Social life and customs
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Found in 135 Collections and/or Records:
William M. Rice family collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0600
Overview
The collection consists primarily of business and personal correspondence of three particular descendants of William Marsh Rice and of the spouse of one of them. Also included are a few items from 1929 and 1930 associated with other family members.
Dates:
1880-1941
William P. Hobby Jr. & Diana Poteat Hobby Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0628
Scope and Contents
The collection includes Diana P. Hobby's writing and research notes, from the early 1950s to 2014, focused on her study of William Butler Yeats. The bulk of the collection consists of family photographs and slides from the Hobby family's worldwide travels and their frequent visits to Ireland, and to Diana Hobby's family farm in North Carolina, Forest Home, along with their equestiran endeavors and competitions, and their lives and friends in Houston, TX.
Dates:
ca. 1950s-2000s
Woman's Building of Houston - Milford House papers, 1894-1976
Collection
Identifier: MS 0388
Overview
The collection consists of the membership documents, organizational documents and memorabilia of the Woman's Building of Houston, an organization founded in 1925 that was devoted to the creation of a building that would serve as a cultural and social center for Houston women. After over twenty-five turbulent years of fundraising and patience, the organization saw success when Milford House officially opened in 1953.
Dates:
1894-1976
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
Zoroastrian Association of Houston oral history interviews and ephemera
Collection
Identifier: MS 0624
Abstract
This is a collection of oral history interviews of members of the Zoroastrian Association of Houston (ZAH), conducted by fellow members of the ZAH.
Dates:
2014 - 2016