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Merchants and Planters Oil Company archives

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0260
Abstract

Correspondence, contracts, credit reports, and leases in this collection document the business of Houston, Texas based Merchants & Planters Oil Company, particularly during the last period of its existence, 1930 through 1941. This company was owned by William Marsh Rice and associated with Rice Institute after Mr. Rice's death.

Dates: 1894 - 1945; Majority of material found within

Miller Family letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0456
Abstract The collection includes 11 letters writtten by James Miller, A Company, 63rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers to his brother, Samuel, in Williamsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The letters, written between Ocotober 6, 1861 and March 11, 1864, offer a good account of daily camp life. Also included are five letters from Robert Miller to Samuel Miler and one letter from Bell Miller to Samuel Miller. These letters were written between April 24, 1868 and April 22, 1872 and primarily...
Dates: 1861-1872

Moreau Forrest Letter to Mary Forrest

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0002
Abstract:

Written in 1837 from Houston, Forrest writes at length to his wife about Houston, and the illness of their son; discusses the possible outbreak of war with Mexico; talks of the Texas Congress meeting. This four-page letter gives an early look at life in the Republic of Texas.

Dates: 1837

Morrison Gunn family letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0151
Abstract:

Photocopies of 49 letters to Morrison Gunn from members of his family and various friends. For the most part they are personal, but also include information on the conditions faced by immigrant farmers and the problems of establishing a home.

Dates: 1844 - 1869

Moses Austin Bryan letter to Col. W.W. Fontaine

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0316
Abstract:

This letter (10 January 1890) from Moses Austin Bryan letter to Col. W.W. Fontaine is in response to a series of questions concerning the revolutionary period in Texas history.

Dates: 1890-01-10

Mrs. E. H. Wright. Letters from Union Generals

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0111
Abstract:

Six letters from Civil War generals of the Union Army in reply to Mrs. E. H. Wright’s request for their photographs; respondents include Generals J. J. Abercrombie, John Gross Barnard, Cyrus Bussey, George W. Cullum, William Hammond, and George Douglas Ramsay.

Dates: 1864

M.T. Jones Lumber Co. records and business ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0629
Abstract

The M.T. Jones Lumber Co. Records & Business Ledgers, 1890-1920, consist of business records, correspondence, letterpress books, invoices, orders, shipping records, and ledgers for the daily operations and administration of the lumber company for Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado.

Dates: 1880 - 1940

Nancy Freed Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0986
Abstract

One box and one map-drawer of newspaper clippings, event programs, newsletters, membership directories, service packets, magazines, photographs, and posters documents activities the Freed family was involved in from 1982 to 2020.

Dates: 1982 - 2020

Neal Lane papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0502
Abstract

Professional papers of Dr. Neal Lane from Lane's time as a professor and administrator at Rice University, as well as his time as Director of the National Science Foundation. Also included are papers from Lane's time in the White House working as the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Dates: circa 1964-2015

Neumann Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0241
Abstract

Chiefly letters to Louisa (Neumann) Bering, a resident of Houston, Tex., from her brothers and sisters, including letters from her brother, Emil Neumann, describing his service in the Confederate Army, stationed at Fort Eagle Grove (Fort Moore) and Galveston, Tex.; together with clippings and photos. Includes material relating to land in Texas, Bering family, and Little Rock, AR, during the Civil War.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1856 - 1886; 1850 - 1955

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Autry family 3
B'nai B'rith Youth Organization 3
Congregation Emanu El (Houston, Tex.) 3
Davidson, Chandler 3
Furman, Joshua, Dr. 3
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 3
Rice University--residential college system 3
Richards, Ann, 1933-2006 3
United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston (Houston, Tex.) 3
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 3
Anderson, Clayton & Co 2
Auston, David 2
Baker, James Addison 2
Baker, James Addison, 1930- 2
Baker, Rowena Crawford 2
Bentsen, Lloyd 2
Brown family 2
Brown, Alice Pratt 2
Cohen, Henry, Rabbi 2
Confederate States of America. Army 2
Congregation Adath Yeshurun (Houston, Tex.) 2
Congregation Shearith Israel (Wharton, Tex) 2
Cullum, George W. (George Washington) 2
Davies, Joseph Ilott 2
Davis, Varina Howell 2
DePelchin Children's Center 2
Dessler, Alexander J. 2
Dugger, Ronnie 2
Eskowitz, Sheryl 2
Fondren Library 2
Goyen, William 2
Gruber, Ira D., Dr. 2
Hackerman, Norman 2
Hobby, Oveta Culp, 1905-1995 2
Hogg, James Stephen, 1851-1906 2
House, Edward Mandell 2
Houston Art League 2
Houston, Sam 2
Houston, W. V. (William Vermillion) 2
Houston, W. V. (William Vermillion) , 1900- 2
Huxley, Aldous 2
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 2
Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 2
Huxley, Juliette 2
Huxley, Juliette, 1896-1994 2
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. 2
Jones, Jesse H. (Jesse Holman) 2
Kelley, Edward Watson 2
Kinsey, James 2
Long, Elizabeth 2
Lovett, Edgar Odell 2
Lovett, Edgar Odell, 1871-1957 2
Lovett, Mary Ellen Hale 2
Marvins, Edward 2
Marvins, Libby 2
McVey, William M. 2
Mitchell, O. Jack 2
Moody, John Wyatt 2
Muir, Andrew Forest 2
Nicholson, Max 2
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhouse), 1913-1994 2
Patten, Robert L. , 1939- 2
Pinero, Arthur Wing, 1855-1934 2
Ragan, Cooper Kirby 2
Rice University School of Architecture 2
Rice University. "R" Association 2
Rice University. Department of Architecture 2
Rice University. Jefferson Davis Association 2
Rice University. Office of the Provost 2
Rice, William Marsh 2
Rice, William Marsh, 1816-1900 2
Strange, Ray Watkin Hoagland, 1915-2011 2
Ulmer, Francita Stuart 2
Watkin, Annie Ray Townsend, 1892-1929 2
Watkin, William Ward, 1886-1952 2
Abercrombie, John Joseph 1
Abramson, Ida Sue 1
Adams, John A. S. (John Allan Stewart), 1926- 1
Agricultural Livestock Finance Corporation 1
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882 1
Akers, William W. 1
Allen, Herbert 1
Alley Theatre (Houston, Tex.) 1
Allgemeiner Musikverein (Düsseldorf, Germany) 1
Allingham, Helen Paterson 1
Allred, James V. 1
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1
American Association of University Professors 1
American Defense Group 1
American Freedom Train Foundation 1
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