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Agriculture

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Part of TARO subject browse terms

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Hugh R. McKean Rice Institute memoir

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0379
Abstract

This collection contains the autobiographical memoir of Hugh R. McKean, Rice Alumnus, class of 1922. The memoirs cover the early 20th century (through 1922) and for the most part describe the life of a farmer’s family in South Texas. A fair amount of the memoirs concern his years as a student, letterman, and Hohenthal Award winner at the Rice Institute. In addition, the memoirs provide McKean’s observations about events in Houston during the WWI era.

Dates: 1918 - 1922

John Campbell personal papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0329
Scope and Contents The John Campbell papers comprise two Hollinger boxes of documents and one of letters.The box containing letters is divided into four categories: (1) letters from Anson Jones to John Campbell, 1845-1850; (2) letters either to or from James Campbell, 1833-1863; (3) a folder containing letters exchanged within the Campbell family, 1832-1906; and (4) three folders containing letters either to or from John Campbell, written to or received from correspondents outside the family...
Dates: 1820 - 1906

Leland Anderson family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0916
Abstract

The collection has a majority of photographs, newspaper articles, letters, and portraits.

Dates: 1880 - 2010

Morrison Gunn family letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0151
Abstract:

Photocopies of 49 letters to Morrison Gunn from members of his family and various friends. For the most part they are personal, but also include information on the conditions faced by immigrant farmers and the problems of establishing a home.

Dates: 1844 - 1869

O. M. Slosson Diary and Farm Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0223
Abstract Diary and farm ledger kept by O. M. Slosson, a farmer in upstate New York (Pompey, Onondago County), reflecting the life of a Northern farmer just before the Civil War; he describes daily chores, agricultural problems, livestock, church attendance and themes of Sunday sermons, deaths and other local events, social activities, weather, personal finances (including loans, debts, and purchases), and letters received, with reminders to himself noted in the margins. He also makes reference to his...
Dates: 1858 - 1860

Osterhout Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0355
Abstract Correspondence, drawings, maps, scrapbooks, pamphlets, newspapers, and other papers, of John Patterson Osterhout (1826-1903), relating to his early life in Pennsylvania, early impressions of Texas, work as a judge, service in the Confederate Army, and leader of the Republican Party in Texas, and of his son, Paul Osterhout (1859-1944), relating to his studies at Baylor University and University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Medicine, activities fighting yellow fever during the digging of the...
Dates: 1836 - 1941; Majority of material found within

Reginald Moore Sugar Land Convict Leasing System research collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0636
Abstract

Correspondence, reports, research notes, and photographs created and/or maintained by Mr. Reginald Moore, relating to the history of the Convict Leasing System in Sugar Land, Texas and current efforts to publicly recognize that history.

Dates: 1878-2018

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

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

Walter W. and Ella F. Fondren Papers, 1838-1973

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0390
Abstract

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