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Building Exterior

Description: Copy negative of a card, showing a picture of the Hotel Hefner in Sweetwater, Texas. The card has the address, rates, and a description of the services provided by Doctors Hefner and Brown, who are located at the hotel.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Baby in Chair; Baby in Stroller

Description: Copy negative of two pictures. The picture on the left is a portrait of baby LaNelle Hefner in 1914. The picture on the right is of LaNelle sitting in a chair and baby Kit Carson Hefner in a stroller on a porch in front of a door in 1916.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of Nolan County, Texas

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Nolan County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, towns, mountains, railroads, boundaries, original land grants or surveys, roads, and blocks of land. A diagram of a section is included in the upper-right corner. A handwritten note has been made at the top of the map to give an explanation for the yellow-colored blocks of land. Yellow land was unsold as of the date June 11, 1921. Scale [ca. 1:133,333] (4000 varas to the inch).
Date: unknown/1921-06-11
Creator: Stakemann, M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of Nolan County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Nolan County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:190,476] (5000 varas to 7/8 of an inch).
Date: 1903
Creator: Walker, Addison & Wynne, Amos
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Big Springs

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Big Spring, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads, bodies of water, landmarks, and borders, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet with supplementary contours at 50 foot intervals) and spot heights. A location diagram is included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1954
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: None
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of Sweetwater, Texas

Description: Map of Sweetwater, Texas, showing the city broken up into zones, such as the retail, commercial, manufacturing, and residential districts. The map also includes streets, schools, cemeteries, a court house, parks, and roads. No scale indicated.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Combination Map of Parts of Jones, Taylor, Fisher, and Nolan Counties.

Description: Survey map of parts of Jones, Taylor, Fisher, and Nolan Counties, showing rivers, towns, boundaries, creeks, original land grants or surveys, roads, and blocks of land. A legend indicating drilling wells, gas wells, abandoned wells, and dry holes is included in the lower-left corner of the second sheet. Handwritten notes have been made on the map in red pencil to outline specific tracts of land. Scale [ca. 1:66,667] (2000 varas to the inch).
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Nolan County, Texas.

Description: Blueline format of survey map of Nolan County, Texas, showing land ownership, creeks, rivers, general land grants or surveys, and railroads. A diagram of a section is included in the upper-right corner. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in pencil, "CL 70, 1-43, Mile 57th. For correction of CL see Book 71 51-53." Scale [ca. 1:133,333] (4000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1877
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Congressional Record - Senate - January 14, 1977]

Description: Photocopied text of an excerpt from the Congressional Record containing Senator Barry Goldwater's introduction of bill S. 247 to provide veterans' benefits to the WASPs. Goldwater's remarks are followed by five articles on the WASPs, their service during WWII, and their efforts to obtain veterans' status.
Date: January 14, 1977
Creator: United States. Congress. Senate.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[WASP Regular Board Meeting Minutes]

Description: Minutes from the WASP's regular board meeting held October 7, 2000 in Sweetwater, TX. Includes a list of members present and a summary of the business discussed and motions made during the meeting.
Date: October 7, 2000
Creator: Harmon, Elaine D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Group Petition #1]

Description: Petition addressed to the Board of Directors, Order of Fifinella, Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, from ten members living in Texas. The petition includes a list of nine concerns, including the reinstatement of the nonprofit organization in California and the removal of the Fifinella logo from the newsletter. The signatures found at the bottom of the page include the member's WASP class and street address.
Date: 1979-09~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Biographical Sketch of Eleanor Brown]

Description: Biographical sketch of Eleanor Brown including details about her service with the WASP, personal life, career, family, interests, and community involvement. In the last paragraph, Brown states that "the time has come to hire an Executive Director to assist us."
Date: 2006
Creator: Brown, Eleanor McLernon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Betty Jane Williams to Maxine Flournoy, February 23, 2001]

Description: Letter from Betty Jane Williams to WASP President Maxine Flournoy discussing the decision to pay Mildred Carter's expenses to attend the WASP's next national conference. During WWII, Carter had applied to join the WASP but was denied because the government excluded African-American women from serving in the program. Williams disagrees with the action taken at the October business meeting and urges the WASP to rescind their offer to pay Carter's expenses.
Date: February 23, 2001
Creator: Williams, Betty Jane
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Press Release: Address by General H.H. Arnold, and Statement from Jacqueline Cochran]

Description: War Department press release quoting the speech General Arnold gave to the final graduating class of Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II and a statement made by Jacqueline Cochran on the WASP's accomplishments. The pages are torn away at the edges in several places, most noticeably in the bottom left corner of the first page.
Date: December 7, 1944
Creator: Arnold, Henry Harley
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[WASP Songbook]

Description: Songbook containing lyrics and illustrations about the WASP, created for the organization's 50th anniversary reunion in San Antonio, Texas. Songs in this collection include: The WASP Song; Hymn to Avenger; You'll Go Forth; Yankee Doodle Pilots; Rugged But Right; I Wanna Be a Miss H.P.; Buckle Down, Fifinella; I'm a Flying Wreck; Roll Out the Airplanes!; The Mess Hall Song; Do You Have Your Wings?; Deep in the Heart of Texas; We Were Only Only Fooling; Zoot-Suits and Parachutes; I've Got Sixpenc… more
Date: September 9, 1992
Creator: Parrish, Deanie Bishop
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Flyer: Hangar One Dinner Dance]

Description: Flyer advertising "Homecoming at Hangar One", an event held at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas on May 27, 2006. The second page of the flyer includes a list of activities and a registration form.
Date: 2006
Creator: National WASP WWII Museum
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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