APA

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Service Men's Center Closing: Mrs. Orville Tunstill and Corporal Tom Harrington. (1946). Retrieved from https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/20032957

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. "Service Men's Center Closing: Mrs. Orville Tunstill and Corporal Tom Harrington." UTA Libraries Digital Gallery. 1946. Accessed
May 21, 2024
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MLA

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Service Men's Center Closing: Mrs. Orville Tunstill and Corporal Tom Harrington. 1946. UTA Libraries Digital Gallery, https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/20032957. Accessed
21 May 2024
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Special Collections Reference Information

Original image part of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Identifier: AR406-6-428
Identifier: 20032957
Title: Service Men's Center Closing: Mrs. Orville Tunstill and Corporal Tom Harrington
Description: Service Men's Center, Fort Worth, Texas is closing. Pictured here are Mrs. Orville Tunstill and Corporal (Corp.) Tom Harrington. Both are shown standing near a window and shaking hands. Mrs. Tunstill is wearing a skirt, coat and a hat with veil and Corporal (Corp.) Harrington is in his military uniform. Mrs. Tunstill, director of Service Men's Center (SMC), as she prepares to close door there for last time and bids farewell to one of the last men to be served, Corporal (Corp.) Harrington of Boston, Massachusetts. The same friendly feeling that characterized all operations at the Service Men's center helped win a war by making visiting military men feel at home is shown in this picture. Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram evening edition, May 15, 1946.
Date Created: 1946-05-15
Coverage: 1940s
Category: Military
Subject Term: Tunstill, Orville (Mrs.), Harrington, Tom (CPL), Service Men's Center, Soldiers, Military personnel, Military uniforms, War, Coats, veils, Shaking hands, Farewells
Collection: Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Type: Still Image
Format: JPG
Publisher: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
Rights Holder: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
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Project Series: Through the Lens of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: A Photographic View of World War II in Fort Worth

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