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[Portait of Man and Woman on Snowball]

Description: Portrait of man and woman posing in the snow while both are on a large snowball. The man squatted down with hands on woman's shoulders, while holding a snowball in one hand. The woman has her eyes close while sitting on the snow ball and holding a small snow ball.
Date: 1944
Partner: Hispanic Heritage Center of Texas

[Photograph of Admiral Bryant and Captain Baker]

Description: Photograph of Rear Admiral Carleton Bryant standing with Captain Charles Baker on board the U.S.S. Texas in the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York. According to the photo, the large shell between the men was one that "penetrated the ship off Cherbourg." Both men are wearing their black dress uniforms, with the ship's large guns looming overhead.
Date: October 12, 1944
Creator: United States. Navy.
Partner: Texas Parks & Wildlife Department

[Photograph of a Naval Awards Ceremony]

Description: Photograph of three major U.S. Navy officers in San Francisco, California. The photo says that these men are gathered together for a "presentation of Distinguished Service Medal to Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz." Nimitz is standing with (left to right) "Mrs. Nimitz, Admiral King, Admiral Halsey, and Mary Nimitz." Nimitz is seen shaking hands with Admiral King.
Date: May 7, 1944
Partner: Texas Parks & Wildlife Department

A Master Plan for Dallas, Texas, Report 8: Land Use

Description: Report providing information about the ongoing city planning for Dallas, Texas that started with the Kessler Plan in 1911. This report includes maps and tables showing the existing land uses in Dallas as well as descriptions for each type of land use; one of the maps shows the buildings erected from 1935 to 1939, the other map shows buildings erected from 1940 to 1943. Other sections discuss the existing zone ordinance and the requirements of future land use.
Date: October 1944
Creator: Harland Bartholomew and Associates
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

A Master Plan for Dallas, Texas, Report 6: Transportation Facilities, Rail-Air-Highways-Water

Description: Report providing information about the ongoing city planning for Dallas, Texas that started with the Kessler Plan in 1911. This report is broken up into four sections: "Railroad Transportation; Air Transportation; Highway Transportation; Water Transportation," and discusses the existing conditions of each, and proposed plans to improve the transportation system. Also included are maps and a table showing transportation facilities and the "[v]olume and Direction of Passenger and Freight Train … more
Date: July 1944
Creator: Harland Bartholomew and Associates
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

A Master Plan for Dallas, Texas, Report 10: Housing

Description: Report providing information about the ongoing city planning for Dallas, Texas that started with the Kessler Plan in 1911. This report includes findings on the existing housing in Dallas, the minimum standards for the housing, and a "Proposed Comprehensive Housing Plan for Dallas." Also included are maps and tables exhibiting the housing areas and population statistics in certain housing areas.
Date: December 1944
Creator: Harland Bartholomew and Associates
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Texas Surgical Society Minutes: Ocotber 3, 1944]

Description: Minutes from the Fall 1944 meeting of the Texas Surgical Society, held in Galveston, Texas. Included is a list of members present, papers that were read and discussed, and other events during the meeting, as well as a treasurer's report.
Date: October 2, 1944
Creator: Stuck, Walter
Partner: Moody Medical Library, UT

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 1, December, 1944

Description: The first issue of "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, explaining the purpose of the Tidings to be communication with the troops of World War II; sending individual holiday greetings from the men of the congregation; and containing a sermon that encourages an "All Out" commitment of both the troops and the congregation to "restore God's peace on earth" and to "win the spiritual conflicts between right and wrong on the battlefields of the soul."
Date: December 1944
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission
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