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[News Script: California schools] (open access)

[News Script: California schools]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: January 10, 1969, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Cambridge, Washington, and New York] (open access)

[News Script: Cambridge, Washington, and New York]

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: October 14, 1970, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Anti war] (open access)

[News Script: Anti war]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 25, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to James C. Kempner, November 2, 1959] (open access)

[Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to James C. Kempner, November 2, 1959]

Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to James C. Kempner regarding his letter with inquiring details about George J. Horner. Then, he mentions about the Club situation, and their travel plans for the thanksgiving. He invites them to come down to have a meal with them while they're there.
Date: November 2, 1959
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Herbert T. Horne to Alex Bradford - January 11, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Herbert T. Horne to Alex Bradford - January 11, 1944]

Letter from Herbert T. Horne to Alex Bradford thanking Mr. Bradford for the payment in the form of a personal check of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) made out to Spray Engineering Company.
Date: January 11, 1944
Creator: Horne, Herbert T.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. Arcangelo Casciere De Biccari] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Arcangelo Casciere De Biccari]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Arcangelo Casciere De Biccari, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: "Portrait Head" (16" high x 8" wide).
Date: June 1970
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mrs. Patricia Chaudhuri] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. Patricia Chaudhuri]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. Patricia Chaudhuri, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes many bronze casts of kneeling figures, as well as various types of bases.
Date: 1963-01/1963-06
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. Frank Albee] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Frank Albee]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Frank Albee, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: "Plaque with Figure and Two Lambs" (30" x 16"; inscribed "Miller").
Date: December 1969
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mrs. Thomas V. Atwater, Jr.] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. Thomas V. Atwater, Jr.]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. Thomas V. Atwater Jr., including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This particular order includes two bronze busts of "Louisa May Alcott."
Date: March 1968
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. Paeff Bashika] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Paeff Bashika]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Paeff Bashika, only includes an address.
Date: unknown
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Committee on Education and Special Training Administration Memo Number 6] (open access)

[Committee on Education and Special Training Administration Memo Number 6]

Memorandum outlining S. A. T. C. Military Administration Districts, jurisdictions of the committees and department commanders, and the headquarters of department commanders.
Date: September 21, 1918
Creator: Briscoe, Chesleigh H.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[U.S. War Department General Court-Martial Orders 193] (open access)

[U.S. War Department General Court-Martial Orders 193]

Document outlining the trial of Major William Kirby on charges of publishing confidential information in a text about camouflage, including the final verdict and sentence.
Date: September 4, 1918
Creator: United States. War Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from T. E. Taylor to Shrub, November 28, 1960] (open access)

[Letter from T. E. Taylor to Shrub, November 28, 1960]

Letter from T. E. Taylor to Shrub enclosing a check of $750.00 for New York as instructed by Harris Kempner.
Date: November 28, 1960
Creator: Taylor, T. E.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Bank of New York Check Stub No. 2- 371] (open access)

[The Bank of New York Check Stub No. 2- 371]

Check stub via The Bank of New York for a purchase of two tickets to the Harvard-Yale football game on November 21, 1959 totaling $15.25, paid to the order of Harvard University, Department of Athletics.
Date: September 16, 1959
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Mr. Harris L. Kempner, Jr., December 7, 1957] (open access)

[Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Mr. Harris L. Kempner, Jr., December 7, 1957]

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Harris L. Kempner, Jr. enclosing a stipend and discussing travel plans for Shrub to return home.
Date: December 7, 1957
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James R. Hood, June 21, 2007 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James R. Hood, June 21, 2007

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Hood of Indianapolis, Indiana. He discusses entering the U.S. Navy in September of 1942 without basic training as he was a college graduate. After being sworn in at Wabash College he was sent to Harvard Business School for Supply Corps for 4 months before being assigned to a ship in Pearl Harbor despite having no sailing training. Mr. hood was assigned to the Cummings DE643, he was supposed to be on the Samuel B. Roberts but the naval officer over him changed his mind last minute and 37 days later the Roberts sunk. While in Tulagi, Mr. Hood was involved in shooting down a Kamikaze plane, even receiving a ribbon for it after the war. He was also involved in the Battle of Okinawa and even saved two shells and years later had them signed by U.S. pilot Paul Tibbets. Mr. Hood was discharged from the Navy on February 28th, 1946, at Santa Ana, California as a Full Lieutenant. He was recalled to the Navy for the Korean War on March 2nd, 1951, and discharged for the final time on March 30th, 1953, as a Lieutenant Commander.
Date: June 21, 2007
Creator: Hood, James R.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James R. Hood, June 21, 2007 transcript

Oral History Interview with James R. Hood, June 21, 2007

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Hood of Indianapolis, Indiana. He discusses entering the U.S. Navy in September of 1942 without basic training as he was a college graduate. After being sworn in at Wabash College he was sent to Harvard Business School for Supply Corps for 4 months before being assigned to a ship in Pearl Harbor despite having no sailing training. Mr. hood was assigned to the Cummings DE643, he was supposed to be on the Samuel B. Roberts but the naval officer over him changed his mind last minute and 37 days later the Roberts sunk. While in Tulagi, Mr. Hood was involved in shooting down a Kamikaze plane, even receiving a ribbon for it after the war. He was also involved in the Battle of Okinawa and even saved two shells and years later had them signed by U.S. pilot Paul Tibbets. Mr. Hood was discharged from the Navy on February 28th, 1946, at Santa Ana, California as a Full Lieutenant. He was recalled to the Navy for the Korean War on March 2nd, 1951, and discharged for the final time on March 30th, 1953, as a Lieutenant Commander.
Date: June 21, 2007
Creator: Hood, James R.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Harvard Athletic Association, September 26, 1946] (open access)

[Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Harvard Athletic Association, September 26, 1946]

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Harvard Athletic Association enclosing an application for 2 seats to a Yale game and requesting the tickets be sent before he leaves for New York.
Date: September 26, 1946
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Mr. Albert C. Bickford, February 22, 1957] (open access)

[Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Mr. Albert C. Bickford, February 22, 1957]

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Albert C. Bickford inquiring about when the Harvard reunion plans for the year and discussing the possibility of a visit due to him and Ruth being present for their son's graduation from Deerfield.
Date: February 22, 1957
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bookbinding (open access)

Bookbinding

This is a letter patent for the bookbinding invention as a means for holding books, pamphlets, catalogs, and other similar paper materials together. The purpose of this invention is to make it possible to place additional material inside the same covers, and with the original contents of a book without breaking or tearing the binding.
Date: June 22, 1911
Creator: Robinson, Edward K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History