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Oral History Interview with Colonel John. E. Olson, March 15, 1998

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Interview with Colonel John E. Olson, a Army WWII veteran and POW from Leavenworth, Kansas. Olson discusses his family background, commissioning in the Army from West Point, assignment to the Philippines in 1939 as an infantry officer, the start of the war, withdrawal to Bataan and the ensuing battle and surrender, the Bataan Death March, internment at Cabanatuan, transfer to Osaka, experiences there in internment at a factory labor camp, liberation, organizing the evacuation of POWs, returning to the US, and his postwar career.
Date: March 15, 1998
Creator: Alexander, Bill & Olson, John E.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Synthetic Liquid Fuel Potential of Kansas (open access)

The Synthetic Liquid Fuel Potential of Kansas

Report documenting the suitability of Kansas for plant locations to produce synthetic liquid fuels, based on raw materials, water sources, and local interest.
Date: May 14, 1951
Creator: Ford, Bacon, and Davis
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analyses of Coals in the United States with Descriptions of Mine and Field Samples Collected between July 1, 1904 and June 30, 1910 Part 2. Descriptions of Samples (open access)

Analyses of Coals in the United States with Descriptions of Mine and Field Samples Collected between July 1, 1904 and June 30, 1910 Part 2. Descriptions of Samples

From Introduction: "This volume contains the descriptions of the samples whose analyses are published in the preceding volume, Part I of this bulletin. The descriptions have been compiled from the notebooks of the persons who collected the samples, have been condensed from accounts given in published reports of the United States Geological Survey, or have furnished by the collection themselves. Inasmuch as the descriptions represent the work of many persons during a period of six years, and inasmuch as they were recorded under widely differing conditions, they necessarily vary in fullness detail."
Date: 1913
Creator: Lord, N. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
"An anxiety to do right": The Life of Judge John Hazelton Cotteral, 1864-1933 (open access)

"An anxiety to do right": The Life of Judge John Hazelton Cotteral, 1864-1933

Article provides a portrait of John H. Cotteral, the first federal judge for the Western District of Oklahoma and the first Oklahoman to occupy the bench of the circuit court of appeals. The article explores both the man and the legal opinions he wrote throughout his forty-year career.
Date: Autumn 2000
Creator: Leitch, Kevin C.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Wichita Observer (Wichita, Kansas), Vol. 1, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 29, 1979 (open access)

The Wichita Observer (Wichita, Kansas), Vol. 1, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 29, 1979

Weekly newspaper from Wichita, Kansas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 29, 1979
Creator: Goodwin, Robert K.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Gypsum Products: Their Preparation and Uses (open access)

Gypsum Products: Their Preparation and Uses

Technical report issued by the Bureau of Mines over the different uses of gypsum. The sources and uses of gypsum are presented and discussed. This report includes tables, photographs, and illustrations.
Date: July 1917
Creator: Stone, Ralph W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Wichita Observer (Wichita, Kansas), Vol. 1, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 22, 1979 (open access)

The Wichita Observer (Wichita, Kansas), Vol. 1, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 22, 1979

Weekly newspaper from Wichita, Kansas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 22, 1979
Creator: Goodwin, Robert K.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Plaindealer. (Topeka, Kan.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1900 (open access)

The Plaindealer. (Topeka, Kan.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1900

Weekly African-American newspaper from Topeka, Kansas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 26, 1900
Creator: Harris, Will
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Report: Kansas City Quadrangle, Kansas/Missouri (open access)

Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Report: Kansas City Quadrangle, Kansas/Missouri

Final report analyzing aerial gamma ray and magnetic data in the Kansas City quadrangle, including a detailed geologic summary, interpretation report, reduced scale copies of all maps and profiles, histograms, and statistical tables for the quadrangle.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Raymond F. "Hap" Halloran, March 15, 1998

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Interview with Raymond F. "Hap" Halloran, businessman and U.S. Army Air Force WWII Veteran (878th Bomb Squadron, 499th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, 20th Air Force) concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II.
Date: March 15, 1998
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Halloran, Raymond F.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Report: Lawrence Quadrangle, Kansas/Missouri (open access)

Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Report: Lawrence Quadrangle, Kansas/Missouri

Final report analyzing aerial gamma ray and magnetic data in the Lawrence quadrangle, including a detailed geologic summary, interpretation report, reduced scale copies of all maps and profiles, histograms, and statistical tables for the quadrangle.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mining and Milling of Lead and Zinc Ores in the Missouri-Kansas-Oklahoma Zinc District (open access)

Mining and Milling of Lead and Zinc Ores in the Missouri-Kansas-Oklahoma Zinc District

From Introduction: "This report of investigations carried on by the Bureau of Mines gives the methods used in mining and milling and indicates in some detail the conditions that affect the efficiency of those methods; it does not attempt to discuss the geology of the district, except incidentally, as this has been described in numerous reports by several geologists."
Date: 1918
Creator: Wright, Clarence A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore (open access)

Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore

Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including stories about hunting, warfare, religion, Texas traditions, and other miscellaneous folk tales. The index begins on page 149.
Date: 1972
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economic Geology of the Independence Quadrangle, Kansas (open access)

Economic Geology of the Independence Quadrangle, Kansas

From introduction: The aim of this paper is to present the substance of what is known concerning the distribution, occurrence, and development of the oil and gas of the quadrangle, and to note briefly the more important industries growing out of these natural resources or depending on them within the territory considered.
Date: 1906
Creator: Schrader, Frank C. & Haworth, Erasmus
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Report: Nebraska City Quadrangle, Missouri/Iowa/Nebraska/Kansas (open access)

Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Report: Nebraska City Quadrangle, Missouri/Iowa/Nebraska/Kansas

Final report analyzing aerial gamma ray and magnetic data in the Nebraska City quadrangle, including a detailed geologic summary, interpretation report, reduced scale copies of all maps and profiles, histograms, and statistical tables for the quadrangle.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Gazetteer of Kansas (open access)

A Gazetteer of Kansas

From letter of transmittal: SIR: I beg to transmit herewith, for publication as a bulletin, a gazetteer of Kansas.
Date: 1898
Creator: Gannett, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation of Melrose Zinc-Lead District, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, and Cherokee County, Kansas (open access)

Investigation of Melrose Zinc-Lead District, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, and Cherokee County, Kansas

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over studies conducted on the Melrose zinc-lead deposits. Methods used in the investigation are listed. The characteristics of the zinc-lead deposits are presented also. This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.
Date: September 1948
Creator: Knox, Clinton C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Walter White, 1975 (open access)

Oral History Interviews with Walter White, 1975

Interview with Walter White concerning his experiences as a federal labor mediator and conciliator. White speaks of his his thirty-year career with the U.S. Conciliation Service and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, as well as his early boyhood employment with International Harvester Company. He discusses the Depression and New Deal, the Kansas Employment Service, his employment with U.S. Potash Company and experiences with Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union, and his employment with the U.S. Conciliation Service in 1942. White also explains labor-management relations during World War II, his personal experiences in the Omaha and Des Moines offices, the Taft-Hartley Act, the formation of Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and the post-World War II labor unrest. In addition, White talks about his transfer to Texas, his personal philosophy concerning labor-management relations, personal experiences with and comments about James Hoffa, Sid Richardson, and John Connally, and Eugene Debs.
Date: 1975-04-16/1975-05-21
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Dunn, J. D. & White, Walter, 1906-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Army Basing Study - Fort Riley, KS (open access)

Army Basing Study - Fort Riley, KS

Army Basing Study - Fort Riley, KS. (Box 6)
Date: unknown
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fort Riley - Basing Study (open access)

Fort Riley - Basing Study

Army - Fort Drum - Basing Report. (Box 8)
Date: unknown
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Substation History: Kansas (open access)

Substation History: Kansas

This report gives the information about the substation in the state of Kansas from the date established through the year 1955
Date: 1956
Creator: U.S Department of Commerce
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analyses of Coals in the United States with Descriptions of Mine and Field Samples Collected between July 1, 1904 and June 30, 1910: Part 1. -- Analyses (open access)

Analyses of Coals in the United States with Descriptions of Mine and Field Samples Collected between July 1, 1904 and June 30, 1910: Part 1. -- Analyses

From Significance and value of Analyses of Coal: "The analyses published in this report cover samples of coal collected in many different parts of the country with unusual care by experiences men, in such manner as to make them representative of extensive beds of coal."
Date: 1913
Creator: Lord, N. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library