Overseer on horseback, four to five men working with teams of mules pulling flatbed wagons to bring harvested rice to threshing machine. Foreground has many bags of rice prepared from the threshing machine. Flag flying over machine. Bay or marsh...
Threshing machine is fully visible. Three teams of mules pulling flatbed wagons filled with harvested rice and two to three men each await turn at rice threshing machine.
Tinted portrait of unidentified woman. Resembles a water-color painting rather than a photographic portrait. Portrait is signed in lower right corner, but artist cannot be determined.
These papers describe the history of the Rice Institute from the new foundation and endowment for education to the departments on campus in the 1920s. The Rice Institute later became Rice University.
