Personal correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
Kirby Petroleum Company / George Sawtelle Executive Records
Collection
Identifier: MS 0504
Overview
The materials in this collection are from the Houston-based Kirby Petroleum Company and the records of George Sawtelle, president and later chairman of the company to 1965. This collection consists of 2.5 linear feet of photographs, correspondence, business records, clippings, and technical papers. The primary correspondents are John H. Kirby, Clint Murchison, Cooper Ragan, and George Sawtelle. This material provides a valuable look at the early days of the oil industry in Texas. In particular,...
Dates:
1921-1967, bulk 1931-1953
Lasker Meyer family collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 746
Overview
This small collection includes correspondence, certificates, dance programs, newsprint, photographs, and pamphlets pertaining to Lasker Meyer, his family, and the Foley’s department store chain that he ran until 1987.
Dates:
1921 - 1980
Max Herzog World War II Memorabilia collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 715
Overview
The collection, spanning 1935-1947, consists of a photo album recording Max Herzog's service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Also included are a telegram informing him of his son's birth in the U.S. and photographs of the young child sent to Max by his wife. Information papers pertaining to discharge from the Army, as well as the discharge papers themselves are included. In addition, there is currency from several of the countries traveled through during Army service, including a U.S....
Dates:
1935 - 1947
Passover letter from soldier, Albert Greenhouse, Camp Wolters, Texas , 1943-04-21
File
Scope and Contents
This file contains a letter from Greenhouse thanking the ladies from his congregation back home for a care-package he received while stationed at Camp Wolters.
Dates:
1943-04-21
Phyllis Kaufman family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0840
Overview
This collection contains materials from a large scrapbook created, primarily, by Phyllis Kaufman's father, Norman Belasco, which documents some of his twenty year career with NASA from 1963 to 1983, including correspondence, certificates, awards, diplomas, news clips, patents, and photographs. The collection also includes ten photographs from Phyllis's time as an instructor at I. Weiner Secondary School in Houston, including a panoramic photograph of a group of students on a trip to Washington...
Dates:
1954 - 2005
Rice University Boniuk Institute records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0380
Overview
The records document the Boniuk Institute from its founding in 2004 as the Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Reglious Tolerance to the current Boniuk Institute in 2019.
Dates:
1995 - 2019
Robert M. Beren Academy records
Collection
Identifier: MS 0821
Overview
This collection consists of one box containing invitations, journals, parent handbooks, marketing pamphlets, news clippings, newsletters, photographs and negatives, a scrapbook and yearbook, and meeting materials that include minutes, correspondence, and budget information which documents part of the history of the Robert M. Beren Academy from 1969 to 2010 and two class photos of unknown origin from 1960.
Dates:
1960 - 2010
Schlanger Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0863
Overview
This collection is made up of one box containing correspondence, photographs, news clippings, certificates, newsletters, and programs from the Schlanger Family, spanning from 1937-1985.
Dates:
1937 - 1985
Schwartz/Stein Family [Schulenburg] papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0858
Overview
The collection contains correspondence, photographs, news clippings, citizenship paperwork, a confirmation certificate, a book on the history of Temple Israel, guides to Jewish cemeteries in the area, and an oral history interview with Paula Schwartz Stein which document part of the lives of members of the Schwartz and Stein families within the Schulenburg Jewish community and events at Temple Israel from 1925-2020.
Dates:
1925 - 2020
Shearith Israel Congregation collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 738
Overview
The collection contains six boxes of correspondence, event materials (including programs, correspondence, and memorabilia), newsletters, bulletins, news clippings, books, photographs, financial documents, sermons, and video and audio material of events that document the history of Shearith Israel Congregation in Wharton, Texas, from 1921 to 2002.
Dates:
1921 - 2002