Box 1
Container
Contains 34 Collections and/or Records:
WGH high school graduation invitations, 1923-24
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
1923-24
Rice Institute ballot and broadside/student election, 1927
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
1927
Article on WGH in Texas Observer, 1959
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
1959
Interview of WGH by Connie Simpson - typescript, 1976
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
1976
Biographical data on WGH, 1973
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
1973
Awards, Date?
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
Date?
Biographical sketch for R. W. Yarborough, 1967
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
1967
Article on WGH in the Texas Observer, 1967
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
1967
WGH biographical material - newspaper clippings, 1950s
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
1950s
WGH biographical material - newspaper clippings, 1960s
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Walter Gardner Hall has been a man of many parts--most of them seemingly incongruous. He has been a successful banker and a champion of the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party. He has had important social and business ties with the conservative Houston establishment and at the same time has been a close friend of such anti-establishment figures as John Henry Faulk. Through the political wars of the 1950's and 1960's, Hall managed to remain on good...
Dates:
1960s