TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Contents
Organization
Restrictions
Index Terms
Related Material
Administrative Information
Description of Series
Business
Personal
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Harry Igo:
An Inventory of His Papers, 1934-1994 and undated, at the
Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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| Creator | Igo, Harry |
| Title: | Harry Igo Papers,
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| Dates: | 1934-1994 and undated |
| Abstract: | The collection
consists of the personal and professional papers of Harry Igo. |
| Collection # | S476.1 |
| Quantity: | 2 boxes (2.0 linear
feet) |
| Language | English. |
| Repository: | Southwest Collection/Special Collections
Library, Texas Tech University |
Harry Igo is a retired agricultural business man from Plainview,
Texas. He was president of the Plainsman Fertilizer Company, a division of the
W. R. Grace and Company, for a number of years. Mr. Igo is known for his
participation in World War II as an Army Air Force pilot. He was a captain when
in July 26, 1945, he and his crew flew the C-54 cargo plane with a special
cargo on board from Kirtland Air Force Base (Albuquerque, New Mexico) to
Hamilton Field, California. From there, another crew flew the parts to Tinian,
Guam. The special items were parts necessary to complete the assembly of the
first atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. At that
time, Mr. Igo and his crew had no idea what their cargo was until years later
when The National Archives revealed its true identity. Harry Igo had become a
part of history when the actions he carried forth as a transporter served to
end the second world war.
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The Igo Collection is a small collection containing business and
personal files from 1934-1994. The bulk of the papers are mainly business
materials from Plainsman Fertilizer, Red River Properties, Inc., Janson
Industries, and W. R. Grace and Company. It also includes a file on Billie Sol
Estes, photographs of their agriculture business operations, a ranch file,
memorabilia files and scrapbook files on Igo’s World War II experiences, and a
book on the Manhattan Project.
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Organization
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| The collection is organized into the following series: Business Files
and Personal Files. |
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Access Restrictions
Open for research
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| The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally
developed. |
| Subjects (Persons) |
| | Igo, Harry |
| Subjects (Organizations) |
| | W. R. Grace and Company |
| | Plainsman Fertilizer Company |
| Subjects |
| | agriculture--Texas |
| | Plainview (Tex.)--History |
| | World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American |
| | World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American |
| | Atomic bomb |
| | Atomic bomb--United States |
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For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library, see the following collections:
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- Harry Igo’s small replica of a U.S. Army Air Force C54
airplane
- Air transportation orders, 1945, for Harry Igo's crew (Framed
item #449
- Harry Igo Exhibit Items (2 boxes)
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Harry Igo Papers, 1934-1994 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Collection accession #(s):
87-0020-B, 95-0011-B
Gifts, 1987-1994
Abel Ramirez, 1996
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Business
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| box | folder |
| 1 | 1 | | Correspondence: W. R. Grace and Company,
1958-1963 and undated
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| 2 | | Corporate Journal: Igo Land and Cattle Company, Inc.,
1979-1984 |
| 3 | | Corporate Journal: Janson Industries,
1954-1982 and
undated |
| 4 | | Corporate Journal: Plainsman Grain, Inc.,
1983-1985 |
| 5 | | Corporate Journal: Plainsman Transportation, Inc.,
1954-1979 |
| 6 | | Corporate Journal: Plainsman Elevators, Inc.,
1971-1979 |
| 7 | | Corporate Journal: Red River Properties, Inc.,
1976 |
| 8 | | Estes, Billie Sol,
1958-1985 and undated
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| 9 | | Legal Material,
1951-1964 and
undated |
| box | folder |
| 2 | 1 | | News clippings, W. R. Grace and Company,
1962-1965 |
| 2 | | Photographs,
1949 and
undated |
| 3 | | Plainsman Distributor’s Manual,
1967 and
undated |
| 4 | | Scrapbook Material,
1957-1982 and undated
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| 5 | | Scrapbook Material: Fertilizer and Grace,
1948-1978 and
undated |
| 6 | | Scrapbook Material: Ranch and Etc.,
1967-1974 and
undated |
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Personal
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| box | folder |
| 2 | 7 | | 4-H and Agriculture,
1941-1980 and
undated |
| 8 | | Printed Material: World War II,
1951-1994 and undated
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| 9 | | Red River County,
1959-1979 and undated
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| 10 | | Scrapbook Material: Army Air Corps,
1945-1967 and
undated |
| 11 | | Scrapbook Material: Texas A&M,
1934-1979 and undated
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| 12 | | Book:
Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the
Manhattan Project, by Leslie E. Groves,
1962 |
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