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[Top value TV stamps]

Twenty two top value TV stamps

Date: unknown

Item Type: Text

[Two catechists with students]

Photograph of two catechists with their students in the early 1930s.

Date: 193X

Item Type: Photograph

[Two men in suits]

Photograph of two unidentified men in suits.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Photograph of two men standing on the platform of a train engine. The man on the left looking down at something in his hands. William Aguilar was an engineer for the US Railroad in Clovis, New Mexico during the 1940s. He was a long time resident of Houston.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Two nuns and group of children]

Photograph of two nuns and a group of children in the 1930s. Sign in center front of photograph: "Sodality of the Infant Jesus, Our Lady of Guadalupe."

Date: 193X

Item Type: Photograph

[Two nuns standing next to a statue of Mary]

Photograph of two nuns standing next to a statue of Mary in the 1930s.

Date: 193X

Item Type: Photograph

[Two nuns with female students]

Photograph of two nuns with female students in uniform, circa 1928-1929.

Date: 192X

Item Type: Photograph

[Two soldiers pose with rounds of ammunition]

Photograph of two young soldiers posing with rounds of ammunition hanging down their left sides.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Two soldiers, standing outside of barracks]

Photograph of two men in uniform standing in a field outside of a barracks.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Various snapshots from the Santos Carrion Collection]

Photograph of various snapshots from the Santos Carrion Collection. Includes a group portrait of children, family portraits, and an exterior photograph of the Holy Cross Church and Rectory building. Four images.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 28.984595458797028 -95.95042509999996

[Vasallos of Cristo Rey]

Photograph of Vasallos of Cristo Rey, circa late 1970s.

Date: 197X

Item Type: Photograph

[Vasallos of Cristo Rey anniversary party]

Photograph of a Vasallos of Cristo Rey anniversary party, crica early 1950s.

Date: 195X

Item Type: Photograph

War Ration Book Four

War Ration Book Four; the original owner's name has faded from the cover of the booklet. The booklet contains many unused ration stamps for a variety of goods.

Date: 194X

Creator: United States. Office of Price Administration.

Item Type: Text

[Water service bill for Nicandro Medrano from the City of Houston]

Water service bill sent to Nicandro Medrano at 1101 Wooding, Houston, Texas, for the month of February 1939. On the back stamped, Postage .01, and Houston, Texas Feb. 13, 1939.

Date: unknown

Creator: City of Houston. Water Department

Item Type: Text

Location: 29.74203700907343 -95.29846399999997

[Water service bill for Nicandro Medrano from the City of Magnolia Park]

Water bill sent from the City of Magnolia Park, City Water Department, to Nicandro Medrano, 1101 Wooding Street, for 0.75 cents.

Date: unknown

Creator: City of Magnolia Park. Water Department

Item Type: Text

Location: 29.74203700907343 -95.29846399999997

[Woman and children in front of stores]

Photograph of a woman holding a young boy and a young girl close to her sides. Several stores are visible behind them, including: Botica Guadalupe Drugs, a liquor store, a hotel, and a radio shop.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Woman in front of Alamo Furniture Company shop]

Photograph of a woman standing in the doorway of the Alamo Furniture Company shop.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 29.757836959079214 -95.35338945000001

[Young musicians on stage]

Photograph of three young musicians on stage with their instruments. From left to right: a boy with a banjo ; a girl with a xylophone ; a girl with a guitar.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Young women and children with a nun]

Photograph of young women and children with a nun in front of a building.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Young women with corsages being pinned on]

Photograph of young women with corsages being pinned on.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Military career and business of Ignacio Bocanegra and Pilar Miranda]

Photocopy of a document describing the life and hardships of Ignacio Bocanegra and Pilar Miranda, who fought in Pancho Villa's revolution. After the struggle they moved to Houston and started a candy factory, which became very prosperous later.

Date: August 4, 1971

Item Type: Text

[Detail of the mural, The Rebirth of Our Nationality]

Photograph detail of Leo Tanguma's "The Rebirth of Our Nationality", a mural spanning a building on Canal Street in Houston, Texas. The brightly colored mural depicts multiple figures reaching toward each other. At the top of the mural: "To become aware of our history is to become aware of our singularity." The work was completed in 1973 during the Chicano mural movement.

Date: 1973

Creator: Tanguma, Leo

Item Type: Photograph

[Invitation to the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. And Mrs. Ignacio Medina]

Invitation from the children of Mr. And Mrs. Ignacio Medina to celebrate their parents’ 50th wedding anniversary at a mass in their honor at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church on April 30, 1977.

Date: April 30, 1977

Item Type: Text

Location: 29.739025967961812 -95.28806610000004

[Arturo Rosales standing at podium]

Photograph of Arturo Rosales, Professor of Chicano History at the University of Houston, standing at a podium. Rosales is wearing glasses and a white shirt.

Date: 1978

Item Type: Photograph

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[Top value TV stamps]

[Two catechists with students]

[Two men in suits]

[Two men on a train engine]

[Two nuns and group of children]

[Two nuns standing next to a statue of Mary]

[Two nuns with female students]

[Two soldiers pose with rounds of ammunition]

[Two soldiers, standing outside of barracks]

[Various snapshots from the Santos Carrion Collection]

[Vasallos of Cristo Rey]

[Vasallos of Cristo Rey anniversary party]

War Ration Book Four

[Water service bill for Nicandro Medrano from the City of Houston]

[Water service bill for Nicandro Medrano from the City of Magnolia Park]

[Woman and children in front of stores]

[Woman in front of Alamo Furniture Company shop]

[Young musicians on stage]

[Young women and children with a nun]

[Young women with corsages being pinned on]

[Military career and business of Ignacio Bocanegra and Pilar Miranda]

[Detail of the mural, The Rebirth of Our Nationality]

[Invitation to the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. And Mrs. Ignacio Medina]

[Arturo Rosales standing at podium]