GIFTS OF THE FRIENDS OF THE TEXAS ROOM TO THE HMRC TO DATE:

  1. Retrospective conversion of the Texas Room map collection to electronic format for the online public access catalog.
  2. Friends of the Texas Room Life-size reproduction of the 1869 Wood Map of Houston for use by Texas Room patrons.
  3. Purchase of three metal cabinets for the storage of microfilm copies of newspapers.
  4. Purchase of one copy of Woodrow Wilson’s Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House by Godfrey Hodgson, Yale University Press, 2006.
  5. Purchase of one copy of Down in Houston (2003) and Texas Zydeco (2006) by Roger Wood, University of Texas Press.
  6. Purchase of one copy of Labor, Civil Rights, and the Hughes Tool Company by Michael Botson, Jr., Texas A&M University Press, 2007.