Monthly Archives: January 2011

I don’t usually post on weekends at all, so I figured I could go ahead and put up a completely (so far as I know) non-Rice related post, just because I’d like to. Most of you don’t know this, but … Continue reading →

This is an early shot of the Physics Building. I can tell from the state of the landscaping and from where I found it (Elmer Shutts’s scrapbook) that it was taken from about 1915 to 1916. Note, if you will, the … Continue reading →

There are thousands of photographs in the Rice archives, but one of the things in fairly short supply are pictures taken inside dorm rooms. We always look pretty intently when we find one. (If you have any, please let me … Continue reading →

The man who took those first aerial photographs of the Rice campus in 1917 was Professor J.H. Pound, shown here at about that time. Pound was born in Hannibal, Missouri in 1890 and received a bachelors and then a masters … Continue reading →

Fred Manaker entered Rice to study electrical engineering in the fall of 1914. He was raised in Alvin and graduated from Alvin High School, although his family later moved to Fulshear. His father, Philip Manaker, had apparently been an engineer … Continue reading →

I knew this was going to happen. And it only took a few hours. I got an email last night from alert reader Charles Szalkowski, who sends information on the airplanes I posted about yesterday: “It is difficult to tell … Continue reading →

This is cool. It’s not a football field; it’s an air field. I found these photos last week in some scrapbook pages that belonged to a member of the class of 1918. (His last name was Trout and I can’t … Continue reading →

One of the most enjoyable things about this blog is that it’s given me the opportunity to meet other people who are interested in Rice history. After my post a week ago where I was kind of inappropriately swooning over … Continue reading →

Over Christmas break I got an email out of the blue from Dr. Russell M. Pitzer, the son of Rice’s third president, Kenneth Pitzer, letting me know that he had sent me a couple of boxes of Rice related memorabilia. … Continue reading →

Just to underscore how completely surprising life in the archives can be, here’s this. Someone brought in a box of materials related to the Faculty Women’s Club just before the holidays and we were looking through them this morning. The … Continue reading →