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Base Visit Report from BRAC Commission Visit to Rock Island Arsenal, IL dtd 1 June 2005
Base Visit Report from BRAC Commission Visit to Rock Island Arsenal, IL dtd 1 June 2005.
Date:
July 6, 2005
Creator:
United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Rural planning : the village.
Describes various types of planned villages and provides examples of features in such communities.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Nason, W. C. (Wayne Crocker), b. 1874
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Scenarios - Department of the Navy 0026 COBRA Realignment Summary Report Close Peoria
Disregard restriction header and footer - Contains Criteria 5, 6, 7, and 8 DON-0026: Close NMCRC Peoria
Date:
September 8, 2005
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Base Visit Report Scott Air force Base, Illinois 15 June 2005
Base Visit Report - Base Visit Report Scott Air force Base, Illinois 15 June 2005 BRAC Commission 2005
Date:
August 6, 2005
Creator:
United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Base Input - Naval Station Great Lakes Book - 1-2 June 2005
Base Input - Naval Station Great Lakes Book - 1-2 June 2005
Date:
August 28, 2005
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Dick Hooper, May 25, 1992
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Interview with Dick Hooper, veteran army nurse from Mount Zion, Illinois. The interview recounts his experiences as a nurse and anesthetist in Vietnam, 1969-70. His civilian and military educations are covered, as well as his experiences with the 18th Surgical Hospital at Camp Evans, Quang Tri City, battle casualties, social life, and relations with the Vietnamese. Also included are his personal thoughts about U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Date:
May 25, 1992
Creator:
Houser, Cindy & Hooper, W. Richard (Dick)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Frontier Doctor
This autobiographical account of Dr. Henry Franklin Hoyt chronicles his family's history, his upbringing on a small farm in Minnesota, his work as a surgeon in New Mexico, Chicago, California, Texas and the Philippines, along with many other miscellaneous adventures.
Date:
1929
Creator:
Hoyt, Henry Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Marilyn Jean Johnson, March 24, 2014
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Interview with Marilyn Jean Johnson, an African-American resident of Fort Worth, Texas, from Champaign, Illinois, who moved to Texas during the civil rights era. Johnson, accompanied by her neighbor Exie Jean Alaman Morne'y, discusses the differences between life in Illinois and the segregated South, her first instances of discrimination, desegregation in Fort Worth, the Wright Amendment, Juneteenth, neighborhoods and housing, differences between Dallas and Fort Worth, persistent racism, and Carswell AFB.
Date:
March 24, 2014
Creator:
Travis, Sarah & Johnson, Marilyn Jean
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Marzena Ksiazkiewicz
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Interview with Marzena Kasiazkiewicz, a immigrant to the Dallas area from Kraków, Poland. Kasiazkiewicz discusses first coming to the United States, caring for her mother, her parents, growing up in communist Poland, deciding to stay in the US, adjusting to the American workplace, moving to Texas, her partner and children, the effect of 9/11 on immigrants, learning English, working in eye-care, and John Paul II.
Date:
December 6, 2012
Creator:
McKee, David & Kasiazkiewicz, Marzena
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Estel G. Burns, October 14, 2009
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Interview with Estel G. Burns, World War II veteran and B-17 pilot, as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Project. The interview includes Burns' personal experiences of childhood and education in Missouri, farm life in the Great Depression, basic training, and training for aviation mechanics at Sheppard Field, Texas. Additionally, Burns talks about his family history, his 1942 enlistment in Army Air Corps, being accepted into pilot training, marriage to Dorothy Perrin, life at Deenethorpe Air Base, England, crew members and their respective duties on his plane, various missions bombing German targets, his feelings about missions against civilian targets, opinions of Luftwaffe pilots and of Germans, and his postwar Air Force career, including service in the Korean War. The interview includes an appendix of photographs.
Date:
October 14, 2009
Creator:
Hegi, Benjamin P. & Burns, Estel G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Alvin O. Berg, Jr., May 14, 2005
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Interview with Alvin O. Berg, Jr., World War II-era Army Air Forces veteran, as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans History Project. The interview includes Berg's personal experiences of childhood and education, enlisting in the Army Air Forces, training as an aviation cadet and service at various stateside bases, fighting in the Pacific theater, having a postwar career in minor league baseball, returning to service during the Korean conflict, and having a career as a pilot for American Airlines.
Date:
May 14, 2005
Creator:
Johnston, Glenn T. & Berg, Alvin O., Jr.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with E. Benjamin Dunn, November 16, 1999
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Interview with E. Benjamin Dunn, a Army WWII veteran and POW from Gorham, Illinois, who was captured by the Japanese on Java with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion.") Dunn discusses training in the Army, transfer to 2-131 and deployment to the Pacific, the fall of Java and being captured, experiences in internment in Batavia and later Changi Prison Camp in Singapore, building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, and liberation.
Date:
November 16, 1999
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Dunn, E. Benjamin
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William J. Alexander, November 11, 2002
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Interview with advertising executive and Navy veteran William J. Alexander. The interview includes Alexander's personal experiences about being a teenager during World War II, being a sailor during the last months of World War II, early youth in Casper, Wyoming, moving back to Denver to be reunited with his parent and employment at the Brown Palace Hotel, wartime rationing, joining the Navy, and boot camp. Additionally, Alexander talks about his close relationship with his older brother, life in Casper during the Great Depression while living with his aunt and uncle, local reactions to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, vignettes about John Barrymore, Sammy Kaye, Harry James, and Betty Grable, his brother's enlistment in the Navy, his employment at Station KOA in Denver, making broadcast announcements about D-Day, the sinking of his brother's destroyer, the USS Spence, during a typhoon, the effects of his brother's death on him and his parents, V-J Day celebrations in Chicago, his role as director of the base chapel choir at Opa Locka Naval Air Station, and his postwar career.
Date:
November 11, 2002
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Alexander, William J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William J. Bates, February 7, 2001
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Interview with Navy veteran William J. Bates including personal experiences about the Pacific Theater during World War II, youth and education, the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, flight training, leaving naval aviation and attending Midshipman's School, being assigned to APc-21, operations off the coast of New Guinea with the VII Amphibious Force, providing escort duty for LCTs during assaults along the coast of New Guinea, the sinking of APc-21 by Japanese planes off New Britain Island, recuperating in New Guinea, returning to the States and being assigned to ATR-22, transferring to fleet tug ARA-182 as commanding officer, having convoy duty in the South Pacific, riding out a typhoon, disposing of Navy equipment after the war, and returning to the States.
Date:
February 7, 2001
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Bates, William J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas Surgeon: an Autobiography
This autobiographical account of Dr. Donald Taylor Atkinson tells "the story of the life of a world-renowned doctor who overcame tremendous financial obstacles in order to gain an education" (vii). The author chronicles his family's history, his upbringing in Canada, as well as his journey towards becoming a surgeon in Texas.
Date:
1958
Creator:
Atkinson, Donald Taylor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Allen Family road trip to visit Berg Family in Illinois photograph album]
Photograph album documenting the Allen Family road trip to visit the Berg Family in Illinois. Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen, Frances Marion Allen, Sheila Emery Allen, Annie Belle Emery Bright, and Sue Lottie Emery traveled together by car. Several of their overnight stops were at outdoor campsites. Many of the photographs are labeled with white handwritten inscriptions.
Date:
1919~
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883; Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for Which Pensioned, the Post-Office Address, the Rate of Pension Per Month, and the Date of Original Allowance, as Called for by Senate Resolution of December 8, 1882. Volume 3
List of men receiving military pensions following the U.S. Civil War, organized by state and county. It includes the certificate number, name, address, reason for pension, monthly amount, and date initiated for each person.
Date:
1883
Creator:
United States. Congress. Senate.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with George and Wanda Holcombe, January 2, 2017
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Interview with George Holcombe, a Methodist pastor and civil rights activist from Houston, Texas, and his wife and associate Wanda, from Sims, Texas. The Holcombes discuss their family origins, initial exposure to racial problems and civil rights, their respective educations, pastoral work in Baton Rouge and Chicago, the Ku Klux Klan and dangers encountered, work with the Ecumenical Institute of Chicago and empowering black communities, the 1968 Chicago riots, Fifth City, and similar work in Australia and the Philippines.
Date:
January 2, 2017
Creator:
Czap, Joseph; Holcombe, George & Holcombe, Wanda
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Boardinghouse: The Artist Community House, Chicago 1936-1937
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The Boardinghouse is an account of how a diverse group of high spirited, self-assured, talented youths were able to meld in supporting one another during Vogel’s first year as a student at the Chicago Art Institute’s School of Fine Art during the desperate times of the great depression. The book portrays one year in the lives of eighteen young men from various parts of the country who shared similar dreams of becoming an artist. In this Artist Community House, under the charge of Malcolm Hackett, some of the other young art students included Don Goodall, later to become Chairman of the Art Department at the University of Southern California and then the University of Texas at Austin; Gibson Danes, later to become chairman of the Art Department at UCLA and then Yale School of Art and Archeology; Dick Shaw who later would work on such cartoons as “Grin and Bear It,” and “Mr. Magoo.”
Date:
1995
Creator:
Vogel, Donald S., 1917-2004
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Scrapbook of John Briggs personal life and travel, 1987-1991]
Scrapbook documenting the personal life and travels of John Logan Briggs Jr. between 1987 and 1991, including color photographs, tickets, menus, business cards, receipts, clippings, stickers, and other records of travel. John Logan Briggs Jr. is the creator of "The Experience," a self-discovery workshop for the LGBT community. This scrapbook also documents his time spent with friends and family.
Date:
[1987..1991]
Creator:
Briggs, John Logan, Jr.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Louise Pearsall Canby, March 17, 1997
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Transcript of an interview with Louise Pearsall Canby, a Navy veteran from Elgin, Illinois, concerning her experiences as a member of the WAVES during World War II. Canby discusses her personal background, her decision to join the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), and her experiences as a code breaker working with Enigma and German submarine codes. Includes appendix that consists of various photographs and two documents, [5] leaves.
Date:
March 17, 1997
Creator:
Jackson, Sarah C. & Canby, Louise Pearsall
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Anne Pearsall Karr, June 22, 1997
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Transcript of an interview with Anne Pearsall Karr from Elgin, Illinois, concerning her experiences on the home front during World War II. Karr discusses her youth in Elgin, Illinois; effects of Depression on Pearsall family; college at Iowa State; courtship with Kenneth Karr, her future husband; reaction to Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor; changes on Iowa State campus after American entry into World War II; wartime rationing and Victory Gardens; effects on Pearsall family having a son and daughter in military service; her marriage to Kenneth Karr, early 1944; housing shortage in Corpus Christi, Texas, during World War II; birth of their daughter; wartime entertainment; experiences as a military wife; attitudes toward the Japanese; husband's training as a naval air cadet at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station. Appendix includes various photographs [5] pages.
Date:
June 22, 1997
Creator:
Jackson, Sarah C. & Karr, Anne Pearsall, 1923-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
BRAC 2005 Report to the Base Closure and Realignment Commission: Navy Justification Book
Navy Reserve Centers - Forest Park, IL (Disregard Restriction Header and Footer)
Date:
May 27, 2005
Creator:
United States. Department of Defense.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
BRAC 2005 Report to the Base Closure and Realignment Commission: Navy Justification Book
Summary: Navy Reserve Centers - Forest Park, IL, Summary of Scenario Environmental Impacts (Disregard Restriction Header and Footer)
Date:
May 27, 2005
Creator:
United States. Department of Defense.
System:
The UNT Digital Library