Brown family
Family
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Builders: Herman and George R. Brown Book Research Files
Collection
Identifier: MS 0464
Abstract
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
Herman and Margarett Root Brown Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0697
Abstract
The collection consists of a range of keepsakes memorializing the lives of Herman and Margarett Root Brown and their family. The oldest in time are the high school senior class yearbook of Herman Brown and a framed loan document bearing his signature. There are many photographs, both formal portraits and small snapshots as well as intermediate size pictures. Among the people featured in addition to Herman, Margarett, and their children are the mother and sisters of Herman and George...
Dates:
1890 - 2016; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1965
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- Architecture 1
- Businessmen 1
- Calendars 1
- Clippings (books, newspapers, etc.) 1
- Coal slurry pipelines -- Design and construction 1
- Concrete construction 1
- Construction industry 1
- Dams -- Design and construction 1
- Diaries 1
- History 1
- Manuscripts 1
- Oil and gas 1
- Oil fields -- Equipment and supplies 1
- Oral histories 1
- Petroleum industry and trade 1
- Philanthropists 1
- Reports 1
- Roads -- Design and construction 1
- Sketchbooks 1
- Texas 1 + ∧ less
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