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Two soldiers by jeep 1944

Photograph of Leroy Richter and Leo Highsmith, two soldiers in Italy during World War II. The soldiers are standing by a jeep with the Nazi flag draped over it. Leo Highsmith was wounded at Salerno Beach but returned to the division after recuperation.
Date: January 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Katie Sinclair with Flags Italy 1944

Photograph of Katie Sinclair posing with an Italian and Nazi flag during World War II on January 29th, 1944 in Italy. Words are written on the Nazi flag.
Date: January 29, 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rio Grande Campus in Winter]

Photograph of Austin High School, Rio Grande Campus, after snowfall.
Date: January 14, 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group of African American women in the Negro War Recreation Council Building]

Photograph of a group of African American women seated in a reading room at the Negro War Recreation Council Building and bus depot, located in the former city market building at 702-14 East Avenue (now I-35). The group is seated in a "U" shape, facing a woman seated at a the head table. Books, a four-drawer card file, magazines, and a radio line the back wall. On the wall there is a war bond poster which reads: "Don't let that shadow touch them, Buy WAR BONDS", where the "shadow" is in the shape of a swastika and three children cower in its wake. There is a wall-mounted electric fan to the right of the war bond poster, and a fur coat hangs on a coat hook on the left window wall. A hand-made poster on a window at the back reads: "ATTENTION, Have you written a Letter home to-day? Writing facilities may be obtained at the information desk. Books and Magazines are available in the office for SERVICE MEN."
Date: January 6, 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Interior view of the Negro War Recreation Council Building with 3 women and 3 Soldiers around a table]

Photograph of the interior of the Negro War Recreation Council Building, located at 702-14 East Avenue (now I-35) in the former city market building, showing a group of African Americans, including 3 women and 3 soldiers in uniform. Four of the women and men are seated in couples at a table, while the remaining soldier is sitting on the table as the woman stands in front of it. All of the women are nicely dressed; one has a fur collar and hat, and one has flowers in her hair. The building, which also served as a bus depot, has several wooden benches, roughly constructed of lumber. Several of the windows to the rear of the photograph are decoratively painted with stars, patriotic shields and the letter "V". Three single glass globe pendant light fixtures are visible hanging from the open vaulted ceiling. The market building was originally constructed as a 1935 Public Works Administration (PWA) project, which opened in June 1935.
Date: January 6, 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Negro War Recreation Council Headquarters building]

Photograph of the Negro War Recreation Council Headquarters building, a concrete frame building located at 702-14 East Avenue (now I-35) in the former city market, repurposed as a bus depot and recreation building for African American soldiers. The windows are 6/6 configuration, many of which are decoratively painted with stars, patriotic shields and the letter "V". The 5-panel double wooden entrance doors, at the center of the photograph, each have painted or decal flags on the second horizontal panel from the top. The sign above the doors reads: "HEADQUARTERS, SUB-BUS STATION, NEGRO WAR RECREATION COUNCIL". To the left of the doors sits a 1930s-era sedan, and to the left of that is a ground-mounted sign that reads: "SUB-BUS STATION for COLORED SOLDIERS". There is a large flag pole, without a flag, visible to the rear of photograph. A wooden bench sits in front of the right building bay. There are several suitcases on the bench, and an overcoat appears to be draped over some of them. The market building was originally constructed as a 1935 Public Works Administration (PWA) project, which opened in June 1935.
Date: January 6, 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0295.0172]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When Mark Davis thinks about what automobiles have done for mankind, he scowls."
Date: January 11, 1944
Creator: Stockwell, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0312.0065]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: January 26, 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0230.0106]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: January 26, 1944
Creator: Sparlin, Morris E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0290.0204]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: January 4, 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0237.0337]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "H. E. Cook , is general superintendent of The B. F. Goodrich Company , engineering division with headquarters in Akron, Ohio."
Date: January 17, 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0120]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: January 4, 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0078]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The Kunming, China, Bank Building (above) is one of the newest and largest structures in the war busy boomtown capital of Yunnan province."
Date: January 31, 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0418.0353]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The stage from which Maude Adams Schumann Heink and other great stars of yesteryear entertained early day Oklahoma"
Date: January 12, 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0076]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ching Pi Road (above) is the main street of war busy Kunming, China, port of entry for most of China's military supplies."
Date: January 31, 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0320.0005]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: January 7, 1944
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0395]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Lieut. Frances Duke left Saturday for Omaha, where she is to receive her orders for further duties in the women's army corps."
Date: January 7, 1944
Creator: Miller, Joe
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0317.0093]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Discussing their pre-flight strategy at Frederick Army Ari Field, Okla., are Aviation cadets Paul El Dunaway, (left) 219 S. W. 42nd St., and Edward H. Cockerham, 1017 S.W. Binkley St., both of Oklahoma City."
Date: January 25, 1944
Creator: Public Relations Office
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0319.0044]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Initial plans for the campaign to increase bond purchases among federal employees in Oklahoma were made Thursday at a meeting of the newly-appointed executive committee of the president's inter-department war savings bond committee."
Date: January 27, 1944
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0236.0472]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "With impressive gestures, Frank Conroy, A veteran of the stage-- he's spent 36 years behind the footlights and has amassed 97 lines in "Who's Who in the theater"
Date: January 26, 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0366.0052]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Leland Evans"
Date: January 20, 1944
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0230.0105]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: January 26, 1944
Creator: Sparlin, Morris E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0227.0042]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
Date: January 31, 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0077]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ancient rice paddies extend to the water front of Tien Lake contrasting with the Kunming, China, Serological Institute's new home(right)."
Date: January 31, 1944
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History