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[Postcard of a Hook and Ladder]

Description: Postcard of a fire fighter at the seat of a horse-drawn hook and ladder wagon at a fire station. The fire station has two garage doors labeled (from left to right), "No. 1 Chemical" and "No. 1 H&L Truck." A handwritten note on the back of the postcard says, "I have had a ride on this to a fire."
Date: unknown
Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

Oral History Interview with Russell J. Hampson, December 15, 1976

Description: Interview with Russell J. Hampson, an Army WWII veteran from West Orange, New Jersey. Hampson discusses his experience during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, including joining the Army in 1940, being stationed at Schofield Barracks, the events of the attack, and operations on Oahu afterward.
Date: December 15, 1976
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Hampson, Russell J.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[News Script: Newark]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: April 15, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Client Card: Miss Enid Bell]

Description: Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Miss Enid Bell, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: pedestals to be shipped to Arden Galleries.
Date: December 1934
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Partner: Amon Carter Museum

[Client Card: Mr. M. Becker]

Description: Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. M. Becker, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. Piece included: "Bronze" (Repair; repatine).
Date: February 1970
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Partner: Amon Carter Museum

[Client Card: Mr. Paul Christensen]

Description: Client card describing work completed at the Roman Bronze Works Foundry for Mr. Paul Christensen, including a job number, brief description, monetary amount, and dates associated with each entry. This work order includes a bronze cast portrait bust of Charles Edison.
Date: April 1975
Creator: Roman Bronze Works Foundry
Partner: Amon Carter Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. Yerkes, September 4, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes to her father discussing burning her hand, flying across the country at night, the P-51, news from home, her divorce, rumors about the future of the WASPs, the book Bombers Across, flying to the Pacific Northwest, and a rough flight on an airliner.
Date: September 4, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to Fred G. and Frances Yerkes, May 17, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes to her parents Fred and Frances discussing issues with supplies of P-51s for graduating fighter pilots, skipping ground school classes, gifts, her mother's health, her friend Bobby, marriages, applying to join the British ferry command, and rumors about cancellation of the WASP program. Typed on Hotel John Marshall (Richmond) stationary.
Date: May 17, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, October 31, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes discussing receiving a pack of cigarettes, flying a fighter from Jackson, MS, to Raleigh and Newark, seeing a show and getting dinner, flying on an airliner at night, picking up a plane from Long Beach, news about her friend Marion, flying in a B-24, and happening to meet an Air Corps private who knew of her through a mutual acquaintance.
Date: October 31, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, November 15, 1944]

Description: Letter from WASP Cornelia Yerkes, probably to her parents, discussing the recent Army-Navy game, her divorce, her grandfather's health, an offer from Jacqueline Cochran to serve in another country's air force when the WASP is disbanded, and difficulties collecting a P-63 from its factory.
Date: November 15, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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