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Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Autograph Albums and Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3686
Overview
Autograph albums and diaries from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Dates:
1876-1987
Emmett Dendy World War II Air Mission Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3922
Overview
World War II air mission diary used by a ball turret gunner with the Eighth Air Force's 467th Bomb Group flying B-24s, to record his 22 air missions, from 24 February to 25 April 1945. Each entry includes information about the target, bomb load, bomb run, flak, time, gas, and altitude. He also included remarks concerning each mission.
Dates:
1943-2010; Majority of material found in 1945 - 1945
Fort McClellan Internment Camp Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2018-002
Overview
This collection consists of one photographic album containing 129 silver gelatin prints portraying life at Fort McClellan, Alabama—one of four major prisoner of war camps in the state—in June 1943. Private Charles W. Christopher of the Military Police Escort Guard, a branch of the United States Army, collected and arranged the images into the album.
Dates:
1943
Leslie Porch Kerlin Photographs
Collection
Identifier: WP-005
Overview
Approximately 2,500 black-and-white photographs taken by Leslie Porch Kerlin in Alabama and the Southeast United States, depicting well-known landmarks and natural settings.
Dates:
1915 - 1974
John J. Sparkman Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1319
Overview
Democratic congressman John J. Sparkman (1899-1985) represented the state of Alabama in the House of Representatives from 1937-1946 and in the Senate from 1946-January 3, 1979. He was known for his support of the Tennessee Valley Authority, military personnel, and space exploration, and served on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, the Small Business Committee, and the Banking Committee. Materials in this collection include correspondence, legislation, newsletters, press releases,...
Dates:
1917-2001, bulk 1937-1978
Willie T. White papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1548
Abstract
Contains correspondence, photographs, financial records, and other materials, the majority of which are related to Willie T. White, who resided in Rockford, Birmingham, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1860-1970
World War II Scrapbook--CLOSED FOR PROJECT
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2561
Overview
A scrapbook of newspaper and magazine clippings covering World War II. Newspapers include the Dothan Eagle, the Montgomery Advertiser, the Birmingham News, the Alabama Journal, and the New York Times; the magazines include Life, ...
Dates:
1940-1985
Shannon Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3296
Overview
This collection contains one letter written by Howard P. Ruff to Reverend Robert A. (R. A.) Shannon and one letter written from John (J. C.) to his aunt, Leone Shannon, wife of R.A. Shannon.
Dates:
1945
World War II letters collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3688
Overview
Collection of letters to and from service men and women during World War II.
Dates:
1940-1945
Gordy Brule Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4166
Overview
Letters written by and to Gordon "Gordy" Brule who served in the 447th Bomb Squad World War II.
Dates:
1943 - 1949
Roger Hertz Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4167
Overview
Almost daily letters written by Hertz and his family between 1944 and 1946 while he was serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
Dates:
1944 - 1946
William A. Lyle Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4164
Overview
Letters written by William A. Lyle from 1943 to 1946, primarily to his mother in New York City, while he was serving in the United States Naval Reserves at the U.S. Naval bases in Maryland, California, and Hawaii, during World War II.
Dates:
1943 - 1945
John R. Hodge Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0685
Abstract
Paper titled "An Editor Spends a Day with the Army,” [presented to the?] American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 13, 1942. Includes annotated photographs of editors visiting Governors Island, New York, HQ of Eastern Defense Command and First Army and photographs of defense drills somewhere on the East Coast.
Dates:
1942
Guergen Paepcke Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1093
Abstract
Letters from servicemen from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in Germany, India, and Okinawa during and immediately after WWII.
Dates:
1944 - 1945
Howard Watts Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2014-009
Overview
Collection consists of thirty-nine photographs of Howard Watts with his army friends, wife and his child. Also, collection contains images of his funeral.
Dates:
1940 - 1949
Private James Proctor Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2014-010
Overview
The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Collection consists of forty photographs of Private James Proctor during his service in the army: Yokohama base in Japan, Germany, and United States bases.
Dates:
1930 - 1960
Frances Glisson World War II Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2013-008
Abstract
Two photographs of Company D, 167th Infantry Regiment, Thirty-first Division at Camp Blanding, Florida, on April 24, 1941.
Dates:
1941
World War I and World War II Photographic Albums
Collection
Identifier: 2017-001
Overview
This collection consists of nine photogrpahic albums from World War I and World War II.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1912 - 1947
Myer L. Feldman Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3687
Overview
Letters from Myer L. Feldman to his wife, Ida, and baby daughter, Sally Ann, while he was in the United States Navy, stationed at the Sampson Naval Training Base near Seneca, New York, and aboard the USS LSM(R)-197 amphibious ship.
Dates:
1944-1945
Stone and Franklin Families Ration Books
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1787
Abstract
World War Two ration books of these Tuscaloosa, Alabama, families
Dates:
1942 - 1944
Charles M. Dragoo Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4115
Overview
Letters from Dragoo to his wife Lois and daughter Sandra Sue in Muncie, Indiana, telling of his arrival and attempts to find housing for the three of them at Fort McClellan Infantry Replacement Training Center in Alabama.
Dates:
1944 March 12-26
Ethel Gardiner Wiggins V-mail and Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4123
Overview
V-mail and letters to a World War II soldier from his wife back home in Florence, Alabama.
Dates:
1941-1944
Arthur Duncan Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4153
Overview
A copy of the first issue of The Open Post (v. 1, no. 1), the news organ of the 57th College Training Detachment of the Army Air Corps, based on the University of Alabama campus during World War II. Also included is a souvenir folder of the University in 1943.
Dates:
1943
Edith Floyd Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2768
Overview
This collection contains one letter from Edith Floyd to Eloise Jackson, possibly her sister. The letter concerns Charles Floyd, Edith's husband, who is missing following the fall of the Philippines in 1942.
Dates:
1942 May 13
Margaret Kennedy letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2769
Overview
This collection contains letters to Margaret Kennedy from two airmen, Homer Hendon and Harold Wallace. The letters discuss life in military service at Maxwell airfield in Alabama.
Dates:
1944 June-August
Daniel Swist scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2772
Overview
This collection consists of a scrapbook created by Daniel J. Swist, an alumnus of the University of Alabama. The scrapbook covers the years 1937-1943 and contains many annotated photographs of friends and colleagues of Daniel Swist.
Dates:
1937-1943
World War II Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4091
Overview
Photograph album containing mainly 2.5" x 2.5" snapshots of an unidentified African American soldier during the 1940s
Dates:
between 1941 and 1950
Wade Hall Battle of Guadalcanal Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2014-027
Abstract
This collection depicts Battle of Guadalcanal during the World War II.
Dates:
1942 - 1943-01-01
Blue Star Salute Foundation Materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4051
Overview
United States Blue Star Service Flag (roughly 8.5" x 14"), membership brochures, and announcements of upcoming events honoring U. S. veterans in the Jefferson and Shelby Counties, Alabama.
Dates:
2014
"Victory Varieties" concert program
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1756
Abstract
Program for a variety show directed by Alexander Maissel and presented at Ft. Custer, Michigan, on 20 July 1943.
Dates:
1943 July 20
Lieutenant W. A. Melville Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-190
Overview
This collection consists of twenty-one photographs depicting Lieutenant W. A. Melville, United States Navy Aviation, during World War II and after the war.
Dates:
1940 - 1949
James S. Zinner Memorandum
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1838
Abstract
One memorandum from James S. Zinner of the Adjutant General's Department at Bowman Field, Kentucky, containing instructions relative to the Officer's and Warrant Officer's Qualification Card, no date.
Dates:
1942 - 1945
William S. Teeter Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-191
Overview
This collection consists of 126 photographs depicting Lieutenant William S. Teeter during his service during the World War II.
Dates:
1943 - 1945
Oliver Jack Kaneft Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0795
Abstract
A collection letters from O. Jack Kaneft to his girlfriend, Teddy Love, who later became his wife. Many of the letters were written while Kaneft was a flight instructor for WWII fighter pilots at the Alabama Institute of Aeronautics in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1940 - 1943; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1943
John C. Higgins postcard
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2438
Overview
Contains one postcard from Private First Class John C. Higgins thanking the Attleboro War Chest of Attleboro, Massachusetts for a Christmas package. The date posted on the card is 28 October 1943.
Dates:
1943
Ada Wilkins papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2447
Overview
Contains one letter from Mrs. Ada Wilkins of Zanesville, Ohio, on 15 March 1945 to her son, Talen D. Wilkins, who was a prisoner of war at a stalag in Germany. There is also a telegram from the Secretary of War informing her that he was missing in action in the Northern African area on March 27 (no year given).
Dates:
1945 March 15
Roy and Sara Swindell Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2926
Overview
Letters from Roy Swindell and Sara Swindell to their family, who lived in Chattanooga, and later Nashville, Tennessee. The letters discuss missing home, traveling for work, and Bible verses. One letter is from Sara to their son James, an officer in the armed services during World War II.
Dates:
1918-1935
Paul Ohlms collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3190
Overview
One photo album, Navy yearbook, postcard, newspaper, two magazines, and several documents belonging to Paul Ohlms, a machinist in the US Navy from Newark, New Jersey.
Dates:
1942-1945
Russell F. Trask letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1993
Abstract
Letters written mainly to Russell F. Trask, E.M. 1/c aboard the U.S.S. Apollo (A.S. 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.
Dates:
1945
Dewey and Almeda Stewart Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2158
Abstract
This collection consists mainly of correspondence between a young married couple during World War Two. It also includes various miscellaneous World War Two-era items and service-related materials.
Dates:
1944 - 1945
Evelyn Fleming Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2255
Overview
Personal papers of Evelyn Fleming, a New Jersey native, who served in the American Red Cross during World War II.
Dates:
1929 - 1947
Berman Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2329
Overview
Contains material created and kept by the Berman family of St. Louis, Missouri. Letters written by Dr. William (Bill) Berman and his wife Marian make up the bulk of the collection. These are primarily letters written, often in Hebrew, by Bill and Marian from Ft. Riley, Kansas, where Bill served as an Army doctor during World War Two.
Dates:
1927-1957
Andrew William Johnson Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2356
Overview
Correspondence, photographs, diary, books, stationery set, newspaper clippings, and dog tags of Andrew William Johnson Jr. of Louisville, Kentucky, during the 1940s, before and after he was in the Army.
Dates:
1940-1949
Elizabeth Harwood Katz Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3661
Overview
A collection of letters sent to Elizabeth Harwood from friends, family, and others from 1934 to 1984. They deal primarily with personal lives of Elizabeth, her sister, her friends, and her first husband Richard. For more letters, see Donald and Betty Katz letters, mss_3666.
Dates:
1934 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1942
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box: 2009001.030
Identifier: 2009-136
Overview
This collection consists of four photographs depicting people in World War II uniforms.
Dates:
1944 - 1946
George Russel and Elsie Margret Young ration books
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3492
Scope and Contents
George Russel and Elsie Margret Young's ration books that were used during World War II. These particular ration books were from 1942 and were from Indiana.
Dates:
1942
Eleanor Drenth Dodson Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4165
Overview
Letters written in the 1940s to Eleanor ("Ellie" or "Elly") Drenth Dodson of Portland, Oregon, and San Diego, California, from her mother, Mabel Anderson Drenth, who lived in Fresno, California.
Dates:
1942 - 1946
Everett B. Andrews Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4170
Overview
Letters describing camp life 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 after Allied forces captured it in 1944.
Dates:
1945
Walter Bryan Jones photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2011-004
Overview
Includes personal and family photographs, as well as photographs taken in association with Jones' professional endeavors as state geologist of Alabama and during his military service in World War I and World War II.
Dates:
1915 - 1950; 1890 - 1973
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