Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX
A PDF of the Guide to the Papers of Julian Sorell Huxley, written by Sarah C. Bates, Mary G. Winkler, and Christina Riquelmy, is now available to view here:
http://library.rice.edu/collections/WRC/finding-aids/manuscripts/guide.pdf
The guide includes biographical information, scope and content notes, inventory of letters and materials, genealogical information, and an index of correspondents with dates.
The letters of Otto Eisenlohr, a student at the Rice Institute during its early years, can now be found online from the collection’s finding aid at:
http://library.rice.edu/collections/WRC/finding-aids/manuscripts/0536
Almost entirely addressed to his high school sweetheart, Gainor Roberts, the letters are a window into student life, academics, and athletics at Rice from 1915-1921. Topics include Rice during the First World War, science at Rice Institute, hazing of freshmen by upperclassmen, secret societies on campus, popular movies, dances, Rice football, basketball, and baseball, and ROTC activities during the First World War.
Woodson’s copy of The Life and Imaginations of Sally Paul has been digitized and is available here:
http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/26764
This is the only known copy of this text. It was published in 1760 and printed for S. Hooper in London, “at Caesar’s Head, near the New Church, in the Strand.”
The introduction reads:
TO THE
RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE
Countess of Huntington;
THIS
HISTORY
OF
PURE AND SIMPLE FACTS,
With their
MORALS AND EMBELLISHMENTS;
AN EPISODE,
AND
Other MATTERS,
IS
ADDRESS’D
By Madam,
Your Ladyship’s
Most humble Admirer,
SARAH PAUL.
Please visit DSpace to see a PDF of Ernest Coker’s popular recipe book from the 1950s:
http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/26744
Ye Old College Inn on South Main was established in 1918 and quickly became a popular dining and hang out spot for Rice students and the local community. Ernest Coker took over operations of the restaurant in 1946 from George Martin, the original proprietor, and soon after published a book of his recipes. The restaurant was demolished in the 1980s to make way for the St. Lukes medical tower.
A finding aid for the Thomas Lindsey Blayney Papers, which chronicles the life of one of Rice’s first faculty members, is now available on-line. The 23-box collection includes family genealogy, photographs, personal and professional correspondence, collections of poetry, published and unpublished manuscripts, and newspaper clippings.
Blayney is a World War I hero, and the memorabilia collection includes a number of items pertinent to that era. Uniform jackets and hats, the Croix de Guerre medal awarded to Blayney, and a trunk of cavalry horse tack are part of the collection.
See the finding aid for the collection as well as selected photos on-line.
The 1915 “Red Book: a compendium of social, professional, religious, educational and industrial interest of Houston’s colored population” is now available freely on-line at http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/26632.
Only two print copies of this book are available in the world, according to OCLC’s Worldcat, and handful of microfilm copies.
This freely accessible PDF version provides easy access to a fascinating view of the African American population in Houston at the beginning of the 20th century. Topics include Education, Careers and Employment, Education, Social Activities, and more.
The Arthur E. Jones Architectural Records contain information, news clippings, photographs, awards, and plans of over 100 projects he was a part of during his career. Jones is a 1947 Rice University graduate and worked with Hermon F. Lloyd, William B. Morgan, Benjamin E. Brewer, and Bob G. Fillpot. Jones’ projects with the firms, which were primarily but not only in Houston, include the Astrodome, the Allen Centers, the Melrose building, and various buildings in Greenway Plaza, the University of Houston, and Rice University. Photographers in the collection include Richard Payne, Rick Gardner, Bob Bailey, Balthazar Korab, and André Kertész.
See the guide to the collection here:
http://library.rice.edu/collections/WRC/finding-aids/manuscripts/0535
New this week: an on-line guide to the Ensemble Theatre records – now open for research!
http://library.rice.edu/collections/WRC/finding-aids/manuscripts/0533
In November of 1976, Houstonian George Hawkins founded The Black Ensemble Company, Houston’s first African American professional theater, to provide a venue for Houston’s talented Black actors, writers and artists to perform. When his company moved into its first home at 1010 Tuam Street in Houston, Hawkins dropped the word Black from the name, becoming simply The Ensemble.
In 1985 the group rented 3535 Main Street, Houston, and converted it into a theater. This venue became the largest African American theater in the United States and was the site of many “firsts” in the history of African American professional theater.In 2004, the Ensemble Theatre reached two milestones; becoming a designated stop on the new Houston Metrorail system, and the fulfillment of the mortgage on the building, celebrated by a Mortagage Burning Ceremony on January 1, 2004.
Anti Vietnam War Convocation at Rice University. Photo by William Lukes.
These Houston neighborhood views by Rice architecture student William Lukes in collaboration with Paul Hester, were used in a number of architectural publications and papers concerning the development of Houston, inventorying and cataloguing the growth of Houston neighborhoods, and recording various architectural landmarks in the Houston area during the period. Also included are student work from the Rice Media Center, and a photographic essay of anti-war protests (Viet Nam war) in Houston and at Rice.
View selected photos on-line.
See the guide to the entire collection.
Many of Woodson’s U.S. Civil War journals & letters are available on-line!
