Remembering Houston
By the mid nineteenth century, the city of Houston was becoming a vibrant cultural center of the South. From its birth to the present, Houston has consistently built and reshaped its appearance, ideals, and industry. Through changing fortunes, the city has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens.
With a selection of fine historic images from her bestselling book Historic Photos of Houston, Betty Trapp Chapman provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Houston. Remembering Houston captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From early cotton exports to the discovery of oil to the establishment of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, Remembering Houston follows life, government, education, and events throughout the city's history.
This volume captures unique and rare scenes through the lens of more than a hundred historic photographs. Published in vivid black-and-white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.
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Book details
- Author
- Betty Trapp Chapman
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Photography › Subjects & Themes - Topics
- Houston, Texas · Texas history · historic photography · black and white photography · Southern history · urban history · American cities
- ISBN-13
- 9781684422982
About the author
BETTY TRAPP CHAPMAN is an independent historian and freelance writer with more than 25 years researching, teaching, and writing about Houston’s history. Her recent books include Remembering Houston, Rough Road to Justice: The Journey of Women Lawyers in Texas and Houston Women: Invisible Threads in the Tapestry.
Chapman holds a B.A. from Millsaps College and has served as chairperson of the Houston Archaeological and Historical Commission.
When she’s not writing, Chapman writes a weekly column, "Houston Heritage," for the Houston Business Journal and lectures in Rice University’s Continuing Studies Program, work that reflects her ongoing commitment to documenting Houston’s past.
Betty lives in Houston.