Colonel Walter Gresham House, 1402 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston Coun...
Significance: This building was erected for Walter Gresham, a prominent historical figure of Galveston, a noted lawyer, Texas legislator and representative of the 53rd Congress. The building itself is architect... More
Colonel Walter Gresham House, 1402 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston Coun...
Significance: This building was erected for Walter Gresham, a prominent historical figure of Galveston, a noted lawyer, Texas legislator and representative of the 53rd Congress. The building itself is architect... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, State Highway 124 Crossing of Mud...
Significance: Designed and built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston district between 1933-36 in conjunction with the construction of the Louisiana-Texas (LA-TEX) intracoastal waterway project, the H... More
Herman Marwitz House, 801 Twenty-second Street, Galveston, Galveston C...
Significance: Soon after its completion in 1894, the house served as the Goldbeck College, a private school, until 1900. Survey number: HABS TX-2105
Water front #2, Galveston, Texas, Panoramic Photograph
J139282 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; March 18, 1910. Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O.
James Mareau Brown House, 2328 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston County, ...
Significance: Brown established the largest wholesale hardware business in the southwest. He was also engaged in other significant business ventures in Galveston. His house is believed to have been erected in 1... More
James Mareau Brown House, 2328 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston County, ...
Significance: Brown established the largest wholesale hardware business in the southwest. He was also engaged in other significant business ventures in Galveston. His house is believed to have been erected in 1... More
Port of Galveston [Texas] - Public domain book illustration, Library o...
Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1845 Jan. 4. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
A bird's eye view of the city of New York View of Galveston, Texas.
Illustration showing a bird's eye view of New York City looking toward Battery Park (?) and a view of Galveston from the bay, boats and ships in foreground. Illus. in: Gleason's pictorial, v. 2, no. 20 (1852 M... More
Galveston disaster, people leaving city after flood
Large double-decked boat filled to capacity with people leaving Galveston, Texas following the hurricane of 1900. D19932 U.S. Copyright Office. Sold only by Griffith & Griffith.
Galveston 1900 - Tremont St. & Ave. P
Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Galveston. Cityscape photograph, gelatin silver print
H1266[...] U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; A. L. Barnett; 1909. Copyright claimant's address: Houston, Tex. Neg. no. 2.
[Tex. - Galveston - "landing a tarpon - exciting sport - a daily occur...
Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Shelf. Fishing Texas.
Troops at Galveston - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Panoramic view of Galveston's gulf front, taken from Murdoch's Bath Ho...
Postcard showing the seawall, the city as raised, Gulf front promenade, pavillions and Hotel Galvez. K60651 U.S. Copyright Office. Includes text about Galveston on verso. R-38396. "Copyright by J. H. Maurer, P... More
John Wolston House, 1705 Thirty-fifth Street, Galveston, Galveston Cou...
Survey number: HABS TX-258 Building/structure dates: 1859 Initial Construction
Galveston, Texas. Soldier, sailor, and two girls on the seawall
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Carol M. Highsmith - Murdoch's bathhouse sign, Galveston, Texas
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Decorative design elements on the facade of "Bishop's Palace," also kn...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The American Institute of Architects listed the home as one of the 100 most significant buildings in the United States.... More
In one sense, this is a photograph of a lovely row of houses in Galves...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Strand Historic District, Ufford Building, 303-309 Twenty-third Street...
Significance: One of the few remaining buildings erected in Galveston before the Civil War, the Ufford Building was built by John Brown for Edmund L. Ufford. The building was started on October 23, 1860 and com... More
Morris Lasker House, 1718-1726 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston County, ...
Significance: Lasker was a prominent Galveston businessman and philanthropist and his home was one of many Victorian mansions that once lined Broadway Street. The building was a fine example of the Victorian Fr... More
Turner Hall, 2015 Avenue I, Galveston, Galveston County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-21 Building/structure dates: 1858 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1880 Subsequent Work
Strand Historic District, First National Bank Building, 2127 Strand, G...
Significance: This Italianate style commercial structure was designed by Comegys and built by Thompson Harden McMahan, a prominent banker and merchant in Galveston. Survey number: HABS TX-3296-E National Regi... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Residence, State Highway 124 Cros...
Field notes with main record TX-3404. Significance: Designed by the Galveston District COE in 1933 in conjunction with planning efforts for the construction of the New Orleans, Louisiana to Corpus Christi, Texa... More
Trueheart-Adriance Building, 212 Twenty-second Street, Galveston, Galv...
Significance: The H. M. Trueheart Company was one of the oldest and largest real estate firms in Texas during the nineteenth century and the building is architecturally significant as an excellent work of desig... More
Contestants, Bathing Girl Revue, Galveston, Tex., May 14th, 1922
J255116 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Joseph M. Maurer; May 18, 1922.
Michel B. Menard House, 1603 Thirty-third Street, Galveston, Galveston...
Significance: Michel Menard was an early Texas pioneer, an important statesman of the Republic and the founder and developed of Galveston city, the leading commercial center for all of Texas throughout the nine... More
Hendley Building, 2000-2016 Strand, Galveston, Galveston County, TX
Significance: "Hendley's Block," consisting of four adjoining buildings, is the oldest surviving commercial structure on the Strand, the heart of old Galveston commercial quarter (See Strand Historic District -... More
Galveston Baggage & Cordage Factory, Winnie Street, Galveston, Galvest...
Significance: At the time of its erection, 1888, this factory was the only bagging mill in Texas and was possibly the only such factory ever erected in the state. Its purpose was to produce woven jute bagging, ... More
Galveston Baggage & Cordage Factory, Winnie Street, Galveston, Galvest...
Significance: At the time of its erection, 1888, this factory was the only bagging mill in Texas and was possibly the only such factory ever erected in the state. Its purpose was to produce woven jute bagging, ... More
St. Mary's Cathedral, Twenty-first Street & Church Avenue, Galveston, ...
Significance: The Cathedral is the oldest religious structure in Galveston and one of the earliest buildings still standing in the city. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-171 Surve... More
St. Mary's Cathedral, Twenty-first Street & Church Avenue, Galveston, ...
Significance: The Cathedral is the oldest religious structure in Galveston and one of the earliest buildings still standing in the city. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-171 Surve... More
U. S. Custom House, Twentieth & Post Office Streets, Galveston, Galves...
Significance: The Custom House building, an outstanding example of the Classical Revival style, is architecturally distinguished and important historically. Galveston was the leading seaport and commercial city... More
First Presbyterian Church, Church & Nineteenth Streets, Galveston, Gal...
Significance: An outstanding example of the Norman phase of the Romanesque Revival style, prevalent in this country in the second half of the nineteenth century, the building is architecturally distinguished bo... More
George Ball House, 1405 Twenty-fourth Street, Galveston, Galveston Cou...
Significance: George Ball was a prominent Galveston business man, financier and philanthropist. The original house was redone in the early 1880s and represents the interpretation of the late Greek Revival style... More
George Ball House, 1405 Twenty-fourth Street, Galveston, Galveston Cou...
Significance: George Ball was a prominent Galveston business man, financier and philanthropist. The original house was redone in the early 1880s and represents the interpretation of the late Greek Revival style... More
Fort Point District Boat Yard, Pattern Warehouse, 2000 Fort Point Road...
Significance: Designed by the U.S. Engineer Office of Galveston, Texas in 1943 and constructed the following year by the Esslinger-Misch Company of Texas City, Texas for approximately $100,500, the Fort Point D... More
Trinity Episcopal Church, 708 Twenty-second Street, Galveston, Galvest...
Significance: The Trinity Church represents one of Galveston's earliest surviving buildings, dating from 1855, and is a notable example of the English Gothic style parish church. Unprocessed Field note materia... More
Colonel Walter Gresham House, 1402 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston Coun...
Significance: This building was erected for Walter Gresham, a prominent historical figure of Galveston, a noted lawyer, Texas legislator and representative of the 53rd Congress. The building itself is architect... More
Colonel Walter Gresham House, 1402 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston Coun...
Significance: This building was erected for Walter Gresham, a prominent historical figure of Galveston, a noted lawyer, Texas legislator and representative of the 53rd Congress. The building itself is architect... More
Colonel Walter Gresham House, 1402 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston Coun...
Significance: This building was erected for Walter Gresham, a prominent historical figure of Galveston, a noted lawyer, Texas legislator and representative of the 53rd Congress. The building itself is architect... More
Sydnor-Heidenheimer Building, 1602 Sealy Street, Galveston, Galveston ...
Significance: John Sydnor, original owner of the house, was an important figure in early Galveston history. He was mayor of the city, commission merchant and auctioneer. Sampson Heidenheimer, who later made var... More
Water front #2, Galveston, Texas, Panoramic Photograph
J139282 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; March 18, 1910. Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O.
James Mareau Brown House, 2328 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston County, ...
Significance: Brown established the largest wholesale hardware business in the southwest. He was also engaged in other significant business ventures in Galveston. His house is believed to have been erected in 1... More
James Mareau Brown House, 2328 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston County, ...
Significance: Brown established the largest wholesale hardware business in the southwest. He was also engaged in other significant business ventures in Galveston. His house is believed to have been erected in 1... More
Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red ...
Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More
Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red ...
Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More
Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red ...
Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More
The Waves' Caprice - the only remaining house near the beach for miles...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Panorama of wreckage of water front /
"This picture shows the remains of one of the docks, several freight cars being piled one upon the other, while the most interesting part of the picture shows two schooners literally smashed one into the other,... More
Galveston, gelatin silver print, Panoramic Photograph
H1266[...]2 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; A. L. Barnett; 1909. Copyright claimant's address: Houston, Tex. Neg. no. 1.
Panoram #2, Galveston, Texas, Panoramic Photograph
J139283 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Haines Photo. Co.; March 18, 1910. Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O.
General Miles [i.e., Mills] at Galveston
Photo shows General Albert Leopold Mills (1854-1916). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)
Ft. Crockett, Galveston, Tex., 1918, Panoramic Photograph
J231318 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Joseph M. Maurer; September 10, 1918; DLC/PP-1918:45907. No. 4.
Strand Historic District, Merchants Mutual Insurance Company Building,...
Significance: This was the first structure in Galveston to use the French Renaissance style with the mansard roof. The original building, constructed in 1869, burned shortly after completion. It is believed tha... More
Galveston News Building, 2108 Mechanic Street, Galveston, Galveston Co...
Significance: The Galveston News is Texas' oldest surviving newspaper. This building was erected in 1883 and is locally believed to be the first structure designed expressly for the production of a newspaper. T... More
Detail from the Moody Mansion, a house museum in Galveston, Texas
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Home of William Lewis Moody, Jr., an American financier and entrepreneur. The house, made of limestone and brick, was ... More
The Moody Mansion, a restored, four-story structure originally complet...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Home of William Lewis Moody, Jr., an American financier and entrepreneur. The house, made of limestone and brick, was ... More
Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Galveston, Texas
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building, now a prominent landmark in the city, features ornate octagonal towers, flying buttresses, elaborate orna... More
Ships in an inlet of Galveston Bay, above Galveston Island in Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Powhatan Hotel, 3427 Avenue O, Galveston, Galveston County, TX
Significance: This is probably one of the oldest residences in Galveston. It is thought to have been erected in 1847 by John S. Sydnor, an early Galveston mayor and auction merchant, and is a good example of th... More
Powhatan Hotel, 3427 Avenue O, Galveston, Galveston County, TX
Significance: This is probably one of the oldest residences in Galveston. It is thought to have been erected in 1847 by John S. Sydnor, an early Galveston mayor and auction merchant, and is a good example of th... More
Strand Historic District, Ufford Building, 303-309 Twenty-third Street...
Significance: One of the few remaining buildings erected in Galveston before the Civil War, the Ufford Building was built by John Brown for Edmund L. Ufford. The building was started on October 23, 1860 and com... More
Edward T. Austin House, 1502 Market Street (Avenue D), Galveston, Galv...
Survey number: HABS TX-261 Building/structure dates: 1868 Initial Construction
Edward T. Austin House, 1502 Market Street (Avenue D), Galveston, Galv...
Survey number: HABS TX-261 Building/structure dates: 1868 Initial Construction
Henry Rosenberg House, 1306 Market Street, Galveston, Galveston County...
Significance: Henry Rosenberg was a leading merchant and philanthropist of Galveston, a man of great civic enterprise and a great benefactor to the city. His home is representative of the transition from the Gr... More
Henry Rosenberg House, 1306 Market Street, Galveston, Galveston County...
Significance: Henry Rosenberg was a leading merchant and philanthropist of Galveston, a man of great civic enterprise and a great benefactor to the city. His home is representative of the transition from the Gr... More
Turner Hall, 2015 Avenue I, Galveston, Galveston County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-21 Building/structure dates: 1858 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1880 Subsequent Work
Turner Hall, 2015 Avenue I, Galveston, Galveston County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-21 Building/structure dates: 1858 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1880 Subsequent Work
Strand Historic District, Kaufman & Runge Building, 222 Twenty-second ...
Significance: Considered one of Galveston's architectural monuments, this neo-Renaissance building was erected for Juluis Kauffman and Julius Runge. Kauffman founded J. Kauffman and Company, an import goods hou... More
Strand Historic District, First National Bank Building, 2127 Strand, G...
Significance: This Italianate style commercial structure was designed by Comegys and built by Thompson Harden McMahan, a prominent banker and merchant in Galveston. Survey number: HABS TX-3296-E National Regi... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Residence, State Highway 124 Cros...
Field notes with main record TX-3404. Significance: Designed by the Galveston District COE in 1933 in conjunction with planning efforts for the construction of the New Orleans, Louisiana to Corpus Christi, Texa... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Power House, State Highway 124 Cr...
Field notes with main record TX-3404. Significance: Designed by the Galveston District COE in 1933 in conjunction with planning efforts for the construction of the New Orleans, Louisiana to Corpus Christi, Texa... More
Trueheart-Adriance Building, 212 Twenty-second Street, Galveston, Galv...
Significance: The H. M. Trueheart Company was one of the oldest and largest real estate firms in Texas during the nineteenth century and the building is architecturally significant as an excellent work of desig... More
Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red ...
Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More
Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red ...
Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More
Hendley Building, 2000-2016 Strand, Galveston, Galveston County, TX
Significance: "Hendley's Block," consisting of four adjoining buildings, is the oldest surviving commercial structure on the Strand, the heart of old Galveston commercial quarter (See Strand Historic District -... More
Fort Point District Boat Yard, Pattern Warehouse, 2000 Fort Point Road...
Significance: Designed by the U.S. Engineer Office of Galveston, Texas in 1943 and constructed the following year by the Esslinger-Misch Company of Texas City, Texas for approximately $100,500, the Fort Point D... More
Fort Point District Boat Yard, Pattern Warehouse, 2000 Fort Point Road...
Significance: Designed by the U.S. Engineer Office of Galveston, Texas in 1943 and constructed the following year by the Esslinger-Misch Company of Texas City, Texas for approximately $100,500, the Fort Point D... More
Eaton Memorial Chapel of Trinity Episcopal Church, 710 Twenty-second S...
Significance: The building is a memorial to Galveston's pioneer Protestant missionary and good example of the Gothic Revival style. Survey number: HABS TX-295
Strand Historic District, Moody Building, 2202-2206 Strand, Galveston,...
Survey number: HABS TX-3296-Q National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000748
Long Beach, California, Bathing Beauty Parade, 1927
Public domain photograph of military parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Bishop's Palace," also known as Gresham's Castle, an ornate Victorian...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The American Institute of Architects listed the home as one of the 100 most significant buildings in the United States.... More
Galveston Disaster, Texas: begining life anew after the storm
2 men and a woman in front of a partially constructed shack. D19966 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Griffith & Griffith. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tra... More
McCLELLAN at Galveston - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
[Charles K. Hamilton, in biplane, racing an auto on Galveston beach]
Photo copyrighted by H.H. Morris. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
Galveston Storm, 1915 -- Transport whose wireless sent news [BUFORD]
Photograph shows the ship USS Buford during the aftermath of the 1915 Galveston Hurricane. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)
Second International Pageant of Pulchritude and Eighth Annual Bathing ...
May be a beauty contest. J290327 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Joseph M. Maurer; May 27, 1927.
Third International Pageant of Pulchritude and Ninth Annual Bathing Gi...
May be a beauty contest. J297904 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Joseph M. Maurer; June 8, 1928.
Strand Historic District, Rosenberg Building, 2309-2311 Strand, Galves...
Survey number: HABS TX-3296-M National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000748
A black and white photo of a man on a skateboard. Office of War Inform...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Galveston, Texas. Picket fence. Farm Security Administartion 1930s pub...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Moody Gardens, Galveston, Texas
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Sacred Heart Church, Galveston, Texas
Picryl description: Public domain image of a cathedral or church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Carol M. Highsmith - Moody Gardens, Galveston, Texas
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Rex Cafe, Galveston, Texas. Photogrpah by John Margolies
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Restaurants; Eating & drinking establishments. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: J... More
Gaido's Restaurant sign, Galveston, Texas
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Food. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph arc... More
Art: Fill Every Pause Along The Way at U.S. Post Office and Courthouse...
Public domain reproduction of art deco poster, cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dusk view, taken from the adjacent Gulf of Mexico shore, of the Galves...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More