Hobby, William Pettus
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1878 - 1964
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Builders: Herman and George R. Brown Book Research Files
Collection
Identifier: MS 0464
Abstract
Correspondence, oral histories, notes, newsclippings, reports, published materials, photographs and ephemera in this collection document the family and business lives of Houston entrepreneurs Herman and George R. Brown, providing the basis for author Christopher Castaneda and Joseph Pratt's book, Builders : Herman and George R. Brown
Dates:
1898 - 1989
Hobby Family Foundation Records
Collection
Identifier: MS 0527
Abstract
The Hobby Family Foundation is a non-profit organization organized in 1940 and located in Houston, Texas. The Hobby Foundation Records include information covering legal correspondences between the Hobby family, the Hobby Foundation, and the Houston Post Company, foundation corporate minute books (which comprise most of the collection), and financial records.
Dates:
1945-1983; Majority of material found within 1946 - 1968
Filtered By
- Subject: newspapers X
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- Subject
- Alumni and alumnae 1
- Architecture 1
- Calendars 1
- Clippings (books, newspapers, etc.) 1
- Coal slurry pipelines -- Design and construction 1
- Community activists 1
- Concrete construction 1
- Construction industry 1
- Correspondence 1
- Courts 1
- Dams -- Design and construction 1
- Diaries 1
- Education, Higher 1
- Genealogy 1
- Governors 1
- History 1
- Law and legislation 1
- Legal instruments 1
- Manuscripts 1
- Municipal government 1
- Oil and gas 1
- Oil fields -- Equipment and supplies 1
- Oral histories 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Philanthropy and society 1
- Political parties 1
- Public schools 1
- Reports 1
- Rice University 1
- Roads -- Design and construction 1
- Sketchbooks 1
- Texas -- Harris County 1
- Texas -- Houston 1
- Texas -- Texas, South 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Women -- Education 1
- Women -- Political activity 1
- Women journalists 1
- Women philanthropists 1
- Women social reformers 1
- newspapers 1 + ∧ less
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