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William Addison McElroy family collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0428
Overview Family records of the McElroy family of Houston, Texas.
Dates: 1877-1994, bulk 1900-1945
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

William Allen Haynes papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0268
Abstract: Over one half of the collection documents cattle ranching, oil prospecting, and banking in Texas, as well as personal and family life during the Great Depression. The William Allen Haynes collection offers a view of living conditions of a prosperous Central Texas rancher and entrepreneur as well as providing information on conditions in Texas in the first part of the 19th century.
Dates: 1901 - 1953
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

William B. Tragsdorf, Sr. Panama Canal Zone photographs and scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0067
Overview This collection consists of photographs and printed materials concerning the Panama Canal and the Isthmus of Panama, collected by William E. Tragsdorf, an early U.S. civil service employee stationed at the Isthmus of Panama. Dates of materials range from 1905-1934, bulk 1905-1906.
Dates: 1905-1934; Majority of material found within 1905 - 1906
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

William "Bill" Camfield academic papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0444
Overview The collection contains class lecture notes and research materials on art, artists, and theory from Dr. Camfield's time as a professor at Rice University from the 1960s to 2000s.
Dates: 1960s-2000s
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

William “Bill” Camfield papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0495
Overview The papers of art historian William Camfield include correspondence concerning Rice University Cullinan Visiting Professors, gift of Mrs. George R. Brown for sculpture for Rice University Campus, photographs and slides, newspaper clippings and brochures of Rice exhibits and sculpture. Also included is material concerning the Rice Institute for the Arts. There are also tapes of lectures by Robert Irwin, Cullinan Lecturer.
Dates: 1925-1997; Majority of material found within 1982 - 1990
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

William Black essays

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Identifier: MS 0298
Abstract: The papers consist of three handwritten short essays by Black, each pasted into a bound volume: “The Borderland of Dreams," “Metropolitan Conveyances” and “My Lady Jemimah…”.
Dates: 1870
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

William E. Gordon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0408
Abstract: Academic and professional papers of William E. Gordon, member of the faculty of Rice University 1966-1985, now Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Space Physics and Astronomy and of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with material related to his work in developing and administering the Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory in Puerto Rico.
Dates: 1947-1994
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson scrapbook

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Identifier: MS 0293
Abstract: The scrapbook contains a series of newspaper clippings pasted in and over pages of a day-book kept by Myron Downes. Most of the clippings deal with the career of prohibitionist William “Pussyfoot” Johnson.
Dates: 1905 - 1916
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

William Goyen letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0078
Overview This collection contains 6 letters, and a postcard and envelope (letter missing) from William Goyen to Mark Bradlyn. Also included are photographs of Goyen taken in his Hollywood office and a business card from a Chinese restaurant. An unsent letter form Mark Bradlyn to Goyen is also included in the collection.
Dates: 1978-1979
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

William Goyen papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0360
Overview The William Goyen papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts and notes, serial publications, reviews and publicity, and proofs and galleys.
Dates: 1937 - 1978; Majority of material found within
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

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