Oral histories
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
American Institute of Architects Houston (AIA Houston) oral history interview collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 603
Overview
The collection consists of tape recorded interviews with nine people who were closely familiar with the architectural work of William Ward Watkin. The recordings are in digital mp3 format and on original microcassettes, including the recording equipment with which they were made. No transcripts currently exist for this material. (1 box and digital files)
Dates:
1980-1985
Aubrey and Sylvia Farb Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 741
Overview
This collection contains a small number of programs, certificates, booklets, an oral history recording and transcript, and correspondence regarding imminent Jewish Associations in Houston and Aubrey Farb's personal papers from 1938 to 2018.
Dates:
1938 - 2018
Ayers family plantation history collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 635
Overview
This collection includes biographical information about individuals in the Ayers, Brown, McCarty, Martin, Diller, Boettner, Crump, Raynor, Ball, Freytag, and Bergeson, and families, among others. The bulk of the collection involves the life and careers of this kinship network, and their commerce, ministries, and artistic work product, and events ranging from the mid 19th century to the mid 20th century. Some documentary history of the Jitney Jungle grocery chain is included.
Dates:
1850 - 2015
Builders: Herman and George R. Brown Book Research Files
Collection
Identifier: MS 464
Overview
Correspondence, oral histories, notes, newsclippings, reports, published materials, photographs and ephemera in this collection document the family and business lives of Houston entrepreneurs Herman and George R. Brown, providing the basis for author Christopher Castaneda and Joseph Pratt's book, Builders : Herman and George R. Brown
Dates:
1898 - 1989
CERCL (Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning) records
Collection
Identifier: UA 258
Overview
The collection consists of documentation of CERCL activities, such as submissions to a high school essay contest, event flyers, two oral history interviews, and extensive coverage of Hip-Hop relatved classes and events.
Dates:
2009 - 2022
Congregation Beth Am (Or Ami) Records
Collection
Identifier: MS 733
Overview
The collection consists of one box of correspondence, event materials, news clippings, newsletters, and institutional records such as, committee meeting minutes, speeches, and fundraising materials from Congregation Beth Am between 1978 and 2022 and an oral history with Rabbi Gideon Estes in 2020.
Dates:
1978 - 2022
David F. Chapman construction records
Collection
Identifier: MS 563
Overview
This collection houses the interviews and biographical sketch of David F. Chapman, a 1953 graduate of Rice University in architecture. Background of major projects, the companies Mr. Chapman worked for and lead, and interview/newsclippings with Mr. Chapman and company literature/marketing.
Dates:
1945-2010
David Westheimer Oral History interview
Collection
Identifier: MS 665
Overview
This collection contains ten Compact Discs and thirty-two cassette tapes of Professor Philip Napoli's interview with David Westheimer. The interviews were conducted over a two-day span in June of 2002.
Dates:
2002-06-27 - 2002-06-28
Dr. William H. Masterson Controversy records
Collection
Identifier: UA 068
Overview
Oral history interviews (tapes, cd's, transcripts), news releases, photographs, color slides, publications, campus directories, student papers relating to the five-day controversy which arose on the campus of Rice University in February 1969 following the appointment of Dr. William H. Masterson by the Board of Trustees as the university’s new President to succeed Kenneth Pitzer, who had resigned in August 1968.
Dates:
bulk 1969
Edward W. Kelley, Jr. Federal Reserve papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 492
Overview
Meeting notes, agendas, transcripts and reports mainly related to E.W. Kelley's work on Federal Open Market Committee as Governor for the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.
Dates:
1986-2010