Downtown Houston with horse-drawn buggies, the old City Hall and Union Station buildings, verdant parks and swimming holes. See the Houston of yesteryear in these photographs, gathered over twenty years by Houston Post newspaperman and local historian George Fuermann. The digital collection Historic Houston Photographs is drawn from the extensive group of research materials known as the George Fuermann Texas and Houston Collection.
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