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[Southeast Corner of Kempner St. & The Strand]

Description: Photograph of the south 2100 block of The Strand, looking east from the intersection at Kempner Street. There are several multi-story commercial buildings along both streets, most of which are dark-colored brick with lighter stone accents and decorative elements; a taller skyscraper is also visible above the buildings in the background. Cars are parked along the side of the street and people are crossing at the intersection.
Date: June 1983
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.307398 -94.793594
Partner: German-Texan Heritage Society

[Postcard of the Sealy Residence]

Description: Postcard of George Sealy's mansion taken from outside the front gate. Text Text on the upper left-hand margin reads: "*Where Mr Joe Wren lives." Text toward the bottom of the photograph reads "Sealy Residence, 25th & Broadway. Galveston." Text on the bottom margin reads "Please take note that there is a 'sidewalk' here, not steps. Many thanks for the postals." Text on the right margin reads "Give my best to tall. S.C.F. 11-30-08." Text on the back of the card reads "It's 'a good thing,' I was n… more
Date: November 30, 1908
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 29.299709 -94.794186
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Directory of the City of Galveston 1921

Description: Directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the text contains "Miscellaneous Directory of State, County and City Governments, Postoffices in Texas, Educational Institutions, Churches, Secret and Benevolent Societies, Etc., a Street Guide and Householders' Directory, an Alphabetically Arranged List of Business Houses and Private Citizens, Giving Full Names, Occupation or Purs… more
Date: 1921
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy Directory Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Rosenberg Library

Directory of the City of Galveston 1924-1925

Description: Directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the text contains "a Miscellaneous Directory of State, County an City Governments, Postoffices in Texas, Educational Institutions, Churches, Secret and Benevolent Societies, Etc., a Street Guide and Householders' Directory, an Alphabetically Arranged List of Business Houses and Private Citizens, Giving Full Names, Occupation or Pur… more
Date: 1924/1925
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy Directory Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Rosenberg Library

Directory of the City of Galveston 1923

Description: Directory for Galveston, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the text contains "a Miscellaneous Directory of State, County, and City Governments, Postoffices in Texas, Educational Institutions, Churches, Secret and Benevolent Societies, Etc., a Street Guide, and Householders' Directory, an Alphabetically Arranged List of Business Houses and Private Citizens, Giving Full Names, Occupation or … more
Date: 1923
Creator: Morrison & Fourmy Directory Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Street in Front of Old Strand Emporium]

Description: Photograph of the buildings lining the south side of Avenue B ("The Strand") in Galveston, taken near a building with a sign for the Old Strand Emporium. On the right side of the photograph people are walking under a blue canopy in front of the Emporium building. Cars are parked on either side of the street and a bus decorated to look like a trolley is passing on the street.
Date: June 1983
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.307808 -94.792444
Partner: German-Texan Heritage Society

[Postcard of Electric Park at Night]

Description: Postcard of Electric Park lit up a night. Several rides, including the carousel, are visible. Text on the left side of the front of the card reads "The Scene of that 'Eventful" (?) night. Do you remember it?" The card is addressed to Miss Josephine Forsgard of Houston, Texas. Text on the bottom right of the card reads "Galveston Trube Photo"
Date: September 20, 1906
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 29.290040 -94.789104
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard of First Presbyterian Church in Galveston]

Description: Postcard of First Presbyterian Church in Galveston. Two cars and a horse and buggy are parked alongside the church's front and right side. Text written in the bottom and left-hand margin reads "I actually saw the inside of one of these kind of buildings while in Houston- Sunday- was I awake? S.C.F." The card is addressed to Miss Ellen Forsgard of Waco, Texas.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 29.304648 -94.788583
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard of Harbor at Galveston]

Description: Postcard of a harbor in Galveston where two boats are moored. Debris litters the concrete on the edge of the harbor, and several large industrial structures rise up in the distance. Handwritten print on the front of the postcard reads "this is not snow— just shell. Not egg shell either." Cursive handwriting at the bottom reads "Just a little different from the fleet of Waco." The card is addressed to Miss Jennie Forsgard of Waco.
Date: November 2, 1908
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard of the Breakers Bath House]

Description: Postcard of the Breakers bath house in Galveston taken from Seawall Boulevard. Text towards the bottom of the photograph reads "This is not "Bates Specialty." with an arrow pointing toward a car parked along the boulevard. Text on the bottom margin of the front of the card reads "This is where I took Uncle Gus to see the seawall. -Shirley" Text on the right margin reads "love to all." The card is addressed to Miss Annie Forsgard of Waco.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Location: 29.280044 -94.803094
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Building at 1614 Avenue K]

Description: Photograph of the front of a two-story stucco building with a flat roof that has decorative arched crowns with keystones over the windows on the upper floor and the entrances below. There is a front entrance on the left side of the first floor, with a garage door in the center. A dark-colored red four-door car is parked in the driveway near the entrance and a neighboring house is partially visible on the right side of the image.
Date: 1993
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.301048 -94.784261
Partner: City of Galveston Development Services

[House at 1628 Avenue K]

Description: Photograph of the front and west side of a two-story white house with a hipped roof, on the northeast corner of Avenue K and 17th Street. The main floor is raised and the lower part of the house is covered by boards painted green; a short flight of stairs on the right side of the building leads to the porch, which has decorative brackets at the top of the posts, below an open second-floor balcony. There is a cut-out bay window extension to the left of the entrance with a pedimented roof. Pal… more
Date: 1993
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.300929 -94.784672
Partner: City of Galveston Development Services

[1800 North Avenue K from 19th Street]

Description: Photograph of the 1800 block of Avenue K, looking northeast from the corner at 19th Street. Most of the block is obscured by large trees on either side of the street, but there are two multi-story homes near the corner that are partially visible. There is a stop sign on the corner and cars parked along the curbs.
Date: 1993
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.300267 -94.787068
Partner: City of Galveston Development Services

[1800 South Avenue K from 19th Street]

Description: Photograph taken from the west of the south side of the 1800 block of Avenue K, which has several cars parked along the curb and a large number of trees obscuring the houses. At the corner, a signpost with the street names is in front of a two-story gray building with cut-out corners and a hipped roof with a gabled extension; a sign on the building at the far right says "Apartm[ents] for Re[nt]."
Date: 1993
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.300317 -94.787081
Partner: City of Galveston Development Services

[House at 1815 Avenue L]

Description: Photograph of the front of a two-story house with a hipped roof that extends over a full-length balcony and first-floor porch, taken from the opposite side of the street. The house has wooden siding painted light brown with white trim, including decorative brackets at the top of the balcony posts and railings on both floors of the porch in an "x" pattern. It is slightly raised, with steps at the right side leading to the front door and there are hedges along the edge of the house. The back o… more
Date: 1993
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.299621 -94.786251
Partner: City of Galveston Development Services

[House at 1827 Avenue L, West Side]

Description: Photograph from 19th Street a house which has a side entrance to a restaurant, with a suspended flat roof over the doorway and a posted sign near the walkway that says "Sonny's." The house is two stories with a side gable with eave returns over the entrance and front-facing dormer windows above an extended deck at the left side of the image and a shorter extension with a hipped roof on the right. The building has grey shingle siding with white trim and dark green and white shutters; the walls… more
Date: 1993
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.299341 -94.786758
Partner: City of Galveston Development Services

[1800 North Avenue L from 18th Street]

Description: Photograph of the north side of the 1800 block of Avenue L, looking west from 18th Street. There is a two-story brick building on the right side of the image, which appears to be boarded up and a "Crime Watch" sign on the northwest corner of the intersection. Several roofs are visible at left, but the houses are largely obscured by trees and bushes. Cars are parked along both sides of the street and utility poles are visible on the south side of the block.
Date: 1993
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.299772 -94.785604
Partner: City of Galveston Development Services

[House at 1604 Avenue M]

Description: Photograph of the front of a two-story house with a hipped roof and wooden siding that is painted light pink with white trim. There is a covered porch across the front that has thick, square pillars and a bench is partially visible on the porch. The yard is enclosed by a short stucco fence with a wooden gate and there are a number of large bushes in the yard. A portion of the neighboring roof is visible at left and there is a trailer parked in front of the homes with a riding mower and a law… more
Date: 1993
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.299396 -94.783281
Partner: City of Galveston Development Services

[House at 1801 Avenue M, Front]

Description: Photograph of the front and part of the west side of a single-story house with a hipped roof at the corner of 18th Street and Avenue M. The house is raised slightly on stilts and has a short flight of stairs to the front door, which is covered by a small gabled extension with decorative woodwork in the gable end and below the frieze board. The yard is enclosed by a low chain-link fence and trees are visible around the house. A "For Rent" sign is on the left post of the porch.
Date: 1993
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.298787 -94.785417
Partner: City of Galveston Development Services

[House at 1717 Avenue M 1/2, North Side]

Description: Photograph of the front of a one-story house painted white with green trim that has a hipped roof with several gabled extensions. The main floor is slightly raised, with a short flight of steps leading to a small covered porch, next to a bay window at left. The gable ends and eaves over the porch and bay window have decorative woodwork. The house is partially obscured by trees and bushes on either side of the yard.
Date: 1993
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.298139 -94.784463
Partner: City of Galveston Development Services

[Apartment Building at 1923 Avenue M 1/2]

Description: Photograph of apartment buildings on the southeast corner of 20th Street and Avenue M 1/2, viewed from the opposite corner. The apartments comprise two long, connected two-story buildings separated by a walkway, painted dark teal with cream trim. A sign on the end of the building says "San Jacinto Apartments" with a phone number. There is a red car parked at the curb and part of the neighboring house is visible at left.
Date: 1993
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.297392 -94.787382
Partner: City of Galveston Development Services

[View of 16th Street from Avenue K]

Description: Photograph from the corner of Avenue K, looking southeast down 16th Street, which has houses and telephone poles along both sides of the street as well as cars parked along the curb. Part of the front and east side of a single-story side-gabled house on the corner of Avenue K is visible at right. The house is painted light brown with dark blue trim and has a raised main story with an attached garage at ground level; the front door is in the center of the main part of the building and is at th… more
Date: 1993
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.301210 -94.783730
Partner: City of Galveston Development Services

[1700 South Avenue K from 18th Street]

Description: Photograph of the south side of the 1700 block of Avenue K, looking east from 18th Street. The homes are almost entirely obscured by white fencing and trees growing in yards and along the edge of the street. Cars are parked along the curb and a neighborhood watch sign is posted near the corner; a stop sign is visible at the far end of the street.
Date: 1993
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.300658 -94.785917
Partner: City of Galveston Development Services
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