Content Description This collection primarily documents Abbey Simon’s career as a concert pianist with a smaller amount of material related to his role as professor in the Moore’s School of Music at the University of Houston. Materials in the collection date from the late 1940s through approximately 2013, with a bulk of the materials from the 1960s-1990s. A bulk of the materials in the collection are programs from throughout his career, but the collection also includes correspondence, contracts, audio recordings...

Content Description This collection contains materials documenting Staley’s artistic production, including sketch books, exhibit catalogues and other exhibit documentation, clippings, and photographs. It also includes family photographs.

This collection is not yet fully processed but may be available for research. Please contact collection curator Christian Kelleher at cdkelleher@uh.edu for more information.

Content Description This collection documents Delia Stewarts career in dance and while it includes materials from the early 1950s through the early 1990s, a bulk of the materials document the Delia Stewart Dance Company, which operated in Houston in the 1980s. Materials in the collection include programs, photograms, news clipping, AV, and Stewarts high school yearbook.

Scope and Contents The Tatiana Semenova papers consist of seven boxes of personal material dating from 1933 to 1997. It documents Madame Semenova's early dancing career with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and her later teaching career in Baton Rouge and Houston. There are five series in this collection: Scrapbooks, Photographs, Personal, Programs, and Realia. The collection was received in no particular order. The processor has imposed the arrangement.

Scope and Contents This collection contains the final documentary and the audiovisual materials for the documentaryThird Ward TX, including tapes on Project Row Houses, their programs, and artists. Some of the tapes are originals but most of the tapes are clones. The collection also includes photographs, photo slides, publications, Project Row Houses publications, and news clippings.This collection is not yet fully processed. For questions about materials in this collection or to request access,...

Scope and Contents 10 linear feet of files and documents on: Artist Bookworks, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Clark Read Civil Rights Foundation, Martin Luther King Community Center, Houston Council on Human Relations, Art through the Years and Let Freedom Ring, Meetings/Committee Work/Minutes, Political and Community Organizations.

Scope and Contents The Nina Vance Alley Theatre Papers document Nina Vance's career developing and directing the Alley Theatre and also contains personal items from her life. The collection is divided into three series: Personal Papers, Correspondence, and Alley Theatre Papers. The collection includes correspondence, production materials, scripts, programs, sound recordings, clippings, speeches, scrapbooks, date books, and miscellaneous items such as receipts and ephemera.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 149 photographs, 99 Polaroids, and 50 black-and-white silver gelatin prints, created between 1975 and 1985. Some of the photos are formal portraits, others are candid shots, and a few are still lifes. The photographs include images of Warhol's friends such as Jon Gould, artists such as Jamie Wyeth, and celebrities such as Princess Caroline of Monaco. A few of the photographs are matted for presentation, but a majority of them are housed in sleeves in...

Scope and Contents The collection contains drama, dance, opera, and symphony programs from performances given in North America and Europe. The programs are arranged chronologically from 1947 to 2001 and are housed in sixty-three binders. Ticket stubs and review clippings are attached to most of the programs with a few bearing autographs.

Scope and Contents The David Ashley White Papers consist of 59 boxes of materials dating from 1944 to 2018 with the bulk of the collection dating from 1980-2016. The first donation to this collection occurred in 1991, which was processed in 1993. Dr. White has made numerous additions since then and future material is expected. This collection consists of published and manuscript scores, programs, correspondence, audio-visual materials, and other items relating to his career as both a composer and music...

Scope and Contents The papers of the Women in Visual and Literary Arts (WIVLA) consist of meeting minutes, fliers about events, and newsletters. All material dates from 1994 to 2011. The collection arrived in the archives in excellent order, arranged neatly into newsletters and meeting minutes, which were filed and arranged chronologically. The collection has been broken into five series: Administration, Publications, Events, Multimedia, and Various Materials.

Scope and Contents This collection is not yet fully processed. An inventory is available as an Excel spreadsheet. For more information or to request access, please contact curator Christian Kelleher at cdkelleher@uh.edu.