United States. Army Nurse Corps.; Military nursing.; United States--Armed Forces--Nurses.; Generals.; Military biography.; Women-Texas.; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.
Dunlap home, 125 Brettonwood Drive, San Antonio, Texas Texas Women's Hall of Fame member Lillian Dunlap joined the Army Nurse Corps during World War II straight out of the Santa Rosa School of Nursing intent on serving only for the war's duration....
Civil Rights.; African Americans--Texas.; Marshall (Tex.).; African Americans--Education--Texas.; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.; Voting.
Austin, Texas and Marshall, Texas Mrs. Charles Wilson describes her personal experiences living in Texas and actively working in the civil rights movement. The second interview relates more specifically to her involvement with the NAACP.
Military nursing.; Nursing.;Nursing schools.;Philippine Islands--Description and travel.;Panama--Description and travel.; Red Cross and Red Crescent.; United States. Army Nurse Corps.
San Antonio, Texas LTC Augusta Short relates her personal history including graduation from the Army School of Nursing in 1926 and career as a nurse anesthetist and administrator in the Nurse Corps, service in the Philippines and Panama, and work...
Mexican Americans--Texas--San Antonio--Periodicals.; San Antonio (Tex.)--Periodicals.
Independent, community-based newspaper published by a team of volunteers and distributed in the economically poor sectors of San Antonio, Texas. The newspaper's mission was to publish news and analysis relevant to working families. A donation of...
Weimar (Tex.).; Oakland (Tex.).; Colorado County (Tex.).; Orphan Train.; German Americans--Texas.
Weimar, Texas Arriving by train from New York City when she was a year and a half old, Taylor and a 3-year old boy were adopted by the Teltschik family in 1906. She discusses the New York Foundling Hospital where she was placed, the orphan trains,...
Palestine (Tex.).; Anderson County (Tex.).; Schools--Texas.; Cotton gins and ginning.; Farm tenancy--Texas.
Personal recollections of Alva Robinson, whose father owned a properous cotton farm in Palestine, including information on farm life, education, social, religious activities during the early 20th century.
Author of multiple books on Mexican folk healing using herbs and rituals, Torres discusses plants, animals, and techniques as well as famous curanderos.
Japanese Americans--Texans.; Internment Camp--Crystal City (Tex.).; World War, 1939-1945.
San Antonio, Texas Mona Baskin talks about the Japanese - Americans during World War II, her experience and daily life at the internment camp in Crystal City, Texas where she worked from 1942 to 1946.
Utopia (Tex.).; Uvalde County (Tex.).; Sabinal (Tex.).; Automobiles.; Telephone.
Sabinal Canyon, Utopia, Texas Born in the Sabinal Canyon in 1902, Henry Fisher shares his memories of the development of the area, including the first automobile, telephones and roads in the Uvalde and Bandera County areas. While a trip to San...
Kickapoo Indians.; Traditional medicine--Texas.; Anderson County (Tex.).; Limestone County (Tex.).
A professional photographer, newspaper editor and political activist whose love of East Texas and its history never ebbed. Her memories paint a picture of rural life among the pines from the 1930s through the 80s.