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Oveta Culp Hobby papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0459
Abstract The Oveta Culp Hobby Papers detail the public life of Hobby, a Houston-based business, media, military, and political leader during the 1940s-1980s. Mrs. Hobby was the first secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first commanding officer of the Women's Army Corps, chairman of the board of the Houston Post, and wife to Texas Lt. Gov. and later Governor, William P. Hobby. This collection consists of correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, speeches, photographs,...
Dates: 1817 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1938 - 1985

Papers of Jefferson Davis documents and reference collection

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Identifier: MS 0638
Abstract This collection includes the wealth of documentation identified from across the United States and beyond and assembled for the purpose of the publication of the Papers of Jefferson Davis, a 14-volume set, funded by the NHPRC, and other activities and persons, beginning in the 1960s and running through 2015. Many of the speeches and letters published in the edition, either in full or summarized, are present in this collection as photocopies or on microfilm. Not every document featured in the...
Dates: 1815-2015, bulk 1850-1880; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1880

Paul B. Hendrickson World War I collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0694
Abstract 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...
Dates: 1914-1950; Majority of material found within 1917-1919

Paul Blouet correspondence

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Identifier: MS 0129
Abstract:

This collection consists primarily of letters written by French author and journalist, Paul Blouet (pseudonym, Max O'Rell) between 1885 and 1903. The letters discuss Blouet's lecture tours, the management of his play "John Bull on the Continent", and his affliction with cancer.

Dates: 1885 - 1903

Peninsular War letters

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Identifier: MS 0155
Abstract:

A collection of letters written by British officers serving in Portugal during the Peninsular War referring to matters concerning the war.

Dates: 1808 - 1814

Philip H. Broun Family U.S. Civil War papers

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Identifier: MS 0177
Abstract:

The Broun Family U.S. Civil War papers provide genealogical and historical information on the Broun and Thruston families and also describe the Broun family's experiences during the U.S. Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. Some items are photocopies of originals still in possession of the Broun family.

Dates: 1854 - 1888

Philip Koelsch papers

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Identifier: MS 0568
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence, newsclippings, photographs, periodicals, books, and biographical sketches related to the Koelsch families.

Dates: 1812 - 2019

Ralph Anderson Jr. Papers

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Identifier: MS 0413
Abstract 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

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

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Identifier: MS 0253
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

Richard G. Park, Jr. scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0673
Abstract

The scrapbook contains a photographic record of the deployment of Major Park’s unit, the 7th Infantry Division, to Texas and the Mexican border.

Dates: 1915 - 1917

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