[Letter from Helen Forrest McKee to Little, Brown and Company, April 24, 1970] (open access)

[Letter from Helen Forrest McKee to Little, Brown and Company, April 24, 1970]

Letter from Helen Forrest McKee to Little Brown Company discussing Mrs. McKee's project to turn Jacqueline Cochran's life into a children's book so that Cochran can be accessible to a younger age group.
Date: April 24, 1940
Creator: McKee, Helen Forrest
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: 'On Silver Wings' tells of women's flights in WWII] (open access)

[Clipping: 'On Silver Wings' tells of women's flights in WWII]

Newspaper clipping of an article about Marianne Verges's experience serving in WASP during WWII. The article includes a photograph of Verges leaning out of the cockpit of a plane. The back of the clipping has an article about an exhibit on display in Washington D.C.
Date: [1940..]
Creator: Foster, Nancy Haston
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerodynamics for Pilots (open access)

Aerodynamics for Pilots

Training manual on information needed for safely flying an airplane. Chapters cover topics such as physical laws, properties of air, general operation of flight, and forces that act on planes such as resistance, lift, weight, and drag.
Date: September 1940
Creator: Jones, Bradley
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Standard Oil Company Computer]

Manual computer for calculating speed in miles per hour, distance traveled, and time in flight. The object is marked with the name, "Standard Oil Company of California" along with the logo of the company, a red plane with the head of an Eagle. Instructions for the device can be seen on the center of the front and back.
Date: 1940
Creator: Standard Oil Company of California
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ten Women on Boat]

Photograph of ten unidentified young women standing at the railing on the deck of a boat with the smoke stack visible in the background; several of the women on the right are looking towards the camera while others are looking and pointing down on the left.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[WASP Trainees Marching]

Photograph of a group of WASP trainees marching in a single-file line on an airfield; a woman in the front is holding a flagpole with two flags on it and a row of airplanes is visible in the background.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Plane on Airfield]

Photograph of a military airplane on a dirt airfield with other planes visible in the background.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Airfield with Planes and Cars]

Photograph of an airfield with a row of planes on the left and two planes facing forward in the foreground with a building, and several rows of parked cars and other planes visible in the background.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women and Children by Filling Station]

Photograph of three unidentified women and two children sitting on the ground in front of a building with two large windows labeled "Filling Station." The woman on the far left is wearing a t-shirt and dark glasses, a young girl is sitting next to her, another woman wearing a light-colored blouse is in the middle, and on the right another woman wearing a light-colored blouse is crouching with a young boy sitting in front of her.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[WWII Plane on Airfield]

Photograph of a WWII-era airplane on a dirt airfield with another plane visible in the background.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Seven Women by Building]

Photograph of seven unidentified women posing together in front of a brick building; three of the women in the foreground are wearing bathing suits and the others are wearing short-sleeved blouses.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man in uniform with Woman And Children]

Photograph of an unidentified man wearing a military uniform with a cigar in his mouth, a woman wearing a light-colored blouse, a girl wearing a light-colored dress, and a little boy wearing shorts and no shirt, standing in front of a wooden porch or gazebo with trees visible in the background.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two Wome Playing]

Photograph of two unidentified women wearing short-sleeved blouses and skirts with their arms on each other's shoulders, appearing to be play fighting. Behind them their shadows are visible on the side of a building in the background.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[WASP Trainees Marching by Barracks]

Photograph of two formations of WASP trainees marching two-by-two next to the barracks, a long single-story wooden building with windows and a chimney.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Charlyne Creger in Dark Dress]

Portrait of Charlyne Creger wearing a dark jacket and skirt sitting on a box in front of a light background.
Date: 1940~/1959~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man on Bucking Horse]

Photograph of an unidentified man riding a bucking horse in a corral with a wire fence in the background.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Planes and Hangar at Avenger Field]

Photograph of two planes in front of a hangar at Avenger Field; there is a large object in between the planes and a control tower is visible on the right side.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women in Shorts]

Photograph of five unidentified women standing in a line with their arms around one another; most of them are wearing short-sleeved blouses and shorts except for the woman in the middle, who is wearing a jumpsuit and holding a pair of shorts in front of her.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[WWII Plane Taxiing]

Photograph of two unidentified people taxiing inside a WWII-era airplane with an empty airfield and clouds in the background.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Six Women in Front of Building]

Photograph of six unidentified women posing together in front of a brick building; the three women in the foreground and the woman in very back appear to be wearing bathing suits and the others are wearing short-sleeved blouses.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Planes by Hangar]

Photograph of three planes lined up in front of an airfield tower and hangar (likely at Avenger Field).
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[WASPs Marching on Airfield]

Photograph of three formations of WASPs marching on an airfield with a crowd and stage in the foreground and several rows of planes visible in the background.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Woman by Wall]

Photograph of an unidentified woman standing in front of a rock wall in an arroyo filled with cacti and other desert plants.Another person is visible further down a walking path on the right and there is a small adobe building on top of the arroyo wall in the background.
Date: 1940~/1959~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Control Tower at Avenger Field]

Photograph of a control tower at Avenger Field with the text "Plosser-Prince Air Academy" on the front of it and a plane and two trucks visible on the left.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History