Clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 193 Collections and/or Records:
Waggaman Family collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0394
Overview
The Camille Waggaman/Waggaman Family Collection consists largely of photographs and newspaper articles but also includes some personal correspondence and memorabilia. The bulk of the material regards Camille Waggaman and focuses upon her radio career (1932-1963) and upon the years after her retirement. Regional or local historians may find these of interest since the Waggamans were among the most prominent plantation families of Louisiana.
Dates:
1841-1977, bulk 1932-63; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1963
Waldo Greene collection of Thornton Wilder papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0484
Abstract:
This collection is comprised of materials which Waldo Greene, a student of Thornton Wilder's, gathered about Wilder during Wilder's lifetime and up until Greene's death. Included among these materials are correspondence, bibliographies, newspaper and journal clippings, photographs, playbills, and copies of Wilder's typewritten journals.
Dates:
1928-1994
Walter Benona Sharp and Estelle Boughton Sharp Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0271
Overview
Correspondence, scrapbooks, business papers, ledgers, tributes and memorials, audiotapes of oral history interviews, clippings, photos, and other papers of Sharp and his wife, Estelle (Boughton) Sharp, active in Houston, Tex., civic and philanthropic affairs. Topics include oil industry, lives of the Sharp family, Howard Hughes family, growth of Houston, Spindletop Oil Field, founding of the Texas Company and Sharp-Hughes Tool Company, and establishment of United Charities.
Dates:
1868 - 1978
William Allen Haynes papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0268
Abstract:
Over one half of the collection documents cattle ranching, oil prospecting, and banking in Texas, as well as personal and family life during the Great Depression. The William Allen Haynes collection offers a view of living conditions of a prosperous Central Texas rancher and entrepreneur as well as providing information on conditions in Texas in the first part of the 19th century.
Dates:
1901 - 1953
William “Bill” Camfield papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0495
Overview
The papers of art historian William Camfield include correspondence concerning Rice University Cullinan Visiting Professors, gift of Mrs. George R. Brown for sculpture for Rice University Campus, photographs and slides, newspaper clippings and brochures of Rice exhibits and sculpture. Also included is material concerning the Rice Institute for the Arts. There are also tapes of lectures by Robert Irwin, Cullinan Lecturer.
Dates:
1925-1997; Majority of material found within 1982 - 1990
William H. Masterson papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0613
Abstract
The collection contains one series of Masterson's academic papers and one series related to his wife, Orvetta Masterson. Correspondence, newsclips, photographs, certificates, Rice-related brochures and information on the Masterson Fund are included.
Dates:
1940s-1980s
William M. McVey Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0026
Abstract:
The papers of sculptor William M. McVey include newsclippings, correspondence, photographs related to sculptures of McVey’s, and a scrapbook with photos and mementos of his student years at the Rice Institute.
Dates:
1922 - 1976
William Martin Academic Career Papers
Collection
Identifier: UA 0120
Abstract
Collection contains the writings and publications of Dr. Martin’s distinguished career dealing with religion, drug policy, religious fundamentalism and its effect on popular culture/politics, Texas churches, and life as a cancer survivor.
Dates:
1960-1999
William Martin Religious Right research collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0537
Overview
This collection consists of research materials compiled by William Martin, Rice University professor of sociology, during the course of his research on the Christian religious right in the United States, as well as fundamentalists, fundamentalist education, evangelists such as Billy Graham, and other aspects of conservative Christian organizations. The materials consists of correspondence, notes, videos, transcriptions of video interviews, pamphlets, and books.
Dates:
1975 - 2000
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