TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary
Biographical Note
Scope and Contents
Restrictions
Index Terms
Administrative Information
Description of Series
Series I: Office Files, 1939-1947 (Boxes 1-29)
Series II: Publications, 1933-1959 (Box 30)
Series III: Brazos River Harbor Navigation District,
1927-1962 (Boxes 31-34)
Series IV: Scrapbooks, 1939-1942 (6 volumes)
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Guide to the J. Russell Wait Port of Houston papers,
1927-1962
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| Creator: | Wait, J. Russell |
| Title | J. Russell Wait Port of
Houston papers |
| Dates: |
1927-1962 |
| Abstract: | Business and personal
records of J. Russell Wait, Director of the Port of Houston from 1930-1947,
offering a comprehensive history of the Port of Houston's construction,
facilities, finances, clients and operations from 1931-1962. During this time,
the Port of Houston grew from the nation's twelfth largest port to its third
largest. Materials also relate to the Brazos River Harbor Navigation District,
Houston Ship Channel maps, and scrapbooks on WWII and Japan. |
| ID | MS 346 |
| Extent | 29 linear ft. (36 boxes
plus oversize material) |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository: | Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University,
Houston, TX |
J. Russell Wait was General Manager of the Port of Houston from 1930 to
1947. He was born in New Jersey in 1882 and graduated from Lehigh University in
1906. Prior to his coming to Houston, Mr. Wait had been director of the Port of
Charleston, South Carolina, and had spent a year at the Port of Beaumont. Four
years after retiring from the Houston Port Authority, Mr. Wait came out of
retirement in 1951 to serve the Brazos River Harbor Navigation District as
general manager and re-retired to Kerrville the following year.
While General Manager of the Port of Houston, Mr. Wait was responsible
for the dredging of the ship channel from Galveston to the Turning Basin and
under his leadership Houston grew from twelfth to the nation's third largest
port. During these years, Wait amassed detailed information on the history and
activities of the port: its construction, facilities, finances, clients and
operations. While with the Brazos River Harbor Navigation District he expanded
his collection to include District Annual Reports for the years 1952 through
1958, with supplementing documents and detailed, annotated photographs of the
harbor construction, which had taken place from 1952 to 1956.
Although
not a Rice alumnus or official faculty member, Wait lectured frequently at Rice
and developed a fondness for the university. At the time he announced the gift
of his collection to the university he said, "Most of my work was done in
Houston, and most of the pictures and many of the books and papers have Houston
origins. It seemed to me that this great university should have them."
Excerpted from "Treasures in the Attic" by Alan Harris Bath, featured in
Fondren Library's
The Flyleaf, Summer 2000.
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Business and personal records of J. Russell Wait, Director of the Port
of Houston from 1930-1947, offering a comprehensive history of the Port of
Houston from 1931-1962. Materials also relate to the Brazos River Harbor
Navigation District, Houston Ship Channel maps, and scrapbooks on WWII and
Japan. Formats include correspondence, reports, maps, blueprints, scrapbooks,
photographs, and more. The bulk of the Wait papers retain their original office
filing system and are filed alphabetically according to Wait's subject
headings. These headings include correspondence and reports relating to Wait's
time as Port Manager, 1939-1947.
Two large scrapbooks in the collection document Houston area daily
newspaper coverage of WWII from late August 1939 to June 1942, providing
insight into the increasing impact of the war upon American life. A set of four
scrapbooks document Wait's 1939 business trip to Japan.
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| | Series I: Office Files, 1939-1947 (Boxes 1-29) |
| | Series II: Publications, 1933-1959 (Box 30) |
| | Series III: Brazos River Harbor Navigation District, 1927-1962
(Boxes 31-34) |
| | Series IV: Scrapbooks, 1939-1942 (6 volumes) |
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Access Restriction
This material is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish materials from this collection must be obtained
from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.
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| Subjects (Organizations) |
| | Port of Houston Authority
-- history |
| | Brazos River Harbor
Navigation District -- history |
| Subjects |
| | Freight and freightage --
Houston, Tex. |
| | Harbors--Texas--Houston
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| | Harbors -- design and
costruction |
| | Harbors --
photographs |
| | Harbors -- United
States. |
| | Harbors -- maintenance and
repair |
| | Harbors -- safety
measures |
| | Harbors - traffic
control |
| | Harbors -- speeches |
| Subjects (Places) |
| | Houston (Tex.)--Commerce
-- 20th century |
| Formats |
| | Correspondence |
| | Reports |
| | Photographs |
| | Scrapbooks |
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J. Russell Wait Port of Houston papers, MS 346, Woodson Research
Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.
Donated to the Woodson Research Center by J. Russell Wait, 1967.
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Series I: Office Files, 1939-1947 (Boxes 1-29)
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| The bulk of the Wait papers retain their original office
filing system and are filed alphabetically according to Wait's subject
headings. These headings include correspondence and reports relating to Wait's
time as Port Manager, 1939-1947. |
| box | folder |
| 1 | 1 | | A-1 Acts of legislature pertaining to the Port of
Houston |
| 2 | | A-1 Acts of legislature pertaining to the Port of
Houston |
| 3 | | A-2 Addresses-1947 roster of officers and committees of
AAPA |
| 4 | | A-3 American Association of Port Authorities |
| 5 | | A-3 AAPA general |
| 6 | | A-3 AAPA reports |
| 7 | | A-3 AAPA correspondence, 1940-41 |
| box | folder |
| 2 | 1 | | A-3 AAPA correspondence, 1943-47 |
| 2-3 | | A-3-a AAPA Committee on Port Practices, Rules and Terminal
Rates |
| 4 | | A-3-b AAPA Harbor Dues Study |
| 5 | | A-3-c AAPA Shipside Study |
| 6 | | Proceedings of 24th Annual Convention and
Annual Meeting of AAPA |
| 7 | | Houston/Galveston, 11/11-15/35, volumes 1 &
2 |
| box | folder |
| 3 | 1 | | A-5 Auditor-General Manager correspondence |
| 2-3 | | A-6 Advertising for Port of Houston |
| 4 | | A-8 American Society of Civil Engineers
correspondence |
| 5 | | A-9 Ammonium nitrate-correspondence and instructions on
handling |
| 6 | | A-10 Administration of publicly owned rail-water terminal
facilities |
| 7 | | A-11 Airport-info. and corresp. re Houston
airport |
| 8 | | B-2 Barbour agreement (Morgan’s Point)
correspondence |
| box | folder |
| 4 | 1 | | B-3 Bridges-correspondence and information |
| 2 | | B-4 Burchfield Valuation Study-appraisal of land in ship
channel industrial area |
| 3 | | B-7 Bond elections, Harris County Navigation
District |
| 4 | | B-8 Board of Commissioners, Harris County/Houston Ship
Channel Navigation District correspondence and reports |
| 5 | | B-10 Boats-descriptions and specifications |
| 6 | | C-1 Carloading contract between ship channel and
railroad |
| 7 | | C-2 Coal-corresp. and newsclippings |
| 8 | | C-4 Customs brief on custom house proposal for Houston
ship channel |
| 9 | | Chamber of Commerce 1961 |
| box | folder |
| 5 | 1 | | C-7 Chamber of Commerce committees |
| 2 | | C-7 Chamber of Commerce committees |
| 3-6 | | C-8 Contracts with Harris County Navigation
District |
| 7 | | C-9 Crossing signals correspondence |
| 8 | | C-10 Clients-addresses of engineering clients |
| box | folder |
| 6 | 1 | | C-10 Clients-Will L. Clayton |
| 2 | | C-10 Clients-Knappen Engineering Co. |
| 3 | | C-10 Clients-Nelson Rockefeller |
| 4 | | C-10 Clients-Humble Oil & Refining Co. |
| 5 | | Clients-Rohm & Haas |
| 6-7 | | C-11 Channel (main Houston Ship Channel) |
| 8 | | C-12 Channel (upper Houston Ship Channel) |
| 9 | | C-13 Channel (tributaries) |
| 10 | | C-14 Channel fuel wharf |
| 11 | | C-15 City wharves-reports, agreements, photos,
correspondence |
| 12 | | C-16 Counsel-Navigation District attorneys
corresp. |
| 13 | | C-17 Contract with Freese, Nichols and Turner
engineers |
| 14 | | D-1 Drum handling device-photos, blueprints,
reports |
| 15 | | D-2 Drydock-corresp., reports |
| 16 | | D-3 Dikes (oil terminals) corresp. |
| 17 | | D-4 Demurrage |
| 18 | | D-5 Dispatching reports and corresp. |
| box | folder |
| 7 | 1 | | D-7 Diesel locomotives reports, corresp. |
| 2 | | E-1 East Texas iron ore-clippings, reports,
corresp. |
| 3 | | E-1 East Texas iron ore-1910-11 Catlett rookery
ATSF |
| 4 | | E-1 East Texas iron ore-1927-28 Heisig |
| 5 | | E-1 East Texas iron ore-1930 |
| 6 | | E-1 East Texas iron ore-1937 agreement |
| 7 | | E-1 East Texas iron ore-1937-38 |
| 8 | | E-1 East Texas iron ore-1939-42 |
| 9 | | E-2 Explosive dock corresp. |
| 10 | | E-3 Equalization agreement-reports on equalized
rates |
| box | folder |
| 8 | 1 | | E-4 Engine terminal-specs and bid to build terminal at
ship channel |
| 2 | | E-5 Editorials |
| 3 | | E-6 Esperson dock and terminal project |
| 4 | | F-2 Fireboat corresp. and reports |
| 5-8 | | F-3 Flood control |
| box | folder |
| 9 | 1-2 | | Flood control reports |
| 3 | | F-5 Foreign Trade Association corresp. |
| 4 | | F-6 Foreign Trade Zone corresp., reports |
| 5 | | F-6 Foreign Trade Zone |
| 6 | | F-7 Finances (Navigation District) |
| box | folder |
| 10 | 1 | | F-7 Finances (Navigation District) |
| 2 | | F-8 Ferguson Patent reports and corresp. |
| 3 | | F-9 Fuel oil terminal |
| 4 | | G-3 Grain elevator corresp., reports |
| 4 | | G-3 Grain elevator corresp., reports |
| 5 | | G-3 Grain elevator |
| 6 | | G-4 Grain treatment-drawings, dust explosion
info. |
| 7 | | G-5 Green’s Bayou reports |
| 8 | | G-6 Gulf Ports Association membership, by-laws,
corresp. |
| 9 | | H-1 Harbor lines-blueprints, corresp., reports,
brief |
| 10 | | Harbor Traffic Control |
| 11 | | H-3 Houston Port and Traffic Bureau |
| 12 | | Houston Port and Traffic Bureau-rate book,
by-laws |
| box | folder |
| 11 | 1 | | H-3 Houston Port and Traffic Bureau |
| 2 | | Houston Ship Channel improvements |
| 3 | | H-6-a Handling equipment-general |
| 4 | | H-6-b Handling equipment-vacuum device |
| 5 | | H-6-c Handling equipment-heavy lift |
| 6 | | H-6-d Handling equipment-towmotors |
| 7 | | H-6-e Handling equipment-sweeper |
| 8 | | H-6-f Handling equipment-cranes |
| 9 | | H-6-g Handling equipment-car dumper |
| 10 | | H-6-h Handling equipment-pallets |
| 11 | | I-1 Industrial maps |
| 12 | | I-2 Intracoastal Canal Association |
| 13 | | I-3 Insurance (Navigation District) |
| 14 | | I-4 Inspection trips of Navigation District |
| 15 | | L-1 Land appraisals and valuation of harbor
property |
| 16 | | L-3 Locomotive terminal |
| 17 | | L-4 Land purchases |
| 18 | | L-5 Legislation |
| 19 | | M-1 Manchester Basin |
| 20 | | M-3 Maritime Commission |
| box | folder |
| 12 | 1 | | M-5 Morgan’s Point |
| 2 | | M-6 Mehrtens, George-corresp. |
| 3 | | M-8 Misc.-business |
| 4 | | N-1 North Side Belt Railroad |
| 5 | | N-3 Navigation District auditor’s reports |
| 6 | | N-3 Navigation District auditor’s reports |
| 7 | | N-3 Navigation District auditor’s reports |
| folder | box |
| 13 | 1 | | O-1 Organization (Navigation District) |
| 2 | | O-2 Oil (drilling in the Bay) |
| 3 | | O-3 Operations-accounts, balance sheets, etc. |
| 4 | | O-3 Operations-accounts, balance sheets, etc. |
| 5 | | P-1 Permits, building-for structures on navigable
waters |
| 6 | | P-2 Pictures-from newspapers (ship channel,
Wait) |
| 7 | | P-3 Pilots-corresp. and reports |
| folder | box |
| 14 | 1-2 | | P-3 Pilots |
| 3 | | P-4 Ports, general |
| 4 | | P-4 Ports-Albany, NY |
| 5 | | P-4 Ports-Atlanta, GA |
| 6 | | P-4 Ports-Baltimore, MD |
| 7 | | P-4 Ports-Bayonne, NJ |
| 8-9 | | P-4 Ports-Beaumont, TX |
| folder | box |
| 15 | 1 | | P-4 Ports-Boston, MA |
| 2 | | P-4 Ports-Broward Co., FL |
| 3 | | P-4 Ports-Brownsville, TX |
| 4 | | P-4 Ports-Chambers-Liberty Co., TX |
| 5-7 | | P-4 Ports-Charleston, SC |
| 8 | | P-4 Ports-Chester, PA |
| 9 | | P-4 Ports-Cleveland, OH |
| 10 | | P-4 Ports-Chicago, IL |
| 11 | | P-4 Ports-Concord, NH |
| 12 | | P-4 Ports-Corpus Christi, TX |
| 13 | | P-4 Ports-Freeport, TX |
| folder | box |
| 16 | 1 | | P-4 Ports-Galveston, TX |
| 2 | | P-4 Ports-Goose Creek, TX |
| 3 | | P-4 Ports-Greenville, NC |
| 4 | | P-4 Ports-Gulfport, MS |
| 5 | | P-4 Ports-Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| 6 | | P-4 Ports-Hamilton, Canada |
| 7 | | P-4 Ports-Hampton Roads, VA |
| 8 | | P-4 Ports-Honolulu, HI |
| 9 | | P-4 Ports-Jacksonville, FL |
| 10 | | P-4 Ports-Lake Charles, LA |
| 11 | | P-4 Ports-Long Beach, CA |
| 12 | | P-4 Ports-Los Angeles, CA |
| 13 | | P-4 Ports-Matagorda Co. Navigation District |
| 14-15 | | P-4 Ports-Matagorda Co. Navigation District, Bay City,
TX |
| folder | box |
| 17 | 1-2 | | P-4 Ports-Matagorda Co. Navigation District, Bay City,
TX |
| 3 | | P-4 Ports-Memphis, TNX |
| 4 | | P-4 Ports-Miami, FL |
| 5 | | P-4 Ports-Milwaukee, WI |
| 6 | | P-4 Ports-Mobile, AL |
| 7 | | P-4 Ports-Montreal, Canada |
| 8 | | P-4 Ports-New Haven, CT |
| 9 | | P-4 Ports-New Orleans, LA |
| 10 | | P-4 Ports-New Orleans, LA |
| folder | box |
| 18 | 1 | | P-4 Ports-New York City, NY |
| 2 | | P-4 Ports-New Westminster, British Columbia |
| 3 | | P-4 Ports-Newark, NJ |
| 4 | | P-4 Ports-Newport Harbor, CA |
| 5 | | P-4 Ports-Norfolk, VA |
| 6 | | P-4 Ports-Oakland, CA |
| 7 | | P-4 Ports-Ottawa, Canada |
| 8 | | P-4 Ports-Panama City Port development |
| 9 | | P-4 Ports-Philadelphia, PA |
| 10 | | P-4 Ports-Port Isabel, TX |
| 11 | | P-4 Ports-Portland, ME |
| 12 | | P-4 Ports-Portland, OR |
| 13 | | P-4 Ports-Providence, RI |
| 14 | | P-4 Ports-Puerto Rico |
| 15 | | P-4 Ports-Richmond, VA |
| 16 | | P-4 Ports-Rochester, NY |
| 17 | | P-4 Ports-Rotterdam, Holland |
| 18 | | P-4 Ports-Sacramento, CA |
| 19 | | P-4 Ports-Saint Lawrence project |
| 20 | | P-4 Ports-San Diego, CA |
| 21 | | P-4 Ports-San Francisco, CA |
| 22 | | P-4 Ports-San Jose, CA |
| 23 | | P-4 Ports-San Jacinto (Harris Co.) Burchfield
Plan |
| 24 | | P-4 Ports-Savannah, GA |
| 25 | | P-4 Ports-Seattle, WA |
| 26 | | P-4 Ports-Shreveport, LA |
| 27 | | P-4 Ports-St. John, New Brunswick |
| 28 | | P-4 Ports-State of New Jersey (S. Jersey Port
Comm.) |
| 29 | | P-4 Ports-Stockton, CA |
| 30 | | P-4 Ports-Tacoma, WA |
| 31 | | P-4 Ports-Tampa, FL |
| 32 | | P-4 Ports-Texas City, TX |
| folder | box |
| 19 | 1 | | P-4 Ports-Toledo, OH |
| 2 | | P-4 Ports-Toronto, Canada |
| 3 | | P-4 Ports-Trinity River Project |
| 4 | | P-4 Ports-Vancouver, British Columbia |
| 5 | | P-4 Ports-Wilmington, DE |
| 6 | | P-4 Ports-Wilmington, NC |
| 7 | | P-5 Projects-estimates of work in Port Houston |
| 8 | | P-6 Peggy Lake-surplus ship storage, dredging |
| 9-11 | | P-8 Publicity, general |
| folder | box |
| 20 | 1-3 | | P-8 Publicity, general |
| 4 | | P-8-a Publicity by Ella Tarbell |
| 5 | | P-9 Policy-corresp. and reports |
| 6 | | R-1 Railroad (PTRA general) |
| folder | box |
| 21 | 1-4 | | R-1 Railroad (PTRA general) |
| folder | box |
| 22 | 1-2 | | R-1 Railroad (PTRA general) |
| 3 | | R-1-a Railroad statistics |
| 4 | | R-1-b Railroad (PTRA contracts) |
| 5 | | R-1-c Railroad switching |
| 6 | | R-1-d Railroad (PTRA Booth yard) |
| 7 | | R-2 Railroad (Harbor Belt RR) |
| folder | box |
| 23 | 1 | | R-7 Rates-freight |
| 2 | | S-1 Shipyard (Todd-Houston) |
| 3 | | S-2 Smog-produced by Champion Papers & Fiber
Co. |
| 4 | | S-3 Southwest Tonnage Study |
| 5 | | S-4 Speeches by Wait |
| folder | box |
| 24 | 1-3 | | S-4 Speeches by Wait |
| 4 | | S-5 Steamship lines |
| 5 | | S-6 “Switching” editorials |
| 6 | | S-7 Steel plant (corr. soliciting shipments) |
| 7 | | S-8 Statistics on trade through the port |
| 8 | | S-9 San Jacinto water supply |
| 9 | | S-10 Solicitation |
| folder | box |
| 25 | 1 | | S-11 Sheffield Steel Plant |
| 2 | | S-12 Shipside rail-water terminal |
| 3 | | S-14 San Jacinto Battleground and Monument |
| 4 | | S-15 Seatrain |
| 5 | | T-1 Taxes (Harris Co.) |
| 6 | | T-4 Tunnels |
| 7 | | T-5 Terminal practices |
| 8 | | T-6 Testimonial dinners |
| 9 | | T-7-b Trips-West Coast |
| 10 | | T-7-c Trips-Algonquin |
| folder | box |
| 26 | 1-4 | | T-7-d Trips-Japan |
| folder | box |
| 27 | 1 | | T-7-d Trips-Japan |
| 2 | | T-7-e Trips-Carlsbad Caverns, NM |
| 3 | | T-9 Texas Ports Association |
| 4-8 | | T-10 Tariff |
| folder | box |
| 28 | 1 | | T-10 Tariff-Houston, Galveston, Texas City, New Orleans,
Texas lines |
| 2 | | T-12 Textiles industry corresp. |
| 3 | | T-13 Toredo and termites |
| 4 | | T-14 Tin smelter |
| 5 | | T-15 Tidal lands |
| 6 | | T-15 Tidal lands |
| 7 | | T-16 Turning basin |
| 8 | | U-1 United States services-list of Army engineers
supervising River and Harbor projects, 1867-1947 |
| 9 | | V-1 Vegetable oil plant |
| 10 | | W-2 World Ports magazine |
| 11 | | W-4 Water supply reports and corresp. |
| 12 | | W-5 Wharves and docks-Wharf Characteristics, Port of
Houston |
| folder | box |
| 29 | 1-3 | | W-5 Wharves and docks |
| 4 | | W-5-a Wharves and docks-Frank White report |
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Series II: Publications, 1933-1959 (Box 30)
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| folder | box |
| 30 | 1 | | The Port of Houston-How It Came to
Pass by Col. Thomas H. Ball, 1936 |
| 2 | | Principal Industries, Port Facilities and
Points of Interest Along the Houston Ship Channel, 1959 |
| 3 | | Report of Survey for Revision of Warehouse
Lease, June 20, 1933 |
| 4 | | Proposed Houston-New York-Boston Steamship
Service |
| 5 | | Before the Navigation and Canal
Commissioners of Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District
(Barbour Terminals, Inc., Complainant) Brief and Argument in Behalf of
Complainant, [1937?] |
| 6 | | Presentation of Harris County Houston Ship
Channel Navigation District to Mayor Oscar F. Holcombe and City Council on
Buffalo Bayou Upper Channel Improvements, 1935 |
| 7 | | Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Director
of the Port, Houston, Texas, 1946 |
| 8 | | General Education Board Houston visitation, April 9,
1947 |
| 9 | | Navigation District 1958 Annual
Review |
| 10 | | “Wild River” ...yet untamed; A Pictorial
Presentation of Factual Information especially prepared for the Members of the
46th Legislature |
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Series III: Brazos River Harbor Navigation District,
1927-1962 (Boxes 31-34)
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| folder | box |
| 31 | 1 | | Mr. J. Russell Wait’s Report to Brazos River Harbor
Navigation District, 1950 |
| 2 | | Data for survey report, 1948 |
| 3 | | Survey Report to Brazos Harbor Navigation
District by J. Russell Wait, May 1, 1950 |
| 4 | | Document No. 10 for Creation of Brazos River
Harbor Navigation District of Brazoria County, 1927 |
| 5 | | Specifications |
| 6 | | Financial data, 1956-62 |
| 7 | | Soil and foundation investigation |
| 8 | | Data to Quartermaster, 1953 |
| 9 | | Facts-study on Brazos River and Freeport
harbor |
| 10 | | Jetty alignment approval |
| 11 | | Information on interest to Pilot and Canal Commissioners
re: S/S Marinero, 1957 |
| folder | box |
| 32 | 1 | | Proposal for location of new shipbuilding-repair
yard |
| 2 | | Port Tariff; Rates, Rules and Regulations
Governing the Navigation District and its Public Facilities, 1957, 1960
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| 3 | | Statement of Brazos River Harbor Navigation
District of Brazoria County with reference to Flood Control and Related
Improvements in Brazoria County, Texas, 1962 |
| 4 | | Brazos River at Brazoria, Tex., and Water
Overflowing into Buffalo Camp Bayou near Brazoria, Tex. Discharge for Flood
Period April- June, 1957 |
| 5 | | Stenographer’s Minutes Before the Interstate
Commerce Commission, Docket No. 33558 In the Matter of Brazos River Harbor
Navigation District of Brazoria County, Texas v Abilene & Southern Railway
Company, et al, Dallas, Texas, March 1961 [volumes I-V] |
| folder | box |
| 33 | 1-3 | | Improvements |
| 4 | | Annual Report 1952 |
| 5 | | Annual Report 1953 |
| 6 | | Annual Report 1954 |
| 7 | | Annual Report 1956 |
| 8 | | Annual Report 1957 |
| 9 | | Annual Report 1958 |
| 10 | | Harbor construction photos, 1952-53 |
| folder | box |
| 34 | 1-2 | | Harbor construction photos, 1953-54 |
| 3 | | Harbor construction photos, 1954-55 |
| 4 | | Harbor construction photos, 1954-55 |
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Series IV: Scrapbooks, 1939-1942 (6 volumes)
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| Two large scrapbooks in the collection document Houston
area daily newspaper coverage of WWII from late August 1939 to June 1942,
providing insight into the increasing impact of the war upon American life. A
set of four scrapbooks document Wait's 1939 business trips to Japan, featuring
typewritten notes, published booklets, clippings, and postcards. |
| | | World War II newsclippings scrapbooks, 1939-1942 (Vols. I
and II) |
| | | Trips to Japan (Vols. I - IV) |
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