USS Houston Scholarship Open to UH Students
The USS Houston Survivors Association and the Next Generation welcome applicants from the University of Houston student body for their Scholarship Program. The scholarship is open to any university undergraduate with a keen interest in the story of the USS Houston (CA-30). The scholarship amount typically ranges from $1000.00 to $1500.00.
The USS Houston (CA-30), a heavy cruiser named for the city of Houston, was both the favorite ship of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the flagship of the Asiatic Fleet during World War II. Following the Houston’s sinking by the Japanese in 1942, her surviving crew members became prisoners-of-war. For more details, see the USS Houston (CA-30) Exhibit on the second floor of the library, the online Cruiser Houston exhibit, or the archival Cruiser Houston Collection available for use in Special Collections at M.D. Anderson Library.
Those eligible to apply include students entering the final year of high school with anticipation of going to college, as well as all college and university undergraduates up through the final year of study. Previous applicants and winners may reapply. Applicants are required to present grades and evidence of other personal attributes, and to write an essay about the crew of the USS Houston.
Applications are accepted beginning June 1 with the deadline for submission extending to November 1. Applications and specific information about applying may be obtained any time by mailing a request to:
John Keith Schwarz
2500 Clarendon Blvd Apt 121
Arlington, VA 22201
Delaware’s Paul Bowles Exhibit
A few weeks ago, I posted a link to the finding aid for our very small collection of Paul Bowles Letters. For an informative overview of Bowles life and career, The University of Delaware has an "online exhibition and internet source page" on Bowles, which contains many digital images from their collection.
Jan de Hartog Papers finding aid
The finding aid for the Jan de Hartog Papers is now online at the TARO web site. The collection documents the life and work of author and playwright Jan de Hartog, a citizen of the world and an important Houston figure.
Jan de Hartog Papers, 1943-2005
Photo: Charles ?, Marion Orgain, and Jan DeHartog survey the author’s works in the University of Houston Libraries’ Special Collections Department, 197?
This side of Special Collections
Princeton University Library’s Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has a very cool pictorial guide up for the Lawrence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks. In 1894 Hutton authored a print guide to the collection, Portraits in Plaster, from the Collection of Laurence Hutton (New York, Harper & Brothers), but I’ll dare to say this is livelier and easier to access.
Collection Spotlight: George Fuermann “Texas and Houston” Collection
Main Street looking South 1908, Historic Postcards Collection, George Fuermann "Texas and Houston" Collection.
Note: For the official launch of the Special Collections blog, here is a peek at one of our manuscript collections. From time to time we will post brief descriptions of our favorite collections, and areas of research or teaching in which they may be particularly useful. Stay tuned for more!
George Fuermann "Texas and Houston" Collection (20 linear feet of material)
Mr. Fuermann amassed this extensive collection of Texas and Houston historical materials during the period from 1950 – 1971. During this time he wrote a regular column, “Post Cards,” on local history for the Houston Post and also authored ten volumes on the subject. The collection also includes much of George Fuermann’s correspondence and manuscript material.
For research and teaching in: Texas history, Houston history, newspaper journalism
Fuermann Historic Postcards Online Exhibit
