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[Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Points At a Map]

Photograph of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, United Nations Plebiscite Administrator for Jammu-Kashmir, pointing to a map in the office of Trygve Lie, U.N. Secretary General. Fleet Adm. Nimitz wears a dark Navy uniform with a white undershirt, a dark tie, six buttons on the front, ribbon bars pinned above his pocket, four stripes with a big band and a star on the sleeves. Trygve Lie stands to Adm. Nimitz's right in a dark double breasted suit jacket, a white undershirt and a striped tie.
Date: March 28, 1949
Creator: United States. Navy
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with A. N. Wiseman, March 29, 2011 transcript

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
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
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
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from M. E. Newman to Henrietta Leonora Kempner, March 12, 1952] (open access)

[Letter from M. E. Newman to Henrietta Leonora Kempner, March 12, 1952]

Letter from M. E. Newman to Henrietta Leonora Kempner discussing the re-instatement of her Doubleday One Dollar Book Club membership.
Date: March 12, 1952
Creator: Newman, M. E.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Doubleday One Dollar Book Club, March 17, 1952] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Doubleday One Dollar Book Club, March 17, 1952]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Doubleday One Dollar Book Club discussing the recent re-instatement of a Doubleday One Dollar Book Club membership.
Date: March 17, 1952
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Robert D. Huntington, Jr. to Harris L. Kempner, March 3, 1964] (open access)

[Letter from Robert D. Huntington, Jr. to Harris L. Kempner, March 3, 1964]

Letter from Robert D. Huntington to Harris L. Kempner providing information on the cost and procedure for getting the mainsail replaced on his Senior Knarr sailboat.
Date: March 3, 1964
Creator: Huntington, Robert D., Jr.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Hoist the flag] (open access)

[News Script: Hoist the flag]

Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: March 31, 1971, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B1038.0103]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Franco Palmumbo believes people can eat well and still look good, they can even lose weight."
Date: March 20, 1972
Creator: Miller, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma 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
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Long Island Railroad train]

The Long Island Railroad's train No. 529 westbound, headed by a class G5s ten wheeler, type 4-6-0 locomotive, enroute through Glen Cove from Oyster Bay to Jamaica.
Date: March 7, 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History