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Oral History Interview with Voris C. Riley, November 1, 2005
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Voris C. Riley of Kingland, Texas. He discusses enlisting in the military while living in Abilene, Texas and getting sent to civil service for the Army before being offered to join the Navy. In the Navy he went through basic training in San Diego, California, then to St. Louis Electrical School and finally through firefighting training in Rhode Island. After he completed his training Mr. Riley was assigned to the U.S.S. Lake Champain, CB 39 and went on a shakedown cruise where 16 crewmen were lost for various reasons. In the Navy he was an electrician aboard the ship and dealt with setting up electricity onshore. He also dealt with Prisoners of War, being put in charge of a group of them to build a swimming pool. He was in New York City on temporary leave when the news of the wars end was released by President Truman. Mr. Voris also talks about serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps in New Mexico
Oral History Interview with Voris C. Riley, November 1, 2005
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Voris C. Riley of Kingland, Texas. He discusses enlisting in the military while living in Abilene, Texas and getting sent to civil service for the Army before being offered to join the Navy. In the Navy he went through basic training in San Diego, California, then to St. Louis Electrical School and finally through firefighting training in Rhode Island. After he completed his training Mr. Riley was assigned to the U.S.S. Lake Champain, CB 39 and went on a shakedown cruise where 16 crewmen were lost for various reasons. In the Navy he was an electrician aboard the ship and dealt with setting up electricity onshore. He also dealt with Prisoners of War, being put in charge of a group of them to build a swimming pool. He was in New York City on temporary leave when the news of the wars end was released by President Truman. Mr. Voris also talks about serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps in New Mexico
Portrait of Archdale Parkhill [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription on reverse.; Condition: Good.; Inscriptions: 1&2. "Sidney Riley, 251A Pitt St, Sydney" --Embossed lower right corner. "Mr Archdale Parkhill, Parkhill, Hon. Robert Archdale" --In ink and pencil on reverse. 2. "R. Archdale Parkhill" --In pencil on reverse.; Two copies of the same photograph
Portrait of Arthur Samuel Drakeford, M.H.R., Maribyrnong, Vic., 1941 [picture] /
No full textTitle from caption on reverse.; Condition: Fair, some creases on PIC/7287/1 and tears upper left corner PIC/7287/2.; Inscriptions: PIC/7287/1, "Arthur Samuel Drakeford, M.H.R., Maribyrnong (Vic.) 1941" --In ink on reverse. Photographers stamp on reverse. "Sidney Riley, Sydney" --Embossed lower right corner. PIC/7287, "Mr Drakeford R. 25/7/44 ..." --In pencil on reverse
Senator Albert Beveridge, James Whitcomb Riley, and Friends at the Fair
No full textThe five men are pictured at a fair. They are all wearing suits and hats. Four of the men are holding cigars. Behind them is an animal barn with the number four on it.On the back of the picture is written: Mr. Shipp said of attached picture: The three gentlemen accompaning Mr. Riley and the Senator are (from left to right): Mr. Henry W. Bennett, Mr. Charles W. Miller and Mr. John N. Carey. The making of the picture was my idea. Mr. Riley dropped in at the Senator's office one afternoon and said, "Beveridge, let's go out to the Fair one day this week and see the hogs and the punkins." So the trip was arranged and it occurred to me it would be a good idea to get the picture. I am very glad that I did
Letter, 1891, Indianapolis, Indiana to Mr. Bram Stoker, London, England
No full textLetter of introduction for Dr. Franklin Hays, a friend of Riley's, who is on his way to London. Riley requests that Mr. Stoker introduce Hays to his brother who is also a doctor
Letter, 1916, Miami, Florida to Mr. Harry Kahn, Indianapolis, Indiana
No full textLetter from Riley thanking Mr. Kahn for a gift and giving news of mutual friends there in Florida. He asks Mr. Kahn's opinion on the appointment of Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court
[Letter from Ray Riley to the University of Texas Department of Pathological Chemistry - September 1936]
No full textLetter from Ray Riley to the members of the Department of Pathological Chemistry at the University of Texas. Mr. Riley acknowledges receipt of a letter of September 11th and asks that the doctors provide the outcomes of their experiments with the provided chemicals
Letter, 1888, Indianapolis, Indiana to Mr. Gilder
No full textRiley requests assistance naming a poem, and teases Mr. Gilder about never sending a cast of The Keats masque and a picture of himself as promised.Indianapolis, May 12,<br>–1888–<br><br>Dear Mr. Gilder—can’t you, someway, help me out with the enclosed? I can’t, to save me, find the name of it. It’ll make a “great” reading—and how will it print —or illustrate–both? Someways I shudder for it—someways bet on it big, Anyway, you must tell me what’s to become of it—and I do hope it may strike You happily, and as a new thing anyhow.<br><br> Very Truly,<br> JWRiley.<br><br>Some vague and shadowy leagues back in the misty past you said you’d send me a clear white caste of The Keats masque—And eke a picture of yourself. Where are they? Mr. Johnson likewise engaged to do as much. No wonder your contributors are such liars. But all love to you the same and “on both your houses!”<br><br>Let me hear promptly as possible regarding poem If our dear and quaint old Richard Malcomb Johnson were naming it, wouldn’t it be captioned— “The Changed Conditions of Mr. Flukeus?” But what is its name? —Two Old Friends?—A Pair of Them?—“Two of a Kind”—or what?<br> JWR<br
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