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[Constitution for the McMurry Chanters]

Description: Constitution (revised as of 1941) for the McMurry University's student choir, The Chanters, stating the rules and terms of membership for the organization. The final page has the officers' signatures.
Date: January 20, 1941
Creator: McMurry University
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: McMurry University Library

Dallas Origin and Destination Survey

Description: Survey created by the Texas Highway Department in conjunction with the "City and County of Dallas" concerning the "major external routes of vehicular travel radiating from Dallas." The survey asked drivers where their trip began, which roads they traveled on, and their destination. This report includes tables and maps showing the compiled data and the various traffic movements around the city.
Date: January 10, 1945
Creator: Texas. Highway Department.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives

[Document with Orders for Assignment to Different Organizations]

Description: Extract from an official document from the United States Army confirming orders for the men in the 8th Armored Division to be reassigned to different organizations. Captain Charles R. Griggs is first on the list and has been assigned to the 49th Armored Infantry Battalion. The second page that is stapled to the back is a copy of the first page.
Date: March 17, 1945
Creator: United States. Army. Armored Division, 8th.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Pioneer City County Museum

Drafted! For Peacetime Service To our Defense Forces

Description: Pamphlet by the United Service Organizations, Inc. saying it "has been called back to active service." The rest of the document discusses their background, the request made to reorganize, their plan, how much money they have, what the job is they need to perform, and their budget status. The names of the members of the USO Reorganization Committee are listed on the back page, with the name of the president, Lindsley F. Kimball, printed at the bottom.
Date: [1948,1949]
Creator: United Service Organizations (U. S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: Pioneer City County Museum

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

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 3, February, 1945]

Description: An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, encouraging the servicemen to participate with the congregation in reading a "Book of the Bible per month"; providing information about the "boys," including a humorous account of Sgt. Jack Gallaway's having been "placed over" the WACs in England's signal corps; reporting a special service held at the Prisoner of War camp; urging the servicemen to not give up their personal freedoms, especially to tobacco or alcohol; and provid… more
Date: February 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

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 10, September 1945

Description: An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, discussing World War II's V-J Day, the return of McCulloch County area troops, and a brief retrospective of the start of the war. The writer states that "it was also in the Providence of God" that the allies won the war, and goes further to say that it is faith, not military power, that brings world peace. The end of the newsletter provides thanks on behalf of the church for the end of the war.
Date: September 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 11, October, 1945

Description: An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, first discussing the return of local troops from the Asian front of World War II. The text calls attention to a letter from Chester G. Turn, a soldier stationed in China who expresses his disdain for the state of the nearby countries in Asia. Afterward, the newsletter lists local church events, such as a harvest, an ice cream party, and a birthday. The end of the newsletter recognizes October 7th, 1945 as "World Wide Communion … more
Date: November 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Envelope from C. D. Dancer to Mrs. Wm. M. Brenner]

Description: Envelope addressed to Mrs. Wm. M. Brenner from C. D. Dancer. This envelope has three stamps on it in the upper right corner, two are of George Washington, and one is of Abraham Lincoln; the illustration on the bottom left corner shows a boot stepping on the heads of the three Axis Powers leaders: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito.
Date: [1941..1945]
Creator: Dancer, C. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Pioneer City County Museum

[Extract from an Official Document of the United States Army Showing Personnel Reassignments]

Description: Extract from an official military document containing the names and ranks of men in the 8th Armored Division and their new assignments to different battalions. Captain Charles R. Griggs was assigned to the 49th Armored Infantry Battalion, and the list continues on the back side and the page attached; the subheading shows which battalion, company, platoon, etc. the men underneath will belong too.
Date: July 3, 1945
Creator: United States. Army. Armored Division, 8th.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Pioneer City County Museum

[F. D. Wyatt's Mileage Ration Identification Folder]

Description: Mileage Ration Identification Folder belonging to F. D. Wyatt, according to the card it is valid from September 1944 to December 1944. The card is folded in half to create a place to keep gas ration stamps inside of; Wyatt was granted "E" stamps for his use.
Date: September 8, 1944
Creator: United States. Office of Price Administration
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Pioneer City County Museum

[Fire Station 6 and Firefighters]

Description: Photograph of 11 firefighters standing with two uniformed firefighters and a car in front of Dallas Fire Station 6. The station is a stand-alone, two-story, brick building with two balconies and two garage doors. There are trees on either side of the station and the street is visible in the foreground. On the back of the photograph are a label, typewritten text, and a stamp with information about the photograph.
Date: May 24, 1947
Creator: Martin, Linwood J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Firefighters Museum

[Fire Station 15]

Description: Photograph of Dallas Fire Station 15, a stand-alone, two-story, brick building with two open garage doors. Five firefighters stand in front of a fire engine parked in the garage doorway on the left, and five firefighters stand in front of another fire engine parked in the garage doorway on the right. Most of the windows on the second story are open or slightly open. A pole extends from the top of the building and out of shot. On the back of the photograph are a label, handwritten notes, and a … more
Date: July 1946
Creator: Martin, Linwood J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Dallas Firefighters Museum
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