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[Letter from Alex Bradford to David F. Glines - September 3, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Alex Bradford to David F. Glines - September 3, 1944]

Letter from Alex Bradford to David F. Glines discussing the recent activities that Mr. Bradford has been encountering. These activities include visiting various fire equipment plants and laboratories to see recently created advancements since he had been overseas. Mr. Bradford mentions that he has been released from British service and is looking to enlist within the American Armed Forces as a fire-fighter. Finally, he states that he has been offered several civilian positions including a civilian fire chief, however he would like to be able to serve his country.
Date: September 3, 1944
Creator: Bradford, Alex
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Alex Bradford to David F. Glines - September 8, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Alex Bradford to David F. Glines - September 8, 1944]

Letter from Alex Bradford to David F. Glines acknowledging that he has accepted an overseas appointment for fire-fighting purposes. Mr. Bradford asks that he receive Major Fred Shirk’s address and that any letters from V-Mail be returned to him.
Date: September 8, 1944
Creator: Bradford, Alex
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. Bailey Calvin to I. H. Kempner, October 9, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from D. Bailey Calvin to I. H. Kempner, October 9, 1944]

Letter from D. Bailey Calvin to I. H. Kempner providing a list of state-supported medical schools in different U.S. cities from their main universities and notes that half of these are not on the same campus as the main university. He suggests that Dr. Leake will address alumni matters upon his return to Galveston and offers further assistance if needed.
Date: October 9, 1944
Creator: Calvin, D. Bailey
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
1944 Fall Bulb Price List (open access)

1944 Fall Bulb Price List

Document listing the types and prices of flower bulbs for sale through Cameron and Company in Seattle, Washington.
Date: 1944
Creator: Cameron & Company
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cameron and Company to D. W. Kempner, August 21, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cameron and Company to D. W. Kempner, August 21, 1944]

Letter from Cameron and Company to D. W. Kempner regarding Kempner's inquiry about Croft Lily bulbs.
Date: August 21, 1944
Creator: Cameron and Company
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Cameron and Company to D. W. Kempner, June 10, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Cameron and Company to D. W. Kempner, June 10, 1944]

Letter from Cameron and Company to D. W. Kempner discussing Kempner's question about bulb prices.
Date: June 20, 1944
Creator: Cameron and Company
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Max Cramer to I. H. Kempner, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Max Cramer to I. H. Kempner, 1944]

Letter from Max Cramer to I. H. Kempner discussing purchasing a five-gallon keg of syrup from Sugar Land and asking about Kempner's moms' health and wishing her good health.
Date: 1944~
Creator: Cramer, Max
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Max Cramer to I. H. Kempner, 1944~] (open access)

[Letter from Max Cramer to I. H. Kempner, 1944~]

Letter from Max Cramer to I. H. Kempner discussing Kempner no longer raising sugar cane and making syrup but thanking Kempner for purchasing Cramer syrup from Louisiana. Cramer also ask Kempner if he is married and that if he is not, then he wants to introduce him to a woman.
Date: 1944~
Creator: Cramer, Max
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Max Cramer to I. H. Kempner, November 15, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Max Cramer to I. H. Kempner, November 15, 1944]

Letter from Max Cramer to I. H. Kempner discussing Kempner purchasing him a five-gallon keg of syrup and wishing the best for Kempner's family.
Date: November 15, 1944
Creator: Cramer, Max
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report Submitted to the Trail Smelter Arbitral Tribunal (open access)

Report Submitted to the Trail Smelter Arbitral Tribunal

From Forward: "The first part of this report discusses the details of the plant equipment and procedure. The second part of the report discusses in detail the relationship between between meteorological conditions in the valley and atmospheric diffusion processes. The third part gives the provisional operating regimes in force during the investigation, the amount of sulfur fixed and amount emitted to the atmosphere, and summary of data from the permanent recorders."
Date: 1944
Creator: Dean, R. S. & Swain, R. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Myron Foster, July 19, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Myron Foster, July 19, 1944]

Letter from Myron Foster discussing a poor delivery of fruit and offering to ship pears in August or peaches in September, but cannot offer a duplicate delivery as it is too late in the season. The letter has the Hesperian Orchards logo printed across the top of the paper; the logo is a blue rectangle with a white drawing of a woman holding an apple. There are yellow stars and two rows of yellow waves on both sides of the rectangle.
Date: July 19, 1944
Creator: Foster, Myron
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Myron Foster, July 21, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Myron Foster, July 21, 1944]

Letter from Myron Foster discussing a poor delivery of fruit and offering to ship pears in August or peaches in September, but cannot offer a duplicate delivery as it is too late in the season. The letter has the Hesperian Orchards logo printed across the top of the paper; the logo is a blue rectangle with a white drawing of a woman holding an apple. There are yellow stars and two rows of yellow waves on both sides of the rectangle.
Date: July 21, 1944
Creator: Foster, Myron
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Loss of Life Among Wearers of Oxygen Breathing Apparatus (open access)

Loss of Life Among Wearers of Oxygen Breathing Apparatus

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing fatalities of mine workers while wearing self-contained oxygen breathing apparatuses. Descriptions of the circumstances surrounding the deaths of 26 workers are presented. This report includes a table.
Date: April 1944
Creator: Grove, G. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Postal Card from B. A. Judd to Isaac Herbert Kempner, May 3, 1944]

Card with letter from B. A. Judd to Isaac Herbert Kempner mentioning that he's again Lee Class's agent this year and he'd like to make his report to the University, So he's requesting Kempner to let him hear from him by a return mail.
Date: May 3, 1944
Creator: Judd, B. A.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Smith Gardens, August 18, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Smith Gardens, August 18, 1944]

Letter from D. W. Kempner to Smith Gardens requesting a duplicate of the previous year's order.
Date: August 18, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Lt. J. A. Piperi, March 3, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Lt. J. A. Piperi, March 3, 1944]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Lt. J. A. Piperi talking about a postcard he received.
Date: March 3, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, July 8, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, July 8, 1944]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards discussing the damaged state of a shipment of cherries and requesting a replacement shipment. Kempner mentions a shipment to his daughter in New York.
Date: July 8, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, July 10, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, July 10, 1944]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner discussing the shipping order received and the shipment mentioned in the July 8th letter arrived in bad condition.
Date: July 10, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, July 24, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, July 24, 1944]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards discussing a delivery that arrived in poor condition and a delivery for Miss Mary Jean Kempner that hasn't arrived, and the lack of response from the company about the shipments and delivery status.
Date: July 24, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, June 15, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards, June 15, 1944]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchard ordering various fruit to be shipped at different times to Mary Jean Kempner and Jeane Bertig Kempner.
Date: June 15, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Railway Express Agency, Inc., July 8, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Railway Express Agency, Inc., July 8, 1944]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Railway Express Agency, Inc. discussing a box of cherries arriving in poor condition.
Date: July 8, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Memorandum from Daniel W. Kempner, August 7, 1944] (open access)

[Memorandum from Daniel W. Kempner, August 7, 1944]

Memorandum from Daniel W. Kempner requesting to replace the shipment address with Mammoth Hale Peaches to Mary Jean Kempner in Galveston Texas.
Date: August 7, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Memorandum from Daniel W. Kempner, August 15, 1944] (open access)

[Memorandum from Daniel W. Kempner, August 15, 1944]

Memorandum from Daniel W. Kempner request for a quote and delivery regarding the Lily blubs sizes 6 to 7, 7 to 8, 8 to 9.
Date: August 15, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Memorandum from Daniel W. Kempner, July 28, 1944] (open access)

[Memorandum from Daniel W. Kempner, July 28, 1944]

Memorandum from Daniel W. Kempner requesting to replace the shipment with Jumbo pears.
Date: July 28, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History