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[Trains Magazine Back Cover] (open access)

[Trains Magazine Back Cover]

Clipping of the back cover of Trains Magazine. There is a photo of T&P train #610 on the tracks. The Caption reads "En route to the site of The Great Dynamometer Test, Southern's ex-Texas & Pacific 2-10-4 is eased down 2.1 per cent toward Old Fort, N. C., by Engineer Frank Clodfelter. The Texas type, only survivor of original Lima Super-Power design, was working an Asheville-Salisbury excursion on July 29, 1977, when photographed near Andrews Geyser." Written underneath the clipping is "-Trains Feb. 1978 rear cover."
Date: July 29, 1977
Creator: Abernathy, Robert E.
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 29, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, June 29, 1944]

Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing her recent work ferrying aircraft. Written on King Colton Hotel stationary.
Date: June 29, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Lucie K. Whitehead to T. N. Carswell - March 29, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from Lucie K. Whitehead to T. N. Carswell - March 29, 1951]

A letter written to Mr. Carswell from Lucie K. Whitehead (Mrs. L. C. W.), Raleigh, N. C., dated March 29, 1951. She advises of an enclosed check for the tax services that Carswell rendered.
Date: March 29, 1951
Creator: Whitehead, Lucie K.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from W. F. Williams to T. N. Carswell - January 29, 1946] (open access)

[Letter from W. F. Williams to T. N. Carswell - January 29, 1946]

A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from W. F. Williams, Littleton, N. C., dated January 29, 1946. Williams addresses the alcohol issue and commends Carswell's article "Beverage Alcohol Stands Condemned", published in the February issue of The Baptist Teacher, as the best on that subject which has appeared in that publication for years. Williams writes in a postscript that the enclosure is for Carswell's information.
Date: January 29, 1946
Creator: Williams, W. F.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History