Box 1
Container
Contains 8 Results:
National Staff of the WWOW photograph, approximately 1920s
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Found in:
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
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2019-016, Miscellaneous Houston & Texas History Collections
Dates:
approximately 1920s
Scope and Contents
From McBride Rare Books: "A striking photograph of the men and women comprising the "National Staff" of the Wonderful Workers of the World (WWOW), likely at a national convention in Houston in the early 1920s. The WWOW was an African American benevolent society chartered in Texas in 1920.... The WWOW is obscure even in newspaper records, where a 1923 advertisement records them offering life insurance. The...photograph shows eighteen men and thirteen women, many wearing...
Souvenir Negro History Club of Houston Colored Junior College Opening Negro History Week, Sunday, February 11, 1934
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Found in:
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
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2019-016, Miscellaneous Houston & Texas History Collections
Dates:
Sunday, February 11, 1934
Scope and Contents
Souvenir program includes photographs and brief biographies of Black community leaders including Mr. R.I. Andrews, Rev. F.L. Lights, Hon. Van H. McKinney, Rev. Jack Yates, Mrs. W.E. Miller, Hon. W.J. Hardeway, Rev. Elias Dibble, Dean R. O'Hara Lanier, Mrs. Mabel Wesley, Mr. Wilfred Price, Prof. J.N. Dotson, Prof. W.L.D. Johnson, Prof. W.S. Francis, Dean J.T. Fox, Hon. J. Vance Lewis, Prof. John M. Codwell, Prof. E.O. Smith, Prof. W.E. Miller, Dr. W.W. Dogan, Mr. W.E. (Ned) Jones, Prof. James...
Proclamation by the Governor of the State of Texas for restoration of citizenship to Mendle Martin, 27 July 1937
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Found in:
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
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2019-016, Miscellaneous Houston & Texas History Collections
Dates:
27 July 1937
"Dies Tells Businessmen How to Fight Communism." Associated Press photograph of Congressman Martin Dies, approximately 1950s
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Found in:
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
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2019-016, Miscellaneous Houston & Texas History Collections
Dates:
approximately 1950s
Photo of Vance Muse and John H. Kirby, approximately 1930s
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Found in:
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
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2019-016, Miscellaneous Houston & Texas History Collections
Dates:
approximately 1930s
Comemoração do 25◦ Aniversario, Anderson, Clayton & Cia. Limitada, 1934-1959, São Paulo, Brasil, 1959
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Found in:
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
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2019-016, Miscellaneous Houston & Texas History Collections
Dates:
1959
Scope and Contents
Photo album scrapbook commemorating the 25th anniversary of Anderson, Clayton & Co. in Brazil.
R.A. and Viola Pratt papers, 1921-1950
Fonds — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Found in:
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
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2019-016, Miscellaneous Houston & Texas History Collections
Dates:
1921-1950
Scope and Contents
Documents include poll tax receipts and loan documentation for planting cotton.
Lea, Sumpter. "President Sam Houston, His Courtship and Marriage in Alabama", 1912
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3