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Archives and Finding Aids

Houston History Archives

 Organization

Historical Note

The Houston History Archives were an initiative of the University of Houston Center for Public History's Welcome Wilson Houston History Collaborative, along with Houston History magazine, the UH Memories Project, and the UH Oral History of Houston. The Houston History Archives partnered with the Special Collections department of the University of Houston Libraries to collect, process, preserve, and make available for research and teaching primary sources on energy management and development, environment, Houston's ethnic diversity, and a collection of oral histories from the Center for Public History that continues to grow.

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

Houston Electric Auto Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-047
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Houston Electric Auto Association Records
Dates: 1973-2011; Majority of material found within 1995-2006
Scope and Contents This collection includes the organization's correspondence with the government and members' correspondence amongst themselves, as well as announcements of meetings and different events that they held occasionally. It also includes electric battery review booklets plus articles showing the organization and members' various achievements. Included are photographs of various occasions hosted or attended by the Houston Electric Auto Association members, brochures showing different...

Houston History Alliance Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2021-009
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Houston History Alliance Records
Dates: approximately 2005-2021
Scope and Contents

Organizational records of the Houston History Alliance nonprofit that collaborated with history-oriented organizations across the Greater Houston Metropolitan Region to document, preserve, and present on the areas history.

The Houston History Association Records are currently unprocessed, but are accessible for research in the University of Houston Libraries Special Collections reading room. Please contact Special Collections for access.

Houston Tomorrow Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-022
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Houston Tomorrow Records
Dates: undetermined
Scope and Contents

This collection does not currently have a finding aid available online. For assistance, please contact the curator.

Keep Houston Beautiful Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-007
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Keep Houston Beautiful Records
Dates: 1977-2012; Majority of material found within 2000-2008
Scope and Contents This collection includes award applications Keep Houston Beautiful has made to win monetary awards from Keep America Beautiful and Keep Texas Beautiful. It also includes awards Keep Houston Beautiful has won and awards that Keep Houston Beautiful has nominated community partners for. Included are administrative records, community initiatives of Keep Houston Beautiful, and various Keep Houston Beautiful events. This collection also includes photographs, press coverage, training materials, and...

John Henry Kirby Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-008
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / John Henry Kirby Papers
Dates: 1884-1944
Scope and Contents The majority of this manuscript collection consists of general and business correspondence concerning John Henry Kirby and his various business interests in southeast Texas. The manuscripts include holograph and typewritten letters, telegrams and postcards. Legal and land documents include deeds and abstracts, and business documents include checks and vouchers.In 1965 the collection was deposited in the archives of the Texas Gulf Coast Historical Association, at that time housed...

Ben Love Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-003
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Ben Love Research Collection
Dates: 1954-2005; Majority of material found within 1980-2003
Scope and Contents The collection contains seven series: Oral History; Love's Writings; Banks: TCB and Chemical New York; Research Files; Pre-TCB; Memorabilia; and Videotapes. Original order has been maintained as much as possible, and the collection is for the most part in the same arrangement as when it entered the archives.Accession 1Accession 1 (2007) of the collection mainly contains material relating to the writing and publication in 2005 of Ben Love: My Life in Texas Commerce, by...

Dee Maner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-027
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Dee Maner Papers
Dates: approximately 1980s-2010s
Content Description

Documentation of the environmental activism of Houston community leader Dee Maner.

Brandt Mannchen Environmental Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-009
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Brandt Mannchen Environmental Papers
Dates: 20th-21st cent.
Scope and Contents

This collection does not currently have a finding aid available online. For assistance, please contact the curator.

David Marrack Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-021
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / David Marrack Papers
Dates: 1971-2005
Scope and Contents

This collection does not currently have a finding aid available online. For assistance, please contact the curator.

Lasker M. Meyer Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2022-025
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Lasker M. Meyer Papers
Dates: approximately 1980s
Content Description

Speeches, correspondence, scrapbook, and other materials documenting the career of Lasker M. Meyer of Meyer Bros., Foley's, and Federated department stores.

Miscellaneous Houston History Association Collections

 Collection
Identifier: 2020-025
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Miscellaneous Houston History Association Collections
Dates: 1982-
Scope and Contents

This assembled collection contains files and items collected as part of the Houston History Archives project in Special Collections.

Oral Histories Collection from the Houston History Project - Supplemental Research Materials

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-005a
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Oral Histories Collection from the Houston History Project - Supplemental Research Materials
Dates: 1972-2004
Scope and Contents

This collection is closed and does not currently have a full finding aid available online. For assistance, please contact the curator.

Oral Histories Collection from the Houston History Project

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-005
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Oral Histories Collection from the Houston History Project
Dates: 1996-2017
Scope and Contents When UH’s Center for Public History and the University Libraries collaborated to create the Houston History Archives (UH-HHA), part of their mission included a repository for oral histories that tell stories of the growth and development of the Gulf Coast region from multiple points of view. To that end, the Houston Oral History Project in the Center for Public History trains history graduate students to research and interview Houstonians with recollections of the city’s civil rights,...

Outdoor Nature Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-023
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / Outdoor Nature Club Records
Dates: 1923-2007
Scope and Contents

Forms part of Houston History Archives. Primarily organizational records including meeting minutes, newsletters, scrapbooks, photographs, annual reports, and financial records. Outdoor Nature Club Records include approximately 20 linear feet of records including the materials for the study groups.

The Park People Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-004
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / The Park People Records
Dates: 1970-2009; Majority of material found within 1978-2005
Scope and Contents The Park People’s Records include standard organizational documents, including meeting minutes, personnel management, and financial records, plus city planning proposals and reports covering thirty years. Records include grant applications for federal and state programs. They also include details about local programs such as Treescape, a collaborative effort among Trees for Houston, Scenic Houston, and City of Houston in a program to provide incentives and enforcement of the Tree and Shrub...

Additional filters:

Subject
Correspondence 14
Houston Region (Tex.) -- Environmental conditions 14
Photographs 13
Minutes (administrative records) 9
Financial records 7
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Nature conservation 5
Publications (documents) 5
Scrapbooks 5
Brochures 4
Land use -- Planning 4
Newsletters 4
Annual reports 3
Business 3
Bylaws (administrative records) 3
Interviews 3
Leaflets (printed works) 3
Maps (documents) 3
Newspapers 3
Reports 3
Speeches (documents) 3
Advertisements 2
African Americans -- Segregation -- Texas -- Houston 2
Agendas (administrative records) 2
Articles 2
Audiotapes 2
City planning -- Texas -- Houston 2
Compact discs 2
Houston (Tex.) 2
Houston (Tex.) -- History 2
Legal documents 2
Petroleum industry and trade -- Texas 2
Posters 2
Records (documents) 2
Urban beautification 2
Wilderness areas 2
Administrative records 1
African American neighborhoods 1
African Americans -- Social Conditions 1
Anderson, Monroe D. (Monroe Dunaway), 1873-1939 1
Arts 1
Audiovisual materials 1
Banks and banking -- Texas -- Houston 1
Battery charging stations (Electric vehicles) 1
Billboards 1
Business cards 1
Cancer -- Research 1
Clayton, Will, 1880-1966 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Contracts 1
Cotton 1
Deeds 1
Demographic transition -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th century 1
Electric vehicles 1
Ephemera 1
Fliers (printed matter) 1
Floodplain management 1
Freedmens Town Historic District (Houston, Tex.) 1
Greater Houston Preservation Alliance 1
Historic buildings -- Texas 1
Historic preservation--Texas 1
Hospitals -- Texas -- Houston -- History 1
Housing authorities 1
Housing--Texas--Houston 1
Houston (Tex.) -- Politics and government 1
Houston (Tex.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century 1
Houston (Tex.)--Economic conditions 1
Houston (Tex.)--Social conditions 1
Hydrogen as fuel 1
International relations 1
Inventories 1
Invitations 1
Jews -- Texas -- Houston -- Migrations -- 20th century 1
Litter (Trash) 1
Manuscripts (documents) 1
Medicine -- Research 1
Memorabilia 1
Mexican American women 1
Middle class African Americans -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th century 1
Migration, Internal -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th century 1
National Register of Historic Places 1
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States 1
Nonprofit organizations -- Texas -- Houston 1
Oil fields -- Texas 1
Ordinances, Municipal 1
Parks 1
Political participation 1
Public housing--Texas 1
Rivers 1
Riverside Terrace (Houston, Tex.) -- History -- 20th Century 1
Shadyside (Houston, Tex.) 1
Sound recordings 1
Sustainable development 1
Texas Historical Commission 1
Typescripts 1
United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development 1
University of Houston. College of Architecture 1
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center 1
Videotapes 1
Water quality 1
Wilderness area monitoring 1
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