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Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
Rice University Association of Rice Alumni records
Collection
Identifier: UA 003
Abstract
This collection contains records and items related to the Association of Rice Alumni. It includes records and meeting minutes of various alumni committees and boards.
Dates:
1922 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1984
Rice University Director, Chao Center for Asian Studies search
Collection
Identifier: UA 0301
Overview
The materials were gathered during the 2007-2008 search for a Chao Center for Asian Studies director.
Dates:
2007 - 2008
Rice University Faculty offprints collection
Collection
Identifier: UA 0006
Abstract
Faculty offprints, reproductions of individual articles published in scholarly journals, written by Rice University professors, with publication dates ranging from 1897 to 2005.
Dates:
1897-2005
Richard and Sandra Lauderdale Graham Brazilian Chapbook and Slides Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0650
Overview
The collection consists of fifty-seven inexpensively produced booklets of verse
with woodblock print or photo image covers. The booklets are quarto size,
4-3/4” by 6-3/8”, and range in length from eight to forty-eight pages. The
content is in verse in stanzas of six, seven, eight, or ten lines.
The booklets are examples of a folk art known as literature de cordel, or
“string literature,” because of being attached to strings as a means of
displaying them for sale. The...
Dates:
circa 1960-1990
Shearith Israel Congregation collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 738
Overview
The collection contains six boxes of correspondence, event materials (including programs, correspondence, and memorabilia), newsletters, bulletins, news clippings, books, photographs, financial documents, sermons, and video and audio material of events that document the history of Shearith Israel Congregation in Wharton, Texas, from 1921 to 2002.
Dates:
1921 - 2002
"Sussex Owl" manuscript newspaper
Collection
Identifier: MS 0231
Abstract:
This is a 426-page handwritten newspaper, published from September-January, 1866-1867 on board the British troop ship Sussex during her maiden voyage from Kingstown, Ireland to Kurrachee, India [Karachi, Pakistan].
Dates:
1866 - 1867
Temple Freda [Bryan, TX] collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0811
Overview
The Temple Freda collection is made up of documents, photographs, and news clippings concerning one of the oldest religious buildings in Bryan, Texas. Though used for different things over the years, Temple Freda remains stalwart in its support for the Jewish community in Bryan, interacting with both congregation Beth Shalom, and the A&M Hillel in College Station.
Dates:
1912 - 2006
Texas Mexico Border Campaign at Camp Stewart photographs
Collection
Identifier: MS 0085
Overview
The collection consists of photographs of Camp Stewart at El Paso, Texas, and the infantry- and
cavalry-men stationed there in 1916 for the Pershing Expedition in pursuit of
Pancho Villa. There are two large framed panoramic views of the camp layout
and a scrapbook of 148 mostly sepia snapshots.
Dates:
1916 - 1917
The Ku Klux Klan in Texas papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0727
Overview
This collection consists of a photograph, correspondence, and a book relating to the Ku Klux Klan Texas chapter and Rice.
Dates:
1922 - 1925
U.S. Army and Navy letters
Collection
Identifier: MS 0149
Scope and Contents
While the letters are on a number of different topics, many deal with the Sterling Debenture Corporation and stock offerings in the American Telegraphone Corporation. The corporation was founded in 1903 to manufacture the Telegraphone, a magnetic sound recording device invented by Danish engineer Valdemar Poulson. Although several hundred machines were bought by curious scientists, the product was not a commercial success.
Dates:
1828 - 1910