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Cocktail Dress

Description: A) Cocktail dress of blue silk satin. Sleeveless with spaghetti straps of same. Set-in waist which scallops at bottom hem and attaches to panels of full skirt. Tea length. Left side zipper with hook & eye. Skirt lined in black tulle. Combined retailer/designer label at inside left seam near hem: "Neiman-Marcus dallas / Traina-Norell" B) Belt of same with rectangular, self covered buckle. 1/2 inch wide.
Date: 1949
Creator: Norell, Norman, 1900-1972
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

[Letter from J. D. Sandefer, Jr. to President Herbert Hoover - September 15, 1949]

Description: A letter written to President Herbert Hoover, New York City, New York from J. D. Sandefer, Jr. dated September 15, 1949. An invitation issued by Sandefer and his mother to Hoover to attend as a friend of J. D. Sandefer and be to placed on the program of the dedication of the Sandefer Memorial Building at Hardin-Simmons University.
Date: September 15, 1949
Creator: Sandefer, J. D., Jr.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Copy of letter from Herbert Hoover to J. D. Sandefer, Jr. - September 17, 1949]

Description: A copy of letter written to Mr. J. D. Sandefer, Jr., Breckenridge, Texas from Herbert Hoover, The Waldorf-Astoria Towers, New York 22, New York dated September 17, 1949. Hoover declines the invitation due to commitments that was received from J. D. Sandefer, Jr. to attend and be placed on the program for the dedication of the Sandefer building at Hardin-Simmons University. A note handwritten by Jake Sandefer expresses appreciation to T. N. Carswell for the idea to invite Hoover.
Date: September 17, 1949
Creator: Hoover, Herbert Clark (1874-1964)
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from R. H. Johnson to T. N. Carswell - January 10, 1949]

Description: A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from Rupert, R. H. Johnson & Co. Investment Securities, New York 5, N. Y., dated January 10, 1949. Johnson expresses his appreciation for the Christmas card as well as the tie from Neely-Barnes noting it always brings back nostalgic memories. He discourses on the stock market advising that it is possibly picking up due to the feeling that Truman's bark was worse than his bite and predicts that the prospects for 1949 look good. He explai… more
Date: January 10, 1949
Creator: Johnson, Rupert H.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from R. H. Johnson to T. N. Carswell - September 16, 1949]

Description: A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, from Rupert, R. H. Johnson & Co. Investment Securities, New York 5, N. Y., dated September 16, 1949. Johnson confirms that he arranged to purchase Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line stock and Southern Company stock noting the markets appear to have gotten out of the doldrums.
Date: September 16, 1949
Creator: Johnson, Rupert H.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Travel Agent Appointment Agreement between Byron Breen, Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc. and T. N. Carswell, Carswell Agency]

Description: A travel agent appointment agreement between The Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc., 17 Battery Place, New York 4, N. Y., signed by Byron Breen and Carswell Agency, Abilene, Texas, signed by T. N. Carswell, dated November 15, 1949. Signed by J. B. Dalton, witness. The reverse side includes received stamp: ALCOA S. S. RECEIVED NOV 18 1949 Pass. Dept.
Date: November 15, 1949
Creator: Breen, Byron
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Invoice for Figs]

Description: Invoice for items sold to I. H. Kempner by Sugarland Industries, including shipping figs to Mr. and Mrs. Otto Marx, Sr., in New York City.
Date: December 1, 1949
Creator: Sugarland Industries
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Newspaper Clippings: Kempner Family]

Description: Three newspaper clippings mentioning or containing pictures of the Kempner. The first clipping discusses marriage and relationship gossip, including the marriage of Mary Jeane Kempner to Mr. Oakleigh Thorne Lewis, the second clipping mentions H. Kempner's appointment as a director for the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co., and the last clipping contains a partial photograph of a young woman in a fancy dress sitting down next to a man.
Date: 1949-03-02~
Creator: New York American
Partner: Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund
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