Monthly Archives: December 2013

I’ve mentioned before that for decades George and Esther Cohen threw an exceedingly glamorous and extremely well attended New Year’s Eve party in the Faculty Club every year. I’d come across invitations to these galas in a number of collections … Continue reading →

Regular readers have listened to me whine about undated photographs for several years now. (I never tire of it!) Recently, though, in the course of a single day I came across two images that were not only dated but on … Continue reading →

Some pretty girls from the 1946 Campanile, also featuring my favorite defunct drinking fountain:

It’s exciting to me, at any rate. See it? The first thing I do with any image from this era that I haven’t seen before is to look for a train. I can’t tell you how much I wish someone … Continue reading →

One day last week I was looking through President Lovett’s personal papers and I was caught off guard by this newspaper article about the launching of a ship named after a Rice graduate who had been killed in combat and … Continue reading →

There are a lot of very dignified Christmas cards in our collections. And then there are the ones that came from the Athletics Department. Bonus: Metropolitan Museum of Art Christmas tree.

The Institute for Computer Services and Applications issued a warning in its December 1973 newsletter: “Turnaround Slow This Time of Year.” My attention was particularly drawn to the the ominous sounding bit about the Night Owls Time Sharing Service on … Continue reading →

Over the years, one of the mainstays of Continuing Education at Rice has been photography courses. In particular, serious students return repeatedly to the classes offered by Peter Brown. Last week marked the conclusion of the last such class to … Continue reading →

I found these pictures on a random contact sheet. (I shudder to think about how many of these are still unexamined. It’s impossible to even guess.) When I first squinted at the little images I thought they showed the early … Continue reading →

I was more surprised by a newspaper story I recently found in a box of old clippings than anything else I’ve run across in quite some time. The gist of it is this: “The war is hitting close to home … Continue reading →