Houston City, Texas, 1909 – 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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Houston City, Texas, 1909 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Houston City
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Houston City, Texas, 1909
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Houston in 1909 was a rail and cotton city that had grown fast since its founding in 1836. Its position on Buffalo Bayou, reached by a ship channel that let ocean-going vessels come up from Galveston Bay, made it a shipping point for cotton, lumber, and rice, and several railroads converged there. The city was still working out its civic life under a mayor-council government, with streetcar lines, paved downtown streets, and a growing population of merchants, dock workers, and oil-field investors arriving as the Texas economy expanded. Residents of the time would have known Houston as the commercial center of the Gulf Coast, a place where the bayou trade and the rail yards set the pace of daily life.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | barnett, a. l. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Texas |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 782 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Houston City |
| Reference | TX 1909 Houston City |
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