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05. Houston & Texas History Research Collection

 Collecting Area
Identifier: 05

Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:

Allen Parkway Village Records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2008-019
Dates: 1983-1991
Scope and Contents

This collection does not currently have a finding aid available online. For assistance, please contact Special Collections by emailing velee@uh.edu.

Governor James V. Allred Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1967-001
Dates: 1921-1970
Scope and Contents The James V. Allred Collection consists of over 200 boxes of materials dating from 1853 to 1970, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1921 to 1959. The papers consist in large part of letters received by Allred, and of carbon copies of his replies. There are many copies of letters from other individuals as enclosures in letters addressed to Allred. In addition to the correspondence there are vast numbers of documents, drafts, reports, and other working papers relating to and reflecting...

William David Allred Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1969-002
Dates: 1966-1985
Abstract

Democratic representative of District 13 in the Texas State House of Representatives, 1966-1980. Collection includes correspondence, publications, notes, and other materials pertaining to a variety of individuals and subjects from across Allred's political career.

Anderson, Clayton, & Co. Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-005
Dates: 1894-2012; Majority of material found within 1914-1986
Scope and Contents

Records of Houston-based Anderson, Clayton, and Co. in this collection include financial documentation, correspondence, publications, and other media.

E. Virginia Barnett Postcards Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1978-001
Dates: 1900-1920
Scope and Contents

This collection contains eighty-eight vintage postcards collected by E. Virginia Barnett. The collection includes materials from Arkansas, California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia, Oregon, Washington, and Washington D.C. Some items are booklets containing several views of a particular event or locale. The collection is organized by state, and then further subdivided by city.

William A. Bernrieder Port of Houston Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1979-002
Dates: 1945-1979
Scope and Contents

This small collection deals entirely with the Port of Houston. It is comprised entirely of clippings and publications related to the history of the Port of Houston.

James H. Branard Jr. Port of Houston Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-025
Dates: 1936-1971
Scope and Contents

This collection does not currently have a full finding aid available online. For assistance, please contact Special Collections by emailing velee@uh.edu.

Lois Brockman Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2024-001
Dates: 1891-2002; Majority of material found within approximately 1938-1945
Content Description The Lois Brockman Papers contains her correspondence, class notes, notebooks, and assignments from her time as a student in high school and at Friends University. Also contained are numerous surveys and questionnaires from her time as a surveyor during the 1930s and 40s as well as newsletters, publications, family photographs and other collected ephemera which she had collected and kept during that period.Contact collection curator Vince Lee at velee@uh.edu for more...

Richard F. Burges Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1951-001
Dates: 1935-1938
Scope and Contents

The Richard F. Burges papers contains correspondence regarding where some Texas history records may be held at various institutions. An item list is also included.

City of Houston Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1969-060
Dates: 1891-1900
Scope and Contents The City of Houston Collection consists of official correspondence and documents relating to the City of Houston around the turn of the century. Most of the items relate to physical improvements, such as paving being made to the city by the City Engineer's Office. The documents date from 1881-1900. The collection comprises 1 manuscript box with 19 individual items. The collection is divided alphabetically according to the office of issue, and then filed chronologically. The...

William Lockhart Clayton Speeches Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1969-010
Dates: 1926-1958
Scope and Contents

The collection consists primarily of manuscripts and printed speeches given by William Lockhart Clayton between 1926 and 1958. Additionally, it contains correspondence and three issues of ACCO magazine.

Thomas Cole Desegregation Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-005
Dates: 1963-2001
Scope and Contents Forms part of Houston History Archives Collection consisting of 19 boxes of very rich material: drafts of film scripts, topical files on significant segregation issues, film project proposals, VHS and Beta video tapes, correspondence related to fundraising, chapter drafts, publicity material, and a photocopy of Negro Politics and the Rise of the Civil Rights Movement in Houston, Texas (1968), a dissertation by Franklin Chandler Davidson currently available in the library’s general...

Cravens-Cullinan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-003
Dates: undetermined
Scope and Contents

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

Joseph S. Cullinan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-009
Dates: 1893-1939
Scope and Contents Aside from its obvious use as a significant source for those persons interested in the petroleum industry, this collection covers a wide range of other research topics.  Business and economic historians will be interested in the extensive financial records and correspondence of such companies as the Petroleum Iron Works Co., Producers Oil Co., the Texas Company, Farmer's Petroleum Co., and the American Republics Corporation.  The collection includes records of the land division of the...