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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Box 3

 Container

Contains 17 Results:

John (Jack) Ackerson and Katharine Bowen Ackerson, 1922 June-July

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 1
Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, photographs, a lock of hair, and a scrapbook relating to the life and career of John Thaddeus "Jack" Ackerson, (1898-1975), who published radical antiwar poetry under the name George Jarrboe after his naval service during World War I and II. Ackerson wrote the chapbook "The Unknown Soldier Speaks" and many other pieces of writing under this pseudonym. The bulk of the collection consists of 500 letters. Most of the...
Dates: 1922 June-July

John (Jack) Ackerson and Katharine Bowen Ackerson, 1922 August-September

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, photographs, a lock of hair, and a scrapbook relating to the life and career of John Thaddeus "Jack" Ackerson, (1898-1975), who published radical antiwar poetry under the name George Jarrboe after his naval service during World War I and II. Ackerson wrote the chapbook "The Unknown Soldier Speaks" and many other pieces of writing under this pseudonym. The bulk of the collection consists of 500 letters. Most of the...
Dates: 1922 August-September

John (Jack) Ackerson and Katharine Bowen Ackerson, 1922 October-December

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, photographs, a lock of hair, and a scrapbook relating to the life and career of John Thaddeus "Jack" Ackerson, (1898-1975), who published radical antiwar poetry under the name George Jarrboe after his naval service during World War I and II. Ackerson wrote the chapbook "The Unknown Soldier Speaks" and many other pieces of writing under this pseudonym. The bulk of the collection consists of 500 letters. Most of the...
Dates: 1922 October-December

John (Jack) Ackerson and Katharine Bowen Ackerson, 1923

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, photographs, a lock of hair, and a scrapbook relating to the life and career of John Thaddeus "Jack" Ackerson, (1898-1975), who published radical antiwar poetry under the name George Jarrboe after his naval service during World War I and II. Ackerson wrote the chapbook "The Unknown Soldier Speaks" and many other pieces of writing under this pseudonym. The bulk of the collection consists of 500 letters. Most of the...
Dates: 1923

John (Jack) Ackerson and Katharine Bowen Ackerson, 1924 January-February

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, photographs, a lock of hair, and a scrapbook relating to the life and career of John Thaddeus "Jack" Ackerson, (1898-1975), who published radical antiwar poetry under the name George Jarrboe after his naval service during World War I and II. Ackerson wrote the chapbook "The Unknown Soldier Speaks" and many other pieces of writing under this pseudonym. The bulk of the collection consists of 500 letters. Most of the...
Dates: 1924 January-February

John (Jack) Ackerson and Katharine Bowen Ackerson, 1924 March- 1925 December

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, photographs, a lock of hair, and a scrapbook relating to the life and career of John Thaddeus "Jack" Ackerson, (1898-1975), who published radical antiwar poetry under the name George Jarrboe after his naval service during World War I and II. Ackerson wrote the chapbook "The Unknown Soldier Speaks" and many other pieces of writing under this pseudonym. The bulk of the collection consists of 500 letters. Most of the...
Dates: 1924 March- 1925 December

John (Jack) Ackerson and Katharine Bowen Ackerson, 1942

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, photographs, a lock of hair, and a scrapbook relating to the life and career of John Thaddeus "Jack" Ackerson, (1898-1975), who published radical antiwar poetry under the name George Jarrboe after his naval service during World War I and II. Ackerson wrote the chapbook "The Unknown Soldier Speaks" and many other pieces of writing under this pseudonym. The bulk of the collection consists of 500 letters. Most of the...
Dates: 1942

Miscellaneous family letters, 1822-1878

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, photographs, a lock of hair, and a scrapbook relating to the life and career of John Thaddeus "Jack" Ackerson, (1898-1975), who published radical antiwar poetry under the name George Jarrboe after his naval service during World War I and II. Ackerson wrote the chapbook "The Unknown Soldier Speaks" and many other pieces of writing under this pseudonym. The bulk of the collection consists of 500 letters. Most of the...
Dates: 1822-1878

Miscellaneous family deeds, 1822-1927

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, photographs, a lock of hair, and a scrapbook relating to the life and career of John Thaddeus "Jack" Ackerson, (1898-1975), who published radical antiwar poetry under the name George Jarrboe after his naval service during World War I and II. Ackerson wrote the chapbook "The Unknown Soldier Speaks" and many other pieces of writing under this pseudonym. The bulk of the collection consists of 500 letters. Most of the...
Dates: 1822-1927

Friends correspondence about World War I, 1912-1917

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous love letter from a French girl named Georgette

Dates: 1912-1917

Friends correspondence , 1930-1954

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 12
Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, photographs, a lock of hair, and a scrapbook relating to the life and career of John Thaddeus "Jack" Ackerson, (1898-1975), who published radical antiwar poetry under the name George Jarrboe after his naval service during World War I and II. Ackerson wrote the chapbook "The Unknown Soldier Speaks" and many other pieces of writing under this pseudonym. The bulk of the collection consists of 500 letters. Most of the...
Dates: 1930-1954

Navy and Military certificate and cards, 1917-1919, 1943

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Included is a form letter from the United States Food and Drug Administration and a letter from "The Fatherless Children of France."

Dates: 1917-1919, 1943

Poems and writings, 1917-1922

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 14
Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, photographs, a lock of hair, and a scrapbook relating to the life and career of John Thaddeus "Jack" Ackerson, (1898-1975), who published radical antiwar poetry under the name George Jarrboe after his naval service during World War I and II. Ackerson wrote the chapbook "The Unknown Soldier Speaks" and many other pieces of writing under this pseudonym. The bulk of the collection consists of 500 letters. Most of the...
Dates: 1917-1922

Letters about poems, [1902-1936]

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from poet Josephine Johnson and James Rorty. There is also a letter from novelist and short story author, Edith Barnard Delano (1874-1946) to Katharine Bowen Ackerson (wife of John T. Ackerson-"George Jarrboe") and a letter from silent film star Mary Minter Miles

Dates: [1902-1936]

Letters from authors, poets, and celebrities, 1914-1958

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from poet Josephine Johnson (1910-1990) and writer and poet James Rorty (1890-1973). There is also a letter from novelist and short story author, Edith Barnard Delano (1874-1946) to Katharine Bowen Ackerson (wife of John T. Ackerson-"George Jarrboe"), a letter from silent film star Mary Minter Miles (1902-1984), a card from Cardinal James Gibbons (1834-1921), and a letter from author Howard Fast (1914-2003).

Dates: 1914-1958

Friends correspondence about World War I, 1918-1919

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 11
Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, photographs, a lock of hair, and a scrapbook relating to the life and career of John Thaddeus "Jack" Ackerson, (1898-1975), who published radical antiwar poetry under the name George Jarrboe after his naval service during World War I and II. Ackerson wrote the chapbook "The Unknown Soldier Speaks" and many other pieces of writing under this pseudonym. The bulk of the collection consists of 500 letters. Most of the...
Dates: 1918-1919

Lock of hair, [1918] envelope

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 13
Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, photographs, a lock of hair, and a scrapbook relating to the life and career of John Thaddeus "Jack" Ackerson, (1898-1975), who published radical antiwar poetry under the name George Jarrboe after his naval service during World War I and II. Ackerson wrote the chapbook "The Unknown Soldier Speaks" and many other pieces of writing under this pseudonym. The bulk of the collection consists of 500 letters. Most of the...
Dates: [1918] envelope