Monthly Archives: December 2010

Hackerman era miscellany

I’m out of town at a meeting for a couple of days, so all I have to offer right now is whatever images happen to be on my laptop. These are mostly things that I’ve downloaded to use in various … Continue reading

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The Rice Institute Pamphlets

One of my guiltiest pleasures (in the archives, anyway) is nosing around in what other people are looking at. I’ve found a lot of things that way that I never would have come across otherwise. Last week one of my … Continue reading

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William Max Nathan, Class of 1916

The other day, as is my habit, I got distracted in the archives. I like to work standing up, using a map case for my desk. On the shelves behind that case are several boxes of scrapbooks. I haven’t been … Continue reading

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The 1921 Baseball Team

I had a few minutes to go dig out the 1922 Campanile for pictures of Rice’s 1921 baseball team. Besides the standard team photo and a page devoted to Eddie Dyer, there are some charming action shots of the team … Continue reading

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What’s in the archives

I got a (very welcome) comment from an alert reader on my post about the mules, suggesting that I  look at the budget records to see if I could use them to figure out how long we kept feeding livestock. … Continue reading

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