Newsclippings, notes, minimal correspondence, ephemera (photocopies, and some original documents), arranged by family member or person and then alphabetically by subject. Notes written by authors Pratt and Castaneda also located throughout this series. Subjects include travel, politics and relationships with U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Johnson, philanthropy, art, and family domestic matters.

Subseries A: Brown Family also includes one set of chapter drafts of Castaneda and Pratt's Brown biography, Builders.

Subject files arranged in alphabetical order, containing newsclippings, notes, reports, and minimal correspondence, describing the business history of Brown & Root. Subjects include roadbuilding, dams, labor issues, and various specific firm projects such as the Bull Shoals Dam and Marshall Ford Dam. Dates range from 1920-1996, bulk 1940s-1960s.

Note: See the Brown & Root archives at the Woodson Research Center for additional Brown & Root records.

Much of the original Brown & Root records were destroyed by George R. Brown during an office move circa 17 years before his death.

Subject files arranged in alphabetical order, dating mainly from the 1940s, and consisting primarily of newsclippings related to company construction, history, labor issues, ship launchings, shipyard layout. Some original b/w photographs depict ship launchings, and one architectural drawing outlines the shipyard, March 1943.

Original and carbon copies of correspondence to and from members of the Brown family, Lady Bird Johnson, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Gov. John Connally, and many others. Subjects include events at the White House, Committee for the Preservation of the White House, politics, art, and social matters.

Newsclippings, reports, published materials dating from 1937-1995, bulk years 1940-1970s. Subjects are varied but not extensively covered. They include Belton, TX, the Brown Foundation, Halliburton, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Rice University, and Houston water supply, streets, bridges, and sewers, among others.

Herman and George R. Brown served on the Board of Directors for this corporation. This series includes George R. Brown's original business records, many relating to coal transportation and pipelines, and the bids for and eventual purchase of the Big and Little Big Inch Pipelines, which extend respectively from East Texas and the Gulf of Mexico to the New York - Philadelphia metropolitan areas. The lines were formerly known as the War Emergency Pipe Lines, and their sale was administered by the U.S. War Assets Administration. Formats include memos, telegrams, correspondence, pipeline sketches, notes, and published materials, dates range from 1946-89, bulk 1940s-1970s.

This material was photocopied for Christopher Castaneda from the originals, located at the University of Texas at Austin's Center for American History (donated 1990, by Isabel Brown Wilson - contact the CAH for copyright information and permission to publish).

Comprised mainly of letters dating from 1893-1908 to Pratt's mother, but also including a dairy and photograph album of Pratt's. Pratt was the father of Alice Nelson, who would marry George R. Brown in 1925, and become known as Alice Pratt Brown.

This series is comprised of original transcripts (Subseries A) and cassette tape recordings (Subseries B) of oral history interviews by Builders author Chris Castaneda regarding Herman and George R. Brown, arranged in alphabetical order by the' interviewee's last name. Interviewees include Houston and Texas businessmen and women, entrepreneurs, politicians, lawyers, family members, and friends. Notable names include Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, Gov. John Connally, Dr. Norman Hackerman, Oveta Culp Hobby, Lt. Gov. William P. Hobby, Lady Bird Johnson, Rice President Dr. Kenneth Pitzer, Louisa Sarofim, and Mike Stude. The interviews were conducted during the period 1990-1992, with the exception of one interview in 1995 by Joseph Pratt.