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[Letter from Doris Duren to Mr. and Mrs. Rigdon Edwards, May 22, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Doris Duren to Mr. and Mrs. Rigdon Edwards, May 22, 1944]

Letter from Doris Duren to Mr. and Mrs. Rigdon Edwards discussing how the U.S. Army split up she and a group of other female pilots. She mentions that they fly BT-14 planes, give instruction to flight cadets, and are supposed to be trained to fly B-26 planes soon. At the top left of the first page, there is a small, printed illustration of the WASP mascot, Fifinella
Date: May 22, 1944
Creator: Duren, Doris
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 121, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 22, 1955 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 121, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 22, 1955

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 22, 1955
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 121, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 22, 1951 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 121, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 22, 1951

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 22, 1951
Creator: Baker, Allen
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 344, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 22, 1938 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 344, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 22, 1938

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 22, 1938
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 22, 1940 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 22, 1940

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 22, 1940
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 120, Ed. 1 Monday, May 22, 1944 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 120, Ed. 1 Monday, May 22, 1944

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 22, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 19, Ed. 1 Monday, May 22, 1939 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 19, Ed. 1 Monday, May 22, 1939

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 22, 1939
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 121, Ed. 1 Monday, May 22, 1950 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 121, Ed. 1 Monday, May 22, 1950

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 22, 1950
Creator: Baker, Allen
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 121, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 22, 1949 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 121, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 22, 1949

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 22, 1949
Creator: Baker, Allen
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 121, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 22, 1946 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 121, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 22, 1946

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 22, 1946
Creator: Triplett, G. D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Legal-Sized Envelope from the Women Airforce Service Pilots #1] (open access)

[Legal-Sized Envelope from the Women Airforce Service Pilots #1]

Legal-sized envelope with the Women Airforce Service Pilots insignia in the upper left corner and a 50th Anniversary WASP Historic Monument Dedication cancellation stamp form Avenger Field station on May 22, 1993, Sweetwater, Texas 79556 and a twenty-nine-cent U.S. stamp that reads "Allies land in North Africa November 1942."
Date: May 22, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[50th Anniversary WASP Historic Monument Dedication Envelope #4] (open access)

[50th Anniversary WASP Historic Monument Dedication Envelope #4]

50th Women Airforce Service Pilot Anniversary 1943-1993 Sweetwater, Texas envelope with a fifty-cent U.S. Air Mail stamp featuring Harriet Quimby the Pioneer Pilot. It shows a cancellation stamp from Avenger Field station on May 22, 1993, Sweetwater, Texas 79556.
Date: May 22, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[50th Anniversary WASP Historic Monument Dedication Envelope #2] (open access)

[50th Anniversary WASP Historic Monument Dedication Envelope #2]

50th Women Airforce Service Pilot Anniversary 1943-1993 Sweetwater, Texas envelope with a twenty-nin-cent U.S. Air Mail stamp featuring "Corregidor Falls to Japanese." It shows a cancellation stand from Avenger Field station on May 22, 1993, Sweetwater, Texas 79556.
Date: May 22, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Legal-Sized Envelope from the Women Airforce Service Pilots #2] (open access)

[Legal-Sized Envelope from the Women Airforce Service Pilots #2]

Legal-sized envelope with the Women Airforce Service Pilots insignia in the upper left corner and a 50th Anniversary WASP Historic Monument Dedication cancellation stamp form Avenger Field station on May 22, 1993, Sweetwater, Texas 79556 and a twenty-nine-cent U.S. stamp that reads "Allies decipher secret enemy codes, 1942."
Date: May 22, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[50th Anniversary WASP Historic Monument Dedication Envelope #1] (open access)

[50th Anniversary WASP Historic Monument Dedication Envelope #1]

50th Women Airforce Service Pilot Anniversary 1943-1993 Sweetwater, Texas envelope with a fifty-cent U.S. Air Mail stamp featuring Harriet Quimby the Pioneer Pilot. It shows a cancellation stamp from Avenger Field station on May 22, 1993, Sweetwater, Texas 79556.
Date: May 22, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 162, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 22, 2011 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 162, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 22, 2011

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 22, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Doris Tanner to Rigdon and Mary Emma Edwards, May 22, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Doris Tanner to Rigdon and Mary Emma Edwards, May 22, 1944]

Letter from Doris Tanner to Rigdon and Mary Emma Edwards about the Army splitting them up and what life is like in the new environment.
Date: May 22, 1944
Creator: Tanner, Doris Brinker
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Envelope from WASP, May 22, 1993] (open access)

[Envelope from WASP, May 22, 1993]

Envelope from WASP with no letter enclosed. On the front is an illustration of Avenger Field, a plane, and a pilot. On the upper right corner is a stamp of an event that occurred in World War 2.
Date: May 22, 1993
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 122, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1947 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 122, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1947

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 22, 1947
Creator: Webb, Gilbert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 121, Ed. 1 Friday, May 22, 1953 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 121, Ed. 1 Friday, May 22, 1953

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 22, 1953
Creator: Baker, Allen
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1941 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1941

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 22, 1941
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 254, Ed. 1 Friday, May 22, 1942 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 254, Ed. 1 Friday, May 22, 1942

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 22, 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

[WASP Plaque]

Photograph of what appears to be a historical marker plaque with a few paragraphs of the history of WASP. The plaque begins, "Women Airforce Service Pilots Jacqueline Cochran, one of the most famous women pilots of the twentieth century..." A note written on the back of the photo reads, "Sweetwater Tex 22 May 93".
Date: May 22, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[WASP Statue in Courtyard]

Photograph of a green statue of a WASP posed on a pedestal in the center of a small fountain or well. A courtyard area with trees and buildings can be seen in the background. The handwritten note on the back of the photo reads, "Sweetwater Tex 22 May 93".
Date: May 22, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History