Finding Aid for the Clear Lake Area Chamber of Commerce Records (CLA-9)

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dc.date.accessioned2022-07-29T17:46:23Z
dc.date.available2022-07-29T17:46:23Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThe Clear Lake Area Chamber of Commerce Records is composed of newsletters, magazines, newspaper issues, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, promotional booklets, and miscellaneous materials, created or compiled by the Clear Lake Area Chamber of Commerce (CLACC) of the coastal Bay Area of Houston, Texas, region. Dating from the 1960s through the early 2000s, the materials document important business and community developments for the Clear Lake Area, that includes the following communities: port of Houston, Clear Lake Shores, El Lago, Kemah, League City, Nassau Bay, Seabrook, Taylor Lake Village, and Webster. In most cases, the information in these records is unavailable anywhere in the United States. The majority of the collection is composed of CLACC newsletters and magazines published between 1967 and 2003. These publications document the roles and activities of CLACC in the coastal Houston region, as well as providing community and business history during this period. New CLACC board members, new CLACC programs and activities, new local businesses, and general community information are included in these publications. One of the largest sets of materials in the collection are different types of scrapbooks created by the Clear Lake Area Chamber of Commerce between 1963 and 1986. An interesting series of scrapbooks were referred to as “Economic Growth Announcements Scrapbooks.” These mostly contain newspaper clippings, community profiles, and miscellaneous materials, about various aspects of local Clear Lake Area events, CLACC happenings, and local history columns published in the Clear Lake Citizen newspaper between 1967 and 1976. The most important scrapbooks are those created by CLACC from 1963 to 1986, that are largely composed of newspaper clippings and photographs covering CLACC events and other happenings. One of the scrapbooks labeled “Ambassadors Ribbon-Cuttings” contains photographs of the Clear Lake Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors group attending ribbon-cutting events for Clear Lake Area businesses, schools, organizations, and new buildings throughout the region sometime between the 1970s and 1980s. Each photograph has the name of the place for which the ribbon cutting is occurring, the manager or owner of the business or organization, and the address. The collection is one of the most complete sources for historical information of the Clear Lake Area of Texas following the establishment of NASA Johnson Space Center in the region. en_US
dc.identifier.otherCLA-9 [Accession No. 2013-0009]
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10657.1/2663
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUHCL Archives staffen_US
dc.subjectClear Lake Area history
dc.subject.lcshClear Lake City (Tex.)
dc.subject.lcshEl Lago (Tex.)
dc.subject.lcshHarris County (Tex.)
dc.subject.lcshKemah (Tex.)
dc.subject.lcshLeague City (Tex.)
dc.subject.lcshNassau Bay (Tex.)
dc.subject.lcshSeabrook (Tex.)
dc.subject.lcshWebster (Tex.)
dc.subject.lcshTexas--History, Local--Periodicals
dc.subject.lcshClear Lake (Galveston County and Harris County, Tex.)
dc.titleFinding Aid for the Clear Lake Area Chamber of Commerce Records (CLA-9)en_US
dc.typeOtheren_US

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