United States. Air Force
Organization
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Arie Taylor for Colorado Reflections
Item
Identifier: couda-taylor
Abstract
Originally from Ohio Arie Taylor moved to Colorado in 1958. Taylor reflects on her time in the Air Force and encountering segregation and discrimination. The first Black woman legislator in Colorado, Taylor discusses her reasons for getting involved in politics, particularly her experiences as a Black woman and her encounters with racism. Discusses racial tensions in Denver in July of 1968, which resulted in protests and community clashes with police and Arie Taylor's arrest. Taylor reflects...
Dates:
Date Not Yet Determined
Cal Golden Papers
Collection
Identifier: D059
Abstract
This collection contains memorabilia from Cal Golden's time as a Square Dance Caller. The collection includes awards, realia, audio recordings, textiles, and photographs. Cal used the textiles for his performances. The awards, realia, and photographs were gifts or depict Cal performing.
Dates:
1928-2012
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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Cal Golden Papers
Documents, 1895-1936
File
Identifier: B187.04.0006.0003
Scope and Contents
Folder contains identity papers, work documents, passports, immigration papers, Air Force documents, naturalization papers, and 1938 Nakhshon Limited shares from Haifa.
Dates:
1895-1936
Kagan Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: B187
Abstract
Alexander Kagan was born in Paris, France in 1906 to Russian parents. At the age of 14, Alexander began work as a fabric and jewelry designer. He came to the United States in 1922 with his mother Chana (Anna) and his brother Haim Persah (Paul). He worked as a fabric designer in New York and in 1930 he became a US citizen. In 1942, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was stationed in Pueblo, Colorado. He graduated from the University of Denver in 1954 and died in the Denver area in 1994....
Dates:
1895-1980
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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Kagan Family Papers
Military Records, 1918-1985
File
Identifier: B328.01.0001.0001
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection is broken into 4 sections: Military Records, 1918-1985; Tide of Toys Scrapbook, 1950-1951; Allied Study Tour to Israel and Europe, 1963; and Miscellaneous Papers and Ephemera, 1942-1986.
Dates:
1918-1985
Minnie Milstein United States Air Force Award
Collection
Identifier: B205
Abstract
Minnie Golden Milstein was born in Denver and died in Denver March 5, 1958 at the age of 49. She married Harry Milstein and their son was Michael. Collection contains newspaper clippings, a New York port of entry card, notes and certificate from the United States Air Force to Minnie Milstein for her bravery in saving an airman after a B-29 crashed outside of her home in the Hilltop subdivision, badly damaging the home. She wrapped the airman in a blanket and saved him from burning to death...
Dates:
1951-1969
Opening of Officers' Club, 1941 November
File
Identifier: B367.03.0007.0014
Abstract
Photographs of Jessica Dragonette, Arthur and Hazel Oberfelder, General Curry and General Duncan at the opening of Officers Club at Lowry Field
Dates:
1941 November
Oral History Interview with Ben Gallegos, 2004 March 19, 2006 August 5
Item
Identifier: PPLDoh-viii-6
Abstract
Interview with Ben Gallegos from the De donde eres: Cultural Origins of the Southern Colorado Latino/Hispanic Community Collection.
Dates:
2004 March 19; Digitization: 2006 August 5
Schloss Family Papers and World War II Artifact
Collection
Identifier: B293
Abstract
Charles Murdock Schloss received his engineering degree from the University of Colorado and joined the Lindrooth Engineering company in 1918. His son Charles (Chuck) M. Schloss joined his father at the engineering firm in 1961. He was in the army for five years in various parts of the United States. In 1984, Chuck Schloss founded the Schloss Engineering Company which specialized in water and wastewater equipment design and manufacturing. His daughter Kristy joined the firm and is now CEO and...
Dates:
1943-2008
Senator Peter H. Dominick greets military officers on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. America in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia in 1972, 1972
Item
Identifier: M085.09.0186.0009.00002
Abstract
Sen. Dominick (R-Colo.), wearing a leather aviator jacket and holding glasses, shakes hands with Lieutenant Colonel John Cochran, commanding officer of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 333 (VMFA-333). Marine Major Henry Carr, also from VMFA-333, stands to the left of Lt. Col. Cochran, shaking hands with an unidentified man who can be seen over Cochran's left shoulder. The VMFA-333 insignia, a tiger's head on a shamrock with a lightning bolt in the background, can be seen on Major Carr's right...
Dates:
1972
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