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05. Houston & Texas History Research Collection

 Collecting Area
Identifier: 05

Found in 87 Collections and/or Records:

Texas Forged Documents Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1989-002
Dates: 1821-1936; undated
Scope and Contents

The documents in this collection have been identified as forgeries and were exhibited at a Forgery Conference held at the University of Houston Libraries in 1989.

Texas Foundation for the Arts Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2023-007
Dates: 1992-2012
Content Description Documentaries in the collection include: Building Bridges of Understanding: Asia Society Texas Center Galveston Island Houston Arts Television The Art of Architecture: Houston 1910 Harris County CourthouseAll of the films in the collection were first broadcast on Houston Public Media/Houston PBS Ch. 8, and then distributed to all PBS stations in Texas and often to educational outlets, including area school districts, for classroom use. Also included...

Texas Music Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-011
Dates: 1900-2010; Majority of material found within 1940-1969
Scope and Contents The Texas Music Collection contains research files on the history of Texas music, particularly musicians and record labels, including the administrative and financial files of Duke/Peacock Records of the Houston area. Newspaper clippings, photographs, financial records, songbooks, and administrative files comprise the research files.The collection is divided into six series, which are arranged in order of volume of material, from most to least represented: Artists; Production and...

This is Our Home, It Is Not For Sale Film Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-020
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
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Scope and Contents "The Texas Medical Center: A History of the Founding Years, 1941-1980" is an unpublished photocopied typescript (232 pages) consisting of a preface, nine chapters, and a bibliography.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.

Vikki Trammell and Ben Russell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-010
Dates: 1961-2010
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.

TV Montrose Recordings

 Collection
Identifier: 2020-017
Dates: 1998-1999
Scope and Contents

62 Betacam SP tapes of TV Montrose, produced by Steve Baker of TriAngle Video Productions.

Please contact collection curator Joyce Gabiola at jegabiola@uh.edu for more information.

Honorable Chase Untermeyer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-007
Dates: 1976-2003
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.

John C. Walker Texas Counties Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1969-040
Dates: 1818-1907
Scope and Contents

This collection contains legal documents, advertisements, correspondence, and maps from various Texas counties dating from 1818 to 1907. Deeds and tax receipts make up a signififcant portion of the collection. Counties represented include Angelina, Cherokee, Tyler, Nacogdoches, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, and Harris. Documents from the Republic of Texas are also included.

World Affairs Council (Gulf Coast/Houston) Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-015
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,...

Marvin Zindler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2020-018
Dates: 1976-2008
Scope and Contents The Marvin Zindler Papers contains photos, correspondence, newsclippings, newspapers, publicity and press release materials, personal notes, sketches, and drawings, awards, complaint letters and files, story files and scripts, reporter notebooks, research files, A/V materials, artifacts and ephemera from Channel 13, and a 2 self published autobiographies-The Many Faces of Marvin Zindler and White Knight in Blue Shades.This collection is not yet fully processed. For questions...