Browsing Early Houston histories and documents by Title

Autobiographical letters of Cesar Lombardi to his grandchildren

Lombardi, Cesar Maurice, 1845-1919 (1913)

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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.

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)

Crockett's Almanac

Crockett, Davy, 1786-1836; American Almanac Collection (Library of Congress) DLC; Turner & Fisher (1846)

Galveston blue book, a society directory and Houston blue book, a society directory

[Houston, Tex.?] : J.R. Wheat, [1896?] (1896)

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

Houston and south Texas : a newspaper reference work

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

Houston as the setting of the jewel, the Rice Institute

Montgomery, Julia Cameron, compiler; Houston : J.C. Montgomery, 1913. (1913)

Houston illustrated : a few facts about the South's most prosperous city

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

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)

Houston, the magnolia city

(1912)

A rare volume of Houston history. WRC call # Masterson F394.H8 H84

Men of affairs of Houston and environs : a newspaper reference work

Houston Press Club; Houston, Texas : W. H. Coyle (1913)

Mexican Account of the Battle of San Jacinto

Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794?-1876.; Delgado, Pedro (1921)

A rare volume of Houston history. WRC call # Masterson F390 .D4

Moreau Forrest Letter to Mary Forrest

Forrest, Moreau (1837)

Written in 1837 from Houston, Forrest writes at length to his wife about Houston, and the illness of their son; discusses the possible outbreak of war with Mexico; talks of the Texas Congress meeting. This four-page letter gives an early look at life in the Republic of Texas. Mention of Moreau Forrest as candidate for Mayor of Houston can be found ...

Notable Houstonians of Today

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

Pen and sunlight sketches of greater Houston : the most progressive metropolis in the South

(1913)

A rare volume of Houston history. WRC call # Masterson F394.H8 P45

Red Book of Houston: A compendium of social, professional, religious, educational and industrial interest of Houston's colored population

(1915)

Settlement of the Jews in Texas

Cohen, Henry Rev. (1894)

A rare volume of Houston history. WRC call # Masterson F395.J5 C65

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