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Oral History Interview with Phyllis Schwethelm Shelton, October 16, 2018

Description: Transcript of an interview with Phyllis Schwethelm Shelton, who details the history of her extended family starting with her great, great, great grandfather, Ernst Schwethelm, who immigrated from Germany in 180 and settled in Comfort, TX. Other notable moments within the Schwethelm's long family history are included such as Henry Schwethelm, a Texas Ranger who fought in the Battle of Nueces in the Civil War, and the family's business in mercantile, real estate, and cattle ranching. Images relat… more
Date: October 16, 2018
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Shelton, Phyllis Schwethelm
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

[Dallas Firefighter Class 164 #2]

Description: Portrait of the Dallas Fire classmembers from October 15, 1973 to January 15, 1974 posing outside a building in two rows. The recruits are wearing uniforms of dark slacks, double-breasted jackets, and flat-topped caps.
Date: [1973-10-15..1974-01-15]
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Fire Department.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Firefighters Museum

[Dallas Firefighter Class 206 #2]

Description: Portrait of the Dallas Fire classmembers from October 31, 1983 to March 28, 1984 posing outside a building in three rows. The recruits are wearing light blue shirts with patches on the left sleeve and navy slacks.
Date: [1983-10-31..1984-03-28]
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Fire Department.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Firefighters Museum

[Crane Used for Cable Car Rescue #1]

Description: Photograph of a fireman in a bucket attached to a crane working to access a stopped cable car. Below the cable cars, there is a long row of carnival booths decorated in red and white stripes with blue pennant flags rising up between every other individual booth.
Date: October 21, 1979
Creator: Spainhouer, Freddie Philmon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Firefighters Museum

[Dallas Firefighter Class 153 #2]

Description: Portrait of the 20 Dallas Fire class members from July 1972 to October 1972 posing outside a building in two rows All of the recruits are wearing a dark colored suit with circular silver buttons in two rows, dark colored slacks and service cap , name tag on the right side of their chest, a silver badge on the left side of the chest, and on the left sleeve a patch shaped as a shield and a circle cross patch near the wrist. The large text box beneath the men have all the names of each member.
Date: October 13, 1972
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Fire Department.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Firefighters Museum

Oral History Interview with Bill Jonas, October 23, 2018

Description: Edited transcript of an interview with Bill Jonas discussing his early life in Kerrville and his parents' work, his education, about his career as an FBI agent, and about his family. Copies of photos are included at the end of the transcript.
Date: October 23, 2018
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Jonas, William James, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Charles Seale, October 2, 2018

Description: Interview with Charles (Charly) Seale, who served with the Department of Public Safety, Highway Patrol Service during the flood of July 17, 1987 near Comfort, Texas. The flood took the lives of ten children. Charles was in the the first responding helicopter involved in the rescue operation and recounts the events, the search that followed, and changes made afterwards. Photos of Charles follow the transcript.
Date: October 2, 2018
Duration: 26 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Seale, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Ronald Girard, October 31, 2017

Description: Interview with Ronald Girard, a veteran of the United States Air Force and post office worker. Girard describes his experiences as a navigator in the U.S. Air Force, participating in experimental tests run by the CIA at Area 51 as a part of the 1129th Special Activity Squad, experience in the Vietnam War, and working as a mail carrier in Kerrville.
Date: October 31, 2017
Duration: 58 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Girard, Ronald Lee
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Waynne Rogers, October 18, 2017

Description: Interview with Waynne Rogers, a rancher from Harper, TX near Kerrville. Rogers talks about family, his work ranching and shearing sheep and goats, his past education at Tivy High School and undergraduate metallurgical engineering degree, and different positions he held as an engineer.
Date: October 18, 2017
Duration: 1 hour 01 second
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Rogers, Waynne
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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