Politics and government
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Part of TARO subject browse terms
Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:
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
The Discussion Group, Houston, TX, scrapbook and records
Collection
Identifier: MS 0507
Overview
This collection contains a scrapbook that includes the history, lists of members, programs, photographs, and clippings from the Houston, TX Discussion Group. The scrapbook catalogues the club's list of members from 1947-1994. The chronologically arranged folders in box 2 includes annual communications, program information and rosters, 1990-2022.
Dates:
1947 - 2022
The Kinder Institute for Urban Research records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0414
Overview
These records consist of materials related to the administration of The Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Dates:
2018-03
U.S. Civil War National Cemetery letters
Collection
Identifier: MS 0264
Abstract:
This collection consists of twenty-one letters from various U.S. Civil War military departments to other U.S. military departments, regarding various aspects relating to national cemeteries. These aspects include: the location, construction and inspection of national cemeteries, requests for materials and proposed costs, and reports of appointments and comments of national cemetery superintendents.
Dates:
1867 - 1891
Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation oral history interview collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0647
Overview
This is a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation, featuring audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Vietnamese Americans living in and near Houston, Texas. These interviews are online at https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/79696.
Dates:
2011
Walter Gardner Hall papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0280
Overview
Correspondence, memos, oral history interviews, political pamphlets, broadsides, and clippings, relating to Hall's involvement with the Texas and national Democratic parties and soil and water conservation and improvement. Correspondents include Minnie Fisher Cunningham, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, Sam Rayburn, Jim Wright, and Ralph Yarborough.
Dates:
1923 - 1990
William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MS 0293
Abstract:
The scrapbook contains a series of newspaper clippings pasted in and over pages of a day-book kept by Myron Downes. Most of the clippings deal with the career of prohibitionist William “Pussyfoot” Johnson.
Dates:
1905 - 1916
William H. Nelson "The American Tory" typescript
Collection
Identifier: MS 0350
Abstract:
This collection consists of a bound typescript of the book "The American Tory", which is the study of the Loyalists (or “Tories”) of the American Revolution.
Dates:
1960
William Harris Crawford letters
Collection
Identifier: MS 0053
Abstract:
Correspondence from William Harris Crawford, a lawyer, legislator, diplomat, and statesman.
Dates:
1817 - 1825
William Lockhart Clayton papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0007
Overview
Original personal material and photocopied professional materials relating to economist and foreign policy expert Will Clayton and family, dating from 1897-1998. In addition to serving the U.S. government in a number of capacities, Clayton was in cotton business, and a co-founder of Anderson, Clayton and Company, based in Houston, Texas.
Dates:
1897-1998, Bulk dates 1934-1964; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1964