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Helen Wong Hom World War II Chinese American scrapbook and printed materials

Collection

Identifier: MS 641

Overview This collection includes a scrapbook created by Helen Wong Hom during her time in San Antonio during World War II, associated with the FAB-100 officers and friends. Helen Wong Hom appears to have been associated with the first group of the U.S. Foreign Affairs Bureau's group of 100 Chinese officers who later became known as the FAB-100. Many of these officers served as interpreters, translators, and trained others in aviation and radio mechanics.

Dates: 1944 - 1947

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

Herbert Allen business and personal papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 519

Overview The Herbert Allen papers include personal holdings, including biographical information, honors and awards, and personal correspondence. In addition papers dealing with his professional activities and patents are included, as are those dealing with his involvement with Rice University. Allen was an inventor and mechanical engineer who graduated from Rice Institute in 1929 where he later served on the Board of Governors and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Dates: 1938 - 2014

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

Herman and Margarett Root Brown Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 697

Overview The collection consists of a range of keepsakes memorializing the lives of Herman and Margarett Root Brown and their family. The oldest in time are the high school senior class yearbook of Herman Brown and a framed loan document bearing his signature. There are many photographs, both formal portraits and small snapshots as well as intermediate size pictures. Among the people featured in addition to Herman, Margarett, and their children are the mother and sisters of Herman and George Brown,...

Dates: 1890 - 2016; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1965

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

Hertz Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 968

Overview Three boxes of photographs, programs, flyers, correspondence, service packets, t-shirts, and newspaper clippings from Congregation Emanu El, Interfaith Charities, the Jewish-Herald Voice, West Houston B'nai B'rith, JCC West Houston, Greene Family Camp, and NFTY document some activities members of the Hertz family were involved in from from 1966-2011.

Dates: 1966 - 2011

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

Hobby Family Foundation Records

Collection

Identifier: MS 527

Abstract The Hobby Family Foundation is a non-profit organization organized in 1940 and located in Houston, Texas. The Hobby Foundation Records include information covering legal correspondences between the Hobby family, the Hobby Foundation, and the Houston Post Company, foundation corporate minute books (which comprise most of the collection), and financial records.

Dates: 1945-1983; Majority of material found within 1946 - 1968

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

Hoffman/Karchmer Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0966

Overview The collection consists of photographs, certificates, news clippings, and a framed katuba from 1960 to 1992.

Dates: 1960 - 1992

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

Holmes McNeely Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 068

Abstract: Papers of Holmes McNeely, director of the Rice [University] Owl Band 1951-67, with material including brochures, news clippings, photographs, slides, CDs of Rice Owl Band and Jefferson Davis High School Band concerts under McNeely’s direction, bound volumes of band music, and Rice Owl Band uniforms.

Dates: 1948 - 1968

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

Houston Chronicle Photo Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 0814

Overview Photographs used in the Houston Chronicle and/or taken by Chronicle photographers document activities within the Houston Jewish community between the 1940s and 2000s.

Dates: ca. 1940s-2000s

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

Houston Hadassah collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 775

Overview This collection consists of two boxes of membership directories from 1955 to 1965 and 1993 to 2002 and two scrapbooks that span the years 1970 to 1976 and one scrapbook from 1981 to 1983 that include newsletters, event invitations, news clippings, marketing material, photographs, and memorabilia.

Dates: 1955 - 2002

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

Houston Post Photograph Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 0969

Overview Photographs used in the Houston Post and/or taken by Post photographers document activities within the Houston Jewish community between the 1950s and 1990s.

Dates: ca. 1950s-1990s

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

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Helen Wong Hom World War II Chinese American scrapbook and printed materials

Herbert Allen business and personal papers

Herman and Margarett Root Brown Family Papers

Hertz Family Papers

Hobby Family Foundation Records

Hoffman/Karchmer Family Papers

Holmes McNeely Papers

Houston Chronicle Photo Collection

Houston Hadassah collection

Houston Post Photograph Collection

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