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[Memo on Rice Hotel Note Paper]

Memo written on Rice Hotel note paper that says: 1. They had our estimated gallonage consumption 130,000 in October from Washington representative. 2. Borrow from Sweetwater Bank. 3. Cal-Tex prices - Going to send us prices. 4. Brown, Campbell, Davis, Bell, Hart.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Text

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Women on Ship Near Railings]

Photograph of a group of young women all wearing skirts or dresses and standing grouped together by the railing on the deck of a ship in the Houston harbor.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Nursing Field Trip]

Photograph of a group of nursing students walking onto a bus, with the bus driver seen in uniform leaning against the doorway of the vehicle. A road can be seen curving towards the right into the background.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Christenson in Plane #2]

Photograph of Dorothy Christenson in the cockpit of an airplane and looking off camera to the right. Handwritten notes on the back of the photo read, "Dorothy Christenson", "WASP School 43-W-3, Feb 1943", Houston Airport (Howard Hughes?)", "AT-6 from Ellington Field". A note on the right edge of the back possibly reads, "Alan D. Christenson 5".

Date: February 1947

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letterhead from the 319th Army Air Forces Flying Training Detachment]

Letterhead from the 319th Army Air Forces Flying Training Detachment Municipal Airport in Houston, Texas. The U. S. Army Air Force logo, a white star with golden wings inside a blue circle, can be seen at the top of the page.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Text

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Women in Front of Palm Tree]

Photograph of four women standing in front a palm tree and each holding what appears to be ice cream cones or snow cones. Handwritten notes on the back of the photo read, "Evelyn Laesch, Mabel Rawbinson, Bertha Link, me- Dorothy Christenson", "In court of Almsted, 8700, S Main Houston, Tex", "March 1943".

Date: March 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Christenson in Plane]

Photograph of a woman, earlier identified as Dorothy Christenson, sitting in the cockpit of a plane and wearing a headset while looking off camera to the right. Handwriting on the back of the photo reads, "Dorothy C., Feb 14, 1943, Houston, Texas, WASP".

Date: February 14, 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Five Women Sitting in Field]

Photograph of five women sitting in a field outside several buildings. Notes written on the back read, "Bertha Link, Mabel Rawbinson, Evelyn Laesch, 43W3, March 1943, Houston".

Date: March 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Women With Plane in Love Field]

Photograph of four women standing in front of a plane with a star on it. Several notes handwritten on the back read, "April 1943, Love Field, Houston, Tex", "Mabel Rawbinson, Killed in Service, 1944, Kalamazoo, Mich", "Bertha Link (Trosky) Grand Rapids, Mich", "Dorothy Christenson (Mitchell), Milwaukee, Wis", "Evelyn Laesch (Mich)", "8700 S Main Houston, Texas, Room 21 Roomates, met on train in men's room".

Date: April 1943

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Name Tag for Lyda M. Dunham 43-W-4]

Name tag for WASP trainee Lyda M. Dunham.

Date: 1943

Item Type: Text

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Photograph of Helen Duffy]

Photograph of Helen Duffy, one of the instructors in the Women Airforce Service Program (WASP), standing outside. She is wearing a flight suit and is visible from the waist up. The back of the photograph is stamped "D. Deaton from D. Strother" and "Flying Training Command Photo."

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: WASPs' role in stinging Axis noted]

Newspaper clipping of an article about WASP involvement in WWII, with a photograph of several WASP pilots walking under the wing of a plane. There is a two-panel political cartoon on the back of the clipping.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Special Orders Number 88]

Special orders stating assignment roles and approved leave requests for the personnel at the Ellington Air Force Base.

Date: June 6, 1951

Creator: 3605th Medical Group

Item Type: Text

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Nursing Class from Herman Hospital]

Photograph of a group women all wearing dresses and standing in five rows on the steps of a stone building. At the bottom edge of the photo is printed the caption, "In Coming Class - Herman Hospital Houston Texas - September 4, 1947". Charlyne Creger can be seen standing in the center of the bottom, foremost row.

Date: September 4, 1947

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Flyer: Who Were the WASP?]

Photocopied flyer with an image on the front of the Fifinella gremlin designed by Walt Disney and a quote from General H.H. "Hap" Arnold, "To the Best Women Pilots in the World". Text seen on the back contains a message from Disney granting the WASP use of the Fifinella image and notes the reception from the women to hearing said message.

Date: unknown

Creator: Tanner, Doris Brinker

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: National WASP WWII Museum