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Texas History
The Eugene C. Barker Texas History Collection was created in 1945 and named in honor of University of Texas professor Eugene Campbell Barker, a pioneer in the field of Texas history. The Barker Collection includes books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, photographs, broadsides, and recorded sound and constitutes the most extensive collection of Texas-related material in existence. Includes: the Bexar Archives, 300,000 pages of Spanish colonial and Mexican Provincial records of Texas, from 1717 to 1836; the Texas Declaration of Independence printed in San Felipe de Austin in 1836; Lt. Col. Jose Enrique de la Pena's eyewitness description of the Texas Revolution, including his controversial account of David Crockett's death at the Alamo; the Governor Dolph and Mrs. Janey Briscoe 1849 daguerreotype of the Alamo.
|  Houston Rodeo Parade
Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive
Gene Autry and Glenn McCarthy, along with marching bands and cowboys, parade through downtown Houston, Texas. |  Shamrock Destruction, Olshan, original
Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive
Footage of the famous Houston hotel, the Shamrock, before and during demolition. Contains scenes of Olshan Foundation Repair
wrecking balls smashing into the building and an empty swimming pool surrounded by rubble. Internegative color picture, no sound. Pub version inverts color and filters out blue light to
approximate natural color. |  Sears Christmas Show
Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive
African-American choir from St. John Baptist church, under the direction of S. A. Pleasance [sp?]. The choir performs two hymns.
The first is unidentified, the second is "O Come, All Ye Faithful." Black and white picture with sound. |  Port of Houston, 1 of 2
Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive
Produced film promoting the Port of Houston, with a brief history of the port and its use by the cotton, wheat and oil industries.
Contains footage of the "Steel Surveyor" ship pulling into port, a meeting of the Houston Port Commissioners, and the newly built Wharf 9. Credits include a list of the Board of Navigation
and Canal Commissioners: Vernon Bailey (Director of Port Operations), W. F. Heavey (General Manager), W. S. Bellows, W. L. Walker, Sewall Myer, Lawton E. Deats and Robert Hemphill. Color
picture with sound. Ends abruptly, with a hole for synchronization that likely goes with part 2. |  Houston Rodeo Parade, Gene Autry and Glenn McCarthy
Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive
Gene Autry and Glenn McCarthy, along with marching bands and cowboys, parade through downtown Houston, Texas. Has a title card for
"Ansco." Black and white picture, no sound. Appears to have been shot at 24 frames per second. This is a more complete digitization of the same source reel as e_bb_5003, with this version
capturing the entire reel. |  Hurricane Carla
Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive
Footage of destruction caused by Hurricane Carla. Includes scenes of a flooded marina, windows covered in tape, trees bending in
high winds, waves crashing on beach patio, water pooling by patio doors, a snake, boats washed ashore and damaged property. Black and white picture with a short amount of color picture at the
end of the reel, no sound. |  Texas City Disaster, dupe [duplicate] neg [negative]
Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive
Footage from the aftermath of 1947’s Texas City Disaster. Black and white negative picture, no sound. This version has the same
footage as e_bb_5001 [in color], but contains about a minute of extra material. Pub version inverts negative picture. |  Crowds, Downtown Houston
Source: Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive
Footage of crowds walking in downtown Houston. Prominent signs include Chandler’s Shoes, Houston Trunk Factory and Loew’s State
Theatre with Spencer Tracy on the bill [at the intersection of Main and McKinney Street?]. Color picture, no sound. |  Inventing the West: A Symposium on America’s Western Experience
Source: "Inventing the West" Videotape, 1984
A panel discussion on Texas mythology and its legacy in the western genre films of Holllywood. Moderated by Thomas Schatz, with
panelists Budd Boetticher, James H. Michener, Richard Slotkin, Don Graham and Horace Newcomb. Sponsored by the University of Texas’ Department of Radio-Television-Film and Department of
American Studies, as well as Cinema Texas, The Austin Chronicle and Laguna Gloria Art Museum. |
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Texas city fire and disaster
