World War, 1939-1945
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:
Carpenter family collection
Collection
Identifier: L501
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, telegrams, receipts, family photographs and newspaper clippings from Walter N. and Lizzie D. Carpenter in Indianapolis and Muncie, Indiana as well as Miami, Dade County, Florida ranging from 1887 to the 1980s.
Also included are U.S. Department of Health publications regarding the control of infectious diseases and the role of women during World War I.
Also included are U.S. Department of Health publications regarding the control of infectious diseases and the role of women during World War I.
Dates:
1887-1980s
Civil Air Patrol collection
Collection
Identifier: L380
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of the Indiana Civil Air Patrol and Robert and Martha Houge. The personal and military papers date from 1942 to 1955. Civil Air Patrol papers in the collection, dated 1943-1953, are communications between the office of the Indiana Wing and individual squadrons throughout Indiana. These papers include correspondence and memoranda relating to announced inspections, orders, reports of inspection, instruction concerning the training of personnel, and...
Dates:
1943-1953
Clyde W. Lamb cartoons
Collection — Folder S2560
Identifier: S2560
Scope and Contents
This collection includes several cartoons drawn by Clyde W. Lamb. Three cartoons feature soldiers and one mentions "Kokomo Slim" and Indiana, so it is assumed they were drawn while incarcerated at Indiana's state prison in the 1940s. The collection also has a copy of a four-panel comic strip with Lamb's typical male character drawn with a bulbous nose.
Dates:
circa 1940
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Clyde W. Lamb cartoons
Connie Beck papers
Collection
Identifier: L436
Scope and Contents
This collection includes war ration books, genealogies, correspondence, guest and funeral books, greeting cards, photographs from the Rock, Beck and Sherrer families in Indiana, Missouri and elsewhere ranging from 1908 to 1962, regarding family genealogy, finances and business, correspondence with friends, World War II life, the Philippines, and Stephens College.
Dates:
1908-1962
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Connie Beck papers
Dan Ewing collection
Collection — Folder S2179
Identifier: S2179
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a copy of "71 Years after Enlisting - Still Assisting; Indiana State Library Volunteer on Honor Flight," an article written by Georgean C. Johnson-Coffey about Dan Ewing and printed in the May 17, 2017 edition of the Indiana State Library weekly Wednesday Word e-newsletter. The article relates information about his volunteer work with the Talking Book Repair Program and his participation in the 23rd Honor Flight to Washington,...
Dates:
2017
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Dan Ewing collection
Daniel Lake collection
Collection — Folder S2455
Identifier: S2455
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two V-mail letters sent by Daniel Lake to his family while serving in Europe during World War II. The first letter is dated July 21, 1944 and was sent to his wife, Bonnie, while she was living in Winchester, Indiana. The second letter was also written in July 1944 and sent to his mother, Mrs. J. B. McCowan, and his stepfather at Somerset, Kentucky. The collection also includes a circa 1944 photograph of Daniel and Bonnie and a newspaper clipping from the October 24,...
Dates:
1944
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Daniel Lake collection
Darwin Kelley papers
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0765
Scope and Contents
This collection includes poems, letters, documents from Darwin Kelley and others in the United States and Germany ranging from 1917 to 1990 regarding the Civil War, World War II, and personal matters.
Dates:
1864-1990
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Darwin Kelley papers
David Drummond letters
Collection — Folder S383
Identifier: S0383
Scope and Contents
These five letters were written to David P. Drummond in the army during World War II. The authors were: Bernice (last name unknown), a girlfriend (unknown), his grandmother, and his father, David J. Drummond. The two 1944 letters were typed on stationery with the imprint: Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, Indianapolis, Ind., Office of the Collector, District of Indiana. The lower left corner imprint is: For Victory, Buy United States War Bonds and Stamps. The letters...
Dates:
1944-1945
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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David Drummond letters
Don Howard collection
Collection — Folder S0687
Identifier: S0687
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of clippings of articles regarding accounts from World War II, Don Howard and his family, and Santa Clara High School (California) sports ranging from 1944 to 1953. The articles were clipped from the Evansville Press (Indiana) and the Oxnard Press-Courier (California) newspapers. Included in the collection are six articles written by Ernie Pyle from Okinawa, Japan in April, 1945; a copy of the October 15, 1945 edition of The Evening Times newpaper from...
Dates:
1944-1953
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Don Howard collection
Donald D. Howard collection
Collection
Identifier: L076
Scope and Contents
The collection contains World War II letters of Howard to his parents, Louise and George Howard (Evansville, Indiana), written from the South Pacific, Okinawa, China, Korea, the Philippines, California, and Ft. Benjamin Harrison. The collection also includes correspondence from the Howard’s daughters Marilyn, a student at Indiana University, and Mrs. R.C. Datzman, a medical technician and wife of physician in Detroit and Carlysle, PA, during the same time period.
Dates:
1944-1946
