Records, 1909-1973.

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Records, 1909-1973.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25562813

Included are minutes of the Young Men's Booster Club, the 25,000 Club and other small clubs that later merged with the Chamber of Commerce, plus scrapbooks of newspaper clippings concerning Abilene's history.

16 microfilm reels : negative

Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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Abilene Chamber of Commerce (Abilene, Tex.)

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The Abilene Chamber of Commerce was organized in 1890 as the Abilene Board of Trade with Louis C. Wise as president. It became the Abilene 25,000 Club in 1896. Over the years several other local clubs were formed, which later merged into the present Chamber of Commerce. From the description of Records, 1909-1973. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 25562813 ...

Young Men's Booster Club (Abilene, Tex.)

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Abilene Chamber of Commerce

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The Abilene, Texas Chamber of Commerce was organized in 1890 as the Abilene, Texas Board of Trade. Over the years, it collected materials on Camp Barkeley and Dyess Air Base near Abilene. Camp Barkeley, established near Abilene in December 1940, was in operation until March 1945. It was named after David D. Barkeley, who was killed in the Meuse- Argonne Campaign in World War I. Abilene Army Air Base was in operation during World War II and closed in 1947 but reactivated as Abilene Air Base, a st...

25,000 Club (Abilene, Tex.)

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