A photograph print showing the St. Louis-San Francisco (SLSF) 75, 4-6-0, Memphis, TN.

A photograph print showing the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis(NCSL) 627, 2-8-2, Memphis, TN.

A photograph print showing the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis(NCSL) 375, 2-8-0, Memphis, TN.

A photograph print showing the St. Louis and San Francisco (SLSF) "Frisco" (SLSF) 1209, 2-8-0, Memphis, TN.

A photograph print showing the St. Louis and San Francisco (SLSF) "Frisco" (SLSF) 1062, 4-6-4, streamlined, Memphis, TN.

A photograph print showing the St. Louis and San Francisco (SLSF) "Frisco" (SLSF) 987, 2-8-0, Memphis, TN.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles Scheffel. Scheffel grew up in Oklahoma and enlisted in the Army ROTC in 1940. He was called up in 1941 after Pearl Harbor. He was allowed to finish out his senior year of college and was married in March 1942. He embarked on the Queen Elizabeth from New Jersey in September 1942. As leader of 200 men, he landed in Scotland and drove with them to Whittington Barracks where they joined with the British 51st Highlanders. He lists the three main survival lessons he learned from the seasoned English soldiers: having a batman to back you up, digging a two-man foxhole, and waiting for the ""crack and thump."" Scheffel how the ""crack and thump"" lesson would later save his life when he was seriously wounded when attacking the Siegfried Line. From England he went to Algeria with the British troops on the Scythia. The ship is torpedoed off the coast limps into Algiers. Scheffel made the decision to leave the British Highlanders and join up with American 9th Division in February 1943. The division went into Tunisia. Then he was sent to spend another month with the …

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters of segments from the civil rights documentary "King: Montgomery to Memphis" from May 24th, 1991. The U-Matic footage shows clips from the 1960s civil rights movement featuring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders involved in southern non violent protests.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about 26-year-old Minna Treadwell Thompsen who is usually found listed on the social register.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about 7 persons who were killed and 35 were injured when a bus collided with an overturned truck.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a bus, enrooting from Chicago to Memphis collided with an overturned truck in Charleston, Missouri.

Letter from Lamar Fleming, Jr. to Mr. Albert Russel discussing plans for a Houston Chamber of Commerce citizens committee and a conference meeting to discuss actions of the company, listing potential resources and people to discuss company problems with.

Letter from Isaac Herbert Kempner to F. M. Grout mentioning that their idea of price was double the amount of his amount and mentions maybe they wouldn't get on same page.

Circular from American Cotton Shippers Association to members providing updates on cotton legislation, export cotton sales, and export-import bank appropriations, and enclosing a copy of the USDA 1962 Cotton Loan Program.

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Phoebe and Everett Cook thanking them for their kind words following the death of his uncle, R. Lee Kempner.

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to John L. Middleton offering an update on Herb's treatment.

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Jonathan Wight Fulton thanking him for the check and briefly discussing races.

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Hugo N. Dixon accepting his invitation to the dinner he's hosting.

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Otto Marx, Jr. discussing an upcoming trip to New York with Ruth and expressing hope that he will be able to meet with Mr. Findlay or Mr. Evans.

Letter from Spencer Marrow to L. T. Murray discussing his inability to attend a meeting and a medical procedure done to his face.

A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas from Robert G. Lee, President, The Southern Baptist Convention, Memphis, Tennessee, dated May 25, 1949. Lee expresses his appreciation for the letter from Carswell regarding the Buchanan report and explains the suggestion by Buchanan as being just something for us to "chew on" advising that the Convention was right in not doing any such thing.

Letter from the Bertig Cotton Co. to Daniel W. Kempner informing him that they have no photography prints by Mr. B. H. Haynes, Jr.

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to W. L. Minkus requesting prints of photographs of cotton.

Letter from Arthur W. McCain to Daniel W. Kempner thanking him for the generous invitation to stay at his house during the Texas Bankers Association Convention but informing him that he has other arrangements.