World War, 1939-1945
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85148273
Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.030: [1006241527]
Identifier: 2009-136
Overview
This collection consists of four photographs depicting people in World War II uniforms.
Dates:
1944 - 1946
Wade Hall World War Il Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-189
Overview
This collection consists of photographs depicting scenes from World War II, portraits of the soldiers, and scenes with their families.
Dates:
1939 - 1960
Walter B. Jones and a man, both in uniform, standing outside, circa 1942
Item — Box 8: [1006235696], Folder: 2011.004.000835
Identifier: 2011.004.000835
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting Civilian Conservation Corps Camp; Walter Jones’s family; Jones family camping; Quad and Denny Chimes at The University of Alabama; Great Smoky Mountains at Newfound Gap; John Edward Jenkins in uniform in Panama Canal Zone; fishing in Alabama; Walter Jones at March Field; Gandrud family; Mobile Delta; boating; Camp Livingston, Louisiana; snow at Pyramid Mountain, Alaska; and New Guinea.
Dates:
circa 1942
Walter B. Jones in uniform outside smoking a pipe, photo 1, circa 1942
Item — Box 8: [1006235696], Folder: 2011.004.000837
Identifier: 2011.004.000837
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting Civilian Conservation Corps Camp; Walter Jones’s family; Jones family camping; Quad and Denny Chimes at The University of Alabama; Great Smoky Mountains at Newfound Gap; John Edward Jenkins in uniform in Panama Canal Zone; fishing in Alabama; Walter Jones at March Field; Gandrud family; Mobile Delta; boating; Camp Livingston, Louisiana; snow at Pyramid Mountain, Alaska; and New Guinea.
Dates:
circa 1942
Walter B. Jones in uniform outside smoking a pipe, photo 2, circa 1942
Item — Box 28: [1006235698], Folder: 2011.004.002848
Identifier: 2011.004.002848
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting farm fields; construction site; men working with farm equipment and other machinery; geological map of Lake Guntersville, Alabama, area; map of soy bean storage in Guntersville, Alabama; drill tower; Walter Jones; University of Alabama football game; hunting; and Walter Jones’s pipe collection.
Dates:
circa 1942
Walter B. Jones, third from right, and others in uniform, circa 1942
Item — Box 28: [1006235698], Folder: 2011.004.002857
Identifier: 2011.004.002857
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting farm fields; construction site; men working with farm equipment and other machinery; geological map of Lake Guntersville, Alabama, area; map of soy bean storage in Guntersville, Alabama; drill tower; Walter Jones; University of Alabama football game; hunting; and Walter Jones’s pipe collection.
Dates:
circa 1942
Walter Bryan Jones in uniform standing outside, circa 1942
Item — Box 8: [1006235696], Folder: 2011.004.000836
Identifier: 2011.004.000836
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
100 photographs depicting Civilian Conservation Corps Camp; Walter Jones’s family; Jones family camping; Quad and Denny Chimes at The University of Alabama; Great Smoky Mountains at Newfound Gap; John Edward Jenkins in uniform in Panama Canal Zone; fishing in Alabama; Walter Jones at March Field; Gandrud family; Mobile Delta; boating; Camp Livingston, Louisiana; snow at Pyramid Mountain, Alaska; and New Guinea.
Dates:
circa 1942
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
Water maine from Manton River to Darwin, 1944 April 22
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2011.004.005433
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 22
Water point and pump near Darwin, 1944 April 22
Item — Box 5939: [1006235675], Folder: 6
Identifier: 2011.004.005431
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
112 photographs depicting geological reports; portraits of Walter Jones; airport and aerial views of New Guinea; boats in New Guinea; World War II; military campsite in New Guinea; construction work in New Guinea; landscape, vegetation, and huts in New Guinea; houses and headquarters in Darwin, Australia; flying boats at Port Darwin; quarry and rocks in Darwin; vegetation and landscape of Darwin, Australia; and Manton Dam and reservoir near Darwin.
Dates:
1944 April 22
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
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
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
William B. Shirdan papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1266
Abstract
Letters from this African American soldier who served in the 310th Quartermaster Railhead Company during World War II to his family in Montgomery, Alabama.
Dates:
1944 - 1947; Majority of material found within 1944 - 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
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 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
World War II - U.S. military language guides and phrase books
Collection
Identifier: PM-017
Overview
Contains foreign language phrase and guide books for the use of the military.
Dates:
1943-1944
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
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
World War II Posters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4220
Overview
Examples of World War II posters
Dates:
1939-1942
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
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