Arts
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the arts in general, including the visual arts, literature, and the performing arts. General works on the visual arts are entered under [Art.]
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Oral Histories Collection from the Houston History Project
Collection
Identifier: 2006-005
Found in:
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
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Oral Histories Collection from the Houston History Project
Dates:
1996-2017
Scope and Contents
When UH’s Center for Public History and the University Libraries collaborated to create the Houston History Archives (UH-HHA), part of their mission included a repository for oral histories that tell stories of the growth and development of the Gulf Coast region from multiple points of view. To that end, the Houston Oral History Project in the Center for Public History trains history graduate students to research and interview Houstonians with recollections of the city’s civil rights,...
Alvin Romansky Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1968-001
Dates:
1907-1994
Scope and Contents
The Alvin Romansky Papers include photographs, correspondence, documents, printed materials, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia related to the life and civic pursuits of Alvin Romansky, his father Joseph Romansky, and his uncle Thomas Flaxman. The bulk of the material (principally that related to Alvin Romansky) dates from the 1950s, but a significant amount of material related to Thomas Flaxman dates from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first...
Sehba Sarwar Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2016-042
Dates:
1964-2023; Majority of material found within 1999-2016
Scope and Contents
This collection includes Sarwar’s writings and publications, publishing correspondence, publicity materials, and journals, her planning documents, course materials and other documents related to youth and adult workshops, student publications from Sarwar’s classes, as well as documents from committee memberships, awards, ephemera and original artwork.Materials are arranged intellectually by category, with each series corresponding to different activities. Materials are arranged...