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[Delivery Charges] (open access)

[Delivery Charges]

Note on total costs for delivery of a crated gas range.
Date: February 3, 1948
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Homer James "Jim" Avery, August 14, 2008 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Homer James "Jim" Avery, August 14, 2008

Interview with Homer James "Jim" Avery, founder of James Avery Craftsman from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. Avery discusses his childhood, education, service in World War II, and starting and developing his jewelry business. The interview includes photographs of Mr. Avery, on pages 35-41.
Date: August 14, 2008
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Webb, Jeanie Archer; Leonard, Julie Mosty & Avery, Homer James
System: The Portal to Texas History
[3rd Ferrying Group Stationary Note] (open access)

[3rd Ferrying Group Stationary Note]

Stationary from the 554rd Air Force Base Unit, 3rd Ferrying Devision, in Romulus Michigan. The name and title, "Evelyn F. Semple, Classification Analyst, Civilian Personnel Office", is handwritten in the bottom right corner of the page. An ink stamp in the top left corner depicts a soldier along with the phrase, "For Victory, Buy United States War Bonds and Stamps".
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Rance WASP Transfer Slip] (open access)

[Rance WASP Transfer Slip]

Photocopied document stating Mary Ruth Rance's new position, pay grade, and station in the Women Airforce Service Pilots training program.
Date: unknown
Creator: United States. War Department.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Special Orders Number 81, Extract 21] (open access)

[Special Orders Number 81, Extract 21]

Special orders reassigning several Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) from Romulus Air Force Base to AAF Tactical Center in Orlando, Florida.
Date: June 29, 1944
Creator: 553d AAF Base Unit
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Special Orders Number 102, Extract 1] (open access)

[Special Orders Number 102, Extract 1]

Special orders extract reassigning a list of Women Air Force Service Pilot members, having completed their training, to be transferred to new air base stations.
Date: September 9, 1943
Creator: 318th Army Air Forces Flying Training Detachment
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Special Orders Number 50, Extracts 7-12] (open access)

[Special Orders Number 50, Extracts 7-12]

Special orders listing station assignments and reporting duties for several male pilots and Women Airforce Service Pilots.
Date: May 25, 1944
Creator: 555th Army Air Force Base (5th Ferrying Group)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Aaron C. Kulow (open access)

Oral History Interview with Aaron C. Kulow

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Aaron C. Kulow. Kulow grew up in Michigan and enlisted in the Navy in 1942. After training, he joined the ship USS Pollux AKS-4 at Norfolk, Virginia. Initially the ship runs trips down to the Carribbean and Brazil but in 1943 is fitted with radar and sent to the Pacific Theater. In the Pacific, the general stores issue ship visited Australia, New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and the New Hebrides Islands. He then returned to San Francisco in 1944 where his wife met him to get married. He left for the Pacific again and in 1945 traveled to the Philippines. In 1945 Kulow met survivors of the Bataan Death March that had been liberated. He remembers going to a friend's burial in the Philippines. On V-J Day Kulow was at Manila Harbor. He left for America in October 1945 and was discharged in New York December 12, 1945.
Date: unknown
Creator: Kulow, Aaron C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Barbara Jordan: Joseph Prize for Human Rights Address, Anti-Defamation Leage of B'nai B'rith (open access)

Barbara Jordan: Joseph Prize for Human Rights Address, Anti-Defamation Leage of B'nai B'rith

Text for an acceptance speech by Barbara C. Jordan for the Joseph Prize for Human Rights, given by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in Detroit, Michigan.
Date: October 22, 1993
Creator: Jordan, Barbara C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. John H. Christensen] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. John H. Christensen]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. John H. Christensen, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: "Horse" and "Horse".
Date: December 1936
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Messrs. Bessi-Trafeli] (open access)

[Client Card: Messrs. Bessi-Trafeli]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Messrs. Bessi-Trafeli, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: bronze life-size head (13.5" x 11").
Date: November 1936
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. K. B. Belknap] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. K. B. Belknap]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. K. B. Belknap, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: "Horse" (11").
Date: October 1940
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. S. J. Besner] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. S. J. Besner]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. S. J. Besner, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes a bust of Knute Rockne.
Date: October 1931
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. Clyde H. Burroughs] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Clyde H. Burroughs]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Clyde H. Burroughs, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: "Bas Relief James Couzens".
Date: April 1938
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. Samuel A. Cashwan] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Samuel A. Cashwan]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Samuel A. Cashwan, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes numerous portrait reliefs, plaster models, a bronze busts of individuals. The second client card contains information for Samuel Cashwin.
Date: 1929-03/1963-01
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mrs. L. W. Bowen] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. L. W. Bowen]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. L. W. Bowen, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes a bronze cast of a "Reclining Water Buffalo," measuring over ten inches high.
Date: November 1952
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Rialto Service Co. Envelope] (open access)

[Rialto Service Co. Envelope]

Envelope from Rialto Service Co. Photographers in Chicago, Illinois addressed to James Read in Dearborn, Michigan.
Date: 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Al Stevens, March 27, 2006 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Al Stevens, March 27, 2006

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Stevens. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1943 as a metallurgical engineer. He enlisted in the Navy in 1944 in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the Navy Electronics School at Harvard University as well as a specialized radar training program organized by MIT at the Harbor Building in Boston, Massachusetts. He received further training in radar countermeasures at Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. He served on the USS Wasatch (ACG-9). When the ship was anchored, he was assigned to deliver orders and mail. He describes the Operation Olympic portion of the plan to invade Japan. He was part of the force that occupied Wakanoura and Nagoya, Japan. He shares an anecdote about obtaining a Japanese sword as a souvenir in Nagoya. In North China he participated in the repatriation of the Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans. He wrote a book, ?Up Close and Personal,? about his World War II experiences.
Date: March 27, 2006
Creator: Stevens, Al
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Sam Holt, March 9, 1977 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Sam Holt, March 9, 1977

Interview with Sam Holt, a church member from Holtsville, Tennessee. The interview includes Holt discussing church history, his background within it, his life from childhood, and race relations in the community he was raised in. The interview also includes Holt's recounting of the history of interracial children during and after slavery and his family's connection to it.
Date: March 9, 1977
Creator: Boyd, R. Vernon & Holt, Sam
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Samuel and Mattie Garner, May 12, 1993 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Samuel and Mattie Garner, May 12, 1993

Interview with Samuel and Mattie Garner, members of the Church of Christ from Tennessee. The interview includes the Garners' experiences with, the Pleasant Union congregation, the Church of Christ, and their time in Detroit, Michigan. The interview also includes their views on a controversy involving the Church of Christ and O. L. Trone.
Date: May 12, 1993
Creator: Boyd, R. Vernon; Garner, Samuel & Garner, Mattie
System: The Portal to Texas History