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Ralph Anderson Jr. Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 413

Overview Houston-born Ralph Anderson Jr. (1923-1990) studied architecture at Rice Institute and earned a bachelor's degree in 1943. He was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1943 and fought in the Battle of the Bulge where he was wounded and awarded a medal for his bravery. After the war, he returned to Rice and continued his studies in architecture. He joined the architectural firm of Wilson, Morris and Crain and eventually rose to become a partner and later president of the company. The papers cover a...

Dates: 1860-1989; Majority of material found within

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

Ray Watkin Hoagland Strange personal papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 506

Overview The collection consists of the personal papers of Houston philanthropist Ray Watkin Hoagland Strange (1915-2011). The collection includes correspondence, financial, business and estate records and personal memorabilia of Ray Strange. Her father, William Ward Watkin, was Supervising Architect during the construction of the original Rice Institute campus and later the Dean of Architecture at Rice. Mrs. Strange was a friend and generous donor to Rice University for many years. The papers and...

Dates: 1912-2009

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

Ray Watkin Strange Research Materials for "William Ward Watkin and the Rice Institute"

Collection

Identifier: MS 465

Overview This material covers the architectural career of the Ms. Strange's father, William Ward Watkin, including his private architecture practice and well as his relationship with Rice Institute as Supervising Architect, touching briefly on his personal life. The material was gathered by Ms. Strange and much of it served as research for the book: William Ward Watkin and The Rice Institute by Patrick James Nicholson (published 1991 by Gulf Pub. Co.).

Dates: 1917-1985

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

Raymond Brochstein Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 258

Overview The collection consists of a variety of materials relating to Raymond Brochstein’s philanthropic gifts and service to Rice University, as well as a certificate of recognition in his career as an architect.

Dates: 1996 - 2014

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

Reginald Moore Houston area community activism collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 653

Overview This collection represents the community activism efforts of Mr. Reginald Moore, which has often taken the form of researching topics as represented in newspaper accounts, requesting government records on the topics, and corresponding with officials and engaging in public testimony. Private Sector Initiatives / Home Savers initiative - church based effort which Mr. Moore either led or was just deeply involved in to get the black community out participating in assisting fellow...

Dates: 2000 - 2016

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

Reginald Moore Sugar Land Convict Leasing System research collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 636

Content Description Correspondence, reports, research notes, and photographs created and/or maintained by Mr. Reginald Moore, relating to the history of the Convict Leasing System in Sugar Land, Texas and current efforts to publicly recognize that history. The reports included in this collection are in some cases publicly available, but are difficult to access. Correspondence includes letters and emails between Mr. Moore and various public officials and other interested parties such as archaeologist Fred McGhee.

Dates: 1878-2018

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

Rene Boylesve research materials

Collection

Identifier: MS 589

Overview The material in this collection consists of papers from the files of Andre M.G. Bourgeois, Professor of Romance Languages, at Rice University, concerning the life of Rene Boylseve, with particular reference to poems, written by him to Betty Halperine During the First World War. Rene Boylesve was the pseudonym of Rene-marie-auguste Tardiveau, a French novelist noted for his social histories set in the Touraine region of west-central France. He was elected to the French Academy in 1918. (2...

Dates: 1950-1967

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

Rhode Island Artillery, 5th Regiment, Company G. Records

Collection

Identifier: MS 253

Abstract: Records of the Rhode Island Artillery, 5th Regiment, Company G., dated 1863-1865, including general orders, correspondence, invoices of clothing and other equipment, quartermaster store receipts, and muster rolls. Also includes papers related to the career of Capt. John H. Robinson, dating 1861-1880.

Dates: 1861 - 1880

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

Rice Center for Community Design + Research records

Collection

Identifier: UA 181

Overview The collection consists of both published and unpublished records of projects undertaken by the Rice Center for Community Design + Research, subsequently the Rice Center. It also includes records of two projects of the University of Louisville which served as precursors to much of the early research completed at the Rice Center.

Dates: 1968 - 1987

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

Rice Institute 1924 Campanile yearbook printer's copy, photographs and graphics

Collection

Identifier: UA 379

Scope and Contents The collection consists of the bound printer's copy of the 1924 yearbook of Rice Insitute, the Campanile. Also in the collection are envelopes of photographs apparently considered for use and 8" by 10" copies of photographic portraits that were used in smaller format. Samples of the intended covers and decorative printing and artwork to be used especially on pages without photographs are also included. Invoices for various stages of the production are included as well.

Dates: 1923 - 1924

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

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Ralph Anderson Jr. Papers

Ray Watkin Hoagland Strange personal papers

Ray Watkin Strange Research Materials for "William Ward Watkin and the Rice Institute"

Raymond Brochstein Papers

Reginald Moore Houston area community activism collection

Reginald Moore Sugar Land Convict Leasing System research collection

Rene Boylesve research materials

Rhode Island Artillery, 5th Regiment, Company G. Records

Rice Center for Community Design + Research records

Rice Institute 1924 Campanile yearbook printer's copy, photographs and graphics

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