Oral History Interview with Thomas P. Emery, February 21, 1995

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Interview with Thomas P. Emery, a US Army WWII veteran from Solana Beach, California, who served as a pathfinder in the 6th Army Special Special Recon Unit. Emery discusses joining the Army and airborne training, assignment to G-2, scout and pathfinder training, attending OCS, deployment to New Guinea, formation of the Alamo Scouts, learning to live and fight in the jungle, his first mission, raids and harassing Japanese troops, traveling aboard the USS Missouri, and fighting in the Philippines.
Date: February 21, 1995
Creator: Alexander, Wm. J. & Emery, Thomas P.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Adolph Krchnak, May 23, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Adolph Krchnak, May 23, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Adolph Krchnak. Krchnak joined the Army in December of 1944. He completed parachute school. In late 1944, early 1945 he was stationed in the Philippines with the 11th Airborne Division. They served in a traditional infantry role in the Philippines. His division participated in the Liberation of Manila in the spring of 1945. In August of 1945 they traveled into southern Japan as part of the occupation force. He was honorably discharged in 1946.
Date: May 23, 2015
Creator: Krchnak, Adolph
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Adolph Krchnak, May 23, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with Adolph Krchnak, May 23, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Adolph Krchnak. Krchnak joined the Army in December of 1944. He completed parachute school. In late 1944, early 1945 he was stationed in the Philippines with the 11th Airborne Division. They served in a traditional infantry role in the Philippines. His division participated in the Liberation of Manila in the spring of 1945. In August of 1945 they traveled into southern Japan as part of the occupation force. He was honorably discharged in 1946.
Date: May 23, 2015
Creator: Krchnak, Adolph
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas or Tick Fever and Its Prevention (open access)

Texas or Tick Fever and Its Prevention

Report discussing the disease tick fever (also known as Texas fever) and its destructive effects on cattle. Topics discussed include the life cycle of the tick which transmits the disease, symptoms of the disease, and methods of treatment and prevention.
Date: 1906
Creator: Mohler, John R. (John Robbins), b. 1875
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rural planning : the village. (open access)

Rural planning : the village.

Describes various types of planned villages and provides examples of features in such communities.
Date: 1940
Creator: Nason, W. C. (Wayne Crocker), b. 1874
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 63, July 1959 - April, 1960 (open access)

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 63, July 1959 - April, 1960

The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 637.
Date: 1960
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kongo Near-Death Experiences: Cross-Cultural Patterns (open access)

Kongo Near-Death Experiences: Cross-Cultural Patterns

Article analyzing eight Kongo near-death experiences (NDEs) from Central Africa in support of the argument that universal features exist within this experiential form.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: McClenon, James
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shorter Contributions to General Geology, 1936 (open access)

Shorter Contributions to General Geology, 1936

From abstract: This report describes four species of Ostreidae from the Upper Cretaceous of the Gulf region. The zones that the species characterize lie either in the upper part of the Austin chalk or in beds of upper Austin age.
Date: 1940
Creator: Loughlin, G. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cotton Diseases and Their Control (open access)

Cotton Diseases and Their Control

"The principal cotton diseases which cause damage in the Southern States are described and illustrated in the following pages and the best-known methods of controlling them are described." -- p. 3. Diseases discussed include wilt, root knot, anthracnose, bacterial blight, shedding of bolls, rust, Texas root rot, and other minor diseases.
Date: 1921
Creator: Gilbert, William W. (William Williams), b. 1880
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore (open access)

Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore

Volume of essays about African-American folklore, including reminiscences of African-American folk culture in Texas, studies of specific genres of folklore, information about Texas-African food-ways, studies of specific performers, information about songs and other folklore. The index begins on page 353.
Date: 1996
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 16, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 5, 1897 (open access)

The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 16, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 5, 1897

Weekly African-American newspaper from Raleigh, North Carolina that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 5, 1897
Creator: Young, James H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 49 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 49

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Conservation of Soil Resources, Potato Breeding, Disk-Harrowing Alfalfa, the Montreal Muskmelon, Storage of Hubbard Squash, Fig Culture in the South, Mushroom Growing, Preserving Wild Mushrooms, Cooking Beans and Other Vegetables, and a Model Kitchen.
Date: 1909
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 48, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 15, 1898 (open access)

The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 48, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 15, 1898

Weekly African-American newspaper from Raleigh, North Carolina that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 15, 1898
Creator: Young, James H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Leslie Line: Ancestors of Five Leslie Brothers (open access)

The Leslie Line: Ancestors of Five Leslie Brothers

A book complied by Ruth Leslie Barrett detailing the history of five generations of a single Leslie family line beginning in America with George Leslie (1734-1775). Chapters describe the Leslie origins in Scotland, biographical information on George Leslie, Samuel Leslie , James Leslie, and John T. Leslie, as well as the kinsmen of Agnes Allison Leslie, and E. A. Atkins Leslie.
Date: 1990
Creator: Barrett, Ruth Leslie
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Anne Sloan, September 11, 2000 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Anne Sloan, September 11, 2000

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Anne Sloan. Sloan grew up in Oregon and joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1944. She spent time at Fort Des Moines, Iowa; Plattsburgh, New York; Camp Davis, North Carolina; Lexington, Virginia; and San Antonio, Texas before she left the service in 1946. She was at Times Square, New York City on V-E Day. After the service, she used the GI Bill to attend the University of Texas at Austin, where she met her husband. She later became a teacher.
Date: September 11, 2000
Creator: Sloan, Anne
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mollusca From the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda (open access)

Mollusca From the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda

Introduction: Part 2 of the Systematic Report continues and concludes the study of the Mollusca from the Miocene and lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. One hundred and nineteen species, only a fraction of the known fauna, are reviewed and 66 additional species are described and figured. (See faunal chart, pp. 180-183.) The report upon the gastropods suffers from the same shortcomings obvious in the work on the pelecypods. Most of the material is from old collections made before the importance of the exact placing of the fossil locality both areally and vertically was recognized. Many of the citations of outcrops are vague and the sections generalized. Detailed field studies, particularly on the zoning of the Yorktown formation in southern Virginia and northern North Carolina, were begun later by Wendell P. Mansfield, but he died in the summer of 1939 before the completion of the work.
Date: 1948
Creator: Gardner, Julia Anna & Mansfield, Wendell C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Fenner Forebears of Samuel Fenner Leslie (open access)

The Fenner Forebears of Samuel Fenner Leslie

A book complied by Ruth Leslie Barrett detailing the history of immigrant Richard Fenner and his son Robert Fenner and one line of his descendants: Robert Fenner, Jr., Joseph F. Fenner, and Lucy Fenner Leslie, the mother of Samuel Fenner Leslie. The texts includes information about Fenner family children, kin, and the family of their spouses as well as family military service spanning from the American Revolutionary War to the Spanish American War. Each chapter has a narrative, notes, sources, and appendices.
Date: 1987
Creator: Barrett, Ruth Leslie
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 4, 1897 (open access)

The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 4, 1897

Weekly African-American newspaper from Raleigh, North Carolina that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 4, 1897
Creator: Young, James H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 24, 1897 (open access)

The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 24, 1897

Weekly African-American newspaper from Raleigh, North Carolina that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 24, 1897
Creator: Young, James H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 50, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 29, 1898 (open access)

The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 50, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 29, 1898

Weekly African-American newspaper from Raleigh, North Carolina that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 29, 1898
Creator: Young, James H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 27, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 21, 1897 (open access)

The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 27, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 21, 1897

Weekly African-American newspaper from Raleigh, North Carolina that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 21, 1897
Creator: Young, James H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Geology of the Raleigh 1° x 2° Quadrangle, North Carolina (open access)

Geology of the Raleigh 1° x 2° Quadrangle, North Carolina

From Introduction: The purpose of this report is to provide geologic and mineral resource background information useful in evaluating the uranium potential of the Raleigh 1* X 20 sheet.
Date: 1978
Creator: Wilson, William F.; Carpenter, P. Albert, III; Burt, Edward R.; McDaniel, Ronald D.; Coffey, James C. & McKensie, Benjamin J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 30, 1897 (open access)

The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 30, 1897

Weekly African-American newspaper from Raleigh, North Carolina that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 30, 1897
Creator: Young, James H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 8, 1897 (open access)

The Gazette. (Raleigh, N.C.), Vol. 9, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 8, 1897

Weekly African-American newspaper from Raleigh, North Carolina that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 8, 1897
Creator: Young, James H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History