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

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...

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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.

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

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This is a collection of materials aquired by Special Collections documenting anti-Communist activities and publications in Houston.

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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.

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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.

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

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...

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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.

Scope and Contents Cinema Bomar Films was donated and curated by the 16mm film collective, Cinema Bomar, which highlights local Houstonian home movies, camera tests, as well as promotional and industrial films created for Pennzoil, the Houston Chronicle, Monsanto, and IBM 1800. Of special interest is the Kennedy Assassination – Chronicle, 1963, film created by August Galiano, an amateur filmmaker and father of collection donor, Elizabeth Nelson, which depicts Galiano’s day working at the Houston Chronicle when...

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...

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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.

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...