Box 2
Container
Contains 3 Results:
USS Houston (CA-30), Cocos Island, approximately 1930s
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 70, Item: 4
Found in:
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
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1981-001, Cruiser Houston Collection
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Photographs
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Individuals
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A.G. Kirchner (printed digital copies)
Dates:
Other: approximately 1930s
Scope and Contents
Inscription on front: "USS Houston at Cocos Isla[nd]"
Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Ellis, Manila, Philippines, 1941
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 60, Item: 4
Found in:
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
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1981-001, Cruiser Houston Collection
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Photographs
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Individuals
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Ellis; F.G. Polk
Dates:
1941
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains black & white and color photographic prints, including some oversize and panoramic prints. The photographs are arranged into sub-series by general subject. Within each sub-series, the photographs are in alphabetical order according to the subjects of the individual photograph. Some of the photographs are copies of prints from institutions such as the National Archives or the U.S. Naval Institute. Box 4 includes a binder of photographs taken by a...
USS Houston (CL-81) launching ceremony, Mayor Otis Massey of Houston, Texas at the microphone, Newport News, Virginia, 1943
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 6, Item: 4
Found in:
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
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1981-001, Cruiser Houston Collection
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Photographs
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USS Houston (CL-81)
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Launching Ceremony
Dates:
Other: 1943
Scope and Contents
Caption on card: "Norfolk, Va., 19 June 1943-- Otis Massey, Mayor of Houston, Tex., is shown at the microphone speaking at the launching of the new cruiser, Houston, 19 June 1943, at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va. Behind him is Governor Coke Stevenson, of Texas, and to the speaker's right is Senator Tom Connally, of Texas. In the right foreground is Lieutenant Commander Wilson Starbuck, USNR, Public Relations Officer of the Fifth Naval District, and Rear...