Records, 1929-1992.

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Records, 1929-1992.

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Consists largely of minutes, reports, news clippings, and photographs, but also contains video and audio tapes, yearbooks, newsletters, correspondence, notices, and landscape drawings. These records document the functions and activities of the GCH from 1924 to the present, with the bulk dating since World War II.

9 linear ft. of textual materials plus.52 audio and video tapes plus.780 photographs and slides.

Hirsch Library Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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