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Texian Stomping Grounds

Description: Collection containing sketches of post-war life in East Texas, including descriptions of early recreations and games, stories about Southern food and cooking, religious anecdotes, Negro folk tales, a first-hand account of a Negro folk play about the life of Christ, and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 159.
Date: 1941
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press

[Margie Bowlin-Brown singing 'Oh Promise Me']

Description: Photograph of an Margie Bowlin-Brown singing "Oh Promise Me" at the wedding ceremony of Hazel Petrey and Gilbert Dove at the Sunny View Methodist Church. Ruth Lambdin, church organist and Sunday school teacher, plays the organ to accompany her. Narrative by Junebug Clark: More images and information can be found in the July 28, 1941 issue of Life Magazine, pages 82-85 in the story “Life Magazine Goes to a Kentucky Wedding.” Also in the Joe Clark, HBSS book “ Country Wedding," published in 1974.… more
Date: June 15, 1941
Creator: Clark, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Program for L.C. Brite's Birthday Dinner 1941

Description: Printed program for a birthday dinner for L.C. Brite at the First Christian Church in Marfa, Texas on August 3, 1941. It was his last birthday before he passed away on September 4, 1941. The program included an invocation, dinner, music sung by the choir and by the guests, letters and wires from friends, tributes, and a benediction.
Date: August 3, 1941
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[857th Aviation Engineer Battalion Song]

Description: Wartime copy of the music sheet for the 857th Aviation Engineer Battalion song composed, in part, by Everette "Tex" Frazier. This copy was presented and dedicated to the commanding officer of the unit, Lt. Col. William E. Hotchkiss.
Date: [1941..1945]
Creator: Finkelstein, L. B.; Frazier, Everette Edell; Francis, W.; Harris, C. & Shropshil, R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Musical Score/Notation
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

The Transports.

Description: Cinquain poem composed as lyrics to a song with the beginning stanza containing 8 lines, ending stanza containing 6 lines and the middle stanzas having 4 lines, each rhyming on the second, fourth and sixth line. The lyrics discuss conditions at war and the American's confidence in the fight against dictators.
Date: [1941..1945]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Poem
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

SNAFU

Description: Six stanza poem in rhymed verse, with four lines per stanza and eight lines on the third stanza, composed as lyrics to a song on the subject of the military's response to Pearl Harbor and lackluster conditions.
Date: [1941..1945]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Poem
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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