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Box SC1900-1949.011

 Container

Contains 11 Collections and/or Records:

NASA Ten Year Service Award (1964, signed by Wernher von Braun); funeral bulletin for Myles' service; a clipping from May 1, 2015 The Lillian; and an ad for the house in Lillian, Alabama, that he built

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.011, Folder: 2727.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains mainly materials from Myles Standish's career at NASA's Marshall Space Center in Huntville, Alabama, but also includes material after his retirement in 1981. The materials include newsletters, newspaper clippings, certificates, awards, mementos from various Apollo flights, and a notebook with the house plans for the house Standish built in Lillian, Alabama, after his retirement.
Dates: 1948-2010

Article

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.011, Folder: 3483.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a fragile news bulletin about the collision of the S.S. Amapala and the oil tanker Camden, on the Mississippi River, sixty miles south of New Orleans, on January 27, 1936.

It is possible, although not confirmed, that this is the same S. S. Amapala that was attacked in 1942 by a German submarine.
Dates: 1936 January 27

Newspaper

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.011, Folder: 3484.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains the July 26, 1923, issue of "The Alabama Baptist" (vol. 54, no. 16).
Dates: 1923 July 26

Scrapbook

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.011, Folder: 3485.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a small scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings, ca. 1937. Some of the clippings feature articles and photographs of: Augusta Evans Wilson; Florence Hobson Morrison; Martha Young; Gessner Tutwiler Smith; Eugene Allen Smith; Lula Bradford; Mrs. Hugh L. (Marie Parkman) Alison; Sadie Christian; Margaret and Emma Boardman; Riggs Jackson Stephenson; Florence S. Jenkins; and Dr. W. E. B. DuBois.
Dates: circa 1937

Scrapbook

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.011, Folder: 4095.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Sidney Smith family papers contain records pertaining to Sidney Smith's plumbing business. These records include receipts for work materials ordered and transported by train. The collection contains business correspondence between Sidney Smith and various distributors of plumbing materials as well as blue prints for job sites. The collection also contains miscellaneous community papers as well as the business records of Bill and June Clemons between 1963 and 1981.
Dates: 1920-1955

Incoming Correspondence From Mabel A. Drenth, 1944 - 1946

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.011, Folder: 4165.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains letters written in the 1940s to Eleanor ("Ellie" or "Elly") Drenth Dodson of Portland, Oregon, and San Diego, California. The letters are primarily from her mother, Mabel Anderson Drenth, who lived in Fresno, California. There are also a few letters to Dodson from her sister Annabel Drenth, as well as two or three to her husband Peter. One of the letters to Peter is to announce the birth of a friend's "son and heir" and includes an Australian nickel to buy a cigar.
Dates: 1944 - 1946

Incoming Correspondence from Annabel Drenth, 1946

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.011, Folder: 4165.02
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains letters written in the 1940s to Eleanor ("Ellie" or "Elly") Drenth Dodson of Portland, Oregon, and San Diego, California. The letters are primarily from her mother, Mabel Anderson Drenth, who lived in Fresno, California. There are also a few letters to Dodson from her sister Annabel Drenth, as well as two or three to her husband Peter. One of the letters to Peter is to announce the birth of a friend's "son and heir" and includes an Australian nickel to buy a cigar.
Dates: 1946

Incoming Correspondence from other family members, 1942

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.011, Folder: 4165.03
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains letters written in the 1940s to Eleanor ("Ellie" or "Elly") Drenth Dodson of Portland, Oregon, and San Diego, California. The letters are primarily from her mother, Mabel Anderson Drenth, who lived in Fresno, California. There are also a few letters to Dodson from her sister Annabel Drenth, as well as two or three to her husband Peter. One of the letters to Peter is to announce the birth of a friend's "son and heir" and includes an Australian nickel to buy a cigar.
Dates: 1942

Incoming Correspondence from Roy E. Dodson, Jr., 1944 - 1946

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.011, Folder: 4165.04
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains letters written in the 1940s to Eleanor ("Ellie" or "Elly") Drenth Dodson of Portland, Oregon, and San Diego, California. The letters are primarily from her mother, Mabel Anderson Drenth, who lived in Fresno, California. There are also a few letters to Dodson from her sister Annabel Drenth, as well as two or three to her husband Peter. One of the letters to Peter is to announce the birth of a friend's "son and heir" and includes an Australian nickel to buy a cigar.
Dates: 1944 - 1946

Letters, 1945

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.011, Folder: 4170.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection is made up of letters written by Everett B. Andrews to his sister Lillian in St. Albans, Vermont, while he was stationed on the Island of Tinian in the Marianas in 1945. The letters describe camp life after Allied forces captured the island of Tinian in the Pacific Ocean, which was then used as an airfield due to its proximity to Japan. (Although Andrews doesn't mention this, Tinian was the airbase where the atomic bomb was loaded onto the Enola...
Dates: 1945

Photograph album

 Item — Box: SC1900-1949.011, Folder: 4173.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of a small, brown leather photograph album with "Snaps" stamped on the front in silver. Part photograph album and part travel log, this album, kept by an American woman while on vacation in Havana, Cuba, in the summer of 1946. Only the first names of the three travellers, sisters Selly and Bea, and Bob, are found in the journal, which is heavily captioned with details of each picture or postcard.
Dates: 1946 July