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American Defense Group records

Collection

Identifier: MS 0353

Overview This collection contains correspondence, memos, organizational and reading lists, and budget information regarding an organization called the American Defense Group. The Group consisted largely of professors from three California institutions who were interested in assisting the American war effort by reading foreign-language domestic publications and reporting editorial comments to U.S. Naval Intelligence.

Dates: 1941 - 1944

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

Americas collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 0518

Abstract: Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the 19th century and early 20th century political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal.

Dates: 1811-1920

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

Anah Marie Streetman Correspondence and memorabilia

Collection

Identifier: MS 0545

Abstract: Correspondence and memorabilia from Rice Institute student Anah Marie Leland, future wife of William McIver Streetman, regarding student life, academics and athletics first at Houston’s Central High School 1915-1918, and following at Rice Institute, 1918-1922. Letters continue to 1953.

Dates: 1915-1953

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

Anderson-Greenwood Family History records

Collection

Identifier: MS 0534

Overview Benjamin and Mary Greenwood Anderson of Houston, Texas, were experienced genealogists and traveled extensively to collect their family history records, as well as on numerous collateral lines. Family connections reached into the East Coast, Northeast, Midwest, South, and into Europe. Benjamin Anderson founded Anderson-Greenwood and Co. in 1945, intending the company to design and manufacture aircraft. After the Korean War, the firm switched to valve design and developed the first line of...

Dates: 1850-2004

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

Anderson Todd architectural academic and career papers

Collection

Identifier: UA 0314

Overview The architectural papers of Anderson Todd, AIA, cover his academic career at Rice University as well as his private practice in Houston, Texas.

Dates: 1927 - 2019

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

Andrew Forest Muir papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0017

Abstract: This material includes correspondence, research and genealogical notes which reflect the interests of historian and Rice University professor Andrew Forest Muir. They relate to 19th century Texas and Houston history; free African Americans in Texas pre-Civil War; the life and death of William Marsh Rice; the growth of the Catholic, Anglican, and Episcopal Churches in the 19th century via missionary work in Texas and Hawaii; and Hawaiian history, specifically clergymen in Hawaii. These research...

Dates: ca. 1916-1969

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

Andrew Forest Muir to David Howell-Jones letters

Collection

Identifier: MS 0081

Overview This is a collection of photocopies of personal letters written by Andrew Forest Muir to David Howell-Jones from February to August 1958. The orginal letters have been lost.

Dates: 1958

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

Andrew White Tuer letters

Collection

Identifier: MS 0137

Abstract: The collection contains letters and cards to Tuer and to his publishing firm, Leadenhall Press, from Marcus Huish, A. Scott Gatty, Charles Dickens, Jr., A. Parsons, Lady Dorothy Nevill, Sir H. Ponsonby, W.E. Henley, Amelia B. Edwards, E.A. Wallis Budge, Robert Barr, Birkett Foster, W.F. Godley, Percy Fitzgerald, Edmund Yates, Buffalo Bill Cody, Charles Keene, F.C. Burnand, H.J. Byron, Compton Reade, J. Knight, Emily Pfeiffer, and others regarding their work, Tuer’s collections and books,...

Dates: 1880 - 1897

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

Animal prints theft collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 0544

Overview This collection consists of circa 700 color prints stolen from the journals (the journal of the British Ornithologists’ Union) and Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, owned by the Fondren Library. The prints date from 1859-1915 and feature birds, bird eggs, and other animals. Theft correspondence and research dates from 1980-2004 and represents the Fondren Library’s efforts to cooperate with and assist in the Blumberg investigation.

Dates: 1859-2004

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

Ann Holmes Fine Arts Archive

Collection

Identifier: MS 0546

Abstract: This collection contains news clippings, press releases, correspondence, photos, institutional records, and audio materials related to the evolution of fine arts and city planning in Houston, TX. Specific focus is given to the Alley Theater, Houston Ballet, Houston Grand Opera, Houston Symphony, Museum of Fine Arts, architecture, and the role of the arts in the economy, politics, and society. The collection also includes biographies of various persons influential in both the local and...

Dates: 1920 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1950 - 2008

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

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American Defense Group records

Americas collection

Anah Marie Streetman Correspondence and memorabilia

Anderson-Greenwood Family History records

Anderson Todd architectural academic and career papers

Andrew Forest Muir papers

Andrew Forest Muir to David Howell-Jones letters

Andrew White Tuer letters

Animal prints theft collection

Ann Holmes Fine Arts Archive

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