Houston, Tex, Texas, 1912 – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Houston, Tex, Texas, 1912. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: [Houston, Tex., 1912]
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Houston, Tex, Texas, 1912
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Houston, Texas, in 1912 was a railroad and cotton town of roughly 80,000 people, and its warehouses and compresses handled cotton moving to mills and export markets. Lumber, rice, and the oil that had surged out of Spindletop in 1901 also fed a commercial economy that had grown well beyond its bayou origins. The Houston Ship Channel was still under construction, and the city's leaders were working to make it an inland port reachable by ocean vessels. That same year the Rice Institute prepared to open as a new university, funded by the estate of William Marsh Rice. Downtown streets, lined with wholesale houses and streetcar tracks, were the center of a region that depended on the cotton trade.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Creator | schlueter, f. j. (frank j.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,387 × 729 px · prints to 18 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Houston, Tex., 1912] |
| Reference | TX 1912 Houston, Tex |
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