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27. Texas and local history

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

Found in 298 Collections and/or Records:

"Boys From Houston" research files

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0686
Abstract

These research files contain the newspaper clippings, ephemera, and photographs used by Vicki Welch Ayo and William C. DeLaVergne.

Dates: 1963 - 1989

Lucille Borella collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0692
Abstract

This collection consists of news clippings, photographs, and 2-track audio reels.

Dates: 1967 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1967 - 1977

David Rodriguez collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0696
Abstract

This collection consists of business records, lyrics, news clippings, photographs, audio, video, and digital files documenting the career of David Rodriguez.

Dates: 1968 - 2015

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

World War I Ellington Field Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0698
Abstract Scrapbook contains images of aviation training at Ellington Field, a bombing and gunnery school located about 15 miles from Houston. The photographs show a wide range of camp life and training. They include individual officers in uniforms with a variety of aviation insignia, individuals in leather flight jackets and helmets, Curtis Jenny airplanes on the ground and in flight, pilots flying aircraft, and many bird's-eye views of the field and the surrounding area, particularly of Houston....
Dates: 1918

City of Bellaire [TX] historical records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0703
Abstract

The City of Bellaire [TX] historical records contains reports, documents, meeting minutes, correspondence, publications, audio-visual materials related to municipal issues such as planning and zoning, economic development, elections, and parking.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1949 - 2017

Shadyside residential collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0704
Abstract

The materials cover the founding of Shadyside, its deeds restirctions, trustees' reports, legal matters and correspondence.

Dates: 1919 - 1984

Lynn Langham collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0707
Abstract

This collection consists of digital images and hard copies of lyrics, news clippings, photographs, and other materials.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1975 - 1981; 2017

Franci Jarrard collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0708
Abstract

This collection consists of digital audio files and images.

Dates: 1977 - 1980; 2004 - 2017

David John Scribner collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0709
Abstract

This collection consists mainly of audio and other items collected by David John Scribner.

Dates: 1969 - 2017