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Author : Stanley Siegel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039589150
Author : Margaret O. Killinger
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781623498979
Painted Flowers Shouldn’t Talk Back tells the story of a suburban women’s art collective that painted together in Houston, Texas, from 1970 to 1977. They called themselves the Garden Artists, though their subjects were much more varied than just garden views. Author Margaret Killinger’s artful narrative illustrates how these women creatively confronted profound sociocultural challenges through decorative art. Some discovered much-needed financial independence and personal freedom through the group; others, camaraderie and gratification outside home and marriage. Still others found a welcome reprieve from the demands of motherhood, the confines of suburban conformity, or the sinking weight of grief. They collectively learned to confront stark walls and to determine what they could and could not live with, all the while enjoying art and each other. Framed by Killinger’s 2008 group interview conducted in Houston, the story moves via memories and other interviews to El Paso, Austin, San Antonio, Santa Fe, and New Orleans. The women’s story is furthermore told under the shadow of Killinger’s own search for answers. She began exploring the women’s lives after the sudden, quiet death of her mother, a portrait artist and peripheral member of the group who collapsed and died in 2004, when she was just sixty-five years old. Nancy Alvarez—the eccentric, hilarious leader of the Garden Artists who shaped each of their stories—died one year later, also sixty-five. To make sense of these losses, Killinger looks back to when the women were prolific Houston artists with Nancy as their quirky guide, a time when they were arguably most alive. Resolution comes through deciphering what their art meant to them back then and exploring what it could mean for readers today.
Author : Kate Sayen Kirkland
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292748460
Progressive former governor James Stephen Hogg moved his business headquarters to Houston in 1905. For seven decades, his children Will, Ima, and Mike Hogg used their political ties, social position, and family fortune to improve the lives of fellow Houstonians. As civic activists, they espoused contested causes like city planning and mental health care. As volunteers, they inspired others to support social service, educational, and cultural programs. As philanthropic entrepreneurs, they built institutions that have long outlived them: the Houston Symphony, the Museum of Fine Arts, Memorial Park, and the Hogg Foundation. The Hoggs had a vision of Houston as a great city—a place that supports access to parklands, music, and art; nurtures knowledge of the "American heritage which unites us"; and provides social service and mental health care assistance. This vision links them to generations of American idealists who advanced a moral response to change. Based on extensive archival sources, The Hogg Family and Houston explains the impact of Hogg family philanthropy for the first time. This study explores how individual ideals and actions influence community development and nurture humanitarian values. It examines how philanthropists and volunteers mold Houston's traditions and mobilize allies to meet civic goals. It argues that Houston's generous citizens have long believed that innovative cultural achievement must balance aggressive economic expansion.
Author : Fran Dressman
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0890965803
Gus S. Wortham was a good businessman. Among other enterprises, he started a highly successful insurance company, American General, and helped to shape the economic institutions of Houston. Gus Wortham was a civic leader, who worked actively in the Chamber of Commerce to influence the city's economic climate and who left the city a legacy of cultural institutions, including the Wortham Theater Center. Gus Wortham was a rancher and land developer. Land: "They aren't making any more if it", he liked to say. So he bought it, developed it, and built a business with it. In short, he became one of the most influential men in the history of Houston. This is the story of his life, his business, his city. Company records and interviews with Wortham's surviving friends and associates combine to make it a thorough account. "Mr. Wortham had an interesting philosophy about several matters in life", writes his longtime friend and business partner Sterling C. Evans in the Foreword. "One was on dollars. With the business dollar, it was immoral not to make money and one had to make sure to receive full value. With the pleasure dollar, if one could afford it, enjoy it and never look back". This old-school Southwestern gentleman lived a life worthy of a movie, and his company, American General, has shaped a city worthy of a television series of its own. Urban and business historians alike will find this book a fascinating study, and those who know, or want to know, Houston will find it an enlightening chronicle.
Author : Tristan Smith
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439669365
A guide to the history of the Bayou City for Texans, visitors and armchair tourists alike. Houston earned its international reputation as a hub for space flight and the oil industry. But visitors don't need to search out the secrets of the stars or the depths of the earth to experience the impressive legacy of the nation's fourth-largest city. Traverse the streets of downtown and find historic treasures from antebellum Texas. Venture to the outskirts to find the world’s “Eighth Wonder,” as well as the globe’s tallest stone monument and one of its largest ports. Discover why the town’s exceptional heritage of innovation, industry and architecture has sparked a movement to uncover and embrace its historic structures. Join Tristan Smith for an in-depth exploration of Houston’s historic wards.
Author : Karen Gerhardt Britton,Karen Gerhardt Britton Fort
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0890965102
Fact and fiction about the process that takes cotton from the field to shipping to market.
Author : David Goldfield
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1057 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761928843
Edited by one of the leading scholars of urban studies, this encyclopedia offers an accurate and authoritative historical approach to the dramatic urban growth experienced in the United States during the 20th century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015079632728
Author : N. O. Kura,Tatiana Shohov
Publisher : Nova Biomedical Books
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110152878
For nonfiction books alphabetically listed on eight US cities: Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, and Miami, annotations consist mainly of the publication data, table of contents, Library of Congress classification, and Dewey class number. The books on Baltimore span the typical range of 1880-1999. Perhaps v.1 contains an introduction explaining the authors' purpose, backgrounds, and city selection criteria. Indexed by author and title. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018431762
OIL HISTORY is the definitive guide to the romance, history & lore of the global petroleum business. The oilfield's past was wild & woolly, a time of greed, guts, glory & goofups. A lot has been written about those colorful days of yesteryear, from the old ("Venango Oil Regions", 1866) to the new ("The Prize", 1991). OIL HISTORY reviews 810 titles of enormous variety. Look at just the long & the short of it: The encyclopedic ("A Brief History of the Pennsylvania Oil Region," 652 pages) to the terse ("We Drilled Spindletop," 37 pages). Author, publisher, length, date of publication are also provided. The extensive index will help readers find titles by either author or subject. No matter what your interest in the history of the worldwide petroleum business, it's represented in this unique volume. Published in hardcover, the 6-inch by 9-inch OILFIELD HISTORY is handsomely cloth-bound in royal blue with distinguished silver lettering. Order from IADC Publications, P.O. Box 4287, Houston, TX 77210-4287. 713-578-7171, ext. 214, FAX: 713-578-0589.
Author : Roberto R. Treviño
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Church work with Mexican Americans
ISBN : IND:30000043468044
Author : Richard Henry Greene,Henry Reed Stiles,Melatiah Everett Dwight,George Austin Morrison,Hopper Striker Mott,John Reynolds Totten,Harold Minot Pitman,Charles Andrew Ditmas,Louis Effingham De Forest,Conklin Mann,Arthur S. Maynard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : UOM:39015074927479
Author : Crystal Sasse Ragsdale
Publisher : Gandale Associates Houston
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0965978109
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015058398242
Presents by subject the same titles that are listed by author and title in Forthcoming books.
Author : Merle W. Wells,Arthur A. Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023418184