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Groundbreaking Ceremony

Copy negative of the HSU Cowboy Band and Six White Horses riders at the groudbreaking ceremony for a hotel in New York. Henry Cabot Lodge is the man in the center. The riders are in western costume holding their flags, and the band is in the back holding up banners.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Students by Bus

Copy negative of the HSU Six White Horse riders and two members of the HSU Cowboy Band holding signs on the sidewalk beside a bus as they arrive in New York City. The riders are, from left to right, Mary Jane Smith, Sue Henniger, Paula Windham, Louise Livengood, and Bettylu Daniel.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Band Students with Flags

Copy negative of the HSU Cowboy Band and Six White Horse riders in New York. The band members are holding their instruments and hats and the riders are holding their flags.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Band and Flag Squad

Copy negative of the HSU Cowboy band and Six White Horse riders at Madison Square Garden in New York. The band are seated, playing their instruments, and the riders are standing in western costume with their flags. The riders are Sheriff Will Watson, Mary Jane Smith, Paula Windham, Sue Henniger, Louise Livengood, and Bettylu Daniel.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

New-York

Map of New York at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing counties, towns, roads, bodies or water, and other geographic features. These is an inset map of a reduced reprint of a French edition of the Lewis Evans map in the lower-left corner. Relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:1,393,920] (22 miles to the inch).
Date: 1938
Creator: Faden, William; Sauthier, Claude Joseph; Ratzer, B. & Evans, Lewis
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the City of New York, Prepared Especially for the World Almanac, 1891.

Map of New York City, covering all of Manhattan and much of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx (Morrisania) as well as adjacent parts of New Jersey. Ferry lines, streets, boroughs, community districts, and neighborhoods are also labeled. The map includes a red overprint of four Manhattan Elevated Railway lines in Manhattan and the Bronx. The sides and back of the map also include extensive directories of churches, financial institutions, insurance companies, and public officials collected January 1, 1891. Relief shown in hachures. No scale information given.
Date: 1891
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

A Map of the Travels of George Washington

Map of the travels of George Washington in the Middle Atlantic region of the United States between 1732 and 1799, with insets of New York and the lower Hudson Valley, Mount Vernon, the tidewater region of Virginia, Philadelphia, and Boston. The map includes towns, colonial highways, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geological features, with relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:2,502,720] (39.5 miles to the inch).
Date: 1931
Creator: National Geographic Society for the National Geographic Magazine
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

People on Sidewalk

Copy negative of Pat McDaniel with her mother Thelma McDaniel standing next to Nettie Eplen and Tom Eplen. They are on a New York City Sidewalk. There are other people walking in the background. There are large buildings on the other side of the street.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[McLernon Autobiographic Sketch] (open access)

[McLernon Autobiographic Sketch]

Short autobiographic essay written by Eleanor McLernon on her life, family, career, and experience with the WASP program. A note paired with the paper reads, "Brief autobiographic sketch for the ALL-WASP lino graphic book Betty Turner currently working on (1999)".
Date: 1999
Creator: McLernon, Eleanor Michel
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Eleanor Brown to Ralph P. Davidson, September 15, 1977] (open access)

[Letter from Eleanor Brown to Ralph P. Davidson, September 15, 1977]

Letter from Eleanor Brown to Ralph P. Davidson, publisher of Time magazine, asking him to consider including an article on the WASPs and their efforts to obtain veterans' status. She mentions that she has attempted to contact over fifty members of Congress with little success and that she hopes that an article in Time will help increase awareness of the WASPs' cause.
Date: September 15, 1977
Creator: Brown, Eleanor McLernon
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clearance Declaration of Aircraft Commander (Clearance Immigration and Customs) (open access)

Clearance Declaration of Aircraft Commander (Clearance Immigration and Customs)

United States customs form endorsed to clear Royal Air Force officer, Paul A. Hill, to depart from La Guardia Airport in New York, bound for Montreal, Canada.
Date: June 3, 1944
Creator: Hill, Paul A.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Memo from Dawn Seymour to Emily, September 2000] (open access)

[Memo from Dawn Seymour to Emily, September 2000]

Memo from Dawn Seymour to Emily summarizing activities the chair of memorial committee did from 1998 to 2000, specifically within the US Air Force Academy, Texas Women's University, and other organizations.
Date: September 2000
Creator: Seymour, Dawn R.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Two Women in Bendix Race] (open access)

[Clipping: Two Women in Bendix Race]

Newspaper clipping featuring an article about the National Air Races and the annual convention of the Ninety-Nines. A photograph of Emma Coulter Ware and former WASP Clara Jo Marsh standing next to a small airplane accompanies the article.
Date: August 30, 1946
Creator: Mountsier, Robert
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Paul Mantz Wins Bendix Race at 435 M.P.H. for New Mark] (open access)

[Clipping: Paul Mantz Wins Bendix Race at 435 M.P.H. for New Mark]

Newspaper clipping of the front page of the New York Herald Tribune, including articles about about international relations, local politics, Nazi trials, and more. Of particular note is the article about the Bendix Trophy race where Jacqueline Cochran took third place.
Date: August 31, 1946
Creator: Allen, C. B.
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Envelope of Quik Splice Tapes]

Envelope for HPI quik splice super 8mm splicing tapes. There are some tapes left inside.
Date: 1965
Creator: Hudson Photographic Industries Incorporated
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Instructions for HPI Quik Splice] (open access)

[Instructions for HPI Quik Splice]

Instruction pamphlet for an HPI Quick Splice Dual Eight Interlock Butt Splicer for Super 8mm film. The instructions outline how to splice 8mm film.
Date: 1968
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Herald Tribune Sends Its Plane to Air Races] (open access)

[Clipping: Herald Tribune Sends Its Plane to Air Races]

Newspaper clipping with articles about the New York Herald Tribune participating in air races, the death of Jack Woolams, Senator Carl Hatch's opposition to bomb tests, and more.
Date: August 31, 1946
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
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
[Letter from Dawn R. B. Seymour to WASP Members, July 14, 1984] (open access)

[Letter from Dawn R. B. Seymour to WASP Members, July 14, 1984]

Letter from Dawn R. B. Seymour to WASP Members discussing a recent invitation to a POW/MIA Recognition Day Ceremony and listing the WASP association's most immediate goals. The letter includes a photocopy of the invitation and envelope front.
Date: July 14, 1984
Creator: Seymour, Dawn Rochow Balden
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Dawn R. B. Seymour to WASP Members, April 21, 1984] (open access)

[Letter from Dawn R. B. Seymour to WASP Members, April 21, 1984]

Letter from Dawn R. B. Seymour to WASP members discussing updates on WASP association news.
Date: April 21, 1984
Creator: Seymour, Dawn Rochow Balden
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Cowboy Band at New York City Hall]

Group photograph of the World’s Championship Rodeo contestants in front of New York City Hall.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Approaching New York Harbor]

Photograph of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, taken on the approach of the ship carrying the 12th Armored Division.
Date: 1946
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Private Bob Trump]

Photograph of Private Bob Trump posing in front of a tree and wooden building.
Date: 1941
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Soldiers on Tank]

Photograph of soldiers posing on a tank. Those in the top row are, from left to right, Pvt. Jake Cohen, Pvt. Bud Thomas, and Pvt. Tom Brennan. The soldiers in the bottom row are Sgt. Emmett Greeley, Pvt. Bill Witrey, Sgt. Louis Gagnon, and Pvt. Buck Everett.
Date: 1941
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History