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["Sunbeam" departing from Houston]

Description: This scene depicts Southern Pacific's Grand Central Station in Houston as it appeared in the last days , the "end of the age of steam". The Southern Pacific's "Sunbeam" train No. 13 northbound headed by Engine No. 650 - a streamlined Pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive - departs from the terminal on its run to Dallas at 4:45 PM on August 9, 1953.
Date: August 9, 1953
Creator: Plummer, Roger S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Petroleum heater under construction]

Description: Photograph of a Crown Central Petroleum Corporation heater under construction. The structure was built by Alcorn Combustion Company out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with materials provided by John Dollinger Jr., Inc. Scattered construction materials and steel beams are located throughout the site. A ladder is leaning against the left side of the structure. Several men are standing near a building in the far right background. The back of the photo is stamped "Litterst Com'l Photo Co. 2007 P… more
Date: October 27, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Tyrrell Historical Library

[Petroleum heater construction]

Description: Photograph of the inside of a Crown Central Petroleum Corporation heater under construction. The structure was built by Alcorn Combustion Company out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with materials provided by John Dollinger Jr., Inc. Pipes and steel beams are gathered in stacks upon the floor of the structure. Handwritten on the back of the photograph, "Alcorn Combustion Co Crown Central Petroleum Co Pasadena Heater file A2" The back of the photo is stamped "BM Photograph Business Men's S… more
Date: October 27, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Tyrrell Historical Library

[Petroleum heater under construction]

Description: Photograph of a section of a Crown Central Petroleum Corporation heater under construction. The structure was built by Alcorn Combustion Company out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with materials provided by John Dollinger Jr., Inc. Two workers are at the top of the structure, each wearing a hard hat. The back of the photo is stamped "BM Photograph Business Men's Studio Beaumont, Texas"
Date: October 27, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Tyrrell Historical Library

[Exterior View of Scottish Rite Cathedral]

Description: Photograph of an exterior view of Scottish Rite Cathedral. It is a large three-story building with Neoclassical and Art Deco architectural influences.Passing and parked cars are visible on the streets in front.
Date: November 21, 1952
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Johnny Wigley at Stock Show]

Description: Photograph of a boy with a cowboy hat and a sign hanging from his neck with the number "1" written on it, standing to the left of a cow and holding the animal's lead rope. Two men are standing to the right of the cow, also in cowboy hats and western attire. The boy is identified on the back as Johnny Wigley, grand champion of the Houston Livestock Show, and the two men are identified as Bill Williams and Edgar Brant. The cow has a sign across its back with the name of the stock show and the wo… more
Date: 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Jennie Trent Dew Library

Family Night at La Grave Field

Description: Flyer promoting "Family Night at La Grave Field" with the Fort Worth Cats, a minor league baseball team from Fort Worth, Texas. The flyer is promoting a game between the Cats and a team in Houston, Texas. There is an illustration of a baseball player holding a bat.
Date: August 1952
Creator: B'nai B'rith Lodge
Item Type: Refine your search to only Poster
Partner: Fort Worth Jewish Archives

Opening Reception

Description: Photograph of six unidentified people seated at two square tables in the cafeteria during the opening of Lee College. Two men wearing suits with towels over their arms are standing near the tables, one on the right and one in the background on the left. In the background, windows along the wall are visible on the left and several other people are partially visible on the right.
Date: October 21, 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Lee College

[Family Touring Lee College Auditorium]

Description: Photograph of a man, woman, and two young girls at the opening of Lee College, standing in front of a stage where Lee College music instructor,Tom Stone, is seated behind a keyboard speaking with them. There is a large basket of flowers on the front of the stage, and what appears to be a grand piano on the other side of the organ that the man is playing; a curtain is closed at the back of the stage.
Date: October 21, 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Lee College

[People Touring Business Lab]

Description: Photograph of a group of people including several young children in a business lab at the Lee College opening. The lab includes several lines of desks that have covered typewriters on them; in the center of the room, a young woman appears to be typing at a raised desk while the others watch. A row of large windows is visible along the wall on the right side of the image.
Date: October 21, 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Lee College

[Visitors in Physics Lab]

Description: Photograph of a group of unidentified people standing behind a table in a physics lab during the opening of Lee College. The group, which includes a number of men and women with a young girl and boy in the front, are looking up toward the ceiling where one of the men on the left seems to be pulling a cord. An apparatus is visible on the table and behind the group are a series of close blinds.
Date: October 21, 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Lee College

[Dedication of First Lee College Building #2]

Description: Photograph of four men during the dedication of the first building of the Lee College campus in Baytown. They are visible from the waist up, psoing around a large plaque mounted on a brick wall with a large arrangement of flowers below; the text lists the start of the college (1950), board of trustees, administrators, and companies responsible for the building. Three of the men are standing at the left side of the plaque, identified (L-R) as: George Gentry (president), Walter Rundell (dean), Al… more
Date: 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Lee College
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