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Chrome La Porte Baytown Tunnel Texas Houston Ship Channel Postcard 1958
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Chrome · 1958

Chrome La Porte Baytown Tunnel Texas Houston Ship Channel Postcard 1958

Baytown, Texas, USA1958ChromeGood

Chrome postcard of the La Porte-Baytown Tunnel (now the Fred Hartman Bridge area) beneath the Houston Ship Channel near Baytown, Texas. The image shows the open-cut approach to the tunnel portal, with a truck and car entering the tunnel left and the low modern ventilation and administration building visible above the cut on the left. The wide flat Texas coastal plain extends in all directions, with industrial facilities faintly visible in the distance at right. Photographed by Orman S. Longstreet; published by Morse Wholesale, Houston, Texas; printed by Colourpicture Publishers (Plastichrome), Boston.

  • Card no.: P10531
  • Publisher: Morse Wholesale, Houston, Texas (Colourpicture Publishers / Plastichrome, Boston)
  • Postmark: Houston, TX, Dec 2, 1958
  • Status: Posted
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PC-03693 · Morse Wholesale, Houston, Texas (Colourpicture Publishers / Plastichrome, Boston)
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