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Harris Masterson, Jr. Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0469

Overview These papers cover Houston born chaplain and educator Harris Masterson, Jr.'s life from his schooling through his career with the YMCA. Highlights include correspondence with family members, photographs, school materials and his career.

Dates: 1894-1920

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

Herman and Margarett Root Brown Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0697

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

HMS Melville Order Book

Collection

Identifier: MS 0228

Overview Regulations, orders, and schedules, relating to equipment and supplies, personnel, procedures, and duties for officers and men of H.M.S. Melville, signed by W.D. Puget.

Dates: 1837 - 1838

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

Hobby Family Foundation Records

Collection

Identifier: MS 0527

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

Houston Area Community Services, Inc. records

Collection

Identifier: MS 0670

Overview The Houston Area Community Services records document the merged efforts of Bering Memorial United Methodist Church and Omega House to serve indigent and underserved patients of HIV/AIDS who could no longer be helped by the traditional medical community. The records are a comprehensive, but not all-inclusive, accounting for the functions of the administrative, financial, committee, business- and service-oriented areas for HACS primarily for the period 1998-2014 as overseen by President Ann Read.

Dates: 1986 - 2014

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

Houston Book Clubs research materials

Collection

Identifier: MS 0521

Abstract: The Houston Book Clubs Research Materials consist of material from 1993-2007, including interviews, surveys, emails, reports, essays, lists, and correspondence between Elizabeth Long and members of the literary community. The files were compiled by Elizabeth Long during her study of the role of women's reading groups for her 2003 book "Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life" (University of Chicago Press).

Dates: 1993 - 2007

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

Houston Canoe Club records

Collection

Identifier: MS 0598

Overview Houston Canoe Club was established in 1964, and pursues all types of paddlesport, from canoeing to kayaking, quietwater, whitewater, touring and racing. The records in this collection reflect the club's activities such as meetings, events and training. Formats include meeting minutes, correspondence, photographs, financial records, event planning records and ephemera such as event t-shirts.

Dates: 1964-2009

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

Ira Gruber academic papers

Collection

Identifier: UA 204

Abstract Collection contains the academic writings, professional and personal correspondence, courses taught, and biographical information of Ira Gruber before and while a professor of History at Rice University.

Dates: 1934 - 2022

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

Jack McCaine NASA papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0045

Abstract: Photographs, correspondence, maps, charts, and memorabilia collected by McCaine while employed at Project Manager for the Army Corps of Engineers during the construction of the Manned Space Center (Johnson Space Center), 1962-1964 and while working with NASA, 1964-1979.

Dates: 1963 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1964 - 1979

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

Jacques F. Vallee UFO and paranormal phenomena papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 672

Overview The collection includes background files, correspondence, field notes, and press documents collected by Vallee between 1960 and 2015.

Dates: 1960 - 2015

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

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Harris Masterson, Jr. Papers

Herman and Margarett Root Brown Family Papers

HMS Melville Order Book

Hobby Family Foundation Records

Houston Area Community Services, Inc. records

Houston Book Clubs research materials

Houston Canoe Club records

Ira Gruber academic papers

Jack McCaine NASA papers

Jacques F. Vallee UFO and paranormal phenomena papers

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