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[Letter from F. D. Patterson to T. N. Carswell - December 9, 1941]

Description: A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Parramore Post No. 57, American Legion, Abilene, Texas, from F. D. Patterson, President, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, dated December 9, 1941. Patterson advises Carswell that he has enclosed a copy of an article he wrote titled "My Definition of Americanism" and that the original of this article was sent to Adjutant General R. B. Handy, Jr. of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Kansas City, Missouri at his request. Typewritten on Tuskegee Institute letterhead … more
Date: December 9, 1941
Creator: Patterson, F. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Brown Blanche Perry Scrapbook]

Description: Scrapbook containing photographs, church bulletins, newspaper and magazine clippings, baptistry painting interpretations, etc. related to the various churches and individuals with whom Perry was associated.
Date: 1940/1966
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

[Color Painting of Capital Heights Church Mural]

Description: A color painting in miniature of the baptistry painting for the Capital Heights Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Signed and dated by Blanche Perry. Shows sun beam cross, dove shaped cloud, calm river, and tree lined banks.
Date: October 1941
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

Award for Civilian Service

Description: Cloth Army Air Forces Emblem seen attached to the bottom left corner of a certificate awarding the emblem to Eleanor McLernon for civilian service.
Date: December 20, 1944
Creator: Army Air Forces Pilot School
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Eleven WASP at Napier Field]

Description: Group photograph of eleven WASP standing outside of a building at Napier Field. Each woman is wearing a beret, a dark jacket, a light-colored shirt, a dark tie, a dark skirt, and dark shoes. The note in the bottom right corner of the photograph says, "W.A.S.P., AAFEFTC, Napier Field, Dothan, Alabama, Dec. 1944."
Date: December 1944
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

WASP Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 4, December 1,1944

Description: Partial WASP newsletter from a base in Maxwell Field, Alabama, announcing the death of a WASP Staff Executive, Katherine Dussaq, who was a key member in planning reemployment possibilities for WASP after deactivation. Dussaq perished in a plane crash when her AT-6 went down on her way to Cincinnati. Attached after the newsletter is a pilot's log page belonging to Betty Jo Streff.
Date: December 1, 1944
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: "Ferry Pilot"]

Description: Magazine clipping with a photograph of Nancy Batson on one side and an advertisement for Kollsman Aircraft Instruments. Text on the front side reads: " FERRY PILOT: All smiles over her appointment as Florida's first WAFS (Woman's Auxiliary Ferry Squadron) member, Nancy Batson, former flight instructor at Embry-Riddle, Miami, prepares to take off. A native of Alabama where she learned to fly at the U. of A., Tuscaloosa, Nancy at 22 intends to make flying her career. She is convinced that the lon… more
Date: November 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Special Orders Number 80, Extract 2]

Description: Special orders extract reassigning several Women Airforce Service Pilots to new stations and agreeing to pay them by the mile flown or to reimburse them for expenses incurred while traveling.
Date: September 16, 1944
Creator: Pinkston, Sid C. & Pinkston, Sid C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Baptistry Painting for Huntsville, Alabama #2]

Description: A photograph of the baptistry painting created by Blanche Perry for the Church of Christ in Huntsville, Alabama. The photo was taken at an unknown place in Huntsville, Alabama and depicts the bank of a river with trees, clouds, and mountains. Suggestion of a sun beam cross and dove shaped cloud.
Date: November 1949
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

[Baptistry Painting for Huntsville, Alabama]

Description: A photograph of the baptistry painting created by Blanche Perry for the Church of Christ in Huntsville, Alabama. The photo was taken at an unknown place in Huntsville, Alabama and depicts the bank of a river with trees, clouds, and mountains. Suggestion of a sun beam cross and dove shaped cloud. The back of the photograph bears the additional inscription "Theme 'The Word of God.'"
Date: November 1949
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

[Letter from G. W. Carver to T. N. Carswell - December 9, 1941]

Description: A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Parramore Post No. 57, American Legion, Abilene, Texas, from G. W. [George Washington] Carver, Board of Trustees, The George Washington Carver Foundation, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, dated December 9, 1941. G. W. Carver defines Americanism. Typewritten on The George Washington Carver Foundation letterhead.
Date: December 9, 1941
Creator: Carver, George Washington
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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