Houston from Keystone Bldg, Texas, 1922 – Antique Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Houston from Keystone Bldg, Texas, 1922, preserved in this historic image. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: "City of Houston" taken from the top of the Keystone Bldg., center of Houston, Texas
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Houston from Keystone Bldg, Texas, 1922
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Houston, Texas, in 1922 was a growing commercial city whose fortunes rested on oil, cotton, and shipping. The Houston Ship Channel, dredged to the Gulf and opened in 1914, had turned the city into a deep-water port, and refineries and oil companies were expanding along its banks. Railroads radiated from downtown, moving cotton, lumber, rice, and petroleum to market, and the city's business district was filling with office buildings like the Keystone, which rose above the streets where merchants, bankers, and oilmen met. Houstonians of the period knew their city as a rising center of Gulf Coast commerce, still tied to the cotton trade that had long defined the region.
| Created / published | 1922 |
|---|---|
| Creator | litterst commercial photo co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 994 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | "City of Houston" taken from the top of the Keystone Bldg., center of Houston, Texas |
| Reference | TX Houston from Keystone Bldg 1922 |
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