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[Jacqueline Cochran's Typed Daily Schedule: December 1969 to December 1973]

Text of Jacqueline Cochran's typed daily schedule from December 21, 1969, to December 15, 1973, including golf tournaments, doctor appointments, hair appointments, Arthritis Foundation committee meetings, dinner meetings, budget meetings, and board meetings. Entries include day of week, time, and location. They also include personal handwritten notes on some entries.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Text

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter of Invitation from Nancy Pelosi to Fred Kafka, February 2010]

Official letter from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office to Fred Kafka inviting him to attend a Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony honoring the Women Airforce Service Pilots on March 10, 2010. Kafka was the son of Cornelia Yerkes Kafka.

Date: [..2010-02-26]

Creator: Pelosi, Nancy

Item Type: Letter

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Photograph of Church in West Virginia]

Photograph of St. Mary's Church of Christ in West Virginia, showing the front steps and door of the building. The photograph is angled upward to capture the steeple of the church. Note on the back of the photograph reads, "St. Mary's W. Va."

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

[Letter from Russell Lockhart to Blanche Perry]

Letter plus envelope from Russell Lockhart of the Church of Christ in South Parkersburg, West Virginia to Perry requesting a bapistry painting. Request for a painting was inspired by the painting Perry did for the church in Athens, Ohio. Mentions average size and attendance of the South Side congregation and various people and ministries in which the church is involved. Letter is typewritten on church letterhead.

Date: October 12, 1951

Creator: Lockhart, J. Russell

Item Type: Text

Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

[Postcard of Rhododendron in West Virginia Hills]

Postcard of Rhododendrons, the West Virginia state flower, growing on green hills. A handwritten note addressed to Miss Hellen Aten says "Hello. Haveing a fine time much warmer down here we are close to 700 mile from home. Marie K."

Date: August 1941

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Walter D. Townley - April 23, 1938]

A letter written to Mr. Walter D. Townley, Alderson, West Virginia from T. N. Carswell, dated April 23, 1938. Carswell expresses his enjoyment of seeing Townley while he was in Clifton Forge.

Date: April 23, 1938

Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

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

Item Type: Map

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Robinson to Boteler: Deed of Gift of Negroe Betsy

Text in which Alexander Robinson transfers ownership of a slave named Betsy to his son-in-law, Henry Boteler. Robinson is noted as residing in Baltimore, Maryland, while Boteler is from Shepherds Town, Virginia. Betsy is approximately sixteen years old.

Date: July 15, 1917

Creator: Robinson, Alexander

Item Type: Legal Document

Partner: Coleman Public Library