Texas
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 118 Collections and/or Records:
Walter Gardner Hall papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0280
Overview
Correspondence, memos, oral history interviews, political pamphlets, broadsides, and clippings, relating to Hall's involvement with the Texas and national Democratic parties and soil and water conservation and improvement. Correspondents include Minnie Fisher Cunningham, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, Sam Rayburn, Jim Wright, and Ralph Yarborough.
Dates:
1923 - 1990
Walter W. and Ella F. Fondren Papers, 1838-1973
Collection
Identifier: MS 0390
Overview
The Fondren Papers provide a record of the Fondren family's acquisition and dispersal of money in Houston and across Texas during the first three-quarters of this century and offers additional information on the financial workings of several well-known institutions and corporations. Formats include correspondence and financial documents.
Dates:
1838-1973
William Addison McElroy family collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0428
Overview
Family records of the McElroy family of Houston, Texas.
Dates:
1877-1994, bulk 1900-1945
William Harrison Hamman papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0006
Overview
Correspondence, documents, Civil War materials, clippings, and other papers of Hamman including accounts of early Texas historical events and political opinions as well as his legal and business papers regarding oil land, gas, and minerals; together with papers of his wife, Ella Hamman; papers of John Hamman (1879-1966), founder of Hamman Exploration Col, later Hamman Oil and Refining Co., pioneer in the development of mineral resources in Texas, and lawyer specializing in land and corporation...
Dates:
1828-1966, bulk dates 1861-1889; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1889
William V. Ballew, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0254
Abstract:
The collection consists of William V. Ballew, Jr.'s workpapers, correspondence, minutes, and news clippings relating to the Houston-Harris County Economic Opportunity Organization. William V. Ballew, Jr., a Houston attorney, served as Chairman, Board of Trustees, Houston-Harris County Economic Opportunities Committee, an organization that initiated welfare programs as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty.
Dates:
1965 - 1968
William Williston Heartsill journal
Collection
Identifier: MS 0035
Abstract:
Journal describes Texan Confederate soldier W.W. Heartsill's experiences during the U.S. Civil War, including material related to Texas ranching activities, Indian and Mexican affairs, and botany; the Texas Secession Convention; generals Braxton Bragg, Stonewall Jackson, Joseph E. Johnston, and John W. Whitfield; his work with the W.P. Lane Rangers (later Company F, 2nd Regiment, Texas Calvary); battles of Chickamauga and Vicksburg; prisoners of war; and Confederate Army Trans-Mississippi...
Dates:
1861 - 1866
Women of Rice interviews and exhibition records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0322
Overview
Correspondence, interview transcripts and materials related to Dr. Linda Driskill's Rice Women's Conference in 1999. The 2012-2013 interviews were conducted by students in two classes of the Introduction to the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, one under Dr. Lora Wildenthal and the other under Dr. Abigail Rosas, in preparation for the 2014 exhibition and symposium at Fondren Library.
Dates:
1988 - 2014; Majority of material found within 2012 - 2014
YWCA at Rice Institute records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0029
Scope and Contents
These early records of the Y.W.C.A. at Rice Institute include minutes of meetings, annual reports, newspaper clippings, and play programs.
Dates:
1912 - 1939