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The Ku Klux Klan in Texas papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0727
Abstract

This collection consists of a photograph, correspondence, and a book relating to the Ku Klux Klan Texas chapter and Rice.

Dates: 1922 - 1925

Thelma and Tim Chan Chinese Baptist Church history collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0719
Abstract

This collection includes a 25th anniversary Chinese Baptist Church directory book (1978), a 50th anniversary Chinese Baptist Church history book (2003).

Dates: 1940 - 2003

Thomas E. Daley papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0334
Abstract

The Daley Papers include personal documents from Daley's high school and Rice University years, a play script and original artwork. There are also photographs of Rice and of World War II infantry and intelligence units, along with some newspaper clippings and correspondence from 1946 and 1963.

Dates: 1919-1929, 1942-1952

Topek/Silverman Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0808
Abstract

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

Townsend-Burford family of Texas papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0511
Abstract

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

Travelers in the Middle East collection of travel guides, narratives and images

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0585
Abstract

This collection consists of the physical materials that are represented digitally in the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA), a collection created to make possible the study of Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travel to Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The materials are of diverse types: images in the forms of post cards, photographs, and stereograph films; articles, pamphlets, and travel guidebooks; maps, and souvenirs.

Dates: 1852 - 2004

Vietnamese Culture and Science Association event programs

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0824
Abstract

The collection consists of programs from annual Youth Excellence Recognition Award luncheons, the 25th anniversary celebration of the Vietnamese Culture and Science Association, newsletters of the association, and a program from a 2004 national conference of the National Alliance of Vietnamese American Service Agencies.

Dates: 1999 - 2018

Westheimer/Simon Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0876
Abstract

The Westheimer/Simon family papers span several generations of the family living in Houston, and making their mark on the Houston Jewish community. With a variety of materials ranging from correspondence to photographs, sermons to yearbooks, the Westheimer/Simon family papers are a rich trove for any researcher interested in the history of one of Houston’s more influential families.

Dates: 1920 - 2012

William Addison McElroy family collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0428
Abstract

Family records of the McElroy family of Houston, Texas.

Dates: 1877-1994, bulk 1900-1945

William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson scrapbook

 Collection
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

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