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Records (documents)

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Scope Note: UF: Agendas; Business, Financial, Government, Military, and Tax records; Notes, Receipts

Found in 318 Collections and/or Records:

Oveta Culp Hobby papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0459
Abstract The Oveta Culp Hobby Papers detail the public life of Hobby, a Houston-based business, media, military, and political leader during the 1940s-1980s. Mrs. Hobby was the first secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first commanding officer of the Women's Army Corps, chairman of the board of the Houston Post, and wife to Texas Lt. Gov. and later Governor, William P. Hobby. This collection consists of correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, speeches, photographs,...
Dates: 1817 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1938 - 1985
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Owen Wister Literary Society (OWLS) Undergraduate and Alumnae records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0059
Abstract

The collection consists of scrapbooks, minute books, financial records, and other materials relating to the founding and operation of both the Owen Wister Literary Society (OWLS) undergraduate group and the alumnae group, 1927-2002. OWLS was founded in 1924.

Dates: 1927 - 2010
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Papers of Jefferson Davis documents and reference collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0638
Abstract This collection includes the wealth of documentation identified from across the United States and beyond and assembled for the purpose of the publication of the Papers of Jefferson Davis, a 14-volume set, funded by the NHPRC, and other activities and persons, beginning in the 1960s and running through 2015. Many of the speeches and letters published in the edition, either in full or summarized, are present in this collection as photocopies or on microfilm. Not every document featured in the...
Dates: 1815-2015, bulk 1850-1880; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1880
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Patrick James Nicholson research for Mr. Jim: The Biography of James Smither Abercrombie

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0391
Abstract

This collection is composed of research materials and manuscripts of Patrick J. Nicholson for his book Mr. Jim: The Biography of James Smither Abercrombie. Included are photocopies of various articles about J.S. Abercrombie, correspondence concerning Nicholson’s research, notes, and typed copies of the manuscript.

Dates: 1846 - 1982
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Paul Cooper papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0463
Abstract

Paul Cooper’s papers document his professional career as a composer, music critic, author and teacher, at Rice University, University of Michigan, and University of Cincinnati. Formats include correspondence, compositions (scores), course notes and outlines, photographs, notes, performance, programs, and sound recordings; dates range from 1943-1995.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1943-1995
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Paul Harcombe and Sandi Elsik Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0090
Abstract: The collection includes the archive from Paul Harcombe and Sandi Elsik’s ecological research in the Big Thicket National Preserve; academic and university affairs regarding Rice University and the Ecology and Environmental Biology Department, as well as student and faculty records; Paul Harcombe’s personal documents, including his correspondence and his personal notebooks; publications, including articles from the journals of Ecology and Ecological Monographs, the Ecological Society of...
Dates: 1969 - 2007
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Phi Beta Kappa Alumni of Greater Houston Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 0075
Abstract: General correspondence, notices, registers, news clippings, minutes, tax reports, financial statements, membership lists, and program and event information, ranging in date from 1969-2000 document the official business of the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association of Greater Houston. Subjects include the chapter's founding, general membership information such as member rosters, meeting and fundraising information, scholarship application forms, correspondence with high school counselors, and...
Dates: 1969 - 2000
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Phyllis Kaufman family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0840
Abstract This collection contains materials from a large scrapbook created, primarily, by Phyllis Kaufman's father, Norman Belasco, which documents some of his twenty year career with NASA from 1963 to 1983, including correspondence, certificates, awards, diplomas, news clips, patents, and photographs. The collection also includes ten photographs from Phyllis's time as an instructor at I. Weiner Secondary School in Houston, including a panoramic photograph of a group of students on a trip to...
Dates: 1954 - 2005
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Pimp C rap artist collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0651
Abstract

The Pimp C rap artist collection includes several documents and promotional items including handwritten lyrics and contracts to promotional flats for his group Underground Kingz (UGK).

Dates: 1987 - 2008
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Plumb Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1077
Abstract

This collection is made up of two boxes containing bulletins and programs, committee and board documents, correspondence, directories and yearbooks, financial records, publications, and writings from Steven Plumb ranging from 1968 to 2015.

Dates: 1968 - 2015
Found in: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas

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