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Galveston 1915 Hurricane Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 1997-002
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...
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

Carlos "DJ Styles" Garza Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2013-009
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...
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

Geochemical Data Collection

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Identifier: 2011-016
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.
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

Valentin Gertsman Architecture Photographic Records

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Identifier: 2017-031
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.
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

Glass Mountain Records

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Identifier: 2018-039
Scope and Contents Posters, brochures, programs, and ephemera from the University of Houston Department of English's undergraduate literary journal Glass Mountain and its Boldface Conference.
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

Floyd Glass Navy Recruiting Literature Collection

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Identifier: 1970-002
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) are...
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

Governor James V. Allred Papers

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Identifier: 1967-001
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...
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

Bebe Gow Scrapbooks

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Identifier: 2017-034
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

Graduate School of Social Work Records

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Identifier: 2009-018
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....
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

Greater Houston Women's Foundation Records

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Identifier: 1999-006
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,...
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

Bessie Alva Griffiths Papers

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Identifier: 1969-020
Scope and Contents The Bessie Alva Griffiths Collection contains photographs, memorabilia, and papers such as programs and miscellaneous correspondence and receipts. The dates of items in the collection range from 1888 to 1940. Original order of materials has been adhered to whenever possible. Correspondence and receipts are arranged in chronological order. Included among the papers in the Griffiths Collection are materials belonging to Griffiths' roommate Katherine Dick, who may have been...
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

Gulf Coast Journal Records

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Identifier: 2018-005
Scope and Contents The records of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts include items from the early 2000s, including postcards, exhibit flyers, and business cards mainly from the Houston area but from other US states as well. Also included are papers and books on seminars attended, certificates and other documents pertaining to auctions held, minutes from Advisory Boards meetings, correspondence, agendas, and a membership manual. Additionally, there is a large number of compact discs and 3.5...
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

Charles W. Hamilton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-012
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.
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

Hana Ginzbarg Papers

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Identifier: 2010-014
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...
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

Harper Leiper Studios Houston Aerial Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-016
Scope and Contents The Harper Leiper Studios Houston Aerial Photographs Collection contains aerial photographs of Houston during the 1970s and early 1980s taken by commercial photographers Harper Leiper Studios.
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

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