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Japanese farmers
threshing rice in the Houston District, 1907
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Japanese farmer
with family in the rice country tributary to Houston, 1907
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Hauling sugar-cane,
1907
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Main Street
from Capitol Avenue, Houston, 1907
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Commission
Row on Commerce Avenue, Houston, 1907
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A home on Main
Street, Houston, of a style of architecture much in favor here, 1907
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Thalian Club,
1907
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Sam
Houston's old home on Caroline Street, still standing in 1907
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Gala-day in
Sam Houston Park, 1907
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Loading an
oil-train from an overhead pipe-line in the Houston District, 1907
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A typical rice
elevator in the Houston District, 1907
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Carnegie
Library & First Presbyterian Church, 1907
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Houston City
Hall and Public Market, 1907
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Houston Labor
Day Parade, 1918
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Houston Labor
Day Parade, 1918
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Members of the
San Jacinto Centennial Association and others standing next to the
newly erected monument honoring John Kirby Allen, co-founder of
Houston with his brother, during the dedication ceremony at the
old city cemetery in Houston, renamed at this time Founders Memorial
Park, August 31, 1936.
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courtesy of the Briscoe Center for American History, UT-Austin, Bailey
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The Pioneer
Memorial Monument in Houston's Hermann Park
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courtesy of the Briscoe Center for American History, UT-Austin, Bailey
(Bob) Studios Photographic Archive, e_bb_4367. |
Sam
Houston's only surviving son, Andrew
Jackson Houston, and Houston businessman and current chairman
of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Jesse H. Jones, and a crowd
of attendees, admire the model of the San Jacinto Monument unveiled
at the monument's groundbreaking ceremony, March 27, 1936.
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courtesy of the Briscoe Center for American History, UT-Austin, Bailey
(Bob) Studios Photographic Archive, e_bb_0774. |
The 1884 Harris
County Courthouse
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The 1910 Harris
County Courthouse
1939 Photo courtesy TXDoT |
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