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[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
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Special Orders Number 104, Extracts 18-24] (open access)

[Special Orders Number 104, Extracts 18-24]

Extracts of several special orders and regulations for both Women Airforce Service Pilots and male pilots ordered by Lieutenant Colonel Munson.
Date: July 25, 1944
Creator: 555th Army Air Force Base
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Germany Pavilion at EPCOT]

Photograph of the Germany pavilion in the World Showcase in EPCOT at Walt Disney World.
Date: September 2, 2020
Creator: Allred, Katy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Interior of Cinderella's Castle]

Photograph of the interior of Cinderella's Castle at Disney World.
Date: September 1, 2020
Creator: Allred, Katy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Japan Pavilion at EPCOT]

Photograph of the Japan pavilion in the World Showcase in EPCOT at Walt Disney World.
Date: September 2, 2020
Creator: Allred, Katy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Katy Allred and Emily Kitchens at Disney World]

Photograph of Katy Allred (left) and her wife, Emily Kitchens wearing face masks and posing in front of in front of Cinderella's Castle at Disney World.
Date: September 1, 2020
Creator: Allred, Katy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[United Kingdom Pavilion at EPCOT]

Photograph of the United Kingdom pavilion in the World Showcase in EPCOT at Walt Disney World.
Date: September 2, 2020
Creator: Allred, Katy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B0396.0130]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "PROVING PUMPERS was a major activity at Belle Isle Lake Thursday."
Date: April 2, 1964
Creator: Argo, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[WASP Training Certificate for Gayle Ewing] (open access)

[WASP Training Certificate for Gayle Ewing]

Certificate from the Air Force showing that Gayle D. Ewing completed her Women Airforce Service Pilot training.
Date: August 25, 1944
Creator: Army Air Force School of Applied Tactics
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Maintenance Management Certificate] (open access)

[Maintenance Management Certificate]

A certificate award to 1st Lt. Clifford R. Baird for completion of a Maintenance Management course at Special Staff School at the AAF center in Orlando, Florida.
Date: February 21, 1946
Creator: Army Air Forces Special Staff School
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Benjamin B. Luong, March 15, 2021

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Benjamin Bình-Thiên Phạm Lương, a chef from Dallas, Texas who studied at the Culinary Institute of America. Benjamin discusses the background of his Vietnamese parents, the Vietnam War, politics, his father's education in the United States, and his own personal journey to becoming a chef.
Date: March 15, 2021
Creator: Bridges-Jacobsen, Lauren & Luong, Benjamin Bình-Thiên Phạm
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B0321.0450]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gordon Jones ... Orlando, Fla."
Date: March 30, 1964
Creator: Brown, Don
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0339.0206]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Al Kelley jr . . . . Orlando, Fla."
Date: April 30, 1964
Creator: Brown, Don
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[1980 WASP Advisory Board Meeting Minutes] (open access)

[1980 WASP Advisory Board Meeting Minutes]

Meeting minutes from a Women Airforce Service Pilots advisory board meeting in Orlando, Florida, 1980.
Date: September 18, 1980
Creator: Davis, Edna
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Bicycle Boy in the Chickasaw Woods, 1991]

Photograph of a young boy standing with his bicycle in a forest covered with leaves. He wears a t-shirt with the word "Heavenly" on it. [1991, Orlando, FL]
Date: 1991
Creator: Doherty, Richard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Plates 1-3: Aeroradioactivity Map (ARMS-II), Orlando Area, Florida

Maps of three segments in the Orlando area surveyed as part of a radiological survey, outlining "Radioactivity levels in hundreds of counts per second normalized to 500 ft above ground." Scale 1:250,000.
Date: April 1964
Creator: Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Reporter, Volume 13, Number 8, October 10, 1991 (open access)

The Reporter, Volume 13, Number 8, October 10, 1991

Issue of a weekly newspaper with advertisements and articles on local news, including an article about WASP member and WWII veteran Helen Snapp. The article features several photos of Snapp, as well as one with fellow WASP Helen Schaefer.
Date: October 10, 1991
Creator: Greco, Diana
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Orlando Area (ARMS-II) (open access)

Orlando Area (ARMS-II)

From Abstract: "The data are presented as aeroradioactivity units or areas with similar gamma radiation counting rates at 500 ft., at two map scales: (1) generalized at about 1: 1,000,000 and (2) detailed at 1:250,000. The maximum aeroradioactivity in almost all the area was less than 400 counts/sec. Aerial measurements of ground radioactivity in the ARMS-II Orlando area were consistent with what was expected, considering the geology of the area."
Date: April 1964
Creator: Guillou, R. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: Plane Janes] (open access)

[Clipping: Plane Janes]

Photocopied newspaper clipping of an article about who the WASP were, what they did, and the military's failure to recognize them as veterans.
Date: January 30, 1977
Creator: Hayes, Ed
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0147.0309]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Above, Wade Cox of Orlando, Fla., raises a wall of water during the men's slalom event at Lake Thompson on Saturday afternoon."
Date: June 11, 1989
Creator: Hellstern, Paul
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Letter from Hamilton Holt to T. N. Carswell - December 10, 1941] (open access)

[Letter from Hamilton Holt to T. N. Carswell - December 10, 1941]

A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, American Legion, Abilene, Texas, from Hamilton Holt, President, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, dated December 10, 1941. Hamilton Holt defines Americanism.
Date: December 10, 1941
Creator: Holt, Hamilton
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John's to Daniel W. Kempner, May 13, 1955] (open access)

[Letter from John's to Daniel W. Kempner, May 13, 1955]

Letter from Vern Buck of John's Plants Seeds Bulbs to Daniel W. Kempner apologizing for the mix up with the previous order and hoping to be able to serve him in the future.
Date: May 13, 1955
Creator: John's Plants Seed bulbs
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Annual Meeting of Officers Order of Fifinella] (open access)

[Annual Meeting of Officers Order of Fifinella]

Order of Fifinella Officer meeting meeting minutes that discusses, among other things, the WASP newsletter, the group historian's activities, militarization of WASP, the next reunion, and the Order of Fifinella Award.
Date: April 14, 1973
Creator: Jones, Mary
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Disney] captions transcript

[News Clip: Disney]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: February 28, 1994, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library