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Hugh R. McKean Rice Institute memoir

Collection

Identifier: MS 0379

Overview This collection contains the autobiographical memoir of Hugh R. McKean, Rice Alumnus, class of 1922. The memoirs cover the early 20th century (through 1922) and for the most part describe the life of a farmer’s family in South Texas. A fair amount of the memoirs concern his years as a student, letterman, and Hohenthal Award winner at the Rice Institute. In addition, the memoirs provide McKean’s observations about events in Houston during the WWI era.

Dates: 1918 - 1922

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

John Campbell personal papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0329

Scope and Contents The John Campbell papers comprise two Hollinger boxes of documents and one of letters.The box containing letters is divided into four categories: (1) letters from Anson Jones to John Campbell, 1845-1850; (2) letters either to or from James Campbell, 1833-1863; (3) a folder containing letters exchanged within the Campbell family, 1832-1906; and (4) three folders containing letters either to or from John Campbell, written to or received from correspondents outside the family circle,...

Dates: 1820 - 1906

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Leland Anderson family papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0916

Overview The collection has a majority of photographs, newspaper articles, letters, and portraits.

Dates: 1880 - 2010

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Morrison Gunn family letters

Collection

Identifier: MS 0151

Abstract: Photocopies of 49 letters to Morrison Gunn from members of his family and various friends. For the most part they are personal, but also include information on the conditions faced by immigrant farmers and the problems of establishing a home.

Dates: 1844 - 1869

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

O. M. Slosson Diary and Farm Ledger

Collection

Identifier: MS 0223

Overview Diary and farm ledger kept by O. M. Slosson, a farmer in upstate New York (Pompey, Onondago County), reflecting the life of a Northern farmer just before the Civil War; he describes daily chores, agricultural problems, livestock, church attendance and themes of Sunday sermons, deaths and other local events, social activities, weather, personal finances (including loans, debts, and purchases), and letters received, with reminders to himself noted in the margins. He also makes reference to his...

Dates: 1858 - 1860

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Osterhout Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0355

Overview Correspondence, drawings, maps, scrapbooks, pamphlets, newspapers, and other papers, of John Patterson Osterhout (1826-1903), relating to his early life in Pennsylvania, early impressions of Texas, work as a judge, service in the Confederate Army, and leader of the Republican Party in Texas, and of his son, Paul Osterhout (1859-1944), relating to his studies at Baylor University and University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Medicine, activities fighting yellow fever during the digging of the Panama...

Dates: 1836 - 1941; Majority of material found within

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Reginald Moore Sugar Land Convict Leasing System research collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 0636

Content Description Correspondence, reports, research notes, and photographs created and/or maintained by Mr. Reginald Moore, relating to the history of the Convict Leasing System in Sugar Land, Texas and current efforts to publicly recognize that history. The reports included in this collection are in some cases publicly available, but are difficult to access. Correspondence includes letters and emails between Mr. Moore and various public officials and other interested parties such as archaeologist Fred McGhee.

Dates: 1878-2018

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Spears Dairy Business records

Collection

Identifier: MS 0541

Abstract: Business ledgers of the Spears Dairy and its various plants and stores in Texas.

Dates: 1928-1948

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Sugar Land and Fort Bend historical papers of Jane McMeans

Collection

Identifier: MS 0032

Abstract: Original letters, pamphlets, tabloids, printed materials, books, videos, maps, and photographs documenting the Texas city of Sugar Land during the 19th century and 20th century, including the creation and development of the Imperial Sugar company.

Dates: 1826 - 2007, and undated

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Walter W. and Ella F. Fondren Papers, 1838-1973

Collection

Identifier: MS 0390

Overview The Fondren Papers provide a record of the Fondren family's acquisition and dispersal of money in Houston and across Texas during the first three-quarters of this century and offers additional information on the financial workings of several well-known institutions and corporations. Formats include correspondence and financial documents.

Dates: 1838-1973

Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

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Hugh R. McKean Rice Institute memoir

John Campbell personal papers

Leland Anderson family papers

Morrison Gunn family letters

O. M. Slosson Diary and Farm Ledger

Osterhout Family Papers

Reginald Moore Sugar Land Convict Leasing System research collection

Spears Dairy Business records

Sugar Land and Fort Bend historical papers of Jane McMeans

Walter W. and Ella F. Fondren Papers, 1838-1973

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