aerial photographs
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Photographs of the earth taken from aircraft. For photographs taken from beyond the earth's atmosphere, use "space photographs." For photographs of celestial bodies or astronomical phenomena, use "astrophotographs."
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Bert Brandt Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0087
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the images in this collection are from Brandt’s commercial work. There are also some images from his work during WWII in Italy and Germany. Another notable part of the collection is his journalistic photo coverage of the Poe Elementary School bombing in Houston in 1959. Brandt created photo illustrations for several books about Houston and Texas, including GEorge Fuermann's Houston: the Once and Future Cty, 1971. He photographed scenes in the oil fields as well as in the...
Dates:
1939-1975
J. Milton Lawless Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0334
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of about 3250 images ranging from the 1920s to the 1980s. It includes:
21 glass plate negatives; 4x5" and 5x7" film negatives, slides and prints; 23 tintypes of members of Lawless’ family; 930 8x10" prints and a few oversized black and white prints. Among the subjects are:
• Architecture
• Aerial photos
• Astrodome
• Epsom Downs (1930s)
• Oil
• Inter Urban
• Rice University
• San Jacinto Monument
• Sylvan Beach
• Street Scenes
• Trains...
Dates:
1920s-1980s