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[Abilene City Council Minutes: 1896-1909]
Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from April 14, 1896 to April 20, 1909.
Date:
1896-04-14/1909-04-20
Creator:
Abilene (Tex.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Abilene City Council Minutes: 1980-1982]
Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from August 1980 through February 1982.
Date:
1980-08-14/1982-02-11
Creator:
Abilene (Tex.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Abilene City Council Minutes: 1988]
Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from January to December 1988.
Date:
1988-01-14/1988-12-15
Creator:
Abilene (Tex.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Abilene City Council Minutes: 1999]
Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from January 14, 1999 to December 16, 1999.
Date:
1999-01-14/1999-12-16
Creator:
Abilene (Tex.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2010]
Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from January 14, 2010 to December 16, 2010.
Date:
2010-01-14/2010-12-16
Creator:
Abilene (Tex.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Admiral J. Lloyd Abbot, Jr., March 14, 1998
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Transcript of an interview with Admiral J. Lloyd Abbot, Jr., a Navy veteran, comments about his service in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Abbot discusses the U. S. Naval Academy, 1935-39; assignment to USS Enterprise, 1939; assignment to USS Gilmer, 1939-41; flight training at Pensacola, 1941; assignment to Advanced Carrier Training Group (Pacific), 1941-42; assignment to VF-6 (Fighting 6) aboard the USS Enterprise, 1942; assignment to VS-1D-14 in the South Pacific, 1942-43; commanding officer of VS-66, Wallis Island, 1943; antisubmarine patrols out of Wallis Island; assignment to Nanumea, 1943; assignment to Tarawa, 1943-44, with an SBD squadron; assignment to the Chief of Naval Air Training, Pensacola, 1944-46, as engineering officer; and his postwar naval and civilian career.
Date:
March 14, 1998
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Abbot, J. Lloyd, Jr.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with General Robert E. Galer, March 14, 1998
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Transcript of an interview with General Robert E. Galer, a Marine Corps veteran (VMF-224) and recipient of the Medal of Honor, concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Galer discusses his pre-war training at Pensacola and Quantico; assignment to Saint Thomas and reminiscences about the "destroyers-for bases" deal, 1940; experiences at Ewa during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; assignment to Guadalcanal as commander of VMF-224, August 30, 1942-December 31, 1942; air combat around Guadalcanal; his receiving the Medal of Honor; reassignment to the States for war bond drives; experiences on Iwo Jima, February-March, 1945, as commander of a 584 Radar Team; and assignment to the Philippines and Okinawa, 1945.
Date:
March 14, 1998
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Galer, Robert E., 1913-2005
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Harold Salfen, February 14, 2000
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Interview with Harold Salfen, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from O'Fallon, Missouri. Salfen discusses his hometown and family background, his childhood and education, working in St. Louis, attending the University of Missouri, joining the Army Air Force and training, operating a ground radar in the European Theater, liberating Buchenwald Concentration Camp, the end of the war, and returning home. In appendix is a biography/resumé of Salfen's.
Date:
February 14, 2000
Creator:
Alexander, William J. & Salfen, Harold
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Weather for Aircrew Trainees
Textbook titled "Weather for Aircrew Trainees" or "Air Forces Manual No. 6" belonging to Suzette Van Daell. It contains general weather information, as well as specific information regarding temperature, pressure, and thunderstorms.
Date:
February 14, 1944
Creator:
Army Air Forces
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weather for Aircrew Trainees
Textbook titled "Weather for Aircrew Trainees" belonging to Catherine Parker. It contains general weather information, as well as specific information regarding temperature, pressure, and thunderstorms.
Date:
February 14, 1944
Creator:
Army Air Forces
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brief History of the Balzen Family in Texas
History of the Balzen family in Texas including narratives and family charts for the various branches of the family, and anecdotes about family members, with reproductions of the family brand, maps, and other supplementary materials. The text includes a number of handwritten corrections and additions.
Date:
July 14, 1982
Creator:
Balzen, Richard W. & Balzen, Martha C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Wesley Bott, October 14, 1977
Interview with Wesley Bott, a veteran of the Marine Corps from Racine, Wisconsin, discussing his experiences during the World War II Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Bott discusses training, life at the Kaneohe base, time as a police sergeant, and reminiscence of the attack itself.
Date:
October 14, 1977
Creator:
Bowman, Larry & Bott, Wesley
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Wesley Bott, October 14, 1977
Interview with Wesley Bott, U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran, about his experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station with the guard detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
October 14, 1977
Creator:
Bowman, Larry & Bott, Wesley, 1917-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Marilyn Gibson Calhoun, February 14, 2023
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Interview with Marilyn Gibson Calhoun, a UNT graduate from Dallas, Texas. Calhoun discusses her education, family, involvement with the civil rights movement, support and community groups that formed among African-American students that were experiencing discrimination at North Texas State, her teaching career, family, going through breast cancer, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Remembering Black Dallas group.
Date:
February 14, 2023
Creator:
Burns, Regina L. & Calhoun, Marilyn Gibson
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with C. Shephard, July 14, 1988
Interview with May Shephard, a teacher and a member of the Denton Christian Women's Interracial Fellowship from Tyler, Texas. Shephard explains her background and family, integration in schools, the history of race relations in Denton, her involvement with the group, their voting registration projects, demographics in the group, and how they performed outreach.
Date:
July 14, 1988
Creator:
Byrd, Richard W. & Shephard, MaeDell
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Coal Project: Five Year Framework (FY 1976 Through FY 1980)
This document presents the total scope of the framework for the U.S. Coal Project during fiscal years 1976 through 1980. The project was initiated to provide information for appropriate involvement of the Fish and Wildlife Service in U.S. coal development actions.
Date:
July 14, 1976
Creator:
Coal Project (U.S.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dedication: New Synagogue of Beth Yeshurun
Book discussing the events celebrating the dedication of the Congregation Beth Yeshurun's new building. The book also includes information on the history of the synagogue, current and past synagogue officials, and photographs of the new building.
Date:
September 14, 1962
Creator:
Congregation Beth Yeshurun (Houston, Tex.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ray Toole, January 14, 1983
Interview with businessman Ray Toole. In the interview, he describes his experiences as a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College in 1956.
Date:
January 14, 1983
Creator:
Cummings, Randy; Marcello, Ronald E. & Toole, Ray
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with "Zeke" Campbell, September 14, 1996
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Interview with William M. "Zeke" Campbell, musician, concerning his experiences as a member of the "Light Crust Doughboys" western swing band, 1935-42. Campbell also discusses his early radio career, appearances in the movies of Gene Autry, and his musical influences. Includes a photocopy of a newspaper article from the Fort Worth Star Telegram dated June 17-18, 1981 written by Mike H. Price. Article is titled, "He may not be crusty but he's still in the swing" [1] page.
Date:
September 14, 1996
Creator:
Daniels, John D.; Schotte, Will & Campbell, William M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Reby Cary, April 14, 2014
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Interview with Reby Cary, a professor, Texas State legislator, and civil rights activist from Fort Worth, Texas. Cary discusses attending Prairie View A&M, WWII service in the Coast Guard, segregation, his authorship, teaching at Dunbar HS, being the first black member of a schoolboard and the first black professor at UT Arlington, his tenure as a Texas State Congressman, experiences of discrimination, his experiences in the Civil Rights Movement, and his thoughts on Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, and other black leaders. In appendix are photographs of Cary's various awards and the program for a Baptist service celebrated in his honor.
Date:
April 14, 2014
Creator:
Fant, Christopher E. & Cary, Reby
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ben Barnes, 1967-1968
Interview with Ben Barnes, who was the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives in 1964-68, the lieutenant governor in 1968-72, and a Democrat from Austin, Texas. In the interview, Barnes shares his thoughts and opinions on several procedures, laws, and political decisions, including reapportionment, the “one-man, one vote” decision of U.S. Supreme Court, state water systems, and state employee pay raise. He also comments on federal-state relations, revisions of Code of Criminal Procedures, industrial safety law, voter registration, the reform of liquor laws and pari-mutuel betting, revenue legislation, and one-year versus two-year budgeting. Barnes comments on fellow politician Governor John Connally.
Date:
August 14, 1967
Creator:
Gantt, Fred; Kamp, H. W. & Barnes, Ben
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Harold L. Trammell, February 14, 1991
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Interview with Harold L. Trammell, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Mason, Oklahoma. Trammell discusses his early life, train hopping to Utah and back, enrollment in the CCC at Fort Sill, his assignment to Cache, Oklahoma, building trails in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, work at Arapaho National Forest in Colorado, pranks in camp, daily routine, entertainment and recreation, drinking, discipline, and life after the CCC. In appendix is a copy of Trammell's account of his time in the CCC, and the May 30th, 1935 edition of the CCC magazine "Panther Tracks."
Date:
February 14, 1991
Creator:
Grutzmacher, Kari & Trammell, Harold L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lisa Jane Lachance-Skier, March 14, 2013
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Interview with Lisa Jane Lachance-Skier, a Air Force veteran from Phoenix, Arizona. Lachance-Skier discusses growing up, participating in Junior ROTC, enlisting in the Air Force in 1976, experiences as a woman in a newly integrated Air Force, sexual harassment and assault in the military, service in England, attending ROTC and becoming an officer, her marriage, service in Germany, her work during the Gulf War, being forced out as part of a personnel drawdown, transitioning to the civilian world and her post-Air Force career, her involvement in the Grace After Fire program for assisting female veterans, problems facing female veterans and lack of support, the 2014 lifting of the combat ban on women in the US armed forces, the WASPs, and advice for servicewomen. In appendix is a summary of Lachance-Skier's USAF career, three photos of her Meritorious Service Medal certificates, and a Grace After Fire booklet.
Date:
March 14, 2013
Creator:
Hedrick, Amy & Lachance-Skier, Lisa Jane
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Toni Lewis, May 14, 2013
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Interview with Toni Lewis, U.S. Air Force veteran, for the Women Veterans Oral history Project. Lewis discusses her childhood, decision to enlist in 1976, experiences as a woman in the service, experiences with the Veterans Administration, and opinions about changing roles for women in the U.S. military.
Date:
May 14, 2013
Creator:
Hedrick, Amy & Lewis, Toni
System:
The UNT Digital Library