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Amos Ben Simmons Jr. Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0280
Army Administration School: Women's Army Corps Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: B-0029
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of two volumes of large scrapbooks (about 27 x 18) entitled "WAAC Branch Number 1, Army Administration School, Nacogdoches, Texas, Volume 1" and "WAC Branch Number 1, Army Administration School, Nacogdoches, Texas, Volume 2." The scrapbooks are organized in near date order. Volume 1 spans Feb. 5, 1943 - Aug. 30, 1943 while Volume 2 covers Sept., 1943 - Feb. 10, 1944. Information about each class is usually presented together. The scrapbooks contain graduation programs...
Dates:
1943-1944
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Bemon Garsee Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0017
Scope and Contents
This collection contains several photographs of the Garsee family in the 1940s, three funeral registers, as well as a San Augustine High School Diploma, and a Masonic Bible and notes. There is also a newspaper clipping and photocopy about Corporal Bemon Garsee’s time in the “bloody bucker” 28th Infantry Division in World War II. One item of interest is an original poem written by Corporal Bemon Garsee exactly one year after June 6, 1944 in remembrance of his lost...
Dates:
1940-1956
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Bob Fagelson Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0247
Scope and Contents
This collection contains articles, magazines, maps, newsletters, photographs, magazines, pamphlets, and other published material relating to the China-Burma-India theater of World War II. The bulk of the collection consists of full and partial issues of the Hump Pilot's Association quarterly newsletter and the China-Burma-India Veteran Association's monthly magazine 'CBI Sound-Off'.
Dates:
1940-2005; Event: Donated 9/21/1992; Event: Addendum donated 5/1/2006
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Charles Lee Hill Papers
Collection
Identifier: A-0108
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs, conductor's scores of musical compositions, newspaper clippings, concert programs and publicity, ads for sheet music and sound recordings, correspondence, World War II Army post newspapers, Hill's writings on Army life, musical theory of jazz and swing, and music education.
Dates:
1933-1983; Event: Donated 2/8/1984; Event: Addendum donated 8/7/1984; Event: Addendum donated 1/30/1985
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Clarice F. Pollard Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: A-0223
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook is predominantly and structured around a 21-page typescript entitled "A Khaki WAAC in the Lone Star State." Pollard supplemented the text with caricatures and cartoons, an issue from the class newsletter, the program to a variety show put on by her class, a copy of her transcript, and her class’ graduation program. Pollard includes photographs (originals and photocopies) of her herself, friends and classmates in uniform and in and around...
Dates:
1943-1989
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Frank P. Hathcock Letters
Collection
Identifier: A-0346
Content Description
The bulk of the collection consists of letters written by Frank P. Hathcock.While each of Frank’s letters contains unique details or observations, they also convey principal themes born from his wartime service. Some are tied to his hopes for a productive life after the war, many recall the pleasures of home, others are anchored in his daily experiences, and a few capture his thoughts for lasting peace to overcome causes of global conflict.Frank never ended a letter...
Dates:
1942-1945
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Grimes-Koonce Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0371
Content Description
The bulk of the collection consists of family photographs and funeral books.
Dates:
Event: Donated 10/23/2020
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Hall Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0368
Scope and Contents
There are a wide range of materials in the Hall Family Collection. In the personal and family correspondence there are court records, diary entries, holiday cards, letters, newspaper clippings, notebooks, notes, poetry, postcards, sympathy cards, and telegrams. The business records in the collection often consist of accounts, bills, ledger books, letters, memos, minutes, notes, promissory notes, receipts, and reports. Leisure and travel are most often documented with booklets, brochures,...
Dates:
Event: Donated 11/2/2019
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Helpinstill Papers
Collection
Identifier: A-0194
Scope and Contents
A general ledger from Helpinstill Auto Supply, World War II ration books, and 1880s receipts.
Dates:
1881-1888, 1942-1973
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
James Carlton Owens WWII Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0161
Scope and Contents
This collection consists predominantly of letters from James Carlton Owens to his parents, wife, and children written during his Naval service in World War II. Also included are a letter from Rosa Lee Owens to James C. Owens, telegrams to the family from the military confirming the death of Owens, sympathy letters, military memorabilia, medals (including the Purple Heart), books, and certificates.
Dates:
1911-1952
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Jesse D. Mixon Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0354
Content Description
World War 1 and World War 2 maps and a World War 1 roster book.
Dates:
Event: Donated 4/22/2013; 1919-1945
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
John (Jack) A. Forman Papers
Collection
Identifier: A-0125
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a 37-page typescript narrative by Jack Forman of his World War II memories, papers and certificates providing a record of his military service, and documents which trace the 17-month march through Europe of his unit, Battery "A" of the 110th Gun Battalion. There are 200 photos and a number of negatives of war scenes in Europe, as well as a 48-star U. S. flag, foreign currency, and some war maps.
The collection is missing four photographs, one...
Dates:
1910-2000
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
John R. Eddings Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0278
Judge Thomas M. Reavley Papers
Collection
Identifier: G-0004
Scope and Contents
The Judge Thomas M. Reavley Papers detail his extensive civic and legal service to society. Reavley’s correspondence, scholarship and speeches document not only his career and community engagement, but also provide glimpses of his education, family, World War II experience. The collection contains a wide range of formats and mediums—awards and plaques, books, calendars, commemorative medals, compact discs, ink and pencil correspondence, framed materials, mimeograph paper, newsprint, and...
Dates:
1706-2011; Event: Donated 7/17/2012
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Kennedy-Smith Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0290
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of class notes, written reports, and essays from English classes at Stephen F. Austin University as well as the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Dates:
1935-1944
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Laney Garrett Reed Letters
Collection
Identifier: A-0211
Dates:
1945
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Marguerite Crouse Bezanson World War II Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0149
Scope and Contents
The collection consists chiefly of special orders relating to the military service and career of Bezanson, most of which were issued at the Nacogdoches Army Administration School.
Dates:
1936-1946; Event: Donated in 1986
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Marion Wall Lowery WWII Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0151
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of an unofficial history of the Aero Medical Center entitled Report From Heidelberg, a transcript, "Opening statement for the United States against Karl Brandt, et al", articles from The Stars and Stripes, and articles from the magazine, Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine. Also part of the collection are two books by Eric Sloane, Gremlin Americanus, and ...
Dates:
1946-1947, 1983
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Morgan Moses Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0265
Scope and Contents
This is a small collection of family photos, newspaper clippings and announcements.
Dates:
1931-1978
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
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