Early Houston histories and documents

Recent Submissions

Houston as the setting of the jewel, the Rice Institute

Montgomery, Julia Cameron, compiler; Houston : J.C. Montgomery, 1913. (1913)
Galveston blue book, a society directory and Houston blue book, a society directory

[Houston, Tex.?] : J.R. Wheat, [1896?] (1896)
Houston illustrated : a few facts about the South's most prosperous city

Houston Daily Herald; [Houston, Tex.] : [W.H. Coyle & Co.], [1893] (1893)
Crockett's Almanac

Crockett, Davy, 1786-1836; American Almanac Collection (Library of Congress) DLC; Turner & Fisher (1846)
Houston Tentative Plans for its Development: Report to the Houston Park Commission

Comey, Arthur C. (Arthur Coleman), 1886-1954; Boston : Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1913 (1913)
Notable Houstonians of Today

Houston Cartoonist's Association; Houston, Tex. : Houston Cartoonist's Association, 1931 (1931)
Choice bits

First Methodist Church (Houston, Tex.) Bluebird Circle. (1900)

Compiled by the Bluebird Circle of the First Methodist Church of Houston. Originally published in Houston, circa 1960.
Texas. Sketches of character; moral and political condition of the republic; the judiciary, &c.

Thompson, Henry; Philadelphia, Brown, Bicking & Guilbert, printer (1839)
Texas. Observations, historical, geographical and descriptive, in a series of letters, written during a visit to Austin's colony, with a view of a permanent settlement in that country, in the autumn of 1831

Holley, Mary Austin, 1784-1846; Baltimore, Armstrong & Plaskitt (1833)
Texas. Geschildert in beziehung auf seine geographischen, socialen und übrigen verhältnisse mit besonderer rücksicht auf die deutsche colonisation. Ein handbuch für auswanderer nach Texas; seinen deutschen landsleuten gewidmet

Solms-Braunfels, Carl, prinz zu, 1812-1875; Frankfurt am Main, J. D. Sauerländer (1846)
Men of affairs of Houston and environs : a newspaper reference work

Houston Press Club; Houston, Texas : W. H. Coyle (1913)
Houston and south Texas : a newspaper reference work

Houston Chronicle; Houston, Texas : Houston Chronicle (1921)
Ellington 1918

[Houston, Tex.] : [s.n.] (1918)
Correspondencia que ha mediado entre la legación extraordinaria de México y el Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos sobre el paso del Sabina por las tropas que mandaba el General Gaines

Mexico. Legación. United States; Mexico: Reimpreso por J.M.F. de Lara (1837)
Autobiographical letters of Cesar Lombardi to his grandchildren

Lombardi, Cesar Maurice, 1845-1919 (1913)
The story of Buffalo Bayou and the Houston Ship Channel

Farrar, Roy Montgomery, 1870-; Houston, Tex. : Chamber of Commerce (1926)
Red Book of Houston: A compendium of social, professional, religious, educational and industrial interest of Houston's colored population

(1915)
Thumb-nail history of the city of Houston

Young, Samuel Oliver, 1848- (1912)

A rare volume of Houston history. WRC call # Masterson F394.H8 Y69
South Houston: the town built within a year

Western Land Corporation (1909)

A rare volume of Houston history. WRC call # Masterson F394 .S675 S68 1909
History of the German element in Texas

Tiling, Moritz Philipp Georg, 1851-1916 (1913)

A rare volume of Houston history. WRC call # Masterson F395.G3 T5