348 Matching Results

Search Results

Results: 1 - 24 next

[Special Orders Number 102, Extract 1]

Description: Special orders extract reassigning a list of Women Air Force Service Pilot members, having completed their training, to be transferred to new air base stations.
Date: September 9, 1943
Creator: 318th Army Air Forces Flying Training Detachment
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
transcript

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

Description: 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: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Pipe-Vent.

Description: Patent for a certain new and useful pipe vent, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 29, 1899
Creator: Austin, William N.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Transcript of Letter from Peter Elias Bean to Antonio Elozua, October 22, 1830]

Description: Copy of transcript for a letter from Peter Elias Bean to Antonio Elozua, on October 22, 1830. Bean has discovered that the government is paying Indians to move west of the Mississippi River, and he wonders if the Indians will attempt to retake their lands in Texas.
Date: October 22, 1830
Creator: Bean, Peter Elias
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Scouting, Volume 1, Number 9, August 15, 1913

Description: Semi-monthly publication of the Boy Scouts of America, written for Boy Scout leaders, officials, and others interested in the work of the Scouts. It includes articles about events and activities, updates from the national headquarters, topical columns and essays, and news from various chapters nationwide.
Date: August 15, 1913
Creator: Boy Scouts of America
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum

[Postcard of Flowers and Cross]

Description: Postcard of a cross with flowers in front of it. Text on the front of the postcard says, "May Easter be but the beginning of an endless period of peace and happiness for you and yours." Handwritten note on the back of the postcard is addressed to Lou Rayburn and simply says, "With much love, Anne Bradford."
Date: 1914
Creator: Bradford, Annie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[Scrapbook of John Briggs personal life and travel, 1987-1991]

Description: Scrapbook documenting the personal life and travels of John Logan Briggs Jr. between 1987 and 1991, including color photographs, tickets, menus, business cards, receipts, clippings, stickers, and other records of travel. John Logan Briggs Jr. is the creator of "The Experience," a self-discovery workshop for the LGBT community. This scrapbook also documents his time spent with friends and family.
Date: [1987..1991]
Creator: Briggs, John Logan, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Location: 38.537003 -123.006325
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Postcard from F. A. Bruce to George Pendexter, February 21, 1912]

Description: Postcard from F. A. Bruce to George Pendexter concerning the fire truck in the picture, which is the car Bruce drives. Bruce notes the blizzard conditions in Michigan that include four to five feet snow drifts. The photograph on the reverse side shows a group of firemen sitting in a fire truck that is covered in snow and wearing snow chains; the note on the picture says: "10 below zero inspecting fire alarm."
Date: February 21, 1912
Creator: Bruce, F. A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Thos. W. Peck - February 27, 1939]

Description: A letter written to Mr. Thos. W. Peck, Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company, Parchment, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from T. N. Carswell, dated February 27, 1939. Carswell expresses his appreciation for the interest Peck showed in the enterprise into which he had invested his savings confirming that the information from Peck allowed him to succeed in eliminating the "disturbing factor". Carswell assures Peck that his name was never used.
Date: February 27, 1939
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Tie for Wire Fencing.

Description: Patent for tie for woven fencing that holds the vertical and horizontal wires firmly together and uses less wire in the tie, thereby making the ties more cost effective.
Date: February 19, 1907
Creator: Collar, Charles T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Homer James "Jim" Avery, August 14, 2008

Description: Interview with Homer James "Jim" Avery, founder of James Avery Craftsman from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. Avery discusses his childhood, education, service in World War II, and starting and developing his jewelry business. The interview includes photographs of Mr. Avery, on pages 35-41.
Date: August 14, 2008
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Webb, Jeanie Archer; Leonard, Julie Mosty & Avery, Homer James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
Back to Top of Screen