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Banks and banking

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Andrew Forest Muir papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0017
Abstract: This material includes correspondence, research and genealogical notes which reflect the interests of historian and Rice University professor Andrew Forest Muir. They relate to 19th century Texas and Houston history; free African Americans in Texas pre-Civil War; the life and death of William Marsh Rice; the growth of the Catholic, Anglican, and Episcopal Churches in the 19th century via missionary work in Texas and Hawaii; and Hawaiian history, specifically clergymen in Hawaii. These...
Dates: ca. 1916-1969

Charles P. Leverich business letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0222
Abstract

The Leverich letters recount the trading and financial conditions in the New Orleans branch of the family owned business controlled by William S. and J.H. Leverich. The letters give information on the cotton trade, shipping, insurance, banking, and the character and standing of various merchants.

Dates: 1833 - 1851; Majority of material found within 1836 - 1843

Dillingham Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0257
Abstract

The Dillingham Family Papers, consisting of approximately 900 items or 1.25 linear feet, follows the history of a prominent Texas family from 1858 to 1958. Correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, photographs, journals, poetry, and newspaper clippings show the life style of a family who moved into Texas during the prosperous era of the late nineteenth century and played an important role in developing both the social and economic framework of Houston.

Dates: 1858 - 1958

River Oaks Bank collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0761
Abstract

Certificates, correspondence, event documents, financial records, marketing/public relations materials, newsletters, news clips, and photographs document the history of the River Oaks Bank from 1955-1988.

Dates: 1955 - 1988

William Allen Haynes papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0268
Abstract:

Over one half of the collection documents cattle ranching, oil prospecting, and banking in Texas, as well as personal and family life during the Great Depression. The William Allen Haynes collection offers a view of living conditions of a prosperous Central Texas rancher and entrepreneur as well as providing information on conditions in Texas in the first part of the 19th century.

Dates: 1901 - 1953