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Women

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Part of TARO subject browse terms

Found in 104 Collections and/or Records:

Hattie Lel Red letters to Mr. Edward H. Phillips

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0073
Abstract:

The letters concern Ms. Hattie Lel Red's scholarship fund raising activities on behalf of Dr. Edward Phillips' history students at Austin College and his responses thereto. Her letters also cover her memories of her time at Rice and of her family, classmates and teachers, as well as comments concerning her travels in Texas and elsewhere.

Dates: 1970 - 1980

Helen Wong Hom World War II Chinese American scrapbook and printed materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0641
Abstract

This collection includes a scrapbook created by Helen Wong Hom during her time in San Antonio during World War II, associated with the FAB-100 officers and friends. Helen Wong Hom appears to have been associated with the first group of the U.S. Foreign Affairs Bureau's group of 100 Chinese officers who later became known as the FAB-100. Many of these officers served as interpreters, translators, and trained others in aviation and radio mechanics.

Dates: 1944 - 1947

Houston Book Clubs research materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0521
Abstract:

The Houston Book Clubs Research Materials consist of material from 1993-2007, including interviews, surveys, emails, reports, essays, lists, and correspondence between Elizabeth Long and members of the literary community. The files were compiled by Elizabeth Long during her study of the role of women's reading groups for her 2003 book "Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life" (University of Chicago Press).

Dates: 1993 - 2007

Houston Hadassah collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0775
Abstract

This collection consists of twenty-seven boxes containing administrative materials, awards and certificates, bulletins, correspondence, directories, event materials, news clippings, photographs, radio and television materials, scrapbooks, and yearbooks from Houston Hadassah, spanning 1934-2022.

Dates: 1934 - 2022

Importance of Women's Votes by Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, broadside

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0605
Abstract

Small broadside written by U.S. Representative Edith Nourse Rogers articulating an appeal to women voters to use their votes to "stabilize...this extraordinary era of experimental administration under which we have been living during the past four years."

Dates: ca. 1936

International Association of Administrative Professionals, Houston Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0207
Abstract

The collection contains administrative records of the Houston Chapter of the IAAP from its founding in 1948 through 2003. Committee reports, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and newsclippings pertain to the chapter's activities.

Dates: 1948 - 2003

Josephine Jue Chinese-American photographs collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0724
Abstract

Family photograph of Hinhun Jow, Mee Oy Jow, Josephine Jue, Mylew High, Vance Jow, Sonny Jow, and Houston Jow in 1947. Photograph of the Chinese Baptist Church of Houston charter members, circa 1985.

Dates: 1947 - 1986

Judge Clarease Yates papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0123
Abstract

The collection consists of certificates, diplomas, correspondence, and an album of large color photographs. Also included are several framed certificates of recognition and a proclamation honoring Judge Yates.

Dates: 1990 - 2005

Juliette Huxley papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0474
Abstract Correspondence forms the majority of this collection, ranging from 1897, with Julian Sorell Huxley (JSH) and his grandmother Henrietta exchanging letters, to 1994, shortly before the death of Lady Marie Juliette Huxley (MJH). The correspondence not only includes letters from Huxley family members and many twentieth-century intellectual, social, and cultural leaders, but it also provides extensive information about Juliette Huxley and her myriad activities. Also included in the collection is...
Dates: 1895-1994

Kathleen S. Matthews academic papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0149
Abstract

These records consist of the academic and Rice University-related work, correspondence, course materials, publications, and student work of Kathleen S. Matthews.

Dates: 1973 - 2020