Otto Eisenlohr Rice Institute letters

Collection

Identifier: MS 0536

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Finding aid note: Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.

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Scope and Contents

Correspondence from Rice Institute student Otto Eisenlohr to his high school sweetheart and eventual wife, Gainor Roberts, regarding student life, academics and athletics at Rice Institute, and contemporary newsclippings and photographs.

Topics include Rice during the First World War, Houston from 1915-1921, science at Rice Institute, hazing of freshmen by upperclassmen, secret societies on campus, popular movies, dances, Rice football, basketball, and baseball, and ROTC activities during the first World War.

Dates

Creation: 1915-1921

Creator

Eisenlohr, Otto, -1988 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research.

Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish material from the Otto Eisenlohr papers must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library.

Biographical / Historical

Otto Eisenlohr (d. 1988) of Dallas, Texas, attended Rice Institute from 1915 to 1921, and graduated in 1921. Eisenlohr attended medical school and practiced medicine in Dallas. He married Gainor Roberts of Dallas in 1920, and after her death in 1938, married Nell Vaughn in 1942.

Extent

5 Linear Feet (10 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was a gift donated by Otto’s son John Eisenlohr in Dec. 2007. These letters were discovered by John Eisenlohr in the attic of his father's home at 1042 Lausanne, Dallas, Texas, in 2002, when the house was cleaned out before its sale.