Hello, my name is Kate McCloud, I am the Curator ofCollections at the Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio. The Institute iscurrently preparing for a new exhibit, Our Part of Victory: Texans in WWII,about the contributions of Texans to the war effort. The exhibit is scheduledto open on September 2 nd of this year and will run through December7 th of 2016.
We are currently looking for uniforms, equipment, and othermilitary service related items to loan for the exhibit that have a knownconnection to individual Texans. Obviously we would love to get items thatbelonged to well-known Texans, but would also be interested in items fromlesser known individuals provided they had a documented connection to Texas.
We are particularly interested in items related to thefollowing individuals:
Doris Miller
Samuel Dealey
Ovita Hobby
Leonard Roy Harmon
Harlon Block
Ira C. Eaker
Calvin Graham
William H. Simpson
Father Marcus Valenta
Otto P. Weyland
Horace S. Carswell, Jr.
Aubry Lee Moore
John Morris Sheppard
Katherine Luna
Lila Laverne Farquhar
We have already reached out to a number of national museumsfor the better known individuals (Bush, Eisenhower, Nimitz, Johnson, Murphy)but are still hoping to track down sources for more materials. If you have anyitems like this, that your organization(s) might be willing to loan for theexhibit, I'd greatly appreciate any assistance you might be able to offer.Also, please feel free to pass along my information to any other individual ororganization you think might be interested in participating in this project.
Thanks in advance for all your help!
Kathryn"Kate" S. McCloud
Curator of Collections
Institute of Texan Cultures
Office: (210) 458-2297
ITC.Curator@utsa.edu
Kathryn.mccloud@utsa.edu