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[Biographical Sketch of Eleanor Brown]

Description: Biographical sketch of Eleanor Brown including details about her service with the WASP, personal life, career, family, interests, and community involvement. In the last paragraph, Brown states that "the time has come to hire an Executive Director to assist us."
Date: 2006
Creator: Brown, Eleanor McLernon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Miltary History of Eleanor McLernon Brown]

Description: Document containing a biography of Eleanor Brown, including details of her early life, her interest in aviation, and her service in the WASP organization. The first page is flyer about the Victoria Schools Veterans Interview Project, which includes a list of potential interview topics.
Date: November 7, 2001
Creator: Brown, Eleanor McLernon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Program: A Tattoo at the Taj]

Description: Program for an aviation demonstration and tattoo drumming event, with information on the history of military musical tattoo and on performers of the event, which include the U.S. Air Force Band of the West, the 12th Flying Training Wing, Randolph Air Force Base, The United states Air Force Honor Guard, and the The San Antonio Pipes and Drums.
Date: 2001
Creator: The 12th Flying Training Wing
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[McLernon Autobiographic Sketch]

Description: 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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Speech: Veteran Benefits for Individuals who Served in Civilian Capacity in the Armed Forces]

Description: Copy of two pages from the Congressional Record containing a speech by Texas Representative Olin Teague regarding pending bills that would grant civilian veterans benefits as well as the history of Avenger Field. The pages include other text, including partial text before the speech discussing a memorial dance for Jess Nevarez, his service in the military, his involvement with his community and church and supplemental statements to Teague's speech after his statements.
Date: April 6, 1977
Creator: United States. Congress.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Alonso De León's Last Expedition into Texas in 1690]

Description: Map of Spanish explorer Alonso de León's last expedition into Texas, beginning from Coahuila, Mexico, and ending at an East Texas mission. The map includes major missions, rivers, and streams on the route. There is also an inset map in the lower-right corner titled "Descríptíon exerm del Lago de S. Bernardo y del de Todos Santos que nuevamente se halló en ano de 1960" (Description of Lake S. Bernardo and Lake Todos Santos which again were found in the year 1690). The inset map has lakes and can… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Ambulance by Building with Armed Men

Description: Copy negative of an unidentified group of men with guns and ammunition sitting in an ambulance wagon. There is also a group of men standing in front of the ambulance; all of the men are facing the background. The ambulance has a medical cross emblem and text partially visible on the side that says "Servi... Sanitario ...itar." In the background, there is a building identified as "Presidencia Municipal," and has text bearing that name on the front of it.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Band at Fountain

Description: Copy negative of the McMurry Band in uniform posing at a fountain in Mexico. There are children playing on the left and children and adults standing on the right, and a gazebo, trees, and buildings in the background.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Band in Uniform

Description: Copy negative of the McMurry Band trip to Mexico. The band is preparing to perform. They are surrounded by locals, mostly children, waiting for the performance to begin. The McMurry College truck is in the background.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Band in Uniform

Description: Copy negative of the McMurry Band standing on a sidewalk outside a shop in Black Rocks, Mexico. One student is wearing a sombrero and having his shoes shined by a boy. Another is balancing baskets on his head.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Band in Uniform

Description: Copy negative of the McMurry Band in Mexico sitting in a building and drinking a beverage out of bottles. Most sit at tables but some are standing. They are in band uniforms.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Band Students at Bull Ring

Description: Copy negative of students in the McMurry Band at a bullfighting ring in Villa Acuña, Mexico. Villa Acuña was Del Rio's twin city across the Rio Grande River in Mexico and is now known as Ciudad Acuña. Most of the group members are in uniform and they are standing at the barrera, the fence encircling the bull ring, looking into the bullfighting ring, or anillo. A few band members stand behind the callejon, a narrow passageway between the barrera and the spectators' stands.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Band with Dancers

Description: Copy negative of the McMurry Band trip to Mexico. Approximately nineteen band members watch two local children folkdance. This scene takes place in Ciudad Valles, a home of the Huastecan indigenous people.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Banquet

Description: Copy negative of the McMurry Band trip to Mexico. Many people sit at a table. One person is eating and the others are engaged in conversation. There are three waiters standing in the background.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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