Title:
Don Kelly Southeast Texas postcard collection
Description:
Don Kelly, Southeast Texas community leader, collected 1473 postcards, picture postcards, photographic postcards, and photographs depicting notable scenes of life, locale, and architecture in an area of Southeast Texas surrounding the cities of Orange, Beaumont, and Port Arthur. These three cities comprise the principal subjects of the collection; additional places depicted include the Spindletop Oil Field, Sabine Pass, Sour Lake, the Sabine River, and the Neches River. Dates covered are about 1898 to about 1997, the bulk about 1898 to about 1930. Subjects covered include church buildings, public schools, school buildings, hotels, oil fields, oil wells, oil refineries, restaurants, dwellings, streets, central business districts, parks, city halls, hospitals, post office stations and branches, courthouses, floods, industrial buildings, railroad stations, rivers, waterfronts, mills and mill-work, cargo ships, commercial buildings, the properties of John Warne Gates, the Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company, Texaco, Inc., and the Gulf Oil Corporation.
Collection:
Don Kelly Southeast Texas Postcard Collection
Collector:
Kelly, Don, 1940-
Date range of creation:
about 1898 to about 1997
Geographic coverage:
Texas
Geographic coverage:
Beaumont (Tex.)
Geographic coverage:
Port Arthur (Tex.)
Geographic coverage:
Orange (Tex.)
Geographic coverage:
Spindletop Oil Field (Beaumont, Tex.)
Geographic coverage:
Sabine Pass (Tex.: Town)
Geographic coverage:
Sour Lake (Tex.)
Geographic coverage:
Neches River (Tex.)
Geographic coverage:
Sabine River (Tex. and La.)
Subject:
Albertype Co
Subject:
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company
Subject:
Beaumont Cigar Co. (Beaumont, Tex.)
Subject:
Business Men's Studio
Subject:
C.E Wheelock and Co. (Peoria, Ill.)
Subject:
C.U. Williams (Bloomington, Ill.)
Subject:
Cargo ships
Subject:
Central business districts
Subject:
Church buildings
Subject:
Colourpicture Publishers (Firm)
Subject:
Commercial buildings
Subject:
Commercialchrome (Cleveland, Oh.)
Subject:
Courthouses
Subject:
City halls
Subject:
Curio Art Store (Port Arthur, Tex.)
Subject:
Curt Teich & Co.
Subject:
D.J. Hick's Book Store (Beaumont, Tex.)
Subject:
Description and travel
Subject:
Dexter Press
Subject:
Dwellings
Subject:
E. Szafir and Son Co. (Beaumont, Tex.)
Subject:
E.C. Kropp Co.
Subject:
Edwards News Co. (Port Arthur and Beaumont, Tex.)
Subject:
Floods
Subject:
Gates, John Warne, 1855-1911
Subject:
Graycraft Card Co.
Subject:
Gulf Oil Corporation
Subject:
Hospitals
Subject:
Hotels
Subject:
Industrial buildings
Subject:
Leon Vaxler (Beaumont, Tex.)
Subject:
M.L. Zercher (Topeka, Kan.)
Subject:
McGrew Color Graphics
Subject:
Mills and mill-work
Subject:
Oil fields
Subject:
Petroleum refineries
Subject:
Oil wells
Subject:
Parks
Subject:
Pictorial works
Subject:
Port Arthur Souvenir Store (Port Arthur, Tex.)
Subject:
Post office stations and branches
Subject:
Public schools
Subject:
Railroad stations
Subject:
Raphael Tuck and Sons
Subject:
Restaurants
Subject:
Rivers
Subject:
S.H. Kress and Co
Subject:
School buildings
Subject:
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Subject:
Streets
Subject:
Stryker, John Addison, 1883-1974
Subject:
Texaco, Inc.
Subject:
Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company
Subject:
The Rotograph Co. (New York City, N.Y.)
Subject:
Trost, Francis John, 1868-1944
Subject:
Tom Jones (Firm)
Subject:
W.C. Griggs (Orange, Tex.)
Subject:
W.F. Hada (Port Arthur, Tex.)
Subject:
W.M. Cline Company
Subject:
Walraven Brothers, Inc.
Subject:
Waterfronts
Type:
Advertising cards
Type:
Photographic postcards
Type:
Postcards
Type:
QSL cards
Citation information:
(Identify the item), Don Kelly Southeast Texas postcard collection. Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Arrangement:
Digitized images are arranged by accession number and are divided into segments of 100. Due to copyright restrictions, images that may be under copyright as of 2016 have been omitted from public access in the Texas Digital Archive.
Copyright information:
The researcher is responsible for complying with U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.).
Size or duration:
0.75 cubic ft. (1473 items)
TARO URL:
https://txarchives.org/tslac/finding_aids/60012.xml
Language:
English