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[Clipping: On Wings of Victory]

Description: Clipping from The Shepherd's Fold, a newsletter for Live Oak apartment residents, discussing resident Charlyne Creger's efforts as a Woman Airforce Service Pilots during World War II and her recent induction into the Oklahoma Aviation Hall of Fame. Other residency-related articles can be seen on the revere side.
Date: Autumn 2002
Creator: Live Oak
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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Interview with Terry Childers, April 14, 1988

Description: Interview with Terry Childers, City Manager for Oklahoma City. The interview includes a relating of Childers' experiences growing up in Abilene and attending ACU, as well as his journey to becoming city manager of Oklahoma City, and the issues he is currently facing as city manager.
Date: April 14, 1988
Duration: 30 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Childers, Terry & McCaleb, Gary
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

[Clipping: State WASP Fliers Attend Texas Reunion]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about the WASP reunion in Sweetwater, Texas. The article notes that twelve Oklahoma residents attended the reunion and includes comments from a few of them about their experience as WASP. The back of the clipping includes two articles.
Date: June 25, 1972
Creator: Willis, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: "Men Didn't Have to Prove They Could Fly, But Women Did"]

Description: Photocopy of an article about the death of Marvel Crosson, the sabotage of the Women's Air Derby, how it changed woman aviation history, the Ninety-Nines, female aviators, how they gained popularity, the Powder Puff Derby, female aviation achievments, female astronauts, and how the woman aviators are presently doing.
Date: unknown
Creator: Roberts, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Essay by Charlyne Creger]

Description: Photocopy of an essay by Charlyne Creger describing how her life was impacted by World War II and recalling what led her to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots. A few grammar corrections have been written in red ink on the page. The original copy appears to have been bound in a book.
Date: unknown
Creator: Creger, Charlyne
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Notes to Virginia Creger]

Description: Booklet containing short notes addressed to Virginia Creger from her friends. On the cover of the booklet is a silhouette image of a woman wearing an apron and stirring something in a bowl.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Portrait of Baby

Description: Copy negative of two portraits of Norma Ann Smith as a baby in Shawnee, Oklahoma. In the first, she is looking to the right smiling and is holding something in her hands. In the second, she is wearing a bonnet and smiling. The pictures are by Photo by Don of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Train Engine #2313 and Car - Oklahoma City]

Description: Photograph of a train engine and attached car on railroad tracks, viewed from a front side angle. The number "2313" is visible on the side. Additional tracks lay to the right. Buildings stand in the background. Handwritten text below the image says, "Oklahoma City - 1940s ex T&P #554."
Date: 194X
Creator: Carlson, R. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum
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