Texas-history. Texas and local history
Record Group
Identifier: Texas-history
Archival collections documenting Texas and Local Houston-area history.
Found in 297 Collections and/or Records:
Philip Koelsch papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0568
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, newsclippings, photographs, periodicals, books, and biographical sketches related to the Koelsch families.
Dates:
1812 - 2019
Pimp C rap artist collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0651
Overview
The Pimp C rap artist collection includes several documents and promotional items including handwritten lyrics and contracts to promotional flats for his group Underground Kingz (UGK).
Dates:
1987 - 2008
President E. O. Lovett - Personal Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0060
Abstract:
The personal papers of Edgar Odell Lovett, first President of Rice Institute, span almost his entire life. The collection has material about his education at UVA and in Europe, his career at Princeton, his hiring by the Board of Trustees of the Rice Institute, and extensive personal correspondence with friends and societies he was involved with throughout his life. The collection also includes reprints of articles and speeches written by Lovett throughout his life.
Dates:
Bulk, 1908-1946 1871-1957; Majority of material found within 1908 - 1946
Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 730
Overview
The holding consists of books (both written and owned by Rabbi Schachtel), unpublished sermons and miscellaneous writings, musical compositions, correspondence, newsclippings, transparencies, photographs (both loose and contained in scrapbooks), and architectural drawings and specifications. Also included are records, cassette tapes and reels containing recordings of Rabbi Schachtel speaking on the radio, and memorabilia related to President Lyndon B. Johnson, such as a telegram laminated to a...
Dates:
circa 1935-2001
Ralph Anderson Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0413
Overview
Houston-born Ralph Anderson Jr. (1923-1990) studied architecture at Rice Institute and earned a bachelor's degree in 1943. He was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1943 and fought in the Battle of the Bulge where he was wounded and awarded a medal for his bravery. After the war, he returned to Rice and continued his studies in architecture. He joined the architectural firm of Wilson, Morris and Crain and eventually rose to become a partner and later president of the company. The papers cover a...
Dates:
1860-1989; Majority of material found within
Ralph Fales photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 938
Overview
This collection contains Ralph Fales' negatives and digital imagesof musicians and other entertainers from a variety of performance venues in Houston.
Dates:
1974 - 2020
Reginald Moore Houston area community activism collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0653
Overview
This collection represents the community activism efforts of Mr. Reginald Moore, which has often taken the form of researching topics as represented in newspaper accounts, requesting government records on the topics, and corresponding with officials and engaging in public testimony. Private Sector Initiatives / Home Savers initiative - church based effort which Mr. Moore either led or was just deeply involved in to get the black community out participating in assisting fellow...
Dates:
2000 - 2016
Reginald Moore Sugar Land Convict Leasing System research collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0636
Content Description
Correspondence, reports, research notes, and photographs created and/or maintained by Mr. Reginald Moore, relating to the history of the Convict Leasing System in Sugar Land, Texas and current efforts to publicly recognize that history. The reports included in this collection are in some cases publicly available, but are difficult to access. Correspondence includes letters and emails between Mr. Moore and various public officials and other interested parties such as archaeologist Fred McGhee.
Dates:
1878-2018
Reinermann, Sandman, Bethje and Quensell families of Harris County papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0339
Overview
The papers and miscellaneous material of the Reinermann, Sandman and Bethje families, German immigrants in Harris County, Texas.
Dates:
1841 - 1917
Rev. William A. Lawson papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0532
Overview
This collection documents the path of Rev. William A. "Bill" Lawson as a minister and religious educator in Houston, Texas. It includes teaching materials, recorded sermons, notes for sermons, and church bulletins for Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church.
Dates:
1955-2008