Monthly Archives: January 2018

City of Houston from Rice, c1914-15

I found this recently in a scrapbook that was kept by Elmer Shutts ’16: It looks great but unfortunately things have changes so much that I can’t get my bearings at all. Does anyone understand what we’re looking at here? … Continue reading

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“some of the members have enjoyed Mr. Sharrar’s Victrola,” 1930

With official administrative memos, policy statements, budget requests, and so on there is a sameness that runs straight through the course of all the decades. Sometimes this feels comforting, other times it’s deeply depressing, but because the content and tone … Continue reading

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