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[Client Card: Mr. George E. Barksdale]

Description: Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. George E. Barksdale, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: "Portrait Head".
Date: November 1954
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Amon Carter Museum
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[Dress Performance Theatre Series: "Do Lord Remember Me"]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the Dress Performance Theatre series of "Do Lord Remember Me," written by James de Jongh over the weekend of February 8-9th, 2013 at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre. The play takes place in a fictional retirement home in Richmond Virginia in the 1930s with the performance focusing on residents' memories of their time as slaves as young adults.
Date: February 9, 2013
Duration: 2 hours 7 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Evans, Tracy; King, Curtis & Collins, Cheryl
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Claiborne Johnston to all correspondence, 1949]

Description: A letter from Claiborne Johnston to all correspondents, informing them that hams cured in the previous fall are now available for shipping. Johnston then goes into detail about the curing process as well as explains the price per pound for the ham. Also attached to the letter is an advert for Johnston's Williamsburg Smoked Turkey and Hickory Smoked Bacon.
Date: 1949
Creator: Johnston, Claiborne
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Letter from Clara Evans Willis to John C. Lattimore, January 6, 1943]

Description: Letter from Clara Willis to John C. Lattimore on January 6, 1943, lamenting the entrance of Lattimore and Clara Willis's son Todd into the army, and their subsequent departure from Waco. She goes on to mention the weather in Grand Rapids, where Lattimore is stationed, and discusses the weather in Waco. She mentions that her son is on leave in Richmond, Virginia, and expresses her pride in Lattimore's entrance into the army.
Date: January 3, 1943
Creator: Willis, Clara Evans
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, May 8, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes, probably to her family, discussing getting to talk with the recipient(s), flying, mechanical problems, a cough, and other news. Written on Hotel John Marshall (Richmond) stationary.
Date: May 8, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, May 12-14, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes to her parents discussing picking up a new plane, being grounded by weather, the possibility of visiting, her father's health, a problem with her wrist, flying to Dallas, a colonel, and buying her friend a wedding gift. Typed (on May 12) and written (on May 14) on Hotel John Marshall (Richmond) stationary.
Date: 1944-05-12/1944-05-14
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara, August 1863]

Description: Letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara in which he writes about having fevers and waiting for his box of medicines to arrive. His slave, Al, is sick, so he is having to wait upon the sick,feed his own horses, and do his own cooking. He argues that the losses at Vicksburg, Charleston, or Richmond do not mean that the South is conquered. He says that the North has an advantage with gun boats. He also writes about family, the health of family and friends. He talks about fabric for new pants… more
Date: {1863-08-15,1863-08-17..1863-08-18}
Creator: Fentress, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Julien M. Bossieux, February 18, 1954]

Description: Letter from I. H. Kempner to Julian M. Bossiuex thanking him for sending a clipping of the Washington & Lee Fancy Dress Ball and telling him about his grandson who attends Washington & Lee. Mr. Kempner expresses his delight for Mr. Bossiuex's clean bill of health. Mr. Kempner also tells him he has no plans of visiting Virginia at the moment.
Date: February 18, 1954
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Letter from John H. Caldwell, February 21, 1863]

Description: John Caldwell has obtained leave of absence for sixty days. The reason for the leave of absence was because they would not let him retire and gave him the absence only if officers could be found to run his command. He wanted his captain to take command but the department would not allow it. Even if he had been granted retirement, it would have ended the same with a temporary command. He was able to acquiesced Dr. Col. Cunningham, a West Point graduate and a gentlemen to take the temporary comma… more
Date: February 21, 1863
Creator: Caldwell, John H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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