923], 100 Port Bolivar Jefferson, one of the Galveston-Bolivar ferries [1925], 101 New ten-room camp apartment at Hawkins Tourist Camp, 15th and Seawall [1924], 102 Hawkins Tourist Camp Ground, 15th and Seawall [1925], 105 Dickinson George Warriner Home, 1600 block of Pine Dr. [1925], 106 Brown Villa near Dickinson on Humble Camp Rd. Asterisks denote oversized postcards that are kept in folders. Also included are an American Red Cross Woman's Bureau Surgical Dressings war manual, a Red Cross Motor Corps ID card issued to Marguerite Guldmann, and Christmas cards to the Guldmann family by the Zerbee and Grills families. Photographs removed from Clarke & Courts records, Manuscript Collection No. ), 221 The G.F. Wacker store in downtown Texas City, one of many local businesses to have its windows blown out as a result of the Grandcamp explosion. 50 items. The photographs and other items, including several pen-and-ink drawings by Schornstein, have been removed from the album and filed. Winner/Notes. Shelved in oversized drawers. Identical to #30 but in color. A. Lyons, Jr. 1934 Mayor Sussman will not be seeking re-election. Includes photographs, business advertisements, and postcard views of Galveston. B'nai Israel Congregation synagogue. 448. Men, women and children posed, ca early 1900s, none are identified. Darst Creek. See first folder in the collection for a complete inventory. None of the people are identified but are believed to be the family and friends of Charlotte Cornell (1895-1963). 100 items. 150 items, and approx. 13 Galveston Rope [and] Twine Co./Galveston Cotton and Woolen Mill/Galveston Bagging and Cordage Co. 14 Medical Department of the University of Texas, 15 Ursuline Convent/University of St. Mary/Church of the Sacred Heart/St. Terminal building (right). Photographs show wharf and harbor scenes, ships grounded by a hurricane [1909, 1915? Staff separated the items from MSS #2004-0006, a research collection compiled by Virginia E. Eisenhour, a Galveston author, for a possible book on Menard. Photographs by G. Sommer (Napoli) portraying Swiss scenery. Of special interest: Tremont St., Davie (J.P.) residence, cane jetties harbor improvement experiment, McLean (revenue cutter), 1890 bird's eye view, life-saving station (south Jetty ? Collection of aerial negatives; approx. See also MS# 83-0036, Betty Hartman Papers. Of special interest: Galveston and Galveston Island views include Ribston (steamer), causeway Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway yards, and Pier A. 1994 (spring), C. Bath Avenue School and Letitia Rosenberg Womans Home, E. Brackenridge Hall at the Medical Department of the University of Texas, G. Street scene, tentatively identified as 30th & O, J. They have been separated from the Committees Research Index (MSS #2002-0039). In 1930, she began her career at the University of Texas Medical Branch as assistant librarian. Box 4: E. S. Levy & Company employees (include Afro-Americans), E. S. Levy & Company advertisements published in the Galveston Daily News and Tribune, wedding, Hurricane Carla aftermath (includes Ursuline Academy, St. Mary's Cathedral, St. Mary's Cathedral School, Robert Layton, Central Park, Kirwin Home, and First Presbyterian Church). Projects involved the architectural firm of Rapp Partners. Photographic Collection, undated, 1937, 1957; 5 items. 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