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.
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?
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.
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