Remembering Corpus Christi
Bay breezes from the Gulf of Mexico sweep into this sparkling city by the sea. The sound of the wind, waves, and shore birds transport harmonic music to the ears of those who walk its beaches and parks. Corpus Christi, Texas, one of the most pristine coastal cities, lies at the mouth of the Nueces River, and from its humble beginnings as a simple nineteenth-century trading post, it has developed into a major city. Farming and ranching, the railroad, port, Naval Air Station, and the oil and gas industry have aided this city in realizing its growth potential.
With a selection of fine historic images from her best-selling book, Historic Photos of Corpus Christi, Cecilia Gutierrez Venable provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Corpus Christi. Remembering Corpus Christi brings to life the evolution of this growing community through more than one hundred black-and-white photographs, drawn from a wide pool of topics to depict the history of the people, community, events, and businesses that have shaped this area. The rarely seen images gleaned from several archives provide a unique opportunity to peer into the past and discover the richness of this South Texas city.
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Book details
- Text by
- Cecilia Gutierrez Venable
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 134
- Formats
- Paperback
- Series
- Remembering
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Photography › Subjects & Themes - Topics
- Corpus Christi, Texas · local history · historic photography · coastal cities · pictorial history · Texas history · black-and-white photography
- ISBN-13
- 9781683368236
About the author
CECILIA GUTIERREZ VENABLE is a historian and archivist based in the Corpus Christi area and the author of Remembering Corpus Christi and Historic Photos of Corpus Christi.
Venable holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Texas A&M Corpus Christi University. She has served on the Nueces County Historical Society board and the Nueces County Historical Commission.
When she’s not writing, Venable works with archival and manuscript collections. As a graduate assistant at Texas A&M University Special Collections and Archives, she processed and acquired collections; she later helped organize the manuscript collection at the Corpus Christi Public Libraries Local History Room under a grant-funded project. This hands-on archival work underpins her books on Corpus Christi’s history.