Local Museum gets grant money to preserve Humble Echo newspaper

A part of Humble’s history will be preserved online thanks to a grant given to a local museum.

The Humble Museum received a grant for $1,000 from the University of North Texas to preserve copies of the Humble Echo, which is no longer in publication.

The university offers their “Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grants” which provide up to $1,000 of digitization services to libraries, archives, museums, historical societies and other groups that house historical materials, according to their website.

Once materials are scanned at the university libraries, they are hosted on The Portal to Texas History, according to the school’s website.

“We have about nine to 10 years of the Humble Echo,” said Dr. Robert Meaux, president of the board of the Humble Museum. “And that’s not much because it started in 1933 and it published until the early to mid 1990s.”

The $1,000 will pay for about a quarter of the cost of digitizing copies of the Echo newspaper, Meaux said. The museum will apply for the grant again in the coming years or hold fund-raisers to gather the remaining $3,000 needed to complete the project.

“We have the first three or four years,” (of the paper). It was the paper in Humble at the time, the only one,” he said of the publication that began publishing before WWII.

Museum officials had to get written permission from the last known publisher of the Echo before copies of the newspapers could be put online.

Now that permission has been granted, the newspapers will be sent to the University of North Texas where they will be scanned and put online so that anyone will be able to access them.

Museum officials are still searching for copies of Humble Echo so they may be preserved. Anyone who has copies of the paper is asked to get in touch with Jeri Christian at the Humble Museum at 281-446-2130.
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