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[News Script: University anti-war protests update]
Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
May 13, 1970, 8:25 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Confederate Veterans
Unidentified Confederate veterans from the Civil War at Camp Ben McCullough.
Date:
August 8, 1940
Creator:
Douglass, Neal
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Confederate Veterans
Unidentified Confederate veterans from the Civil War at Camp Ben McCullough.
Date:
August 8, 1940
Creator:
Douglass, Neal
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Confederate Reunion
Photograph of two elderly men at podium. Others are seated on benches in background.
Date:
January 17, 1943
Creator:
Douglass, Neal
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Confederate Reunion
Photograph of man speaking a podium. Audience is seated in background.
Date:
January 17, 1943
Creator:
Douglass, Neal
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Confederate Reunion
Photograph of four elderly men raising a flag.
Date:
January 17, 1943
Creator:
Douglass, Neal
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, March 6, 1944]
Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing ferrying an AT-7 to San Marcos, waiting to transition out of Love Field, a pompous taxi driver, her uniform, and the AT-7. Written on Hotel Stephen F. Austin (Austin) stationary.
Date:
March 6, 1944
Creator:
Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Donald Fleming, May 30, 2003
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Interview with grain elevator operator and Army Air Forces veteran Donald Fleming. The interview includes Fleming's personal experiences about being a B-24 navigator in the European Theater during World War II, his education at Kansas State University, enlisting as an Aviation Cadet in the Army Air Forces, navigator training, bomber transition training, his assignment to Pantanella Air Base, various missions to Austria and Rumania, fighter escorts by the Tuskegee Airmen, and raids against oil refineries and marshalling yards. Fleming also talks about enemy flak and fighter opposition, his return to the States after fifty-one missions his crew's pet dog, correspondence with his wife, and his postwar business career.
Date:
May 30, 2003
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Fleming, Donald
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Two Letters from B. J. Warz to Dr. Joseph Pound]
Two letters from B. J. Warz to Dr. Joseph Pound stating that he will get an increase in pension, and that he is to "execute the voucher...and return it to the pension agent at Knoxville." The second letter concerns the protection against fraudulent impostors of officers in the Bureau of Pensions: "The OBJECT OF THIS CIRCULAR is to protect all persons...against the swindling schemes of unprincipled IMPOSTORS."
Date:
{1903-04-14,1903-07-30}
Creator:
Warz, B. J.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Confederate Reunion at Driftwood
Photograph of two women and a man posing at a reunion of descendants of Civil War veterans at Camp Ben McCullough. The man is wearing a ribbon.
Date:
July 1, 1942
Creator:
Douglass, Neal
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard Addressed to Birdie Walters in Dripping Springs, Texas]
Postcard addressed to Birdie Walters with an image of the United States Arsenal Grounds in San Antonio, Texas; the image shows three cannons mounted on the open grounds with a small building in the trees. The note on the back of the card reads: "Please come quick as you can home because I cant go to Sinton if you don't."
Date:
August 8, 1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Willie Higgs, September 21, 2001
Interview with Willie Higgs, a U. S. Marine during World War II. He joined the Marines in 1944 and trained at Camp Pendleton before being assigned to the 4th Marine Division. Higgs discusses arriving at Iwo Jima, making a grenade attack on a cave there, and subsequently breaking his leg. He then spent time aboard the hospital ship, USS Solace (AH-5). Upon returning home, Higgs finished his degree at Southwest Texas State in San Marcos, where he majored in music.
Date:
September 21, 2001
Creator:
Pickard, Kevin & Higgs, Willie
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Growing up in Texas
Memoir written by Annie Margaret Rankin Warner and Virginia "Jenny" Louise Rankin Marshall of stories on growing up in West Texas from 1866-1995.
Date:
2016
Creator:
Rankin Warner, Annie Margaret & Marshall, Virginia R.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Maud C. Fentress to her son David, July 10, 1860]
Letter from Maud Fentress to her son David regarding the visit of friends. Maud is sending a trunk of presents to David and his family that includes preserves, clothing, and seeds. She regrets that he is selling his buggy. She also discusses the digging of a new well. She ends with updates on the activities of friends and family.
Date:
July 10, 1860
Creator:
Fentress, Maud C.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Confederate Reunion at Camp Ben McCulloch, Driftwood, Texas
Photograph of Ralph Yarbrough speaking with an elderly man on crutches.
Date:
July 1, 1942
Creator:
Douglass, Neal
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Scenes of Soldier Life
Series of postcards depicting military personnel at a base or camp. Each postcard has a short description printed on the front, and the include photos of drills, leisure activities, military aircrafts. The envelope is addressed to Miss Marguerite Car[r]ett in Dripping Springs, Texas and is from "A Soldier Boy." The postmark is from San Antonio, Texas and is dated "J.J.N. 27 5:30PM [..]."
Date:
[1913..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Confederate Reunion at Camp Ben McCulloch, Driftwood, Texas
Photograph of a group of eight people at a picnic table.
Date:
July 1, 1942
Creator:
Douglass, Neal
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: F-84]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the midair explosion of a F-84 Thunderjet over the town of Buda near Austin. The pilot was killed in the accident, the cause of which is unclear.
Date:
April 9, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Veterans Expenses Statistics Surveys, 1955~]
School and personal expense statistics based on surveys of single veterans, married veterans without children, and married veterans with one child.
Date:
1955~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of Letter from Maud C. Fentress to her son David W.Fentress, June 1860]
Transcript of a letter from Maud Fentress to her son David in which she commiserates with him on the heavy rains he has received in Texas. She plans to send David jelly and canned fruit. She states that other members of the family wish to move to Texas. She tells David that Frank wishes to make up with him and possibly move to Texas. She updates David on news about friends and family.
Date:
June 1860
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Maud C. Fentress to David W.Fentress - June 1860]
Letter from Maud Fentress to her son David in which she commiserates with him on the heavy rains he has received in Texas. She plans to send David jelly and canned fruit. She states that other members of the family wish to move to Texas. She tells David that Frank wishes to make up with him and possibly move to Texas. She updates David on news about friends and family.
Date:
June 1860
Creator:
Fentress, Maud C.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Albert Sydney Burleson to Dr. Joseph Pound, February 22, 1907]
Letter from Albert Sydney Burleson to Dr. Joseph Pound detailing instructions on how to apply and be provided an increase in pensions from $12 to $16 as per his service in the Mexican American War. There is an enclosed document that shows the actual act of Congress that was passed to gain this increase; in part the act reads: "any person who served ninety days or more...during the late civil war or sixty days in the war with Mexico...be entitled to receive a pension as follows..." There is a three-tiered pension setup, those who are sixty two years or older gets $12, seventy years get $16, and seventy five or older get $20.
Date:
February 22, 1907
Creator:
Burleson, Albert Sydney
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Moratorium]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
November 17, 1969
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Camp Gary]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a broadcast news story.
Date:
March 3, 1965
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library