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Jesse H. Jones Family and Personal Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 252

Overview The Jesse H. Jones Family and Personal Papers, consisting of 92 boxes, detail the lives of individual Jones family members and are highlighted by the Jesse H. Jones personal papers consisting of correspondence, photographs, financial, legal, speeches and business records, as well as the political, civic-related and public service records for which Jones is well known.

Dates: 1841 - 2000

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

Jewish Federation of Greater Houston records

Collection

Identifier: MS 714

Overview This collection which spans 1939 to 2018 includes a 1939-1943 notebook from the Refugee Services Committee which assisted Jews fleeing the Nazi regime in WWII, as well as a variety of photographs of people and events from the Federation's activities in the 1980s. The addendum includes event programs, guides, and one VHS recording.

Dates: 1939 - 2018

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

Jewish Herald-Voice Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 781

Overview This collection contains issues of the Jewish Herald-Voice, as well as related correspondence, newsprint and articles, photographs, and a Directory of Jewish Organizations showcasing different aspects of the Jewish community and smaller groups that make it up. "Representing the great and powerful diversity of [the Houston and Texas Gulf Coast Jewish communities,] the Herald unites many thoughts in its weekly pages" (Newspaper owners Samuels and Levy).

Dates: 1928 - 2008

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

John F. Kennedy Space Effort Speech at Rice University records

Collection

Identifier: UA 109

Abstract: This record group consists of printed material and audio covering both John F. Kennedy's visit and speech on the Nation's Space Effort at Rice University on September 12, 1962.

Dates: 1961 - 1962

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

John H. Wright U.S. Civil War and related ephemera collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 061

Abstract: U.S. Civil war imprints and currency, various 19th century broadsides, brief histories of Army Generals including U.S. Grant, W.T. Sherman, A.E.Burnside, and others, as well as other ephemera such as Mussolini's shaving kit. This material was collected over a period of years by John H. Wright.

Dates: 1838-1936

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

John T. Jones, Jr. Business and Personal Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 725

Overview John T. Jones, Jr. papers document his business dealings through his business and non-profit interests, and public appearances, as well as his personal and family life. Included are correspondence, newsclips, military records, income tax and insurance records, photographs and speeches.

Dates: 1950-2000

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

Jones Graduate School of Management image collection

Collection

Identifier: UA 402

Overview The collection consists of images in a variety of formats of people, buildings, and events and programs associated with the Jones Graduate School of Business since its early years in the laste seventies until the first decade of the 2000s.

Dates: 1977 - 2003

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

Joseph I. Davies papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 286

Abstract: The Davies papers include papers, lecture notes, glass slides, and transparencies produced by Joseph I. Davies, who came to Rice Institute (later Rice University) in 1914 with Julian Huxley as his lab assistant, later received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Rice, and from 1929 to 1966 served as a member of the Rice faculty. The glass slides and transparencies taken by Davies include scenes of the early development of the Rice campus as well as later campus scenes and individuals.

Dates: 1924 - 1966

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

Josephine Jue Chinese-American photographs collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 724

Overview Family photograph of Hinhun Jow, Mee Oy Jow, Josephine Jue, Mylew High, Vance Jow, Sonny Jow, and Houston Jow in 1947. Photograph of the Chinese Baptist Church of Houston charter members, circa 1985. Digital version of photograph of family friends, Photograph of Mr. Gee, Joyce Gee, Mayling Hew, and Marymay Hong taken at Crawford Street, 1946.

Dates: 1946 - 1986

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

Joyce Gilbert papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 805

Overview One box containing certificates, correspondence, a travel journal, photographs, a magazine article, event materials, and a Soviet Jewry nameplate documents Joyce Gilbert's activities in the Houston Jewish community and her work to assist Russian Jewry from 1975 to 2018.

Dates: 1975 - 2018

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

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Jesse H. Jones Family and Personal Papers

Jewish Federation of Greater Houston records

Jewish Herald-Voice Papers

John F. Kennedy Space Effort Speech at Rice University records

John H. Wright U.S. Civil War and related ephemera collection

John T. Jones, Jr. Business and Personal Papers

Jones Graduate School of Management image collection

Joseph I. Davies papers

Josephine Jue Chinese-American photographs collection

Joyce Gilbert papers

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