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Army Nurses, Camp Lee, Virginia photograph
Collection — FLAT_FILE_FOLDER: 1
Identifier: MSS-16952
Content Description
This collection contains a panoramic photograph depicting the graduating class of Army Nurses Basic Course, No. 2, Third Platoon, photographed at the Quarter Master School, Camp Lee, Virginia, on April 10, 1945. The photograph shows 52 white female students and six male students arranged in three rows, flanked by five male officers. The women wear uniforms with ties, caps, and badges. Captioned text appears at the bottom center of the image, stating "Army Nurses Basic Course No 2 The QM...
Dates:
1945
Ernest Butler photograph album
Collection — Flat_Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 16875
Content Description
This collection contains the photograph album of Ernest Butler, a United States Army soldier who served in Germany during the Second World War. Butler was among the one million African American men and women who served during the war. The album documents his time in Germany, his return to the United States, and his post-war life. The album contains over 250 black and white silver gelatin photographs over its thirty pages. The images depict Butler’s service in Germany, where he...
Dates:
c. 1942-1945
Collection of press photographs of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16917
Content Description
This collection contains nine press photographs from Hiroshima and a signed type script from Thomas W. Ferebee, a bombardier of the first atomic bomb. Six of the press photos of Hiroshima are aerial views before and after the nuclear bomb, two are on-the-ground shots of buildings and buses destroyed, and one photograph of United States General MacArthur accepting the Japanese surrender in September 1945. Press captions are taped or glued to the back for all but one image. The typescript,...
Dates:
1945
Herbert R. Davis photograph albums
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16840
Content Description
This collection contains two photo albums of Herbert R. Davis of Richmond, Virginia that document Black pre-World War II life in Richmond; Davis's service in the South Pacific (Guam, Guadalco, and Peleliu) as a Black Marine; and Davis's family life upon his return from combat during the early 1930's to the late 1940's. Many of Davis's fellow soldiers in the 11th Marine Depot Company, 16th Field Depot are posed in photographs. The 11th Company, who fought at the Battle of Peleliu,...
Dates:
c. 1930-1950
Department of Justice papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-82-2
Scope and Contents
This collection contains speeches and press releases from various officials of the United States Department of Justice. All the items are typescript copies and date generally from the World War II period. Most of the speeches concern domestic legal and economic issues, chiefly civil rights, demobilization, and labor problems.Speeches presented by the following individuals:Francis Biddle, Attorney General of the United States (1941-1945).
Thomas C. Clark, Attorney...
Dates:
1942 - 1951
Joseph Elsleger papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16168
Scope and Contents Note
The Joseph Elsleger papers (1944-1945; 0.4 cubic foot) document Elsleger's time spent as a prisoner of the German Army in World War II, after his plane was shot down over France on June 23, 1944. The collection includes two diaries distributed by the YMCA chapter in Geneva, Switzerland: one blank save an introductory letter and one used by Elsleger. The latter's contents include drawings of the prison camp, makeshift recipes, photographs of unidentified people (presumably from Elsleger's...
Dates:
1944 - 1945
Frank S. Tavenner papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-78-3
G. Carrington Williams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-78-4
Margaret Shelton Gillis papers
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16178
Scope and Contents Note
The Margaret Shelton Gillis papers (1936-1975; 0.9 cubic feet) document the education and personal life of Virginia teacher Margaret Gillis. The collection contains school ephemera and letters, the former including handwritten notes from high school, newspapers, programs from various events, tests, student photographs, a Westhampton College handbook, printed cards, invitations, and broadsides.Of particular note within the collection are letters from two soldiers during WWII....
Dates:
1936 - 1975
Carter Glass Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2913
Scope and Contents
The Carter Glass papers, 1820-1946, 141 cubic feet, consist of correspondence, manuscripts, newspaper articles, photographs, speeches, and printed materials from his work in the Banking and Currency Committee, the Secretary of the Treasury (1918-1920), and the United States Senate (1920-1946). Subjects include: The Federal Reserve Banking Act of 1913, the Federal Reserve system, and the Banking Act of 1933 (1932 Glass-Steagall Act). Other topics include international, national...
Dates:
1820-1946
William S. Kibler papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15270
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the papers of William S. Kibler (1911-2002), a high school teacher and educator, Stanley, Virginia, ca. 1925-2002, 23,684 items (103 Hollinger boxes; 43 linear feet) including his diaries, 1936-2002 April, recording in detail Kibler's daily activities as well as his impressions of events, travel journals and manuscripts for chiefly foreign trips, slides, postcards, and photographs, chiefly concerning his trips, both high school and college papers, literary work, and...
Dates:
1925-2002
W. Jett Lauck papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 4742
Scope and Contents
The W. Jett Lauck collection consists of his professional, business and personal papers as an economist, statistician and government consultant on immigration, banking, railroads, coal, and unemployment problems as well as other facets of labor in the United States. Included are correspondence, scrapbooks of news clippings reflecting his activities, labor reports and studies, drafts of congressional bills, legal briefs, and other material concerning labor problems in the United States from...
Dates:
circa 1900-1952
Henry C. L. Miller, Jr. papers
File
Identifier: MSS-16942
Content Description
This collection contains the Second World War-period diary and scrapbook of Henry C.L. Miller, Jr. of Richmond, Virginia (1901-1980). The scrapbook contains telegrams, letters, taped-in postcards, and printed memoranda. Correspondence included in the scrapbook is largely friendly correspondence between Miller and Edward Stettinius, Jr., (1900-1949). Stettinius’s tone is jovial and highly complementary of Miller in their correspondence. A memorandum dated August 4th, 1942, from Thomas B....
Dates:
1941-1944
Agnes Patone scrapbook
Item — Ledger: 1
Identifier: MSS 16397
Scope and Contents Note
The Agnes Panton scrapbook (1944-1945; 0.25 cubic feet) is a World War II scrapbook documenting a female marine's experiences. It contains memorabilia, invitations, greeting cards, and newspaper clippings. Also included are shoulder stripe patches for a male and female officer. Second Headquarters Battalion stationed in Washington D.C. area.
Dates:
1944 - 1945
Richard J. DeMartino papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2017-02
Scope and Contents
This collection was organized by Richard J. DeMartino during his tenure as one of the "historian advisors" to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East between 1946-1948. The files contain excerpts of official documents, documents, and DeMartino's handwritten notes. Excerpts from the diary of Marquis Kōichi Kido are present in each file, as if DeMartino was using Kido's notes as a guide to the research he was working on. There are also many excerpts from Papers...
Dates:
circa 1910 - 1965
Madeleine Coleman Roach papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16869
Content Description
This material contains references to offensive and harmful language and crimes involving racism. The purpose of this note is to give users the opportunity to decide whether they need or want to view these materials, or at least, to mentally or emotionally prepare themselves to view the materials. This collection contains photographs, diaries, a memory book, a prayer book, witness reports, scrapbook pages, photographs, certificates, newsletters, telegrams, menus, and ephemera...
Dates:
1942-1945
Roy L. Morgan papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-93-4
E.W. Smith photograph album
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16020
Scope and Contents Note
The E.W. Smith photograph album (1917-1921; 0.2 cubic foot) documents Smith's service in Battery A of the United States Army's 148th Field Artillery at the end of World War I. The bulk of the photographs document Smith's travels in Germany in 1918 and 1919, with other subjects ranging from training at Camp Mills, New Jersey and Camp Merritt, New York to postwar family vacations.
Dates:
1917 - 1921
Supreme Commander Allied Powers Legal Section report
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS-2024-06
Scope and Contents
This document reports the results of an investigation into Japan's use of US prisoners of war in medical experiments at Kyushu Imperial University during World War II. Robert N. Tait submitted it to the Legal Section of office of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers on September 30, 1947. Perpetrators of these experiments were prosecuted at the Yokohama War Crimes Trials, which took place between February 1946 and October 1949. These trials were similar to the International Military...
Dates:
1947-09-30
Taylor family papers
Series
Identifier: MSS-16857
Content Description
This collection contains personal letters, postcards, U.Va. grade reports, certificates, a Monticello Association Lifetime Pass, various Army documents, and pamphlets on the life and interests of Thomas Jefferson documenting the lives of the Taylor Family: Edward Colston Taylor (1877-1940), Jessie Alwine Taylor (1879-1973 ), and Edward Colston Taylor, Jr. (1911-1997). The collection includes genealogical notes and research on the Taylor Family, undertaken by Peter Flugg Mayron, an Austin,...
Dates:
1894-1983