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[Clipping: History of wartime female pilots kept aloft by Chandelle project]

Photocopy of a newspaper clipping, spread across two pages, of an article about female pilot veterans starting the Chandelle project in which they will tell the stories of the Women Airforce Service Pilots and the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFs).

Date: unknown

Creator: Andrews, Terry

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: "Memorial Reunion For WASP is Now Underway"]

Copy of Sweetwater Reporter's June 1972 issue. Four WASP related articles on front page and detailed in paper Titles are: "WASP's is Now Underway" , What Did WASP's Find Here Today", " Miss Cochran Known for Her Flying" and "Mrs. Young is leader of Order of Fifinella.

Date: June 23, 1972

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Basil L. Walters to T. N. Carswell - December 9, 1941]

A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Parramore Post No. 57, American Legion, Abilene, Texas, from Basil L. Walters, Vice-President and Executive Editor, Minneapolis Star Journal and Tribune, dated December 9, 1941. Walters advises Carswell that the song lyrics of "Ballad for Americans", written by a WPA worker, is what expresses his definition of Americanism writing that the chorus asks: "And who are you?" The voice answers back: "I am America." "Our country's strong, Our country's young. … more

Date: December 9, 1941

Creator: Walters, Basil L.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Photograph of 714th Tank Battalion Reunion]

Photograph of a group of men and women wearing formal clothes, with one of the men in the front holding a trophy. A handwritten note on the photo says "Minneapolis - 1974. 714th Tank BN."

Date: 1974

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Postcard of Falls of Minnehaha]

Postcard of an illustration of a waterfall with a fenced in lookout in the bottom left foreground. A wooded area borders either side of the river upstream. Printed text above and below the illustration reads, "Where The Falls of Minnehaha Flash And Gleam Among The Oak Trees, Laugh And Leap Into The Valley." The other side of the postcard is blank except for postcard markings.

Date: 19uu

Creator: Haynes, Frank Jay

Item Type: Postcard

Location: 44.915235 -93.210769

Partner: Howard Payne University Library

St. Paul, Minneapolis and Environs

Atlas map of the Twin Cities metropolitan area, with insets of the business districts of St. Paul and Minneapolis. The map includes major buildings, roads, streets, bodies of water, cemeteries, schools, and parks. The back of the map lists points of interest, including streets, for both St. Paul and Minneapolis. Scale [ca. 1:316,800] (1/4 of a mile to 1 1/4 inches).

Date: 1907

Item Type: Map