Houston: The Feast Years. An Illustrated Essay

Chapter 13: Transcriber’s Notes

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This illustrated essay traces the city's rapid transformation from a modest river town into a sprawling modern metropolis, attributing growth to the ship channel, the oil industry, and the arrival of a major space program; it combines historical sketches, contemporary photographs, and woodcuts to evoke a festivallike civic spirit, a distinctive skyline, and thriving institutions including port, medical, cultural, and sporting life. The text balances outsider impressions and local attitudes, surveys commercial and industrial expansion, and offers visual and historical vignettes that show how ambition, wealth, and technological projects reshaped urban identity and prospects.

The photographs and sketches of earlier Houston reproduced in this book are from the author’s collection of Houston historical material, which includes around nine hundred pictures of Houston subjects from the 1840s to 1900.

The woodcut shows the east side of Main Street between Congress and Preston Avenues in 1866. A photograph of the same scene appears on Page 31.

The woodcut shows the yards at the Southern Pacific Lines’ Grand Central Depot in 1894, when cotton was to Houston what oil was to become; the four-story structure with the tower, at the right, is the old Lawler Hotel.

Transcriber’s Notes

Silently corrected a few typos.
Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.
In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.