Japan

Scope and Contents The Bailey Family Papers include letters created and received by multiple generations of family members. The bulk of the letters contains Reconstruction-era content, but there are also other later letters of interest written from Texas and Japan. Samuel Bailey wrote ten letters to his son George from 1865-1869. Although Samuel wrote most of the letters while in Macon, Georgia, he was in South Charlestown, New Hampshire, when he wrote the earliest one on June 10, 1865. The letters were addressed...

Abstract A miscellany of materials relating to Dr. James S. P. Beck, University of Alabama graduate (1924), including two co-authored articles about radiation burns among survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bomb blast and three photos of burn victims.

Overview Personal correspondence, papers relating to academic matters, a diploma, cards, maps, newspaper clippings, and photographs of Estes, his family, and friends

Abstract Letters from servicemen from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in Germany, India, and Okinawa during and immediately after WWII.

Scope and Contents This file contains a letter from Hi Allman to a friend named Johnny, written on the USS Bremerton while it was practicing gunnery off Okinawa, Japan, in August 1955. The letter describes the Bremerton's cruise from its departure out of Long Beach, California, on July 14, 1955, to its arrival at Okinawa. The cruise included stopping at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Yokosuka, Japan, and steaming through a typhoon.

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.

Abstract This collection consists of photographs depicting scenes from urban, everyday life in South Korea through the eyes of American soldiers during or after the Korean War. Some photographs depict American soldiers.

Overview This collection of twenty-eight photographs depicting scenes from Japan: parade, shops, people wearing traditional Japanese cloths and street scenes.

Overview This collection consists of eleven photographs depicting scenes from Japan around 1910.