NOTE: Page numbers in boldface type refer to pictures and captions.
All other page numbers refer to the text.
A
Allen, Augustus C., 39-41
Allen, Charlotte, 39, 40
Allen, John K., 39, 41, 42
Alley Theatre, 26
_American_ Magazine, quoted, 3
Anderson, Clayton & Company, 18
Anderson, M. D., 46
Ashford, Gerald, 10
B
Bach Society, J. S., of Houston, 26
Barbirolli, Sir John, 26
Baylor University College of Medicine, 26
Bedell, W. D., 35
Binford, T., 9n.
Blaffer, Robert Lee, family, 26
Blanda, George, 28
Borden, Gail, 42
Borden, Thomas, 42
Buffalo Bayou, 22-23
Burke, Jack, 28
C
Cannon, Billy, 28
Cawthon, Pete, 28
Chillman, James, 26
Clopper, J. C., 22
Contemporary Arts Association, 26
Contemporary Music Society of Houston, 26
Continental Oil Company, 17
_Cotton Kingdom, The_, quoted, 14
Cullen Center, 48
Cullen, Hugh Roy, 46
Cutrer, Lewis, 34
D
Dali, Salvador, 5
Dallas _News_, quoted, 6, 23
Dean, Dizzy, 28
Demaret, Jimmy, 28
Dowling, Richard W., 15, 46
Dresel, Gustav, 45
Du Pont (E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company), 17
Dyer, Eddie, 28
E
_Ebony_ Magazine, quoted, 14
El Paso Natural Gas Company, 17
Evans, Arthur C., 3
F
Fennerty, John M., 15
First Methodist Church of Houston, 43
Frantz, Joe B., 42
Frenchtown, 13
G
Glassell, A. C., Jr., 28
Graham, Billy, 30
_Great South, The_, quoted, 14
H
_Harper’s_ Magazine, quoted, 34
Harris, John Richardson, 41
Harrisburg, 41-42
Hermann, George Henry, 46
Herndon, John Hunter, 45
Hess, Wilbur, 28
Hilton, Conrad, 10
Hofheinz, Roy H., 11
Hogg, Miss Ima, 26
Hogg, James Stephen, 46
Hogg, Will C., 46
Holcombe, Oscar F., 46
_Holiday_ Magazine, quoted, 1
Holley, Mary Austin, 44
Hopkins, Sam (Lightnin’), 8
Houston, aviation, early, 22-23;
character of city, 6-9, 24-25;
Chinese population of, 13;
Civil War and Reconstruction periods, 45;
cycles of growth, 15-16;
domed sports stadium, 48;
economy of, 15-23;
German population of, 13;
history of first years, 39-45;
Indians in, 45;
“M” Day (July 3, 1954), 18-22;
millionaire legend, 10-13;
Negro population of, 14;
place in history, 6;
Port of, 22-23;
Post Office, 16, 17;
proportion of natives in, 14;
sports, 28;
statistics, population and other, 47;
type and composition of population, 13-14;
weather, climate, 35-38
Houston Academy, 29
Houston Classic Invitational Golf Tournament, 28
Houston Colt .45s (National Baseball League), 28
Houston Grand Opera Association, 26
Houston Intercontinental Airport (Jetero), 48
Houston International Airport, 37
Houston Little Theatre, 26
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, 25
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 26
Houston Museum of Natural Science and Planetarium, 26, 48
[Houston] Music Guild, 26
Houston Oilers (American Football League), 28
Houston _Post_, quoted, 25, 38
Houston Ship Channel, 19, 22-23
Houston Symphony Orchestra, 26
Houston Turn-Verein, 13
Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte, 2
Humble Oil and Refining Company, 17,
Hutton, Frank R., Sr., 14
I
Ilseng, Grant, 28
J
Jones, Jesse H., 33, 45, 48
Juarez, Benito, 40
K
Kayser, Paul, 17
Kellum-Noble House, 24
Kennedy, John F., 3
King, Edward, 12, 13, 14, 23
Knox, J. Armoy, 14
Kress, Samuel, 26
L
Lapham, Moses, 42
Ledbetter, Huddie (Lead Belly), 8
London _Daily Mail_, quoted, 1
London _Times_, quoted, 1
Lords’ Cycle Club, 11
Lubbock, Francis Richard, 44
M
Manned Spacecraft Center, 3, 4, 48
Marks, E. H., 30, 35
Maverick, Samuel, 42
McCarthy, Glenn H., 10
McCasland, B. C., Jr., 18
McCormick, R. D. (Mack), 6
Mewhinney, Hubert, 25
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 26
Monsanto Chemical Company, 17
Morris, J. R., 31
Muir, Andrew Forest, 15, 23, 42, 44, 45
Musial, Stan, 36
N
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 4
New York _Times_, quoted, 1
O
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 14
On Leong Chinese Merchants Association, 13
P
Pin Oak Charity Horse Show, 28
Playhouse Theatre, 26
Prudential Insurance Company, 35
R
Rice-Cherry House, 24
Rice Hotel, 33
Rice University, 11, 26, 46
Rice, William Marsh, 46
River Oaks Country Club Tennis Tournament, 28
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 34
S
St. Louis _Post-Dispatch_, quoted, 3
St. Thomas University, 28
Salt Grass Trail, 8-9, 25
Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de, 41
_Satilla_, the, 19
_Scribner’s Monthly_, 12
Shamrock Hilton Hotel, 10
Sheridan, Francis C., 45
Smith, Al, 34
Smith, Robert E., 11
Soviet Encyclopedia, quoted, 1
_Standard Blue Book of Texas, The_, quoted, 25
Stokowski, Leopold, 26
Straus, Edith A., 26
Straus, Percy S., 26
Street, James, 3
Sweeney and Coombs Opera House, 27
Sweeney, James Johnson, 26
Sweet, Alexander E., 14
T
_Telegraph and Texas Register_, 42
Tennessee Gas Transmission Company, 17
Texas Medical Center, 26, 28
Texas National Bank Building, 36, 43
Texas Southern University, 26
Theatre, Inc., 26
U
University of Houston, 26
V
Van Alstyne, William, 31
Vance, Nina, 26
Vick’s Park, 34
W
Walker, L. L., 22
Williams, Amelia W., 40
White, William S., 34
Wolcott, Fred, 28
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.
[Illustration: 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.]
[Illustration: 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.]