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:
Ninfa Rodriguez Laurenzo Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2008-008
Dates:
1971-2004
Scope and Contents
Ninfa’s Papers include business plans, business, personal, and political correspondence, photographs, magazine and newspaper clippings press coverage, proof of public service deeds, scrapbooks, artifacts (buttons and stamps, memorabilia, menus, plaques), and framed enlarged picture and media items and roughly cover the years from 1971 to 2001.
Scenic Houston - Scenic Texas Records
Collection
Identifier: 2008-010
Found in:
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
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Scenic Houston - Scenic Texas Records
Dates:
1963-2008
Scope and Contents
Scenic Houston is a chapter of Scenic Texas, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that focuses on promoting policies and actions that enhance the beauty and appeal of our streetscapes and roadways. Scenic Houston works to reduce existing billboard blight, prevent new billboard construction, foster attractive on-premises signage, incorporate context-sensitive design in the planning of highways and other public projects, and protect the natural beauty and distinctive character of our...
Tenneco Energy History Records
Collection
Identifier: 2016-005
Dates:
1946-2014; Majority of material found within 1974-1988
Scope and Contents
Records in this collection of Tenneco history include three major areas of interest. One group consists of management and planning records created by executives of Tenneco. The second group reflects a joint effort to write the history of Tenneco, Built from Scratch. Draft manuscripts, publication costs, and a Tenneco management reunion reflect the concerted effort to document the company’s history. A third group contains in-house publications reflecting Tenneco’s business accomplishments...
Collection of Texas Well Log Service Driller Logs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-022
Found in:
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
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Collection of Texas Well Log Service Driller Logs
Dates:
1917-1965
Scope and Contents
Martin Schulz managed then purchased the Texas Well Log Service during the early 1920s. He developed well logs from required Texas Railroad Commission filings and then sold the resulting compilation as a “log report.” His customers were major oil exploration companies as well as small independents.The Texas Well Log Service Driller Log Collection contains an estimated 450,000 pages of well log driller reports in 129 boxes. The reports are organized alphabetically by and within...
This is Our Home, It Is Not For Sale Film Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2010-020
Found in:
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
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This is Our Home, It Is Not For Sale Film Collection
Dates:
1925-2011; Majority of material found within 1985-1988
Scope and Contents
The This is Our Home, It Is Not for Sale Film Collection contains records covering the full scope of the production of a documentary film. Records cover fundraising activities, releases and contracts, insurance, research materials, production notes and logs, film screenings and festivals, photographs, and posters. The documentary film is available for viewing on DVD in UH Libraries Special Collections and for purchase at ...
Tinsley Texas Medical Center History Manuscript
Collection
Identifier: 2013-007
Found in:
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
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Tinsley Texas Medical Center History Manuscript
Dates:
1941-1980
Scope and Contents
"The Texas Medical Center: A History of the Founding Years, 1941-1980" is an unpublished photocopied typescript (232 pages) consisting of a preface, nine chapters, and a bibliography. In this manuscript, completed sometime during 1982-1983, Tinsley connects the role of local philanthropy, development of federal funding priorities, and the national escalation of focus on cancer research to explain the unique growth and renown of the Texas Medical Center. The manuscript covers...
Teresa Tomkins-Walsh Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2022-001
Dates:
20th century
Scope and Contents
Materials including oral history interviews, photographs, and collected documentation on Houston history.
World Affairs Council (Gulf Coast/Houston) Records
Collection
Identifier: 2010-015
Found in:
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
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World Affairs Council (Gulf Coast/Houston) Records
Dates:
1976-1998
Scope and Contents
Collection includes records relating to the formation and development of the Gulf Coast Council on Foreign Affairs and its successor organizations, the Gulf Coast World Affairs Council, and the Houston World Affairs Council. Documents reveal the administrative processes by which the organizations were governed and the various programs and events sponsored by the organizations. Such events include an array of invited speakers, some of considerable note, and trips to various countries,...
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- Correspondence 14
- Houston Region (Tex.) -- Environmental conditions 14
- Photographs 13
- Minutes (administrative records) 9
- Financial records 7
- 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 ∧ less
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