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27. Texas and local history

 Record Group
Identifier: 27
Archival collections documenting Texas and Local Houston-area history.

Found in 313 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph Lomax collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0660
Abstract

This collection contains original writings, correspondence, photographs, and audio that document the work and life of Joseph Lomax.

Dates: 1950 - 1996

Sweetheart of Texas Concert Hall and Saloon poster collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0662
Abstract

This collection mainly contains posters from the Sweetheart of Texas Concert Hall and Saloon.

Dates: 1974 - 1975

"The Little Ol' Show That Comes on After Monty Python" collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0663
Abstract

This collection contains digitized video, correspondence, and a master list of performers including performance dates.

Dates: 1975-1980s

Houston Area Community Services, Inc. records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0670
Abstract The Houston Area Community Services records document the merged efforts of Bering Memorial United Methodist Church and Omega House to serve indigent and underserved patients of HIV/AIDS who could no longer be helped by the traditional medical community. The records are a comprehensive, but not all-inclusive, accounting for the functions of the administrative, financial, committee, business- and service-oriented areas for HACS primarily for the period 1998-2014 as overseen by President Ann...
Dates: 1986 - 2014

Meyerland Plaza development photographs and newsclippings collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0115
Abstract

This collections consists of photographic views of construction of Meyerland Plaza, and of its tenant businesses. Included also is a series of press clippings detailing the court conflict between a group headed by T.A. Robinson and another by Harris McAshan and Associates to charter a single bank in Meyerland Plaza.

Dates: 1950 - 1984

Richard G. Park, Jr. scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0673
Abstract

The scrapbook contains a photographic record of the deployment of Major Park’s unit, the 7th Infantry Division, to Texas and the Mexican border.

Dates: 1915 - 1917

Vince Bell collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0674
Abstract

This collection contains news clippings, fliers, journals, photographs, business records, audio, and other items chronicling the musical history of Vince Bell.

Dates: 1960s-2016

Linda Lowe and Writers in the Round Concert Series collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0675
Abstract

This collection includes materials related to the career of Linda Lowe, as well as her organization Writers in the Round.

Dates: 1964 - 2023

Danny McVey collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0676
Abstract

This collections consists of news clippings, audio, and photographs documenting bands that Danny McVey worked with in Houston.

Dates: 1980 - 2002

The Jester Lounge collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0677
Abstract

This collection includes audio and an oral history.

Dates: 1963; 2016