Houston Waterways
Description
A selection of archival images from Rice University's Fondren Library and the Houston Yacht Club which relate to the history of Houston's waterways, particularly the ship channel, Galveston Bay and Buffalo Bayou.
A more complete grouping of these materials is online in Rice's institutional repository at http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/36090.
Collector(s)
- Amanda York Focke (WRC Fondren Library Rice University)
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Electric boats on Buffalo Bayou carrying the HY&PBC burgee
The boats in this picture were reflective of the evolution in approach undertaken by HY&PBC (Houston Yacht & Power Boat Club), which soon changed its name to the Houston Yacht Club.
Clubhouse of the Houston Launch Club at Harrisburg, c. 1910
Houston Launch Club on Buffalo Bayou in Harrisburg across from Brady Island. The building, constructed in 1910, was designed by R. D. Steele and was destroyed by fire in the 1930s, years after the Launch Club had become the Houston Yacht Club and…
Commodore C.G. Pillot 1914-1916
Houston Launch Club 1927 Prospectus
Proposing move from Harrisburg to LaPorte/Shoreacres on Galveston Bay and building a large clubhouse. Names contemporary officers of both the Houston Launch Club and the Houston Yacht Club and discusses becoming one organization, known as the…
Photograph of Houston Yacht Club harbor and clubhouse after remodeling, view from water
5"x7" black and white photograph