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The 318th Army Air Forces Training Detachment Announces the Graduation of Class 43-W-4 (open access)

The 318th Army Air Forces Training Detachment Announces the Graduation of Class 43-W-4

Letter with envelope announcing the graduation of 318th FTD Class 43-W-4 at Avenger Field, the members of which became Women Airforce Service Pilots.
Date: [..1943-08-07]
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces. 318th Flying Training Detachment
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
BASIC IDEALS OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY - July 5-6, 1940 (open access)

BASIC IDEALS OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY - July 5-6, 1940

An essay titled "Basic Ideals of Constitutional Democracy," adopted at the Conference on Democratic Processes, Union College, Schenectady, New York, dated July 5-6, 1940. Dixon Ryan Fox, Chairman of Committee on Democratic Processes, National Foundation for Education in American Citizenship.
Date: {1940-07-05..1940-07-06}
Creator: National Foundation For Education in American Citizenship
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Bill from Ritz-Carlton Hotel, October 1949, #2] (open access)

[Bill from Ritz-Carlton Hotel, October 1949, #2]

Invoice for items sold to Mrs. D. W. Kempner by Ritz-Carlton Hotel, including restaurant, phone, room and valet services.
Date: {1949-10-15,1949-10-18}
Creator: Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping from scrapbook - includes article, "Latin American Scouts Map Ritual," letter and envelope] (open access)

[Clipping from scrapbook - includes article, "Latin American Scouts Map Ritual," letter and envelope]

Part of page from a scrapbook with a letter from the Secretary of the Board of Legal Examiners to John J. Herrera, and articles about the Latin-American Boy Scouts of America, Antonio Morales, Jr. and Daniel Rodriguez.
Date: {1943-04-18,1943-09-11,1943-10-29}
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping Photocopy: Sweetwater Club's Involvement with Air Field] (open access)

[Clipping Photocopy: Sweetwater Club's Involvement with Air Field]

Photocopy of newspaper clippings and an announcement card about the Sweetwater Club's various planning and coordination efforts with the Air Force Air Field in Sweetwater, Texas.
Date: {1943-02-11,1943-03-11,1943-03-25,1943-04-07}
Creator: Mathews, Roy
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping photocopy: Sweetwater Student Activities and Avenger Field Naming] (open access)

[Clipping photocopy: Sweetwater Student Activities and Avenger Field Naming]

Photocopy of newspaper clippings about student and teacher activities in Sweetwater, Texas, including the naming of the Avenger Field Air School by means of a contest.
Date: {1942-05-13,1942-05-14}
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clippings Photocopy: Housing for Air Personnel Luncheon] (open access)

[Clippings Photocopy: Housing for Air Personnel Luncheon]

Photocopy of a newspaper clipping and an announcement card about a Sweetwater Club's luncheon to discuss housing for Air Force Personnel.
Date: {1943-05-13,1943-04-22}
Creator: Mathews, Roy
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Collection of Documents Addressed to Air Men and Civilian Pilots] (open access)

[Collection of Documents Addressed to Air Men and Civilian Pilots]

Collection of documents from the Civil Aeronautics Administration. The first page is Form ACA 113 (IM-11/42), a note from the Publications and Statistics Division of the CAA, serving as introduction to the following documents.The next is a notice to air men and all owners of registered aircraft, urging them to only "use their planes...for purposes that contribute directly to the war effort." The next is a document titled "WPB-CAA Liberalizes Utilization of Civilian Aircraft," discussing the use of civilian aircraft for the war effort. The next is an important notice from the Director General for Operations, discussing General Limitation Order L-262 from the War Production Board. The next is a letter from Administrator C. I. Stanton to Washington and field employees, discussing the approval of flight instruction or flight tests. The last group of documents includes several pages of designated landing areas. It also includes the envelope it came in.
Date: {1943-01-26,1943-04-08,1943-04-12}
Creator: Civil Aeronautics Administration
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Copies of Personnel Order 71 and 79] (open access)

[Copies of Personnel Order 71 and 79]

Copies of Army Air Force Personnel orders 71 and 79 designating flight officer Paul A. Hill as a service pilot and re-rating a list of several Air Force Second Lieutenants as pilots and service pilots.
Date: {1944-03-23,1944-11-09}
Creator: United States. Air Force.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Early tournapull Box 3, Museum,B

Early tournapull Box 3, Museum,B

Photograph of a Model C Tournapull, likely from the 1940s based on similar images found online and "LeTourneau Heavy Equipment" by Eric C. Orlemann. According to him, the Model C was the most popular of the scrapers built by the company.
Date: Date unknown. Likely in the 1940s.
Creator: R.G. LeTourneau, Inc.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Few of the Many New Bridges

A Few of the Many New Bridges

Photograph of new bridges in: UNID, Durant, Sulfur, Oklahoma City, El Reno, and Guymon by Charles H. McMahan pre January 1, 1948.
Date: [..1948-01-01]
Creator: McMahan, Charles H.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Flight Regulations and Pilot Certificate] (open access)

[Flight Regulations and Pilot Certificate]

Photocopy of a list of flight regulations and two certificates, a pilot license and an instrument flight check, belonging to Betty Jo Streff.
Date: {1945-11-22..1944-02-22}
Creator: United States. Army Air Forces.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Haslet High School Baccalaureate Service] (open access)

[Haslet High School Baccalaureate Service]

Program from the baccalaureate service for the Haslet High School class of 1941-42; this program outlines the order of events and the names of the people who will be performing each action. Names of the graduating class are listed on the reverse side of the program though not in the order that they walked in.
Date: {1941,1942}
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
High Points of the County Library Law (open access)

High Points of the County Library Law

Details about county free libraries, including establishment, fund appropriation, supervision, a joinder, the library's relationship with public schools, and termination.
Date: [..1942-01-20]
Creator: Texas State Library
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kaltenborn Edits the News, August 12 and 13, 1941 transcript

Kaltenborn Edits the News, August 12 and 13, 1941

This disc contains two episodes of H.V. Kaltenborn Edits the News, as broadcast on NBC's "Red" network. Kaltenborn speaks about the situation at the time regarding the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union (particularly Russia and Ukraine), as well as developments in Japan and East Asia. In Oklahoma City, this program was broadcast locally from WKY. The end of side 2 notes that WKY broadcast from the Skirvin Tower Hotel. This disc also contains commentary from the apparent compiler of the recordings, Gwynne Raymond.
Date: {1941-08-12,1941-08-13}
Creator: Kaltenborn, H. v. (Hans), 1878-1965
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, Spring 1943] (open access)

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, Spring 1943]

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing receiving some skin oil from a friend, a disastrous check ride, a trip to Abilene, and fellow flight students getting lost. Typed on an old physics test from primary flight training, on which Yerkes scored a 100.
Date: {1943-04-06,1943-22~}
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to the Oriental Rug Cleaning Co., April 21, 1948] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to the Oriental Rug Cleaning Co., April 21, 1948]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to the Oriental Rug Cleaning Company, confirming that they will be able to pick up his rugs the first week of May. Kempner also informs them that he will be out of town all summer. A typewritten note below the letter, dated May 10th, states that Kempner was told over the phone that of the 20 rugs, 14 would need repairing. It also notes the cost of repairing, cleaning, and storing the rugs.
Date: {1948-04-21,1948-05-10}
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letters Regarding Thomas Wetherald] (open access)

[Letters Regarding Thomas Wetherald]

Three typed letters discussing the death of Thomas Wetherald at the Battle Off Samar on the U.S.S. Samuel B. Roberts. The first is a sympathy letter from Lt. Comdr. E. E. Roberts to Mr. and Mrs. Wetherald, December 21, 1944. The second is a reply from Harry Wetherald thanking Lt. Comdr. Roberts for his letter. The third is another sympathy letter from Captain Robert W. Copeland to Mr. And Mrs. Wetherald, April 25, 1945.
Date: {1944-12-21,1944-12-26,1945-04-25}
Creator: Roberts, E. E., Jr.; Wetherald, Harry & Copeland, Robert W.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mayo Building in Tulsa

Mayo Building in Tulsa

Photograph of Mayo Building on the corner of West Fifth Street and South Main Street in Tulsa. Several automobiles are parked on othe street. Two women are standing on the corner and another individual is crossing the street. A man is on the sidewalk.
Date: [..1940]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Men and Farm Equipment; Farm Equipment; Barn and House Exterior; Barn and House Exterior

Men and Farm Equipment; Farm Equipment; Barn and House Exterior; Barn and House Exterior

Copy negative of four pictures taken on Sunnybank Farm in Abilene. The top left picture is of three men working with a machine in 1958. From left to right they are Charley, A. John, and another man. In the top right picture, taken in July of 1958, there is a man on a tractor in a field with a pile of hay on a wagon behind him. The bottom left picture is of the barn in 1945. The bottom right picture is of the ranch house in 1945. It has stone siding, a chimney, porch, and balcony. There are people on the porch.
Date: {1945,1958}
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
My Philip Nolan Scrapbook (open access)

My Philip Nolan Scrapbook

Scrapbook created by Gustine Courson Weaver containing materials related to the life and history of Philip Nolan, for whom Nolan County, Texas was named. Nolan was an Irish immigrant to the Texas-Louisiana area and a prolific horse trader and freebooter during the period of Spanish rule in Texas before Texas became a republic. The scrapbook contains articles about Nolan, photographs and photo copies, correspondence created for obtaining research materials, as well as snippets about Weaver's own life.
Date: [..1942]
Creator: Weaver, Gustine Courson
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
New Concrete Four Lane Highways

New Concrete Four Lane Highways

Photograph of New Concrete Four Lane Highways by Charles H. McMahan pre January 1, 1948.
Date: [..1948-01-01]
Creator: McMahan, Charles H.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
New Construction

New Construction

Photograph of a sign that reads, "New Construction in Southern Part of State" by Charles H. McMahan, pre Jan. 1, 1949.
Date: [..1949-01-01]
Creator: McMahan, Charles H.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Newspaper clippings about the election of Dr. May Owen to two positions] (open access)

[Newspaper clippings about the election of Dr. May Owen to two positions]

Newspaper clippings of articles about Dr. May Owen's election to president of the Tarrant County Medical Society, and her election to president of the Texas Society of Pathologtsts
Date: {1947-01-28,1947-03-07}
Creator: Fort Worth Press
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History