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Engraved prints of Caprarola and Odense
This collection consists of 2 hand colored engraved prints. These appear to date from 1598 and 1700 but are mounted on acidic board and cannot be fully examined. The prints include bird's-eye views of Italian villa of Caprarola and Danish capital of Odense.
Farfel Family Papers
The collection consists of twenty four boxes containing correspondence, photographs, awards, news clippings, University of Houston Board of Regents records, contracts, financial documents and business records ranging from the 1920s to the 1980s.
Feld Family Papers
Scrapbooks and photographs document the activities of members of the Feld family, primarily Mose and Fannie Feld, from 1937 to 2006. One scrapbook focuses on the work of M.M. and Boys Harbor in La Porte, Texas. This collection would be of interest to anyone seeking information about the history Jewish business owners, the Jewish Community Council (today the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston), and Boys Harbor (boy's home).
Gertrude Estelle Denn papers
News clippings, newsletters, programs, photographs, published materials, and correspondence document the life and interests of Gertrude Denn from 1937 to 2023.
Great Britain Admiralty account book
The account book includes individual wages for officers and crews; allowances for victuals; prices of provisions to be paid to and by the Purser; various allowances and expense lists; lists of French, Dutch and Algiers fleets, including ship names and guns; as well as lists of the major Royal Navy commands, the red, white, and blue squadrons, with ships assigned to each, their commanders, guns, and names of flag officers commanding.
Greek Committee Letters
The correspondence includes letters and post cards from noted liberals of the period in Great Britain. Most are written to the Secretary of the Committee, Lewis Sergeant.
Grounding of the S.S. Schroon papers
The papers include investigative reports, correspondence, and ship and crew information in relation to the grounding of the S.S. Schroon while helping the S.S. West Hematite. The S.S. Schroon was an American sea-going vessel invovled in cargo transport.
Houston Hadassah collection
This collection consists of twenty-seven boxes containing administrative materials, awards and certificates, bulletins, correspondence, directories, event materials, news clippings, photographs, radio and television materials, scrapbooks, and yearbooks from Houston Hadassah, spanning 1934-2022.
Houston Post Photograph Collection
Photographs used in the Houston Post and/or taken by Post photographers document activities within the Houston Jewish community between the 1950s and 1990s.
Ileene Rosenfield Robinson Papers
Materials documenting the history of the Meyers, Robinson, Rosenfield, Bishkin, and Bass families of El Campo and Wharton, Texas. Includes family records and family histories as well as collected materials on the histories of El Campo and Congregation Shearith Israel in Wharton.
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- Correspondence 11
- Jewish Families 9
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- Records (documents) 6
- Social life and customs 5
- Jewish Organizations and Businesses 4
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- Synagogues 4
- Texas--Houston 4
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- United States 3
- World War (1939-1945) 3
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- Albums (Books) 2
- American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) 2
- Authors 2
- Enslavement 2
- Great Britain 2
- Legal instruments 2
- Periodicals 2
- Rice University 2
- Shipping 2
- Video recordings 2
- War 2
- Women 2
- World War (1914-1918) 2
- calendars 2
- diaries 2
- newspapers 2
- pamphlets 2
- sermons 2
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- Antislavery movements 1
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- Asian Americans 1
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