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Title	Lyndall Finley Wortham, portrait in wedding dress
Author/Creator	Unknown photographer.
Original Date Created	1926
Institution	Woodson Research Center, Rice University
Description	Portrait of Lyndall Wortham in wedding dress, from the Gus S. Wortham family and business records.
Description.Abstract	Lyndall Finley Wortham (1892-1980) was married to business leader and philanthropist Gus S. Wortham. Mr. and Mrs. Wortham, are remembered for establishing the Wortham Foundation for support of cultural organizations and parks in Houston. In addition to the Wortham Theater Center, several other public places in Houston are named for Wortham, including Gus Wortham Park, Gus Wortham Memorial Fountain, Wortham Fountain at the Texas Medical Center, Wortham House (home of the University of Houston chancellor), Wortham IMAX Theater at the Museum of Natural Science, Wortham World of Primates at the Houston Zoo, and Wortham Tower in the American General Center.
Subject Categories	Wortham, Elizabeth Lyndall Finley, 1892-1980;
Source	Forms part of the Gus S. Wortham family and business records (http://www.rice.edu/fondren/woodson/mss/ms514.html), Box 16 folder 1 item 2, at the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University (http://www.rice.edu/fondren/woodson/, 713-348-1586).
Rights	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.