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List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883; Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for Which Pensioned, the Post-Office Address, the Rate of Pension Per Month, and the Date of Original Allowance, as Called for by Senate Resolution of December 8, 1882. Volume 2

Description: List of men receiving military pensions following the U.S. Civil War, organized by state and county. It includes the certificate number, name, address, reason for pension, monthly amount, and date initiated for each person.
Date: 1883
Creator: United States. Congress. Senate.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Rural planning : the village.

Description: Describes various types of planned villages and provides examples of features in such communities.
Date: 1940
Creator: Nason, W. C. (Wayne Crocker), b. 1874
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oral History Interview with Arthur Dodge Jr., January 8, 1971

Description: Interview with Arthur B. Dodge, Jr., a US Army WWII veteran from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dodge recounts his service in M Company, 350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division, which landed in Morocco and moved through Algeria in late-1943, before landing in Italy, where his unit took up position on the Cassino-Rapido-Garigliano front in March, 1944. Dodge describes prolonged skirmishing with German forces near Tremesuoli, Lazio, the breakout from Cassino, advancing into northern Italy, and … more
Date: January 8, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Dodge Jr., Arthur B.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Sam Zangari, January 5, 1971

Description: Interview with Sam Zangari, an Army WWII veteran from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Zangari was present at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on December 7th, 1941.
Date: February 12, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald & Zangari, Sam
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Stephen P. Yorden, May 5, 1984

Description: Interview with Stephen P. Yorden, a United States Navy veteran from Saint Benedict, Pennsylvania, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the destroyer USS Dewey.
Date: May 5, 1984
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Yorden, Stephen P.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with William L. Archer, June 10, 1986

Description: Interview with William L. Archer, an employee of Caltex Petroleum Corporation from Prosperity, Pennsylvania. Archer discusses his education and hiring by Texaco, assignment to the Philippines in 1938, work as a lube engineer, mining operations in the Philippines, distribution, relations between the Philippine and New York offices, marketing strategies, company policies, World War Two and hiding on Negros Island, liberation and the reestablishment of company operations, the post-war market, reor… more
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Date: June 10, 1986
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Archer, William L.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[Scrapbook of John Briggs personal life and travel, 1987-1991]

Description: Scrapbook documenting the personal life and travels of John Logan Briggs Jr. between 1987 and 1991, including color photographs, tickets, menus, business cards, receipts, clippings, stickers, and other records of travel. John Logan Briggs Jr. is the creator of "The Experience," a self-discovery workshop for the LGBT community. This scrapbook also documents his time spent with friends and family.
Date: [1987..1991]
Creator: Briggs, John Logan, Jr.
Location: 38.537003 -123.006325
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with John Sacker, February 24, 1989

Description: Interview with Major John R. Sacker, a United States Air Force veteran from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while a member of the 9th Signal Service Company stationed there.
Date: February 24, 1989
Creator: Young, Thomas & Sacker, John R.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[The New World, 1992]

Description: Scrapbook documenting the life of John Logan Briggs Jr. and his friends, including photographs, menus, business cards, clippings, and tickets. The scrapbook also contains photographs of his travels, social gatherings and "The Experience."John Logan Briggs Jr. is the creator of "The Experience," a self-discovery workshop for the LGBT community.
Date: 1992
Creator: Briggs, John Logan, Jr.
Location: 39.905667 -79.466141
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Larry Canfield, February 22, 1992

Description: Interview with Larry Canfield, a veteran army nurse from Pennsylvania. This interview contains his experiences as an army nurse in Vietnam. It includes his assignment to the 93rd Evacuation Hospital, 935th Medical Detachment, Long Binh. Living conditions, morale problems, recreation, medical treatment of enemy POWs, and racial problems are discussed.
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Date: February 22, 1992
Creator: Houser, Cindy & Canfield, Larry
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Louis Cresson, February 22, 1993

Description: Interview with Louis Cresson, a former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Hillside, Pennsylvania. Cresson discusses his family, life during the Great Depression, and work at CCC camps in Shawville and Renovo, Pennsylvania.
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Date: February 22, 1993
Creator: Price, Peggy & Cresson, Louis
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Frank Polenta, March 2, 1993

Description: Interview with Frank Polenta, a former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Meadville, Pennsylvania. Polenta discusses his background and his experiences at the CCC Camp Pebble Dell--ANF No. 1 in Marienville, Pennsylvania.
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Date: March 2, 1993
Creator: Hodges, Ann & Polenta, Frank
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Robert Crist, May 26,1993

Description: Interview with Robert Crist from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression as well as his childhood and his experiences leading up to joining the CCC. Crist worked at a camp in Mehoopany, Pennsylvania (Company 1377).
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Date: May 26, 1993
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Crist, Robert
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Oral History Interview with William Smeltzer, August 3, 1996

Description: Interview with William Smeltzer, a Army WWII veteran and Navy contractor from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. Smeltzer discusses quitting high school and moving to California in 1940, experiences working at Mare and Pearl Harbor Navy Yards as a civilian contractor before and after the start of the war, the raising of the sunken USS Oklahoma (BB-37), being drafted into the Army and infantry training, assignment to the 45th Infantry Division and participating in the drive into Germany, the end of the… more
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Date: August 3, 1996
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Smeltzer, William
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Evelyn Myers McCune, August 4, 1996

Description: Transcript of an interview with Evelyn Myers McCune, nurse, concerning her experiences as a civilian secretary with the State Department in Washington, D.C., before the and during World War II. McCune discusses her educational background; decision to take a position with the State Department in early 1941; adjustments in moving from a town of 2,500 people to the nation's capitol; personal observations of the activities at the Japanese embassy on December 7, 1941; wartime living conditions, rati… more
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Date: August 4, 1996
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & McCune, Evelyn Myers, 1918-
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Oral History Interview with Donald M. Smith, August 12, 1996

Description: Interview with Donald M. Smith, businessman, concerning his experiences as the head of Riverside Foundry, Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, during World War II. Foundry business during the Great Depression; thoughts about Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal; conversion from peacetime to wartime production during World War II; obtaining contracts to produce hand grenades and rifle grenades; problems in procuring pig iron and other scarce materials; employment of women; technological innovations in … more
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Date: August 12, 1996
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Smith, Donald M.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Leonard Bock, August 7, 1997

Description: Interview with Leonard Bock, a Navy veteran (PC-1135 and PC-1128), concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
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Date: August 7, 1997
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Bock, Leonard
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Kenneth Poff, August 10, 1997

Description: Interview with Kenneth Poff, a Army WWII veteran from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, who served with the 1913th Engineer Aviation Battalion. Poff discusses his early life, being drafted and training, shipping out to Townsville, Australia, and landing on New Guinea, fighting attached to the 1st Marine Division for the Cape Gloucester and Hollandia campaigns, constructing and maintaining an airstrip, the Lingayan Gulf campaign in the Philippines, the atomic bomb and VJ-Day, and returning home.
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Date: August 10, 1997
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Poff, Kenneth
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Glenn C. Blouse, August 3, 1998

Description: Interview with Glenn C. Blouse, a Army WWII veteran from Long Level, Pennsylvania. Blouse discusses his family life, being drafted, basic training, deployment to the European Theater via North Africa, assignment to the 135th Infantry, 34th Infantry Division in Italy, duties as a machine gunner, first combat experiences, fighting on the Monte Cassino front, foxhole life, shelling, tactics, taking prisoners, Italian civilians, the Anzio landing, assaulting a hill, liberating Rome, the Apennines C… more
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Date: August 3, 1998
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Blouse, Glenn C.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Donald W. Peters, August 6, 1998

Description: Transcript of an interview with Donald W. Peters, Army veteran (C Company, 83rd Chemical Mortar Battalion), concerning his experiences in the Italian Campaign and experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans in the European Theater during World War II. Peters discusses his entry into the Army and basic training, 1943; transit across the Atlantic to North Africa and then to Naples; assignment as a replacement to the 83rd Chemical Mortar Battalion; Monte Cassino; Anzio landing and being wounde… more
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Date: August 6, 1998
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Peters, Donald W., 1924-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with William H. Haugh, January 12, 1999

Description: Interview with William H. Haugh, a Army WWII veteran from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. Haugh discusses growing up in Wrightsville, getting his own farm, the wartime economy, being drafted into the Army, becoming a machine gunner in the 35th Infantry Division, arrival in Metz and advancing to the Battle of the Bulge, artillery, experiences in combat, the Rhineland Campaign, the Ruhr Valley, being wounded, the German surrender and the Army of Occupation, reflections on combat, and returning to civ… more
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Date: January 12, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Haugh, William H.
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Oral History Interview with John R. Leber, January 15, 1999

Description: Interview with John R. Leber, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, who flew with the 317th Troop Carrier Squadron in the China-Burma-India Theater. Leber discusses enlisting in the Air Corps, training as an aircraft mechanic and becoming a crew chief, the C-46 and the C-47, deployment to India, flying over the Himalayas, living conditions, and continued service postwar. In appendix are handwritten letters of Leber from his time overseas.
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Date: January 15, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Leber, John R.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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