Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Insurance Department (open access)

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Insurance Department

A special circular discussing the various ways that the organization has assisted in the World War II efforts for the past several years and asking that they continue to adjust their work until the war is over.
Date: January 8, 1945
Creator: Grand Lodge Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from the Warner & Swasey Co. to Alex Bradford - December 21, 1943] (open access)

[Letter from the Warner & Swasey Co. to Alex Bradford - December 21, 1943]

Letter from the Warner & Swasey Company's Advertising Department to Alex Bradford thanking Mr. Bradford for his kind words on their most recent advertisement, "Are the Japs better men than we are?". The attached letter has been attached on the second page of the document.
Date: December 21, 1943
Creator: Warner & Swasey Company. Advertising Department.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Impact of the War on the Cleveland, Ohio Area (open access)

Impact of the War on the Cleveland, Ohio Area

Report describing the industrial area of Cleveland, Ohio including compiled statistics and information about the effects of World War Two on the labor force and industrial expansion of the area.
Date: July 1944
Creator: Fisko, Both H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Misc. news bulletins] (open access)

[News Script: Misc. news bulletins]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: January 28, 1970, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Facts & Faces, January 1945 (open access)

Facts & Faces, January 1945

Newsletter for the employees of The Yoder Company in Cleveland, Ohio, including news, events, and other updates of interest to workers. This issue includes a feature about a visit from soldiers sent by General Eisenhower to tour ammunition manufacturers. This copy was sent to Pfc. H. T. Gaby, who was part of the tour, in an envelope that has the company logo on the front and and illustration of soldiers jumping out of a truck on the back.
Date: January 1945
Creator: Yoder Company
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Inga Czerner, January 4, 1990

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Inga Czerner (née Israelski), a German-Jewish expatriate from Frankfurt-am-Main. Czerner discusses Hitler's rise to power and the initial effect of Nazi power on Jews, her father's departure for Russia, growing up in Frankfurt, growing antisemitism, the Gestapo, her schooling, the Kristallnacht, hiding, fleeing Germany to England without her mother, loss of her family members to the Holocaust, learning her father survived the war, moving to the US and marrying her husband Albert, and reflections on the Holocaust and Jewishness.
Date: January 4, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Czerner, Ingaborg Rosa
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hellcat News, (Cleveland, Ohio), Vol. 4, No. 4, Ed. 1, May/June 1950 (open access)

Hellcat News, (Cleveland, Ohio), Vol. 4, No. 4, Ed. 1, May/June 1950

Newsletter published by the 12th Armored Division Association, discussing news related to the activities of the U.S. Army unit and updates on previous members of the division.
Date: 1950
Creator: Twelfth Armored Division Association (U.S.)
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letters Sent to Jack Ruby in Jail] (open access)

[Letters Sent to Jack Ruby in Jail]

Poor quality photocopies of letters which were sent to Jack Ruby during his time at Dallas County Jail. The letters were written by citizens, many of whom express an interest in his well-being and spirituality.
Date: 1964~
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Convairiety, Volume 2, Number 18, August 31, 1949 (open access)

Convairiety, Volume 2, Number 18, August 31, 1949

Bimonthly newsletter published for employees of the Convair Division in Fort Worth containing work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.
Date: August 31, 1949
Creator: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Drug Wars News Series] captions transcript

[News Clip: Drug Wars News Series]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: Two Women in Bendix Race] (open access)

[Clipping: Two Women in Bendix Race]

Newspaper clipping featuring an article about the National Air Races and the annual convention of the Ninety-Nines. A photograph of Emma Coulter Ware and former WASP Clara Jo Marsh standing next to a small airplane accompanies the article.
Date: August 30, 1946
Creator: Mountsier, Robert
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Herald Tribune Sends Its Plane to Air Races] (open access)

[Clipping: Herald Tribune Sends Its Plane to Air Races]

Newspaper clipping with articles about the New York Herald Tribune participating in air races, the death of Jack Woolams, Senator Carl Hatch's opposition to bomb tests, and more.
Date: August 31, 1946
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-consumption parameters for automatic mixture control of aircraft engines (open access)

Air-consumption parameters for automatic mixture control of aircraft engines

From Introduction: "The purpose of this analysis was to investigate the use of function of intake-manifold temperature and pressure, exhaust back pressure, and engine speed in place of a ventri as a means of measuring engine air consumption and to determine if this function is suitable for automatic mixture control."
Date: September 1944
Creator: Shames, Sidney J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altitude-wind-tunnel tests of power-plant installation in jet-propelled fighter (open access)

Altitude-wind-tunnel tests of power-plant installation in jet-propelled fighter

From Introduction: "The research program included clean-up tests (unpublished data) and stability and control tests (reference 1) made in the NACA Langley full-scale tunnel. An investigation of the aerodynamic characteristics of the power-plant installation in the Cleveland altitude wind tunnel is discussed in this report."
Date: February 1946
Creator: Preston, G. Merritt; Black, Fred O., Jr. & Jagger, James M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gazette. (Cleveland, Ohio), Vol. SEVENTEENTH YEAR, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 13, 1900 (open access)

The Gazette. (Cleveland, Ohio), Vol. SEVENTEENTH YEAR, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 13, 1900

Weekly African-American newspaper from Cleveland, Ohio that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 13, 1900
Creator: Smith, H. C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gazette. (Cleveland, Ohio), Vol. SEVENTEENTH YEAR, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 13, 1900 (open access)

The Gazette. (Cleveland, Ohio), Vol. SEVENTEENTH YEAR, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 13, 1900

Weekly African-American newspaper from Cleveland, Ohio that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 13, 1900
Creator: Smith, H. C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Clay H. Hollister to Harris L. Kempner, April 25, 1955] (open access)

[Letter from Clay H. Hollister to Harris L. Kempner, April 25, 1955]

Letter from Clay H. Hollister to Harris L. Kempner enclosing a photostat of a recent article and discussing administrative problems and what can be done about them.
Date: April 25, 1955
Creator: Hollister, Clay H.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History