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1890-1935 Home Retail Pamphlet Collection
1890-1935 Home Retail Pamphlet Collection
The UH Libraries’ Retail Pamphlet Collection is comprised of a diverse array of historic retail brochures, pamphlets and catalogs from the William R. Jenkins Architecture & Art Library’s Rare Books Room. The collection spans 45 years, from a Jap-A-Lac Varnish pamphlet published by Glidden in 1890, to a 1935 Homestead Fires catalog of “truly appropriate fireplace heaters.” In addition to these, the collection also features various other paint and varnish pamphlets as well as brochures...
The UH Libraries’ Retail Pamphlet Collection is comprised of a diverse array of historic retail brochures, pamphlets and catalogs from the William R. Jenkins Architecture & Art Library’s Rare Books Room. The collection spans 45 years, from a Jap-A-Lac Varnish pamphlet published by Glidden in 1890, to a 1935 Homestead Fires catalog of “truly appropriate fireplace heaters.” In addition to these, the collection also features various other paint and varnish pamphlets as well as brochures...
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DJ Screw Photographs and Memorabilia
DJ Screw Photographs and Memorabilia
This collection includes photographs, handwritten rap lyrics and song lists for “screw tapes,” and flyers related to the late DJ Screw and his rap collective the Screwed Up Click. These materials document how DJ Screw developed the production technique known as “chopped and screwed,” which is closely associated with Houston hip hop.
Of special note is a book of rap lyrics by Screwed Up Click (S.U.C.) member HAWK. In metallic ink on its black pages, he...
This collection includes photographs, handwritten rap lyrics and song lists for “screw tapes,” and flyers related to the late DJ Screw and his rap collective the Screwed Up Click. These materials document how DJ Screw developed the production technique known as “chopped and screwed,” which is closely associated with Houston hip hop.
Of special note is a book of rap lyrics by Screwed Up Click (S.U.C.) member HAWK. In metallic ink on its black pages, he...
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Moderner Volkskunst Zierat
Moderner Volkskunst Zierat
From the Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room at the University of Houston’s William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library comes Moderner Volkskunst Zierat (Modern Folk Art Ornaments). This undated German volume features 18 vivid color plates. Designed for use as templates in the decoration of household items (furniture, ceramic ware, and the like), these bold, ornamental motifs offer a unique glimpse of the vernacular aesthetic found in early twentieth-century German home décor.
From the Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room at the University of Houston’s William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library comes Moderner Volkskunst Zierat (Modern Folk Art Ornaments). This undated German volume features 18 vivid color plates. Designed for use as templates in the decoration of household items (furniture, ceramic ware, and the like), these bold, ornamental motifs offer a unique glimpse of the vernacular aesthetic found in early twentieth-century German home décor.
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Theodor de Bry's America
Theodor de Bry's America
These detailed copper plate engravings depict the arrival of the Spaniards in the New World and their encounters with native peoples. They are taken from the sixteenth century book “Americae, volume IV” of Theodor de Bry’s “Grandes Voyages” series, a collection which gave many Europeans their first visual representations of North America.
The engravings highlight not only the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the West Indies, but atrocities perpetrated by the Spanish on the Native...
These detailed copper plate engravings depict the arrival of the Spaniards in the New World and their encounters with native peoples. They are taken from the sixteenth century book “Americae, volume IV” of Theodor de Bry’s “Grandes Voyages” series, a collection which gave many Europeans their first visual representations of North America.
The engravings highlight not only the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the West Indies, but atrocities perpetrated by the Spanish on the Native...
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1850s and 1860s Hotel and Restaurant Menus
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1890-1935 Home Retail Pamphlet Collection
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1911 Houston Society with Gladys Ewing
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DJ Screw Photographs and Memorabilia
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Frontier Fiesta
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Galveston 1915 Hurricane Photographs
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Harry Walker Photographs
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Havana, Cuba, The Summer Land of the World
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Historic Houston Photographs
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Historic Maps
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Houston and Texas Feminist and Lesbian Newsletters
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Historic Texas Postcards
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Houston Fire Department
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Houston the Magnolia City
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Houston Negro Hospital
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Houstonian Yearbook Collection
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India Illustrated
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Israel Shreve Revolutionary War Letters, 1768-1894
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Jagdish Mehra Audio Collection
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KUHT Highlights
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Kenneth Franzheim Collection
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Luis Marquez Photographs
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Marine Bombing Squadron (VMB-613) Photographs
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Mary Ellen Ewing vs the Houston School Board
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Minnie Fisher Cunningham Papers
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Moderner Volkskunst Zierat
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Mrs. Anson Jones Letters
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Photographs from the Alonso S. Perales Papers
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Scenes from the Middle East
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SEM Collection (1914 – 1925)
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Shamrock Hotel Collection
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Ship Channel Collection
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Ship of Fools Woodcuts
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Student Art Exhibit
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Texas City 1947 Disaster Photographs
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Theodor de Bry's America
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Topsell's The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents Woodcuts
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University of Houston Buildings
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University of Houston People
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University of Houston Campus Life
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USS Houston Blue Bonnet Newsletters
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William Slough USS Houston Letters
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