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Texas -- Houston

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 166 Collections and/or Records:

Meyerland Plaza development photographs and newsclippings collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0115
Abstract

This collections consists of photographic views of construction of Meyerland Plaza, and of its tenant businesses. Included also is a series of press clippings detailing the court conflict between a group headed by T.A. Robinson and another by Harris McAshan and Associates to charter a single bank in Meyerland Plaza.

Dates: 1950 - 1984

Mickey White collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0828
Abstract

This collection contains materials related to the music career of Mickey White and the Hemmer Ridge Mountain Boys.

Dates: 1971 - 2018

Montrose Singers/Gay Men's Chorus Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0616
Abstract

This collection consists of interview transcripts, audio files, program images, and historical documents compiled by JD Doyle. (1 Flash Drive)

Dates: 1979 - 2010

Moreau Forrest Letter to Mary Forrest

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0002
Abstract:

Written in 1837 from Houston, Forrest writes at length to his wife about Houston, and the illness of their son; discusses the possible outbreak of war with Mexico; talks of the Texas Congress meeting. This four-page letter gives an early look at life in the Republic of Texas.

Dates: 1837

Moses Austin Bryan letter to Col. W.W. Fontaine

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0316
Abstract:

This letter (10 January 1890) from Moses Austin Bryan letter to Col. W.W. Fontaine is in response to a series of questions concerning the revolutionary period in Texas history.

Dates: 1890-01-10

Naomi Carrier academic career and community activism collection materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0926
Abstract

This collection contains the teaching resources and writings of renowned teacher, researcher, playwright, and actress Naomi Carrier, whose advocacy for African-American voices in history has had a profound effect on educational representation in Texas.

Dates: 1936 - 2019

Neumann Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0241
Abstract

Chiefly letters to Louisa (Neumann) Bering, a resident of Houston, Tex., from her brothers and sisters, including letters from her brother, Emil Neumann, describing his service in the Confederate Army, stationed at Fort Eagle Grove (Fort Moore) and Galveston, Tex.; together with clippings and photos. Includes material relating to land in Texas, Bering family, and Little Rock, AR, during the Civil War.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1856 - 1886; 1850 - 1955

Niels Esperson Building photo album

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1030
Abstract

The collection consists of a photo album containing 45 black and white photos of the interior and exterior of the Niels Esperson Building in Houston, Texas, ca. 1927.

Dates: circa 1927

Olmstead Brothers landscaping in Houston records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0172
Abstract

This collection consists of correspondence, design documents, planting lists, and photographs that cover the history of the gardens designed for J. Robert Neal in Houston from the initial contact of the Olmsted firm to inquiries by the present owners of the property concerning restoration.

Dates: 1931 - 1939

Oswald Mueller manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0243
Abstract

This typewritten manuscript is titled "Seeking the Garden of the World". It is Oswald Mueller’s English translation of Fritz Scheffel’s Deutsche suchen den Garten der Welt. Mueller authors the preface, in which he describes the story as that of the failed German attempt to colonize Texas into a New-Germania.

Dates: 1948