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[Adoption Statements of Charlotte Cotter and Willa Mei Kurland]

Description: Personal statements of Charlotte Cotter and Willa Mei Kurland regarding their adoptions from Zhenjiang City in Jiangsu Province (Charlotte) and from Urumqi in Xinjiang Province, China. The statement begins with a brief overview of their trip to China to search for their birth families, then has reproduced their blog posts from their time in China. The blogs, written by both Charlotte and Willa, contain their reflections on the experience and describe the methods they used to search. The last co… more
Date: [2017..]
Creator: Cotter, Charlotte & Kurland, Willa Mei
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: St. Edward’s University

[Adoption Statement of Sophie Mei]

Description: Personal statement of Sophie Mei regarding her adoption from the Yangxi County Social Welfare Institute in Guangdong Province, China. She describes her childhood in California and Utah, how she raised funds for her orphanage, and her trip to Guangdong Province where she visited the orphanage. There is a photo of Sophie on the last page of the statement.
Date: October 16, 2016
Creator: Sophie Mei
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: St. Edward’s University

[Adoption Statement of Camille Davis, Grace Davis, and Kathryn Thompson]

Description: Personal statements of Camille Davis, Grace Davis, and Kathryn Thompson regarding the adoption of Camille and Grace from the Fuling Social Welfare Institute in Chongqing Municipality China (Camille) and SWI Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China (Grace). Camille and Grace discuss their experiences growing up in California as adopted children and Kathryn describes her background and how she and her husband, Scott Davis, decided to adopt. There are three photos included of Camille Davis, Grace Davis, a… more
Date: 2015~
Creator: Davis, Camille; Davis, Grace & Thompson, Kathryn
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Oral History with Camille Davis]

Description: Oral history of Camille regarding her adoption by Kathryn Thompson and Scott Davis from Chongqinq Municipality, China. She describes her experiences as an adopted child, and interactions with other children adopted from China.
Date: 2015~
Duration: 10 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Davis, Camille
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Oral History with Grace Davis]

Description: Oral history with Grace Davis regarding her adoption by Kathryn Thompson and Scott Davis from Sichaun Province, China, describing her experiences growing up in California as an adopted child. She speaks about her school, friends, and interactions with Chinese culture.
Date: 2015~
Duration: 18 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Davis, Grace
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Oral History with Scott Davis and Kathryn Thompson]

Description: Oral history with Kathryn Thompson and Scott Davis regarding the adoption of Camille Davis and Grace Davis from the Fuling Social Welfare Institute in Chongqing Municipality China (Camille) and SWI Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China (Grace). They speak about the process of adopting both girls and their experiences raising their daughters in California, including their efforts to connect them to Chinese culture.
Date: 2015~
Duration: 11 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Thompson, Kathryn & Davis, Scott
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: St. Edward’s University
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Oral History Interview with Albert Day, February 23, 2004

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Albert Day. Day was born in Olney, Texas 23 September 1921 and graduated from high school in Vivian, Louisiana in 1942. Upon joining the Navy 4 June 1942, he was sent to The Great Lakes Naval Training Station for boot training. Afterwards, Day was assigned to the Amphibious Forces at Solomons, Maryland for training where he learned navigation and signal communications. Completing the course in October 1942 he went to Redwood… more
Date: February 23, 2004
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Day, Albert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Albert Day, February 23, 2004

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Albert Day. Day was born in Olney, Texas 23 September 1921 and graduated from high school in Vivian, Louisiana in 1942. Upon joining the Navy 4 June 1942, he was sent to The Great Lakes Naval Training Station for boot training. Afterwards, Day was assigned to the Amphibious Forces at Solomons, Maryland for training where he learned navigation and signal communications. Completing the course in October 1942 he went to Redwood… more
Date: February 23, 2004
Creator: Day, Albert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with James H. ""Herb"" Macia, July 21, 2000

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James H. ""Herb"" Macia. He discusses being a navigator/bombardier on the 14th plane in the Doolittle Raid, including the training leading up to the raid, the trip on the USS Hornet, the raid itself, bailing out over China, the weeks spent there before making it out through India and Egypt and stories about other men in the Raiders. He also discusses meeting with Generalissimo and Madam Chiang Kai-Shek, seeing the Egyptian p… more
Date: July 21, 2000
Creator: Macia, James H. ""Herb""
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Location: 32.233869 -110.948133
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[News Script: Ship]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of first cargo ship from Red China to call in southern California in more than 25 years has arrived at Port of Long Beach.
Date: December 17, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Phnom Penh]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about B- 52' s which is struck within ten miles of Phnom Penh during the night and early as the Cambodian government reported a rash of rebel activity on nearly all fronts.
Date: July 3, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Adoption Statement of Ivy Maldonado, Carmelle Maldonado, and Carlos Maldonado]

Description: Personal statements of Ivy Zhuhau Ni, Carmelle, and Carlos Maldonado regarding her adoption from Yiwu, China. Ivy describes the importance of unconditional love and how present it is in adoption. Carlos and Camille share their motivations to adopt and the challenges of parenting a child with a disability.
Date: unknown
Creator: Maldonado, Ivy Zhuhua Ni; Maldonado, Camille & Maldonado, Carlos
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Interview with Carlos Maldonado]

Description: Interview with Carlos Maldonado regarding the adoption of Ivy Maldonado from Yiwu, China. He speaks about their decision to adopt, and particularly from China, and what the early years with Ivy were like. He shares some of Ivy's medical challenges, physically and psychologically, and the ups and downs of their relationship.
Date: unknown
Duration: 15 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Maldonado, Carlos
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Interview With Ivy Maldonado]

Description: Narrative history of Ivy Maldonado regarding her adoption from Yiwu, China. She shares the information she knows about her adoption and the memories she has from her early life in China. She also speaks about her motivations for searching for her birth parents and the steps she's taken to begin her search. Ivy also shares details about her diagnosis with autism spectrum disorder, and how she and her family learned to cope with her disability.
Date: unknown
Duration: 17 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Maldonado, Ivy Zhuhau Ni
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Interview with Lizzie Sterner]

Description: Interview with Lizzie Sterner regarding her adoption from the Bengbu SWI in Anhui Province, China. Lizzie speaks about visiting China where she was interviewed about searching for her birth parents and visited her orphanage.
Date: unknown
Duration: 7 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Sterner, Lizzie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: St. Edward’s University
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[Oral History with Carmelle Maldonado]

Description: Oral history with Carmelle Maldonado regarding the adoption of Ivy Maldonado from Yiwu, China, speaking about their decision to adopt and adjusting to life with Ivy. She describes finding out Ivy is autistic, the journey to discovering her diagnoses, and how they all learned to manage her disability. She also discusses Ivy's commitment to searching for her birth parents.
Date: unknown
Duration: 33 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Maldonado, Carmelle
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: St. Edward’s University

[Letter from Helen Barnes to Cecelia McKie - May 26, 1943]

Description: Letter sent from Helen Barnes to Cecelia McKie thanking her for the message from her husband, William Frank Barnes, and stating she and her daughter had been evacuated from Shanghai in 1941 and had not seen Mr. Barnes since. Envelope addressed to Mrs. W. L. McKie, Sacramento, California from Mrs. W. F. Barnes, San Diego, California.
Date: May 26, 1943
Creator: Barnes, Helen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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