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Abolición de la esclavitud / Abolition of Slavery in Mexico broadside

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1025
Overview This collection contains a broadside distributed across the Republic of Mexico by the Mexican Congress in 1837, decreeing the abolition without exception of all slavery in all of the Republic.
Dates: 1837-04-05
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Americas collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0518
Abstract: Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the 19th century and early 20th century political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal.
Dates: 1811-1920
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Charlotte and Maximilian Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0356
Overview Original letters from Charlotte of Belgium, chiefly as Carlota, Empress of Mexico; papers of Felix Eloin, Maximilian’s chef du cainet civil; photographs, engravings, and drawings of Charlotte, of Mexico City, and of members of the Mexican military. Mexican sheet music from 1859-1908 and newsclippings also reflect the colection' s main subjects of political and military matters in Mexico during the reign of Emperor Maxilimilian, the role of Juan Benitez and other political figures of the time,...
Dates: 1846 - 1927
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Francisco Frejes’ "Ensayo Sobre La Reduccion Y Colonizacion De Las Tribas Barbaras Del Continente"

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0042
Abstract: The complete unpublished manuscript containing an account of the Church's activities in 16th century Mexico in relation to the indigenous population.
Dates: 1820 - 1840
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Gilbert Morris Cuthbertson Collection of Rare Books and Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: UA 426
Content Description This donation from the estate of Rice University Prof. Gilbert Cuthbertson contains circa 10,000 books / bound volumes; circa 2,000 photographs; circa 15 audiorecordings; circa 41 cartons of manuscript materials. Subject areas include Texas and Central American history, Rice University history, political science, and more.
Dates: 1500 - 2019
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Hugh Harleston paper "Did Teotihuacan's Designers have a knowledge of spherical trigonometry?"

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0330
Abstract: A paper titled "Did Teotihuacan's Designers have a knowledge of spherical trigonometry?" by Hugh Harleston, Jr., including illustrations and appendices.
Dates: 1980
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

James M. Reding letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0107
Abstract: A letter written during the Civil War in December 1863 by James M. Reding, a Confederate soldier, to his sister concerning recent action near his army camp, including capture of a Union boat in Matagorda Bay, Texas, and the arrival of a Confederate boat loaded with arms; he also advises against his brother Bob’s enlistment in the army before reaching eighteen years of age.
Dates: 1863
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Richard G. Park, Jr. scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0673
Overview 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
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Texas Mexico Border Campaign at Camp Stewart photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0085
Overview The collection consists of photographs of Camp Stewart at El Paso, Texas, and the infantry- and cavalry-men stationed there in 1916 for the Pershing Expedition in pursuit of Pancho Villa. There are two large framed panoramic views of the camp layout and a scrapbook of 148 mostly sepia snapshots.
Dates: 1916 - 1917
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

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