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Box SC1900-1949.001

 Container

Contains 2 Collections and/or Records:

Miscellaneous correspondence and other items, 1919-1945

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.001, Folder: 1993.4
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection consists of 197 letters, the majority of which are written to Russell F. Trask, E.M. 1/c aboard the U.S.S. Apollo (AS-25) by his wife, LeElda “Lee” Trask of Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin. Some of the letters are written to Trask by his mother and other family member. Twenty-eight of the letters are written to Lee by Trask. The letters are generally full of news from home, but one letter from his mother (dated February 15, 1945) included a somewhat prophetic statement. ...
Dates: 1919-1945; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1945
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-1993, Russell F. Trask letters

Silhouette, 1941

 Item — Box: SC1900-1949.001, Folder: 2006.1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of one silhouette of John Hollis Bankhead, Jr., autographed and dated 1941, just before his last term as a United States Senator.
Dates: 1941
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-2006, John Hollis Bankhead, Jr. Silhouette