Business
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Part of TARO subject browse terms
Found in 90 Collections and/or Records:
Sakowitz Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0841
Overview
This collection consists of one box containing a Sakowitz gift box, a 1969-1970 Sakowitz catalog, a packing slip from 1975, and a clothing tag, along with materials from the Texas Classroom Teachers Association meeting, welcoming attendees on a visit to Sakowitz while they are in Houston and to a luncheon in the Sky Terrace Restaurant on the store's fifth floor, including a note from Bernard Sakowitz (president of the Sakowitz Brothers stores), an identification card, and a program offering...
Dates:
1969 - 1975
Sheerness Naval Yard Logbook
Collection
Identifier: MS 0203
Overview
This collection consists of a 161-page handwritten logbook, penned (probably) by William Ward, whose name appears on the front pastedown endpaper. The majority of entries are Orders of the Day, letters, memoranda, and accounts of expenditures. Each entry is initialed by at least three officers; some are initialed by as many as eight officers.
Dates:
1721 - 1725
South Main Alliance records
Collection
Identifier: MS 0501
Overview
Founded in March 1976 by business, institutional and civic leaders, the South Main Center Association is a private, non-profit community and economic development organization which represents the residential, commercial and institutional interests of the approximately 12.5 square mile South Main area located within the inner loop. In 2005, the South Main Center Association (SMCA) was renamed the South Main Alliance. These records reflect the daily business of the organization.
Dates:
1975-2007
Space Services, Inc. records
Collection
Identifier: MS 0584
Abstract
This collection encompasses business records relating to Space Services’ administration and organization, the Contestoga and Starfire programs, launch sites, investors, customers, markets, relations with NASA, presentations and other materials from meetings, conferences, and seminars, and various assorted business files and records. It primarily consists of paper records, but also includes photographs, audio cassettes, VHS, Beta, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
ca. 1970s-1990s
Spears Dairy Business records
Collection
Identifier: MS 0541
Abstract:
Business ledgers of the Spears Dairy and its various plants and stores in Texas.
Dates:
1928-1948
Speros Martel personal papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0615
Abstract
This collection consists of the business and personal papers of Houston businessman and Rice University donor Speros Martel.
Dates:
1918-2012
Star Furniture Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 897
Overview
This collection is made up of two boxes containing photographs, news clippings, memorabilia, financial documents, and event programs from Star Furniture, and an oral history conducted with Shirley Wolff Toomim and Ellen Toomim Robinson spanning the years 1925-2021.
Dates:
1925 - 2021
Stephen A. Zeff accounting history papers
Collection
Identifier: UA 454
Overview
Dr. Stephen Addam Zeff has been an esteemed professor of accounting at Rice since 1978. This collection includes Dr. Stephen Zeff's research, correspondence, notes, related to key articles he published such as "Truth in Accounting: The Ordeal of Kenneth MacNeal," "Arthur Andersen and Co. and the Two-Part Opinion in the Auditor's Report, 1946-1962," "John B Canning: A View of his Academic Career," and "DuPont's Early Policy on the Rotation of Audit Firms." Also included are videos of...
Dates:
1982 - 2010
Steven Fenberg papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0804
Overview
The Steven Fenberg Papers are comprised of books, correspondence, documents, and newsprint relevant to the life of Steven Fenberg--America’s top scholar of influential Houston mogul Jesse H. Jones. Though many of the materials concern Jones, the rest explore Fenberg’s other philanthropic interests and connections with the wider Houston community, such as his patronage of AIDS Foundation Houston and affiliation with Congregation Emanu El. Additionally family records such as World War II...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1926 - 2021
Sugar Land and Fort Bend historical papers of Jane McMeans
Collection
Identifier: MS 0032
Abstract:
Original letters, pamphlets, tabloids, printed materials, books, videos, maps, and photographs documenting the Texas city of Sugar Land during the 19th century and 20th century, including the creation and development of the Imperial Sugar company.
Dates:
1826 - 2007, and undated