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[Return Receipt Card for Harris Leon Kempner, December 12, 1953]

Return receipt card from the Post Office Department returned to Harris Leon Kempner for registered article No. 21955 delivered on December 28, 1953.
Date: December 28, 1953
Creator: United States. Post Office Department.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of the Trans World Airlines Jetstream, March 17, 1960]

Postcard of the Jetstream, a commercial plane owned by Trans World Airlines. The Jetstream has four propeller engines on its wings and two vertical stabilizers on the ends of the horizontal stabilizers in addition to the central vertical stabilizer. The Jetstream is painted whit with two red stripes going across the fuselage and the "TWA" logo in red at the end of the stripes, as well as the words "Trans World Airlines" in red and the American flag above the passenger windows. The left wing has the red "TWA" logo and each vertical stabilizer has two red stripes. On the back of the card is a message to Isaac H. and Henrietta Leonora Blum Kempner wishing them success with their garden on St. Patrick's Day and expressing regret that the University of Texas is experiencing mediocrity again.
Date: March 17, 1960
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History