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Fourth Cooperative Community Education Workshop, June 7-July 12, 1945

Description: This book describes the Fourth Cooperative Community Education Workshop in particular (including photographs) as well as giving a brief description of the history and philosophy behind the workshops. According to the Foreward, "The primary purpose of the workshop is to relate the responsibilities of the teacher to the total needs of the whole child, the whole school, and the whole community. This bulletin is an attempt to interpret the philosophy and purpose of the workshop through recorded fa… more
Date: 1945
Creator: Scott, J. Irving E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Wiley College

Journal of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference, the Methodist Church: 1945

Description: Journal of the North Texas Conference of the Methodist Church, including the proceedings of the annual conference, committee reports, updates to conference leadership and contact information, and other related information. Index starts on page 144.
Date: 1945
Creator: Methodist Church (U.S.). Northwest Texas Conference.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: Northwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church

[Kilgore Brothers in Uniform]

Description: Photograph of two uniformed young men, Joseph and Charles Kilgore, standing outdoors with their grandfather Chester Knight and an unidentified elderly woman. Behind them is a partially visible house with a wooden fence.
Date: 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: League City Helen Hall Library

[Postcard of Pre-Civil War Houses, Boerne, Texas]

Description: Postcard of Texan houses built before the American Civil War. The postcard features four photographs of two one-story houses and two two-story houses, arranged in a grid on the front of the postcard with the caption "Early Texas Houses. Built Before Civil War." The bottom two photographs are of cabin style houses - one made from wood and the other from stones and wood. The photograph in the top left corner has a wooden staircase on the left side of the house, leading up to a doorway on the seco… more
Date: 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Patrick Heath Public Library

The Master Plan for Dallas, Texas, Report 14: A Preliminary Report Upon a Capital Expenditure Program

Description: Report providing information about the ongoing city planning for Dallas, Texas that started with the Kessler Plan in 1911. This report includes details concerning a capital expenditure program, such as the allocation of funds, selection of projects and a "[p]roposed 25 Year Program of General Fund Public Improvements. The second part of the report details an improvement program for the water and sanitary sewer systems. The appendix at the end of the report includes 17 tables providing empiric… more
Date: February 1945
Creator: Harland Bartholomew and Associates
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

A Master Plan for Dallas, Texas: Water and Sanitary Sewer Utilities

Description: Report providing information about the ongoing city planning for Dallas, Texas that started with the Kessler Plan in 1911. This report includes graphs, charts, and maps concerning the development of an improved water and sanitary sewer system; at the back of the report there are maps showing predicted urban development and the Dallas water distribution system.
Date: February 1945
Creator: Dallas Water Utilities
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Gleaners in Tempe, AZ Freshman Year of College]

Description: Photograph of the Gleaners during their freshman year of college, posing in a line in front of a blank wall in the Institute Building at Arizona State College. The women are wearing long dresses with corsages pinned over their left breasts, and two of the women near the center are holding unidentified objects. Names (L to R): Vera Whetten (Pratt), Lucile Turley, Eloise Randal (leader), Barbara Barrett, Glenna Pratt, Lucille Hanson, Sister Turley and husband (behind), Lorna Fish, Ann Shumway,… more
Date: 1945-03?
Creator: Randal, Judge
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Community College

[Barbara's First Horseback Ride]

Description: Photograph of Barbara Barret seated on a light-colored horse. They appear to be in a yard, with a tree just to the right near a clothesline or small structure; other trees are visible in the background.
Date: Summer 1945
Creator: Pratt, Vera Whetten
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Community College

[Barbara's First Visit to Mexico]

Description: Photograph of Barbara Barret getting into the passenger side of a pickup truck to go to Colonia Juarez. BShe is standing with her left leg on the running board and her right arm holding the door by the open window.
Date: Summer 1945
Creator: Pratt, Vera Whetten
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Community College

[Deplaning]

Description: Photograph of Aunt Belle Foutz and Barbara Barret standing on the last step of a small staircase, while deplaning in Casas Grandes, arriving from Nogales, Arizona. Part of the plane is visible at right, where the door is open, and a wing is visible just behind them, as well as a second plane in the background.
Date: Summer 1945
Creator: Pratt, Vera Whetten
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Community College

[The Train Finally Came]

Description: Photograph of (L-R) Flora Jean Taylor, Maxell Romney, Rollabon Bluth, and Vera Whetten standing in front of an open door in the the caboose of a train. Rollabon has his foot resting on a step and Vera is resting her right side on his left leg. A man is visible behind them, looking out the opposite door.
Date: Summer 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Community College
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