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Harris County.

Description: Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1910
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Man and women posing with a giant fish]

Description: Postcard issued by Bank of the Southwest using images from F.J. Schlueter Collection. Image is of man and women in bathing suits posing with a giant fish. Text on the back of the postcard reads, "Early Houstonians recall that Houston was a fisherman's paradise. The fishing's good today, too, but bathing costumes have improved considerably in most people's opinion. Houston Streets were never the same again. Photograph from the Bank of the Southwest--F.J. Schlueter Collection." Image is from… more
Date: 1910
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

Map of Houston, Harris Co., Texas, September 1910.

Description: Map shows [proposed?] belt line loop encircling Houston as part of an interurban street-railroad with cross-town lines, service facilities, and numbered sections, with some portions under construction; named subdivisions, landowners for larger parcels, and railroad lines. Scale [1:21,600].
Date: 1910
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Two women in an automobile]

Description: Postcard issued by Bank of the Southwest using images from F.J. Schlueter Collection. Image is of two women in an automobile, one at the driver's wheel and one in the back seat. Text on the back of the postcard reads, "By 1910, the horse and buggy had begun to give way to the automobile. Houston Streets were never the same again. Photograph is from the Bank of the Southwest--F.J. Schlueter Collection." Image is from ca. 1910, but postcard is from ca. 1970.
Date: 1910
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Photograph of Axtell Railroad Station]

Description: Postcard sent to Miss Loudie George in Houston, Texas. The image on the front features a photograph of the Axtell Railroad Station on the St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas with three women and a man standing outside the entrance. Buildings are visible in the background. A note written on the back is dated November 2, 1910 and says "I arrived home Tuesday morning and made an auto trip to [...] via Moody got home at 10 last night will be in Waco again tomorrow May get to see you in Waco or… more
Date: November 12, 1910
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Historic Marker Application: Harris County 1910 Courthouse]

Description: Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Harris County 1910 Courthouse, in Houston, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date: April 27, 2010
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Location: 29.761164 -95.359727
Partner: Texas Historical Commission

[Postcard from Ellen to Miss Harthausen, October 7, 1910]

Description: Postcard from Ellen to Miss Harthausen, promising to write a letter when she has time. The front of the postcard features an illustration of three buildings lining a street - one two-story building and two one-story buildings. The building on the far right has a sign for a bakery. Two automobiles and a small buggy are parked along the street.
Date: October 7, 1910
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Patrick Heath Public Library

Memories of Nelly Levy Berg: Her Life in Germany and her First Ten Years in America, 1910-1948

Description: Biographical narrative about Nelly Levy Berg and her family, detailing her early life in Germany (now part of Poland) and subsequent immigration to Houston, Texas. It also discusses World War II and the effects of the Holocaust on her extended family. The author (Berg's daughter) also describes a modern-day trip to Eastern Europe to revisit the locations.
Date: 1995
Creator: Wulfe, Lorraine
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries
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