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Tad Lucas and Ruth Roach
This photo shows Ruth Roach and her cowgirl associate, Tad Lucas, riding together on the same horse in what appears to be a train yard in Fort Worth, Texas. Ruth Roach is in the front.
Date:
February 1949
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Woman's Wednesday Club Minutes, 1946-1952]
Minutes from weekly meetings of the Woman's Wednesday Club of Fort Worth, Texas, containing club business, motions, and events.
Date:
1946-10/1952-05
Creator:
Woman's Wednesday Club
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Woman's Wednesday Club Minutes, 1941-1946]
Minutes from weekly meetings of the Woman's Wednesday Club of Fort Worth, Texas, containing club business, motions, and events.
Date:
1941-10/1946-05
Creator:
Woman's Wednesday Club
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Woman's Wednesday Club Scrapbook, 1945-1982]
Scrapbook for the Woman's Wednesday Club in Fort Worth, Texas. The scrapbook contains photographs, newspaper articles, meeting minutes and other materials related to the club's activities.
Date:
1945/1982
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Woman's Wednesday Club History Scrapbook, Volume 2]
Volume two of a historical scrapbook for the Woman's Wednesday Club in Fort Worth, Texas. The scrapbook contains photographs, newspaper articles, letters and other materials related to the club's activities.
Date:
[1948..1953]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Western Union Telegram]
Photostat of a telegram from the United States Secretary of War to Mrs. Rose H. Gilbert, expressing his condolences for the death of her son, Private Harold Gilbert.
Date:
January 14, 1945
Creator:
United States Secretary of War & Dunlop
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Harry Goldstein]
Typed letter to the family of Private Harold Gilbert from a fellow soldier named Harry Goldstein, sent from Marseilles. The letter describes the sinking of a troop transport ship, Dec. 25, 1944, in which in which Gilbert was killed.
Date:
August 9, 1945
Creator:
Goldstein, Harry
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Group of people at a dedication]
Photograph of a dedication at Glen Lake Camp.
Date:
September 1, 1944
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Woman's Wednesday Club History Scrapbook, Volume 3]
Volume three of a historical scrapbook for the Woman's Wednesday Club in Fort Worth, Texas. The scrapbook contains photographs, newspaper articles, letters and other materials related to the club's activities.
Date:
1941/1953
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Gilbert Family]
Photostatic copy of a typed letter from the United States Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, to Max Gilbert. The letter awards Gilbert's son, Harold Gilbert with a Purple Heart for his service, and it expresses Stimson's condolences for the death of Harold Gilbert.
Date:
February 13, 1945
Creator:
Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Gilbert Family]
Two photostat copies of a typed letter from William J. Voelker Jr. to Mrs. Max Gilbert, mother of Private Harold Gilbert. The letter describes the attack that killed Harold Gilbert, and discusses the details of Gilbert's burial in Normandy, France on on Dec. 27, 1944.
Date:
April 30, 1945
Creator:
Voelker, William J., Jr.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[George Marshall's Sympathy Card]
A letter from General George C. Marshall, the United States Army Chief of Staff, expressing his condolences for the death of an unidentified soldier. The text reads: "General Marshall extends his deep sympathy in your bereavement. Your son fought valiantly in a supreme hour of his country's need. His memory will live in the grateful heart of our nation."
Date:
1945
Creator:
Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to a Gold Star Mother]
Typed letter from Amon Carter and his son, Amon Carter Jr. to "a Gold Star Mother." Gold Star Mothers is a support organization formed for mothers who lost a son or daughter in World War II. The letter expresses condolences and comfort to Rose Gilbert and was accompanied by a gift basket of grapefruits, as noted in the letter.
Date:
December 22, 1947
Creator:
Carter, Amon Giles, 1879-1955 & Carter, Amon G., Jr.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Memorial Service Flyer]
Flyer announcing a community memorial service to be held at the Ahavath Sholom Synagogue in Fort Worth, Texas. The memorial service was in memory of local soldiers "fallen in battle," and was officiated by Rabbi Samuel Soskin and Rabbi Charles Blumenthal. The soldiers remembered were: Richard Burt, Harold Gilbert, Alvin Rubin and Walter C. Sanders.
Date:
1946
Creator:
B'nai B'rith Lodge
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Floating Star, Interior of Beth-El Congregation Sanctuary]
Photograph of the floating star which was suspended from the ceiling as part of the interior design of the sanctuary when Beth-El was rebuilt in 1948 after the 1946 fire. The interior designer was the Hungarian-American architect Erno Fabry.
Date:
1948
Creator:
Joe Weisberg
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Congregation Ahavath Sholom Confirmation Class, 1949]
Photograph of the 1949 confirmation class of at Congregation Ahavath Sholom. There are four girls in white dresses, holding bouquets and standing in a line. One boy stands at the center in the front row in a dark suit and tie. The teachers, Helen Levenson and Charlotte Siegel, and Rabbi Charles Blumenthal and Rabbi Isadore Garsek are standing behind them. The group is posed on the bimah (altar) at the synagogue. The students are Sandra Zaetler, Pearl Katz, David Rubin, Barbara Walensky, and Lillian Sankary.
Date:
May 29, 1949
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Harold Gilbert]
Photograph of Private 1st Class Harold Gilbert, a soldier from Fort Worth, Texas. In this portrait, he is pictured from the chest up, wearing his uniform and beret. Gilbert was killed en route from England to France in 1944, when his troopship was torpedoed by the Germans in the English Channel. Fort Worth's Rubin-Gilbert AZA chapter (the B'nai B'rith youth group for boys) is named after him and Lt. Alvin Rubin, who also died in the war.
Date:
1944
Creator:
W. C. Stripling Company
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Ladies Cemetery Society Minutes]
Handwritten minutes for the Ladies Cemetery Society commenting on the death of Private Harold Gilbert, the son of the society's recording secretary, Rose Gilbert. The text notes: “The absence of the secretary ...who had the misfortune of losing her son, Harold, Dec. 25, 1944, in the European Theater of the war, made the meeting a sad one; each and every one of the members present were in tears.” On the second page of the minutes, the group’s long-time president Mrs. Becky Goldstein recalls how she and Mrs. Gilbert used to “go out to collect dues at 25 cents each. Mrs. Gilbert furnished the horse and buggy.”
Date:
January 16, 1945
Creator:
Mehl, Mrs. I. N.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
TXWECO, Yearbook of Texas Wesleyan College, 1941
Yearbook for Texas Wesleyan College in Fort Worth, Texas, which includes photographs of and information about the school, administration, student body, faculty, and organizations.
Date:
1941
Creator:
Texas Wesleyan College
Object Type:
Yearbook
System:
The Portal to Texas History
TXWECO, Yearbook of Texas Wesleyan College, 1947
Yearbook for Texas Wesleyan College in Fort Worth, Texas, which includes photographs of and information about the school, administration, student body, faculty, and organizations.
Date:
1947
Creator:
Texas Wesleyan College
Object Type:
Yearbook
System:
The Portal to Texas History
TXWECO, Yearbook of Texas Wesleyan College, 1949
Yearbook for Texas Wesleyan College in Fort Worth, Texas, which includes photographs of and information about the school, administration, student body, faculty, and organizations.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Texas Wesleyan College
Object Type:
Yearbook
System:
The Portal to Texas History
TXWECO, Yearbook of Texas Wesleyan College, 1945
Yearbook for Texas Wesleyan College in Fort Worth, Texas, which includes photographs of and information about the school, administration, student body, faculty, and organizations.
Date:
1945
Creator:
Texas Wesleyan College
Object Type:
Yearbook
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[1940 Ahavath Sholom Confirmation Class]
Photograph of the 1940 Ahavath Sholom confirmation class standing around the altar of the synagogue located downtown on Taylor Street in Fort Worth, Texas. From left to right, the members of the photograph are: Front row: Bertha Haller, Gloria Sheinberg (Swann). Back row: Rabbi Philip Graubart, Margie Cohen (Levingston), Dorothy Bergman, Jennie Moses (Winkler)(teacher), Dorothy Cohen, Shirley Garston (Cohen), Annie Kaplan, Betty Daiches (Sher).
Date:
1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Alvin Rubin]
Photograph of Lieutenant Alvin Rubin, an Air Force pilot from Fort Worth, Texas. He is pictured from the chest up, wearing his uniform. Rubin was killed in an plane crash over Dakar, French Africa on March 15, 1944. A graduate of Paschal High, he was a past chapter president of AZA, the B'nai B'rith youth group for boys. Fort Worth's Rubin-Gilbert AZA chapter is named after him and Pvt. Harold Gilbert, who also died in the war.
Date:
March 1944
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History