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[Scrapbook: Watt Matthews Remembered]
Scrapbook documenting the life of rancher Watt Matthews, including newspaper clippings, photographs, invitations, articles, and various other documents. Matthews managed Lambshead Ranch -- established by his parents --for many years and introduced various innovations during his lifetime.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Women Airforce Service Pilots, WWII: 1980 Roster
Directory containing the contact information for graduates, trainees, instructors, and staff of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program. Also included are lists of current officers, past presidents, reunions, training classes, staff, and flight instructors.
Date:
1980
Creator:
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Specialized Training Manual
This book is the student text for a training course on management for administrative officers in the Air Force Reserve. Each of the book's six lessons contains a set of readings and ends with a list of review questions.
Date:
July 1, 1955
Creator:
United States. Air Force. Continental Air Command.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Ruth Underwood Florey Personal WASP Scrapbook]
Scrapbook collection clippings, photos, and papers documenting life for Ruth Underwood during and after the Women Airforce Service Pilots, including items such as enlistment forms and a WASP uniform handbook.
Date:
November 4, 1986
Creator:
Florey, Ruth Underwood
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Avenger Field]
Nomination materials submitted to the National Register of Historic Places regarding Avenger Field near Sweetwater, Texas. The materials include a history of the field, maps, photographs, and other supporting documents, as well as documents about the nomination process and drafted text.
Date:
April 15, 1996
Creator:
Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[WASP Recognition Clippings Scrapbook]
Scrapbook filled mostly with newspaper clipping about Women Airforce Service Pilots gaining recognition for their war efforts and about WASP reunion activities.
Date:
1976-04-26/1986-09-29
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
In Memoriam: Thirty-Eight American Women Pilots
Memorial pamphlet honoring the thirty-eight Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) who lost their lives in service during World War II.
Date:
1996
Creator:
Seymour, Dawn; Bergemann, Clarice I.; Jenkins, Jeanette J. & Keil, Mary Ellen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[WASP Newspaper Clippings Scrapbook]
Scrapbook of various WASP newspaper clippings and pamphlets belonging to former Women Airforce Service Pilot instructor, Rigdon Edwards Jr.
Date:
August 2000
Creator:
Spears, Sandra Edwards
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disaster Actions and First Aid
This book "provides training material in disaster actions and first aid as a part of the General Military Training Program (p. 1)."
Date:
June 15, 1966
Creator:
United States. Department of the Air Force.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Memo Book Filler, Partially Used]
Lined memo book paper with partial notes and scribbles jotted down on various pages. One of the notes on the front cover reads, "Summers, R. L. Avenger Flying Field, Sweetwater, Texas".
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Handbook]
Small handbook in Japanese, suggested by a translator to be a collection of the Imperial Rescript on Education and the Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors. It may also be a Rescript supplement. The book reads from right to left and has handwriting on the back page.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Flight Log Notebook]
Small, lined notebook used as an informal flight log, with dates and times jotted down as well as notes on Newton's Laws, altimeter settings, and other flight material.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Instrument Flying: Basic and Advanced
Special edition of a technical manual containing training documentation on three subjects related to instrument flying. The name, "Hottman, W. B." is written in the top left corner of the cover, followed by a handwritten note about returning the manual.
Date:
January 15, 1944
Creator:
United States. Army Air Forces.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Instructor's Manual: Basic Flying
Training manual developed for U.S. Army flight instructors that details methods and steps for teaching students to fly aircraft.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Training Command.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Suzette Van Daell Douglas Scrapbook]
Scrapbook from Suzette Van Daell Douglas containing documents, photographs, awards and newspaper clippings that pertain to her time as a WASP. The front cover has a laminated section of a Dallas flight map with a Fifinella patch, and the back cover has a laminated copy of the WASP Life magazine cover.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Douglas, Suzette Van Daell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerodynamics for Pilots
Training manual on information needed for safely flying an airplane. Chapters cover topics such as physical laws, properties of air, general operation of flight, and forces that act on planes such as resistance, lift, weight, and drag.
Date:
September 1940
Creator:
Jones, Bradley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Student Pilot Handbook
Handbook for student pilots, detailing procedures, maneuvers, and judgement criteria for learning how to fly planes. The book includes numerous illustrations, some humorous and others instructional, to aid the student. There are several handwritten notes on the front page from grateful students of the WASP class 44-W-3.
Date:
March 1943
Creator:
Hunt, Jack & Fahringer, Ray
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Abilene Board of Commissioners Minutes: 1931-1938]
Ledger containing minutes of the city Board of Commissioners in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from July 3, 1931 to January 31, 1938. An index with names is included at the front.
Date:
1931-07-03/1938-01-31
Creator:
Abilene (Tex.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Abilene Board of Commissioners Minutes: 1914-1921]
Ledger containing minutes of the Board of Commissioners in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from December 3, 1914 to December 9, 1921.
Date:
1914-12-03/1921-12-09
Creator:
Abilene (Tex.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Abilene Board of Commissioners Minutes: 1925-1926]
Ledger containing minutes of the city Board of Commissioners in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities August 21, 1925 to June 19, 1926.
Date:
1925-08-21/1926-06-19
Creator:
Abilene (Tex.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Abilene Board of Commissioners Minutes: 1947-1951]
Ledger containing minutes of the city Board of Commissioners in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from May 2, 1947 to April 26, 1951. An index with names is included at the front.
Date:
1947-05-02/1951-04-26
Creator:
Abilene (Tex.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Abilene City Council Minutes: 1979-1980]
Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from June 1979 through July 1980. A handwritten alphabetical index is at the start of the ledger.
Date:
1979-06-28/1980-07-24
Creator:
Abilene (Tex.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2005]
Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from January 13, 2005 to December 20, 2005.
Date:
2005-01-13/2005-12-20
Creator:
Abilene (Tex.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Mullin-Kille and Banner Brownwood, Texas Con Survey City Directory, 1947
Directory for Brownwood, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory contains "an alphabetical directory and cosmopolitan telephone directory of all residents over eighteen with detailed information concerning each; a civic section of local interest and a numerical telephone directory. A complete buyers' guide and business directory with special listings for nationally advertised brands and a street guide and householders' directory, showing telephone numbers arranged by streets" is also included. The general index begins on page 3.
Date:
1947
Creator:
Mullin-Kille Company
System:
The Portal to Texas History