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Moreau Forrest Letter to Mary Forrest

Collection

Identifier: MS 002

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

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

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

Collection

Identifier: MS 316

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

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

Naomi Carrier academic career and community activism collection materials

Collection

Identifier: MS 926

Overview This collection contains the teaching resources and writings of renowned teacher, researcher, playwright, and actress Naomi Carrier, whose advocacy for African-American voices in history has had a profound effect on educational representation in Texas.

Dates: 1936 - 2019

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

Neumann Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 241

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

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

Niels Esperson Building photo album

Collection

Identifier: MS 1030

Overview The collection consists of a photo album containing 45 black and white photos of the interior and exterior of the Niels Esperson Building in Houston, Texas, ca. 1927.

Dates: circa 1927

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

O. Jack Mitchell architecture papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 439

Overview This collection contains the personal and academic papers of Houston architect O. Jack Mitchell. Included in the collection are Mitchell’s consulting projects, Houston organizations projects, numerous slides of cities around the world, film reels of lectures, and various other architectural materials.

Dates: 1960-1992

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

Olmstead Brothers landscaping in Houston records

Collection

Identifier: MS 172

Abstract This collection consists of correspondence, design documents, planting lists, and photographs that cover the history of the gardens designed for J. Robert Neal in Houston from the initial contact of the Olmsted firm to inquiries by the present owners of the property concerning restoration.

Dates: 1931 - 1939

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

Osterhout Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 355

Overview Correspondence, drawings, maps, scrapbooks, pamphlets, newspapers, and other papers, of John Patterson Osterhout (1826-1903), relating to his early life in Pennsylvania, early impressions of Texas, work as a judge, service in the Confederate Army, and leader of the Republican Party in Texas, and of his son, Paul Osterhout (1859-1944), relating to his studies at Baylor University and University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Medicine, activities fighting yellow fever during the digging of the Panama...

Dates: 1836 - 1941; Majority of material found within

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

Oswald Mueller manuscript

Collection

Identifier: MS 243

Overview This typewritten manuscript is titled "Seeking the Garden of the World". It is Oswald Mueller’s English translation of Fritz Scheffel’s Deutsche suchen den Garten der Welt. Mueller authors the preface, in which he describes the story as that of the failed German attempt to colonize Texas into a New-Germania.

Dates: 1948

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

Paul B. Hendrickson World War I collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 694

Overview The Paul B. Hendrickson World War I collection contains correspondence written by Hendrickson to his family back home during his time in service. The letters were to his mother and to the girl next door, Cecil Frances Rife, whom he later married. There is a diary kept during the year he was in France and almost 300 postcards which were sent home either individually or in envelopes.The collection also includes negatives and photographs taken at Camp Parker in Quincy, Illinois, and at...

Dates: 1914-1950; Majority of material found within 1917-1919

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

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Moreau Forrest Letter to Mary Forrest

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

Naomi Carrier academic career and community activism collection materials

Neumann Family Papers

Niels Esperson Building photo album

O. Jack Mitchell architecture papers

Olmstead Brothers landscaping in Houston records

Osterhout Family Papers

Oswald Mueller manuscript

Paul B. Hendrickson World War I collection

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