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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

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

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 Harcombe and Sandi Elsik Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 090

Abstract: The collection includes the archive from Paul Harcombe and Sandi Elsik’s ecological research in the Big Thicket National Preserve; academic and university affairs regarding Rice University and the Ecology and Environmental Biology Department, as well as student and faculty records; Paul Harcombe’s personal documents, including his correspondence and his personal notebooks; publications, including articles from the journals of Ecology and Ecological Monographs, the Ecological Society of America...

Dates: 1969 - 2007

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

Peter Gardner collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 779

Overview This collection consists of digitized wav and mp3 files, along with jpeg images of the original 2-track audio reels created by Peter Gardner.

Dates: 1959 - 1966

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

Pimp C rap artist collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 651

Overview The Pimp C rap artist collection includes several documents and promotional items including handwritten lyrics and contracts to promotional flats for his group Underground Kingz (UGK).

Dates: 1987 - 2008

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

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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

Olmstead Brothers landscaping in Houston records

Oswald Mueller manuscript

Paul Harcombe and Sandi Elsik Papers

Peter Gardner collection

Pimp C rap artist collection

Ray Watkin Hoagland Strange personal papers

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