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Tony Elam, Rice University Assistant Dean of Engineering records

Collection

Identifier: UA 0193

Overview This material includes the academic files of Tony Elam during his time as the Associate Dean of Engineering for Research at Rice University. Included in the collection are: Assistant Dean's office files, Rice Engineering Departments information, and various files on other universities, industries, and centers and institutions.

Dates: circa 1995-2006

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Too Short collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 0657

Overview VHS tapes, mini-DV tapes, magazines, contracts, and correspondence of Too Short (Todd Anthony Shaw)

Dates: 2000-2004

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Topek/Silverman Family papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0808

Overview The collection contains one folder of programs from events at Congregation Emanu El and Brith Shalom; a photograph of Joseph Silverman at the construction site for Houston's first modern skyscraper, the Melrose Building, downtown on the corner of Walker and San Jacinto; a newsclipping about Melvin Silverman's death; and a Beth Yeshurun newsletter.

Dates: 1951 - 1980

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Townsend-Burford family of Texas papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0511

Overview Photographs, correspondence, genealogical charts and notes, newsclippings and printed materials related to the Townsend and Burford families of Texas dating back to pre-Republic of Texas era. The town now known as Round Top, TX, on Cummins Creek, was previously known as Townsend, TX. Many of the Townsend family members participated in the Battle of San Jacinto. Both the Townsends and the Burfords have been very active in civic life.

Dates: 1850-2000

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Tradition Board Game Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 900

Overview Planning materials, board games, a scrapbook, press releases and other publicity materials document the activities undertaken by Estelle Panzer, Janis Odensky, and Judy Jordan between 1984 and 1989 to create the Tradition Jewish trivia board game. The collection also includes an oral history with Estelle Panzer and Janis Odensky conducted in 2019.

Dates: 1984 - 2019

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Travelers in the Middle East collection of travel guides, narratives and images

Collection

Identifier: MS 0585

Overview This collection consists of the physical materials that are represented digitally in the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA), a collection created to make possible the study of Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travel to Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The materials are of diverse types: images in the forms of post cards, photographs, and stereograph films; articles, pamphlets, and travel guidebooks; maps, and souvenirs.

Dates: 1852 - 2004

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

T.W. Bonner Physics Laboratory records, Rice University

Collection

Identifier: UA 0442

Overview Physics course evaluations, grant funded research applications, experiment notes, related to the T.W. Bonner Lab at Rice University.

Dates: 1957 - 1995

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Twenty-Six Literary Club records

Collection

Identifier: MS 0066

Abstract: The records of the Twenty-Six Literary Club document the activities of this women’s social and philanthropic club established in 1909 by a group of Houston women residing in the Woodland Heights neighborhood. Some members’ daughters became students at the Rice Institute (later University) after it opened in 1912 and continued the Club, expanding its membership over the years and engaging in various community projects, including providing scholarships for young women entering Rice.

Dates: circa 1910-1994

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

United Orthodox Synagogues records

Collection

Identifier: MS 712

Overview This collection is made up of eight boxes containing books, bulletins, correspondence, event materials, financial records, flyers, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, plaques, programs, scrapbooks, videos, and yearbooks from United Orthodox Synagogues spanning from 1935 to 2023.

Dates: 1935 - 2023

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

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

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

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Tony Elam, Rice University Assistant Dean of Engineering records

Too Short collection

Topek/Silverman Family papers

Townsend-Burford family of Texas papers

Tradition Board Game Collection

Travelers in the Middle East collection of travel guides, narratives and images

T.W. Bonner Physics Laboratory records, Rice University

Twenty-Six Literary Club records

United Orthodox Synagogues records

U.S. Army and Navy letters

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