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[Postcard of Presbyterian Church in Clifton, Texas]

Description: Postcard of the small building of a Presbyterian Church in Clifton, Texas. A handwritten note on the back of the postcard is addressed to Miss Cora Wright in Alba, MO and says "Hello Cora, as you haven't answered my last card I will send you another. Am all ok, hope you are the same. I am at work 60 miles north with the bridge ...[?]... Wish I could be with you. Ruth."
Date: December 11, 1910
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Photograph of a Church Service Aboard the U.S.S. Texas]

Description: Photograph of a church service taking place on board the U.S.S. Texas. This service is taking place on the back end of the ship and assorted signal flags border the entire service. One sailor is kneeling next to the altar, with others bowing their heads in the crowd. An American flag is waving in the foreground.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Texas Parks & Wildlife Department

[Cathedral of San Fernando, San Antonio, Texas]

Description: Photograph of the Cathedral of San Fernando in San Antonio, Texas. Several shops are visible in the street to its right. A hrose adn carriage is parked in front of one of the shops. The plaza in front of the buildings is muddy. The back of the photograph has a detailed history of the building and its predating missions printed on it. Cabinet card format.
Date: 1889
Creator: Paris, A. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 29.424167 -98.493600
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Kerr County Album

Description: Book discussing the history of people and places in Kerr County, Texas. It is organized into several sections: Kerrville and County Communities; Kerr County; What Binds Them Together; Churches of Kerr County; Schools; Medical Institutions; Clubs and Organizations; Life and Living on the Land; Riversides, Hillsides and Countrysides; Military Service Members; Summer Camps; Poems, Rhymes and Verses; Families; Tributes and Memorials; Businesses. Index starts on page 544.
Date: 1986~
Creator: Kerr County Historical Commission
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

[Photograph of Women and Sailor]

Description: Photograph of two women standing outside a brick building with a man wearing a Navy sailor uniform. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says, "Warren, 'That Sailor,' E. Williams. San Jacinto Church, Amarillo, Jan trip '46."
Date: January 1946
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: McMurry University Library

Scrapbook History of Mineral Wells and Palo Pinto County

Description: Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials to document important people, organizations, places, and events of significance to the history of Palo Pinto County and Mineral Wells, Texas. It includes a rough table of contents with page numbers for some of the highlights.
Date: unknown
Creator: Woodruff, Bess
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 4, March, 1945]

Description: An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter with updates on circumstances in the lives of congregation members and the community; a description of a recent visit by missionaries who had been interned in China, including how they ate their East Sweden meal with chop sticks; details of area churches' stand-by plans for a V-E day prayer service to celebrate "news of the collapse of Germany"; and a sermon urging that, at the end of World War II, "we... be more than conquerors… more
Date: March 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 5, April, 1945

Description: An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, updating both the congregation and the servicemen, including a warning to the congregation that the season for "peddlers" is approaching and a tip for getting rid of them; compares the "equipment" needed by a Christian soldier to that of a military soldier; and expresses hope that the meeting of the United Nations will lead to a creation of a permanent world organization that will "assure the peach (sic.) for all time future."
Date: April 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 6, May, 1945

Description: An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, reporting the names and locations of 19 East Sweden area servicemen; describing area V-E Day services; commentating on food shortages while also reporting that more than 1200 disobedient prisoners of war have been placed on bread and water for more than a week and "are put to work gardening to raise their own food in part"; providing a local calendar of events; and characterizing the Germans as self-styled "godless supermen" wh… more
Date: May 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 7, June, 1945

Description: An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, reporting changes in locations and duties of servicemen affected by V-E Day; giving details of social, community, and business happenings; providing the yield per acre of the Prisoner of War Camp's oat field and stating that many of the prisoners of war have been "evacuated" in labor groups of 15 to other places; reporting that the McCulloch County drive to collect used clothing for Europe has exceeded its quota; and expressing… more
Date: June 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 8, July, 1945

Description: An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, containing military updates, including the news that Pvt. Billy Gallaway, a former prisoner of war in Germany, has returned home; commentating, after two women joined the thresher crew, that women "do take the places of men"; reporting on the extensive damage and one death resulting from "The Cyclone" of June 18; expressing gratitude that the constitution for world peace has been written, including a "provision for codification… more
Date: July 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anston T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 9, August, 1945

Description: An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, containing more local news than military updates and revealing that area ministers are making plans for a V-J Day but that plans are "(C)ensored for the present"; announcing the impending closing of Curtis Field and the Prisoners of War Camp; and making a metaphorical comparison of different types of souls to different types of soils.
Date: August 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anston T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 1, December, 1944

Description: The first issue of "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, explaining the purpose of the Tidings to be communication with the troops of World War II; sending individual holiday greetings from the men of the congregation; and containing a sermon that encourages an "All Out" commitment of both the troops and the congregation to "restore God's peace on earth" and to "win the spiritual conflicts between right and wrong on the battlefields of the soul."
Date: December 1944
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 2, January, 1945]

Description: An issue of "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, containing a sermon about "resolutions and revolutions" and sending New Year's greetings to the servicemen from the church's "Mothers, Wives, Sisters etc." that were written while the church members were gathered at the "old meeting place - School House" to celebrate New Year's Eve.
Date: January 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission
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