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Kemah motel, Sylvia D

Description: Photograph of high waters covering part of Kemah, Texas. The water covers a street in the foreground, and covers the lots in front of some buildings and the Sylvia D Motel and Restaurant in the background.
Date: unknown
Creator: Clear Lake Photography
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Kemah Historical Society

Miss Sellar's Class

Description: Photograph of Miss Sellar and her class. Miss Sellar stands to the right of the unidentified children whom are sitting and standing on a bench outside of the schoolhouse in Kemah, Texas.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Kemah Historical Society

Louise Giddens and school kids

Description: Photograph of Rose Kipp, Ella Rentz, Emma Gordon, Dorothy White, and several unidentified children. This is a picture of the school children at the school that John Henry Kipp, Sr. started. The teacher, Louise Giddens, is the tallest woman in the picture. The girl next to the teacher is Ella Kipp the oldest of John Henry Kipp, Jr's children and the boy on the other side of the teacher is Henry Kipp. The girl next to Henry is Elva or Elvie Kipp. The girl in front of Elvie and Henry is Leota … more
Date: 1911~/1912~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Kemah Historical Society

Kemah city officials

Description: Photograph of six unidentified men and three unidentified women who are Kemah city officials. The man on the far left of the group has a badge clipped to his shirt and a revolver on his hip.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Kemah Historical Society

Rocket Lounge, Ben Blackledge, Mayor for 27 years

Description: Photograph of Ben Blackledge, the mayor of Kemah, Texas for 27 years, and the interior of Rocket Lounge. Three men sit on stools at the bar counter, and a man stands behind the bar. Cigars and beer are vended behind the bar, and several tables, chairs, and booths are placed throughout the lounge. A table shuffleboard is also visible.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Kemah Historical Society

Rocket Lounge

Description: Photograph of four unidentified people and the interior of Rocket Lounge of Kemah, Texas. A smiling man stands behind the bar counter, and a man faces the rear of the lounge with a cigar in his hand. In the background, a man with a hat plays a bowling arcade game. Another unidentified person sits at a table with two pitchers and an ash tray. Several stools are places in front of the bar counter, and tables and chairs are placed throughout the rest of the room. Restrooms and jukeboxes are also v… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Kemah Historical Society

Sportsman's Restaurant

Description: Photograph of Sportsman's Restaurant in Kemah, Texas. Water has risen to the door of the one-story brick building. A sign advertising "Fine Foods" is affixed above the entrance. An American flag is visible in the background.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Kemah Historical Society

Joe Lee's Restaurant

Description: Photograph of Joe Lee's Seafood Restaurant in Kemah, Texas. The restaurant is on stilts, and the sign above the restaurant shows signs of damage. Several buildings in the background also show signs of damage. The ground beneath the restaurant is covered by shallow brown water and debris. A boat is also partially visible in the background.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Kemah Historical Society

Sylvia D Lounge

Description: Photograph of the Sylvia D Lounge. A covered walkway leads to the entrance of the two-story wooden building. A few lawn chairs, and two tables are located around a swimming pool in front of the lounge. Some cars are parked in the parking lot next to the lounge, and other businesses are partially visible in the background.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Kemah Historical Society

Texas Ave

Description: Photograph of a portion of the business area in Kemah, Texas along Clear Creek during a typical high tide. Water from Clear Creek has filled several parking lots and has crossed the street in areas. Several cars are parked at various businesses. A motel, seafood restaurant, tire shop, grocery store, and auto parts store are pictured.
Date: April 20, 1973
Creator: Clear Lake Photography
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Kemah Historical Society

Texas Ave at high tide

Description: Photograph of a portion of the business area in Kemah, Texas along Clear Creek during a typical high tide. Several cars are parked in the lot of a lounge and pharmacy on Texas Ave. The water from Clear Creek has filled the parking lot and has reached the street.
Date: April 20, 1973
Creator: Clear Lake Photography
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Kemah Historical Society

[Railroad House - East Martin Street]

Description: Photograph of a one story building with a covered front porch, white trim, brick accents above the windows and doors, and a dark screen door in front of the front door. The front porch is empty and a few utility lines extend from the ground by the street in the lower right corner. A red structure is barely visible behind the building.
Date: 1976
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Val Verde County Historical Commission

[Rose Building (Burke) - 748 South Main Street]

Description: Photograph (left) of a car driving down the street in front of the Rita Theatre and the next storefront with a striped curtain hanging from the suspended awning. Photograph (right) of a wrought iron staircase with lacy details on each riser and ornate handrail posts which is located in a thin alley between two buildings.
Date: 1976
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.357698 -100.898778
Partner: Val Verde County Historical Commission

[Galindo Store - Corner Main and Pafford Streets]

Description: Photograph of a two story adobe building, painted aqua colored, with suspended awning and four sets of a door and window along the first floor. A one story white building is partially visible attached to the back of the building. The building is situated on the corner of two streets, and a stop sign is located at the corner.
Date: 1976
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.355218 -100.898517
Partner: Val Verde County Historical Commission

[Perry Store (Whitehead Memorial Museum) - 1400 block of South Main Street]

Description: Photograph of a stacked flint rock two story main building with attached one story section; the left photograph shows the front of the building with a garage door in the one story section, a medallion of Texas and a plaque above the front door, and two historical markers flank the front door; the right photograph shows the back of the building with a wooden staircase to the second story door, wooden panels across the one story section, and two trees obscure the building.
Date: 1976
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.351281 -100.898158
Partner: Val Verde County Historical Commission

[Salvatierra Home - a - Wallen Street]

Description: Photograph of a vertically paneled one story building with green trim and stairs up to a door under an awning hung with plants. An unknown white post set in a dais and miscellaneous items located in the lawn. An asphalt and a gravel street meet in the foreground. Trees are scattered through the yard, and one or two structures are visible through the trees behind the home.
Date: 1976
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Val Verde County Historical Commission
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