Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 20: 697th Engineer Company, U.S. Army Reserve Units, 355th Engineer Battalion, 931st Engineer Group, 362nd Civil Affairs Units
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Description: This volume features the following: The 697th Engineer Company, U.S. Army Reserve Units, the 355th Engineer Battalion, the 931st Engineer Group and the 362nd Civil Affairs Units.
Contributing Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 21: Visitors
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Description: This volume includes photographs of visitors to Fort Wolters. Images include Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, several generals, and assorted dignitaries.
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Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 22: Enlisted Photos
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Description: This volume contains photographs of enlisted personnel. It features ceremonies, promotions, and awards.
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Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 23: Miscellaneous
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Description: This volume includes photographs of ceremonies, cake cuttings, recreational events, holidays, and other activities.
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Ten Years Younger
Date: unknown
Creator: Chamber of Commerce
Description: This picture displays the title page of a booklet about Mineral Wells, Texas health resorts--and how they could make people feel ten years younger.
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The Last Days of Camp Wolters, 15 August 1946
Date: August 15, 1946
Creator: Coing, Edward E.
Description: This pamphlet describes the last eight months of Camp Wolters, during which time it was closed down, and its personnel were transferred to positions in other places. The notation "CW 41-46 (7)" invites interpretation.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46563/
D.W. Griffith Presents "The Birth of a Nation"
Date: April 1, 1924
Creator: Griffith, D.W.
Description: This photograph illustrates a souvenir program from the silent motion picture, "The Birth of a Nation, the Most Stupendous and Fascinating Motion Picture Drama Created in the United States. Founded on Thomas Dixon's story 'The Clansman' " The motion picture presents an early 20th-century Southern view of Reconstruction.
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Hotel Guide, Highway Guide and Where to Go in Mineral Wells
Date: unknown
Creator: Mineral Wells Chamber of Commerce
Description: The cover page of a guide to the town of Mineral Wells, with information about the different types of water available, recreation activities, sanatoriums, and hotels is shown here. The clothes of the"Dyspeptic" illustrated at the bottom left suggest the late 1920's. Please note the gammadion (swastika) ribbons above and below the doggerel on the left side of the picture. The guide appears to have been printed considerably before the rise of the Nazis in Germany.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16340/
Unit History of 845th Engineer Aviation Battalion [ From] 1 January 1956 to 29 February 1956
Date: March 1956
Creator: Myers, William L.
Description: This document gives a narrative of the activities of the 845th Engineer Aviation Battalion, as they prepared to leave one station (England Air Force Base, Louisiana) for their new headquarters at Wolters Air Force Base in Texas. There is a description of their drills, inspections, and preparations as well as an appendix with the original movement orders. The motto beneath the shield translates: "We build a nest."
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46558/
[R.L. Polk & Co.'s Mineral Wells City Directory, 1909]
Date: 1909
Creator: R.L. Polk & Co.
Description: The city directory for Mineral Wells, 1909, embracing a complete alphabetical list of business firms and private citizens; a directory of city and county officials, churches, public and private schools, banks, asylums, hospitals, commercial bodies, secret societies, street and avenue guide, etc.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20207/