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Oral History Interview with Gilberto S. Trevino, February 18, 2005

Interview with Gilberto S. Trevino, a U. S. Marine during World War II. He attended Texas A&M before serving in the Marine Corps. He was in the 28th Replacement Battalion when he was assigned to the 3d Marine Division and deployed to Iwo Jima. He discusses his first impressions of landing on the island. He describes the constructed Japanese defenses on the island and the use of Japanese Nisei interpreters to convince defenders to surrender. He returned to Texas A&M where he was in the Corps of … more

Date: February 18, 2005

Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 53 seconds

Creator: Atkinson, Scott & Trevino, Gilberto S.

Item Type: Sound

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Frame-Lifting Device for Disk Plows or Similar Implements.

Patent for "improvements in disk plows and similar implements, and especially to means employed for raising and lowering the frames of said plows in order to regulate the depth of the furrow" (lines 9-13).

Date: October 30, 1900

Creator: Hendon, Walter Preston

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from Mordechai Kreinin to H. Kempner Cotton Company, July 10, 1964]

Letter from Mordechai Kreinin to H. Kempner Cotton Company asking them to fill out a questionnaire to help him collect data for a research project about "comparative labor efficiency in the United States and abroad". He says that he is looking exclusively at "innate qualities of the labor force". An "Intent of Inquiry" and the questionnaire mentioned in the letter are attached.

Date: July 10, 1964

Creator: Kreinin, Mordechai

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Postcard from J. D. Smith to George Pendexter, August 20, 1909]

Postcard from J. D. Smith to George Pendexter with a message saying that Smith had forgotten Pendexter's number. On the backside of the postcard there is a photo of some of the members of the Central Fire Station in Lansing, Michigan. The twelve men in front of the building are standing next to two of the automobiles used in fighting fires; the car on the left is holding ladders in the back end.

Date: August 20, 1909

Creator: Smith, J. D.

Item Type: Postcard

Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Letter from Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner to T. N. Carswell - December 12, 1941]

A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Committee on Americanism, Parramore Post No. 57, American Legion, Abilene, Texas, from Murray D. Van Wagoner, Governor, State of Michigan, dated December 12, 1941. Governor Van Wagoner defines Americanism.

Date: December 12, 1941

Creator: Van Wagoner, Murray D.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library