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Texas City disaster records

Collection

Identifier: MS 529

Overview The Texas City disaster records were created and / or maintained by survivor Robert M. Morris, of Texas City, TX. The reports, statements, images and notes describe the events of the April 16, 1947 when a French ship carrying fertilizer on Galveston Bay caught fire and exploded, causing disaster on shore at the nearby Monsanto styrene plant and other petroleum refineries, homes, warehouses, ships and buildings. At least 576 were killed and 4,000 injured, with the town being almost completely...

Dates: 1947-2003; Majority of material found within 1947 - 1949

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

Thomas Lindsey Blayney papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 064

Abstract Papers of Thomas Lindsey Blayney, a founding member of the faculty of Rice Institute (now University) and Professor of German there from 1912- 1924; materials include records of his military service during World War I (1917-1919), and later appointments as president of Texas State Women’s College (1924-26) and dean of Carleton College (1926-46); also included are family memoirs, correspondence, photographs, news clippings, and memorabilia.

Dates: 1893 - 2004

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

Topek/Silverman Family papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 808

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 511

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

Twenty-Six Literary Club records

Collection

Identifier: MS 066

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

Wade biography of Michel B. Menard collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 189

Abstract: This collection consists of a biography written by Houston Wade about Michel B. Menard, founder of Galveston. Included are newsclippings about Menard, other Texas personalities, and correspondence to Mr. Wade regarding the Menard family history.

Dates: 1938 - 1939

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

Waggaman Family collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 394

Overview The Camille Waggaman/Waggaman Family Collection consists largely of photographs and newspaper articles but also includes some personal correspondence and memorabilia. The bulk of the material regards Camille Waggaman and focuses upon her radio career (1932-1963) and upon the years after her retirement. Regional or local historians may find these of interest since the Waggamans were among the most prominent plantation families of Louisiana.

Dates: 1841-1977, bulk 1932-63; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1963

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

Waldo Greene collection of Thornton Wilder papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 484

Abstract: This collection is comprised of materials which Waldo Greene, a student of Thornton Wilder's, gathered about Wilder during Wilder's lifetime and up until Greene's death. Included among these materials are correspondence, bibliographies, newspaper and journal clippings, photographs, playbills, and copies of Wilder's typewritten journals.

Dates: 1928-1994

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

Walter Benona Sharp and Estelle Boughton Sharp Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 271

Overview Correspondence, scrapbooks, business papers, ledgers, tributes and memorials, audiotapes of oral history interviews, clippings, photos, and other papers of Sharp and his wife, Estelle (Boughton) Sharp, active in Houston, Tex., civic and philanthropic affairs. Topics include oil industry, lives of the Sharp family, Howard Hughes family, growth of Houston, Spindletop Oil Field, founding of the Texas Company and Sharp-Hughes Tool Company, and establishment of United Charities.

Dates: 1868 - 1978

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

William Allen Haynes papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 268

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

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Texas City disaster records

Thomas Lindsey Blayney papers

Topek/Silverman Family papers

Townsend-Burford family of Texas papers

Twenty-Six Literary Club records

Wade biography of Michel B. Menard collection

Waggaman Family collection

Waldo Greene collection of Thornton Wilder papers

Walter Benona Sharp and Estelle Boughton Sharp Collection

William Allen Haynes papers

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