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George Fuermann Professional Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1970-001a
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Dates: 1951-2001
Scope and Contents The George Fuermann Professional Papers consist of Mr. Fuermann's correspondence, typescripts, and other professional papers ranging in date from 1952 to 2001. The collection includes biographical information, professional correspondence, information about Fuermann's Texas and Houston historical collection, typescripts of Fuermann articles and books, dust jackets, and pictorial proofs, as well as notes for a planned but unpublished volume, "This is Houston." Of particular interest is a...

George Fuermann "Texas and Houston" Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1970-001
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Dates: 1836-1988
Scope and Contents George Fuermann, 1918-2001, collected several types of materials relating to Houston and Texas history, including clippings and other printed materials; legal, financial, and government documents; photographs and negatives; historic maps; works of art; artifacts; and research files. The items in the collection range in date from 1836 to 1988. The collection is arranged in eight series: Printed Materials, Documents, Photographic Material, Creative Works, Maps, Works of Art,...

Fundación Latinoamericana de Acción Social Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-018
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Dates: undetermined
Scope and Contents

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

Galveston 1915 Hurricane Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 1997-002
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Dates: 1915
Scope and Contents The Galveston Hurricane Photograph collection comes from a scrapbook of pictures taken by Rex Dunbar Frazier, a Stone & Webster Engineering representative called in to collect storm damage data and photographs. Photos were removed from an acidic scrapbook for preservation purposes, yet folder captions were copied exactly from those provided. Folder captions below have been abbreviated as necessary. The photos date primarily from August 18, 1915, although many are...

Carlos "DJ Styles" Garza Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2013-009
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Dates: 1985-2011
Scope and Contents This collection includes personal records, fliers, posters, photographs, business records, audiocassettes, and memorabilia belonging to Carlos “DJ Styles” Garza, and relating to his work as a b-boy, DJ, and hip-hop music producer in Houston from the mid-1980s to 2011. This collection is divided into six series: Personal Papers, Business Records, Promotional Materials, Publications, Memorabilia, and Audiocassettes. Items within each series are arranged chronologically wherever dates are...

Jonathan Gash Pontiff Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: 1977-003
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Dates: 1967
Scope and Contents

The Jonathan Gash Pontiff Manuscript is an annotated manuscript of Gash's 1967 publication Pontiff.

Geochemical Data Collection

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Identifier: 2011-016
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Dates: 1944-1975
Scope and Contents

Collection of 43 geochemical data maps from locations in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Kentucky, and Israel between 1944 and 1975, with most maps from the 1940s to 1960s. Within the collection are maps for methane, ethane and heavier hydrocarbons, pentane, soil gas, sand percent, ethane and propane and butane, and total hydrocarbons.

Gerald E. Osborne University of Houston Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2019-010
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Dates: ca. 1980s
Content Description

This collection contains artifacts and memorabilia documenting the history of the University of Houston, dating from 1983-1997. Materials include information regarding NASA and University of Houston Space Vacuum Epitaxy Center, sports, UH photographs, UH Memorabilia, medals and paperweight.

Valentin Gertsman Papers and Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2017-031
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Dates: 1878-2013
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of photographic prints, transparency and negative film in various formats, Polaroid prints, and samples of published projects from books and magazines.

This collection does not currently have a full finding aid inventory available online. For assistance, please contact Special Collections' Architecture & Planning curator Vince Lee by emailing velee@Central.UH.EDU.

Hana Ginzbarg Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-014
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Dates: 1962-1991; Majority of material found within 1970-1985
Scope and Contents Materials in this collection represent Hana Ginzbarg’s working files for Armand Bayou. To make the files accessible to the public, they were organized into three series. Series 1 includes materials related to Ginzbarg’s initial campaign to prevent development in the Armand Bayou area. Papers in Series 2 cover the subsequent efforts to preserve Armand Bayou as a nature education center and protect the area from proposed encroachments. Papers in Series 3 include maps and oversized...

Glass Mountain Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-039
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Dates: 2007-2018
Scope and Contents

This collection contains posters, brochures, programs, and ephemera from the University of Houston Department of English's undergraduate literary journal Glass Mountain and its Boldface Conference, dating from 2009 to 2018.

Floyd Glass Navy Recruiting Literature Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1970-002
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Dates: 1941-1949
Scope and Contents This collection is composed entirely of U.S. Navy recruiting literature from 1941-1949. Included are booklets, pamphlets, broadsides, posters, promotional materials, and some miscellaneous response cards. Materials have been sorted by type of material. Materials for recruiting WAVES (the women's counterpart to the U. S. Navy) have been separated from materials recruiting men. The 61 booklets (items with several pages), and 129 pamphlets (items made from one or two folded sheets)...

Bebe Gow Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: 2017-034
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Dates: 1927-1961

Graduate School of Social Work Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-018
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Dates: 1960-2009
Scope and Contents This collection contains 2 boxes of records relating to the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Houston. A significant portion of this material was given to the archives from the university Print Plant. Materials include course information, stationary, certificates, invitations, program and workshop flyers, promotional material, published material, newsletters, reports, and commencement programs. This collection is arranged chronologically and alphabetically as necessary....

Greater Houston Women's Foundation Records

 Collection
Identifier: 1999-006
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Dates: 1989-2000
Scope and Contents The records of the Greater Houston Women's Foundation (GHWF) consist mainly of documents related to the organization, including financial and administrative records, membership records, newsletters, correspondence, and some oversize material such as promotional posters and placards. The material is arranged into eleven series: Administrative Records, Articles, Correspondence, Education, Ephemera, Financial Records, Invitations, Membership Records, Newsletters, Oversize Materials,...

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University of Houston. Faculty Senate 3
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American Association of University Professors. University of Houston Chapter 2
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Burma-Siam Railroad 2
Dixon, Royal, 1885-1962 2
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Houston Symphony Orchestra 2
Houston Symphony Society 2
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Alonzo y Sus Rancheros 1
Alonzo, Frank 1
Alonzo, Ventura 1
Altrusa International 1
American Association for Adult and Continuing Education 1
American Association of University Women 1
American Association of University Women. West Harris County Branch 1
American G.I. Forum 1
Anderson, Clayton & Co. 1
Anderson, John Q., 1941-1970 1
Ant Farm (Design group) 1
Art Guys (Group) 1
Astrodome (Houston, Tex.) 1
Autry, James L. 1
Baker, Steve 1
Barnett, E. Virginia 1
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Battin, Tom C. 1
Battin, Tom, 1958- 1
Bayou Preservation Association 1
Ben Taub General Hospital 1
Beste, Peter 1
Bless, Nancy 1
Bloom, Suzanne, 1943- 1
Borish, Irvin M. 1
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1
Bradley, Loris A. 1
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Brown, Andrew, 1969- 1
Brown, Steven Ford 1
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Bukowski, Charles 1
Burgee, John, 1933- 1
Burnett, Michael 1
Bush, David 1
Byrd, Russell 1
Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925 1
Calk, M. L. 1
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