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[Gulf States Utilities Crew in 1949]

Description: Employees at Gulf States Utilities in 1949.L-R: Jefferson, Perry, Howard, Lester, Pinder, Dailey, Hodges, Barber, Stahl, Woodard, Wilkinson, Harrison, Armstrong, Meeks, Steele, Gossett, Nicks, Murray, Rougeau, Thomas, Schultz, Bridges, Mitchell, Bland, Nantz, LeRoux, Cheschul, Osburn, Smith, Nick, Bolton, and Brown.
Date: 1949
Creator: L.A. Lang
Partner: Heritage House Museum

[Aerial View of Orange, Texas]

Description: Aerial photograph of Orange Texas along the Sabine River. In the foreground is the railroad tracks and storage buildings, a ship is seen to the left. In the background is the Port of Orange. The building in the foreground is an older Port of Orange. Those buildings have been replaced with a newer Port of Orange. Levingston Shipyard would eventually build on the island in center left. Above the island is the town Orange, and in the background to the discerning eye is Consolidated Steel, or Amer… more
Date: June 26, 1948
Creator: Lang, B. A.
Partner: Heritage House Museum

[Stark High School]

Description: Photograph of Stark Senior High School from Thirteenth Street in 1948. It is a two-story brick building. There are automobiles parked on the street next to it.
Date: 1948
Creator: Lawless and Son
Partner: Heritage House Museum

[General Douglas MacArthur addresses dignitaries at the signing of the Japanese Surrender]

Description: Photograph relating to the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender which ended WWII. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander, address the crowd at the beginning of the ceremony. Behind him from left to right stand: General Hsu Yung-Chang of China; Admiral Sir Bruce A. Fraser, Royal Navy; Lt. General Kuzma Derevyanko of the U.S.S.R.; and General Sir Thomas Blamey of Australia.
Date: September 2, 1945
Partner: Heritage House Museum

[Military officers on the deck of the USS Missouri for the Japanese Surrender of WWII]

Description: Photograph relating to the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender that ended WWII. Allied military officers stand on the deck of the USS Missouri. From left to right on the front row are: Lt. General Kuzma Derevyando of the U.S.S.R.; General Sir Thomas Blamey of Australia; Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave of Canada; General Jacques LeClerc of France; Vice Admiral Conrad E.L. Helfrich of the Netherlands; and Air Vice Marshall Leonard M. Isitt of New Zealand.
Date: September 2, 1945
Creator: Kahl, Kalvin Henry
Partner: Heritage House Museum
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