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[Up from the Ruins Description]
Artist statement describing the background of the creation of a story cabinet titled "Up from the Ruins" and the history of the reclaimed materials that were used to make it.
Date:
2009~
Creator:
Ricketts, Doug
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Under a Wide Sky Description]
Artist statement describing the background of the creation of a story cabinet titled "Under a Wide Sky" and the history of the reclaimed materials that were used to make it.
Date:
2009~
Creator:
Ricketts, Doug
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Morris Hibbs, August 29, 2014
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Morris Hibbs. Hibbs joined the Marine Corps in November 1943 and received basic training in San Diego. He received field artillery instrument training at Camp Pendleton. Upon completion, he was sent to Hawaii. There he was reassigned to an antiaircraft unit on Kauai, serving as a cook. He was later stationed at a field kitchen on Okinawa, where he remained until the end of the war. Hibbs returned home and was discharged in December 1945.
Date:
August 29, 2014
Creator:
Hibbs, Morris
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Forrest Biard, August 15, 1984
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Forrest Biard. Biard graduated from the Naval Academy in 1934. From 1939 through September 1941, he completed full immersion in Japanese language and culture training in Tokyo. Biard was a cryptologic linguist, serving in all three Navy codebreaking units during World War II. In September, Biard was stationed at Pearl Harbor as a senior linguist for Station HYPO, the codebreaking unit at Pearl Harbor where he served as a language officer until August 1943. From February to May 1942, he was assigned to USS Yorktown (CV-5) as the radio intelligence officer under Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher. Biard’s translation and decryption work on JN-25 contributed to Allied efforts in the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway. From August to October 1943, he was sent to the codebreaking unit OP-20-G in Washington, also known as Station Negat. From November 1943 to April 1945, he was sent to the Station Cast codebreaking unit at Melbourne, Australia. While in Melbourne he deployed on several ships operating in the South Pacific. He worked in Melbourne to decrypt and translate captured Japanese Army code books for Douglas MacArthur, then used to accelerate the island-hopping …
Date:
August 15, 1984
Creator:
Biard, Forrest
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Printed database of cases filed
Database compiled of all cases of property damage from the Tulsa Race Massacre. Includes names, addresses, case numbers, a list of property loss.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Tulsa Race Riot (Massacre) Commission
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oral History Interview with Carol Reed, July 27, 1993
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Interview with Carol Reed, a political consultant, concerning her role in the development of the Republican Party in Texas (1967-1993). Reed discusses her volunteer campaign work, being political director of John Tower's senatorial campaign in 1978, her activities with the Texas Federation of Republican Women's Clubs, the evolving role of women in political campaigns, her decision to become a political consultant, her conservative philosophy, and her opinions about the Eagle Forum, radical feminism, abortion, and women's issues in general.
Date:
July 27, 1993
Creator:
Strickland, Kristi & Reed, Carol
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Tom Schicher, October 25, 2003
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Tom Schicher. Schicher joined the Marine Corps in March of 1944. He served as a rifleman and mortarman, and deployed to Hawaii as a replacement. They traveled to the Russell Islands and Guadalcanal practicing maneuvers. He participated in the Battle of Okinawa. After the war ended, he was assigned to occupation duty in China. Schicher returned to the US and was discharged around 1946.
Date:
October 25, 2003
Creator:
Schicher, Tom
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: The Carl Henke Home]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for The Carl Henke Home, in Fredericksburg, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.
Date:
1978
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Pioneer Schandua House]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Pioneer Schandua House, in Fredericksburg, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.
Date:
1980
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: La Coma Ranch Headquarters]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the La Coma Ranch Headquarters, in Mission, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date:
1963
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: M. S. and Cora Alice Perry House]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the M. S. and Cora Alice Perry House, in Bay City, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.
Date:
January 20, 1998
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Vinita House
Document describing the Vinita House as remembered by Volney A. Acheson, grandson of T. V. Munson, as told to his daughter, Joyce Acheson Maki. There are annotations in italics with information from interviews with Volney Acheson and conversations with Fern or Neva Munson.
Date:
January 31, 1998
Creator:
Maki, Joyce Acheson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Herblin-Shoe House]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Herblin-Shoe House, in Austin, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.
Date:
1987
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Georgia Payne, February 1, 2002
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Georgia Payne. Payne was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1929. Her father, who as an American citizen, was born in Manila, Philippines. In 1934 their family moved back to Manila to work and be close to her father’s mother. They were living there in 1941 when the Japanese invaded the Philippines. She and her family were taken to Santo Tomas Internment Camp, where they resided for 37 months. Around early 1945 Payne and her family were shipped back to the US. She provides vivid recollections of her time in the camp, their liberation and their acclimatization back in the States.
Date:
February 1, 2002
Creator:
Payne, Georgia
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Marcine Lanham and Jean Shepherd, 1983
Transcript of an interview with Marcine Lanham, a Red Cross volunteer at the time Hurricane Alicia struck the Gulf Coast of Texas, and Jean Shepherd, the president of the Brownwood Civic Association. Lanham and Shepherd both share their memories of the aftermath of Hurricane Alicia including work with the Red Cross helping clean up the damage caused by the hurricane and the effects on the Brownwood subdivision.
Date:
2018
Creator:
Mayo, Martha; Lanham, Marcine & Shepherd, Jean
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: McNamara House]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the McNamara House, in Victoria, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date:
1965
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: W.Y. Penn Home]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the W.Y. Penn Home, in Georgetown, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.
Date:
September 4, 1975
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
System:
The Portal to Texas History
St. Xavier's Academy, Denison, Texas
Annual from this school for 1919.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oral History Interview with Charles Dunnam, October 17, 2014
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles Dunnam. Dunnam was drafted into the Army in July, 1944 and had basic training at Camp Wolters. Upon being sent overseas, Dunnam joined the 126th Infantry Regiment on Leyte. He traveled with them to Luzon in January just after the invasion got started. In May, he was wounded by rifle fire. He returned to his unit and recalls several hundred Japanese soldiers surrendering just after the war ended. He spent some time in Japan before returning to the US and being discharged in August, 1946.
Date:
October 17, 2014
Creator:
Dunnam, Charles A
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert B. Mero, October 9, 2012
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert B. Mero. Born in 1924, he was drafted into the Army in New York in June 1943 at the age of eighteen. He went to basic training in Mineral Wells, Texas and from there to Army Specialized Training at the University of Missouri where he studied basic engineering. He shares an anecdote of meeting General Kramer while studying French at Camp Rucker, Alabama. He would meet the General again in the European Theatre at a later time. In 1944 he was transferred to Lyme Regis in the south of England. He shares a story of his brothers who were also stationed in England at the time. His division, the 66th, was then assigned to France where it would go on to assist in the Battle of the Bulge. He describes how his regiment was in a static position along the right side of the line and of his role in capturing a German soldier during night maneuvers. This would be his only combat. He was assigned to an occupation force in Germany then Austria following the war. He was a draftsman for Genreal Clark. He was discharged …
Date:
October 9, 2012
Creator:
Mero, Robert B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Thompson, January 11, 2008
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Thompson. One of seven boys, he was born in Dewar, Oklahoma 29 November 1921. Six of the boys served in the military during World War II, with two of them being killed in combat. Thompson describes his family life during the depression telling a touching story of his mother. After graduating from high school in 1938, he attended college for 2 years before going to California to work in a Northrup Aircraft plant. In 1942, he returned home and joined the Army. After completing basic training, he entered Officer Candidate School and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery in March 1943. After attending Ranger School, he went overseas. He tells of his experiences in North Africa and Italy where he was assigned to the 132nd Field Artillery as a forward observer. During August 1944, he went to Southern France, where he was captured by the Germans. He recalls the various POW camps he was moved to including one in Hammelburg, Germany. While there, a US tank column, under the leadership of General George Patton liberated the inmates. Thompson recalls being captured again and …
Date:
January 11, 2008
Creator:
Thompson, Robert T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disabled American Veterans
Bicentennial issue of this magazine, published by the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, Washington, D.C. History of disabled Americans from colonial times to post World War II is included.
Date:
2013
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Behavior and Its Causes: Readings 1-12]
Document containing 12 readings for the BEHV2300: Basic Behavior Principles course at the University of North Texas.
Date:
1997~
Creator:
Glenn, Sigrid
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Historic Marker Application: Hermes House]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Hamilton Ledbetter House, in La Grange, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, and photographs.
Date:
1979
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
System:
The Portal to Texas History