urn:taro:ttu.swcpc.00252 Allen Ranch: An Inventory of Photographs, undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library A. Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library

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Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, April 16, 2002. Finding aid written in English. Tue Jul 22 14:55:33 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.swcpc.00252 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the Allen Ranch Photograph Collection, undated A. Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, 2002 Descriptive Summary Koelsch, Phillip, Mrs. Allen Ranch Photograph Collection, undated The Allen Ranch Photograph collection was loaned by Mrs. Phillip Koelsch for duplication. SWCPC 252 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 61 b/w copy prints and 73 negatives English. Biographical Sketch

The Allen Ranch, headquartered in Harris County, Texas, was established in the early 1840s and operated for more than 100 years. Samuel W. Allen started his ranch by rounding up wild longhorn cattle and shipping them to New Orleans and Cuba. By the 1860s he had acquired a monopoly on the trade. Part of the original ranch has become the Houston Ship channel. By 1947 the ranch had been liquidated.

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of images of groups of people, ranch horses, ranching activities, architecture, and cattle.

Index Terms

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.

Subjects (Persons) Allen, S. E. Allen, Samuel W. Allen, Rosa Lum Allen, Rebecca Jane Harris, General Koelsch, Philip, Mrs. Milby, Charles Dow Tritico, Frank E. Places Allen Ranch (Houston, Tex.) Houston (Tex.) Galveston Bay (Tex.) Subjects Ranching--Allen Ranch (Houston, Tex.)--Photographs Architecture--Photographs Cattle--Photographs Ranchers--Clothing--Photographs Acquisition

Loaned, 1979

Access Restrictions

Open for research

Processed by

A. Ramirez

Preferred Citation

Allen Ranch Photograph Collection, undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas