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Oral History Interview with A. N. Wiseman, March 29, 2011 (open access)

Oral History Interview with A. N. Wiseman, March 29, 2011

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Wiseman. Wiseman joined the Navy in 1942 and was assigned to the USS Greene (AVD-13). He served as a deck seaman and stood lookout while on watch. Wiseman discusses traveling as an escort to Brazil and then travelling to the Mediterranean. He describes taking part in the invasion of Southern France. The Greene was then sent to the Pacific and performed escort duty near Okinawa. He describes seeing several Japanese air attacks on ships that were nearby. Wiseman traveled to Japan at the end of the war to pick up POWs. He also visited Nagasaki. Wiseman describes how his ship was critically damaged when it ran aground during a typhoon in October of 1945. He served on two more ships working in engineering before getting out of the Navy in 1948.
Date: March 29, 2011
Creator: Wiseman, Al
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lyndon Johnson and the Concept of Equal Basic Liberty or The Political Stirrings of An Uncommon Texan (open access)

Lyndon Johnson and the Concept of Equal Basic Liberty or The Political Stirrings of An Uncommon Texan

Text for a keynote address given by Barbara C. Jordan at Hofstra University's "Lyndon Baines Johnson: A Texas in Washington."
Date: April 10, 1986
Creator: Jordan, Barbara C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Allstate Sign & Plaque] (open access)

[Client Card: Allstate Sign & Plaque]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Allstate Sign & Plaque, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: male portrait bust (21" x 16.5").
Date: August 1970
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mrs. Sally Bodkin] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. Sally Bodkin]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. Sally Bodkin, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes two bronze casts and two black marble bases.
Date: January 1958
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mrs. Roy M. Chipley] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. Roy M. Chipley]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. Roy M. Chipley, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes eight bronze casts, either 5.5 inches or 6 inches in diameter.
Date: 1965-05/1968-12
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. Edward Clarke] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Edward Clarke]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Edward Clarke, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: "Female Portrait Bust" (2 copies; 1 bronze cast, 1 plaster cast; 17" x 10" x 14.5"), and "Female Portrait Bust" (17" x 10" x 14.5"; black bakelite base 15" x 8" x 2").
Date: 1977-08/1978-01
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Catholic Press Association] (open access)

[Client Card: Catholic Press Association]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for the Catholic Press Association (James A. Doyle), including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: bronze cast statuettes of "St. Francis de Sales" (12").
Date: 1959-05/1979-04
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. Peter Chiofalo] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. Peter Chiofalo]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Peter Chiofalo, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes a bronze cast "Female Head, measuring 11" high."
Date: March 1958
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mrs. Frances Borland] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. Frances Borland]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. Frances Borland, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes a bronze cast of a portrait head 8.5" high.
Date: October 1967
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mrs. Gerard Ciccariello] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. Gerard Ciccariello]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. Gerard Ciccariello, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Work on this card includes a bronze cast of a small "Figure with Birds."
Date: December 1966
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mrs. Twomey Catchi] (open access)

[Client Card: Mrs. Twomey Catchi]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mrs. Twomey Catchi, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes a number of bronze casts of fish and coral pieces.
Date: April 1967
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Cambridge Engineering] (open access)

[Client Card: Cambridge Engineering]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Cambridge Engineering, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: "Lady on a Horse with Rake" (iron cast).
Date: June 1969
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Client Card: Mr. David Bassine] (open access)

[Client Card: Mr. David Bassine]

Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. David Bassine, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Pieces included: "Abstract Soul" (2 copies; 38" x 17" x 12"; black bakelite base), and "Male Portrait Bust" (2 copies; 18").
Date: 1973-05-03/1975-03-17
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
System: The Portal to Texas History