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General Highway Map Lee County, Texas

Highway map of Lee County, Texas, showing rivers, lakes, creeks, streams, cities, towns, outlying buildings (including schools, churches, and post offices), roads, highways (giving mileage betweem points), bridges, railroads, cemeteries, oil fields, utility lines, petroleum pipelines, mines or quarries, state parks, and airfields. Map includes three inset maps - Tanglewood, Lincoln, Dime Box - a key to counties diagram, and an extensive legend indicating geographical and human-made features. Scale [ca. 1:126,720] (2 miles to the inch).
Date: 1972
Creator: Texas State Highway Department Planning Survey Division
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

General Highway Map Leon County, Texas

Highway map of Leon County, Texas, showing rivers, lakes, creeks, streams, cities, towns, outlying buildings (including schools, churches, and post offices), roads, highways (giving mileage between points), bridges, railroads, cemeteries, oil and gas fields, oil or gas wells, utility lines, petroleum pipelines, mines or quarries, and airfields. Map includes a key to counties diagram and an extensive legend indicating geographical and human-made features. Scale [ca. 1:126,720] (2 miles to the inch).
Date: 1972
Creator: Texas. Highway Department. Planning Survey Division.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group at WASP Memorial]

Photograph of several people in formal attire and military uniform gathered around a stone WASP memorial with inscriptions carved in it. The wording on the memorial indicates it may be located at Avenger Field. A note in pencil on the back of the page reads, "1972 Reunion Photos - 250".
Date: 1972?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Program for the WASP 30th Anniversary Reunion Dinner #6] (open access)

[Program for the WASP 30th Anniversary Reunion Dinner #6]

A program for the 30th Anniversary Reunion of the WASP. It includes information about the Fifinella mascot, the names of WASP officers and Reunion Committee members, a schedule of events, and a list of acknowledgements at the end.
Date: 1972
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Program for the WASP 30th Anniversary Reunion Dinner #5] (open access)

[Program for the WASP 30th Anniversary Reunion Dinner #5]

A program for the 30th Anniversary Reunion of the WASP. It includes information about the Fifinella mascot, the names of WASP officers and Reunion Committee members, a schedule of events, and a list of acknowledgements at the end.
Date: 1972
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Program for the WASP 30th Anniversary Reunion Dinner] (open access)

[Program for the WASP 30th Anniversary Reunion Dinner]

A program for the 30th Anniversary Reunion of the WASP. It includes information about the Fifinella mascot, the names of WASP officers and Reunion Committee members, a schedule of events, and a list of acknowledgements at the end.
Date: 1972
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: "Memorial Reunion For WASP is Now Underway"] (open access)

[Clipping: "Memorial Reunion For WASP is Now Underway"]

Copy of Sweetwater Reporter's June 1972 issue. Four WASP related articles on front page and detailed in paper Titles are: "WASP's is Now Underway" , What Did WASP's Find Here Today", " Miss Cochran Known for Her Flying" and "Mrs. Young is leader of Order of Fifinella.
Date: June 23, 1972
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Chamber Area News, June 1972 (open access)

Sweetwater Chamber Area News, June 1972

Newsletter from the Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce, including news, events, and announcements. The newsletter includes photographs for some of the articles. Includes article titled; "WASP Return for 30th Reunion"
Date: June 1972
Creator: Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Schedule of Events for WASP Gathering] (open access)

[Schedule of Events for WASP Gathering]

Schedule of events for an event in Sweetwater, Texas on June 23, 1972 and June 24, 1972. On the back of the schedule, there is a map of Sweetwater with directions to a country club.
Date: 1972~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Bob Watson to Rigdon Edwards, March 1, 1972] (open access)

[Letter from Bob Watson to Rigdon Edwards, March 1, 1972]

Letter from Bob Watson to Rigdon Edwards discussing plans for a Texas Historical Marker.
Date: March 1, 1972
Creator: Watson, Bob
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[WASP Training Base Historic Marker Inscription] (open access)

[WASP Training Base Historic Marker Inscription]

Typed text of an inscription for a WASP training base historic marker, at Avenger Field. Also included are details for the planned location for the marker, the marker's material, and dimensions for the inscription's lettering.
Date: February 20, 1972
Creator: Texas State Historical Survey Committee
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: WASPS Reunion Includes More Than Tea And Old Times] (open access)

[Clipping: WASPS Reunion Includes More Than Tea And Old Times]

Newspaper clippings pasted to a flat card, and laminated. The clippings correspond to an article about Mrs. Eleanor "Mickey" Brown, a Stillwater, Oklahoma resident who participated in WWII in WASP. The article includes a brief history of WASP and the personal experiences of former WASP members. Handwritten text on the card expresses fascination, by an unknown author, at Mrs. Brown's experience. The card itself has a text graphic, partially covered up by the clippings, reading "YOU made the NEWS!"
Date: July 2, 1972
Creator: Van Deventer, Micki
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[WASP Avenger Field Base Historic Marker Inscription] (open access)

[WASP Avenger Field Base Historic Marker Inscription]

Typed text of an inscription for a WASP training base historic marker, at Avenger Field. Also included are details for the planned location of the marker, the marker's material, and dimensions for the marker.
Date: 1972-06-05~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Dale Martin to WASP and Order of Fifinella Members, June 20, 1972] (open access)

[Letter from Dale Martin to WASP and Order of Fifinella Members, June 20, 1972]

Letter from Dale Martin to WASP and Order of Fifinella Members, welcoming them to Sweetwater, Texas for the WASP 30th Memorial Reunion.
Date: June 20, 1972
Creator: Martin, Dale
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Truett Latimer to Mrs. E. H. Harkins, February 29, 1972] (open access)

[Letter from Truett Latimer to Mrs. E. H. Harkins, February 29, 1972]

Letter from Truett Latimer to Mrs. E. H. Harkins discussing an inscription for a historical marker at Avenger Field.
Date: February 29, 1972
Creator: Latimer, Truett
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Dora Dougherty Strother to Rigdon Edwards] (open access)

[Letter from Dora Dougherty Strother to Rigdon Edwards]

Letter from Dora Dougherty Strother to Rigdon Edwards discussing the slides used at the 1972 WASP Reunion, and includes a list of the slides used.
Date: July 27, 1972
Creator: Strother, Dora Dougherty
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[WASP Avenger Field Historic Marker Inscription] (open access)

[WASP Avenger Field Historic Marker Inscription]

Typed text of an inscription for a WASP training base historic marker, at Avenger Field. Also included are details for the planned location for the marker, the marker's material, and dimensions for the inscription's lettering.
Date: 1972-06-14~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Approval Form for WASP Inscription] (open access)

[Approval Form for WASP Inscription]

Form with space for a signature approving the inscription of a WASP Training Base historic marker at Avenger Field, in postcard form, addressed to Mr. Truett Latimer.
Date: February 29, 1972
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Approval Form for WASP Inscription] (open access)

[Approval Form for WASP Inscription]

Form with space for a signature approving the inscription of a WASP Training Base historic marker at Avenger Field, in postcard form, addressed to Mr. Truett Latimer.
Date: February 29, 1972
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: WASP reunion at Avenger Field... A Flyby of Memories] (open access)

[Clipping: WASP reunion at Avenger Field... A Flyby of Memories]

Newspaper clippings of an article about WASP members reuniting at Avenger Field, in Sweetwater, Texas, for a special parade. The clippings include a large photograph of WASP members sitting in uniform on the front of a parade float, and smaller photographs of the members at the reunion. The clippings also include large advertisements for anti-aging cream, vacation homes, Leo's Quality Foods, Inc., and Titche's shoe store.
Date: September 10, 1972
Creator: Lynch, Dudley
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[WASP Training Base Historic Marker Inscription] (open access)

[WASP Training Base Historic Marker Inscription]

Typed text of an inscription for a WASP training base historic marker, at Avenger Field. Also included are the planned location for the marker and dimensions for the inscription's lettering.
Date: 1972
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Bronco, Yearbook of Hardin-Simmons University, 1972 (open access)

The Bronco, Yearbook of Hardin-Simmons University, 1972

Yearbook for Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas includes photos of and information about the university, student body, professors, and organizations. Name index starts on page 286.
Date: 1972
Creator: Hardin-Simmons University
Object Type: Yearbook
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aerial Photograph of Hardin-Simmons University Campus]

Photograph of an aerial view of the Hardin-Simmons University campus, and the surrounding area, showing campus buildings and residential houses.
Date: [1972..1974]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Band Hall Windmill]

Photograph of the windmill on the front lawn of the Cowboy Band Hall at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas.
Date: [1972..]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History