World War, 1939-1945
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 109 Collections and/or Records:
George W. Roberts collection
Collection
Identifier: L579
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two Civil War diaries, correspondence, papers, a coffee can, and a spoon belonging to George W. Roberts in Indiana and the United States ranging from circa 1861 to 1944. There are also numerous ribbons, buttons, and badges from Roberts, most from Grand Army of the Republic encampments or posts, as well as numerous 69th Indiana Regiment reunion ribbons (1889-1917, undated); an 1895 Indiana Trustees Association annual meeting ribbon; a 19th Indiana Veteran Volunteers...
Dates:
circa 1861-1944, undated
Gerald T. Cravey, World War II, Japanese propaganda transcriptions
Collection — Folder S2564
Identifier: S2564
Scope and Contents
This collection contains copies of transcripts made by Gerald T. Cravey during World War II of Japanese propaganda transmitted to Southeast Asia by Nampo Domei in international Morse code (1944-1945) and of the final two transmissions sent out on August 9 and 10, 1945 following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The collection also includes a copy of an "English interpretation" of entries in a diary kept by an Japanese officer who was found dead on an island just off the east tip of...
Dates:
1943-1945, 1976
Gilbert Harris collection
Collection — Folder S3105
Identifier: S3105
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of various materials concerning Gilbert Harris from Indiana ranging from 1905 to 1946, relating to World War II and local concerns as well as deaths. Among the items relating to World War II are a ship's newspaper, a broadside welcoming returning troops to their voyage home on the S.S. Tristram Dalton, and newspaper and magazine clippings. The clippings are obituaries and announcements of an award and of a visit home. The collection...
Dates:
1905-1946
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Gilbert Harris collection
Hanna family photographs
Collection — Folder SP149
Identifier: SP149
Scope and Contents
This collection includes black-and-white photographs of May Coots Hanna and her nephew Mark Hanna in Indianapolis, Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1920 to 1967. A single photograph of May Hanna's husband Judge Charles Hanna, with a note to his nephew Mark, is also included, as well as also two newspaper clippings, one of which is an obituary for May Hanna. There is also a color snapshot of Indiana University President Herman B. Wells, his mother, and Art Department chairman Mrs....
Dates:
1920-1967
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hanna family photographs
Harland L. Osgatharp collection
Collection
Identifier: L120
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Harland L. Osgatharp’s diaries during World War II from January 1942 to December 1945. The diaries describe Osgatharp’s work in Civilian Conservation Corps camps, his enlistment, training, service in military hospitals, and his return to Otwell, Indiana. Also included in the diaries are his reminiscences of service in World War I. The collection also contains an undated address book.
Dates:
1942-1945
Harold F. Brigham papers
Collection
Identifier: L282
Scope and Contents
This collection includes professional correspondence, speeches, notes, research, clippings, newsletters, meeting minutes, bibliographies, and other materials created and compiled by Harold F. Brigham in Louisville, Kentucky and Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1899 to 1967 regarding his work as a librarian in Kentucky and at the Indiana State Library. There are also a few materials relating to Merriwether Lewis and William Clark, which Brigham used in his talk at the Conversation Club in...
Dates:
1899-1967
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Harold F. Brigham papers
Harry B. Dynes collection
Collection — Folder S0397
Identifier: S0397
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two certificates of service from the Seventh District Local Board of the U.S. Selective Service (1918); a copy of the Articles of Governance for the Indiana Selective Service Association (1919); a copy of the introduction by George O. Dix and the speech by Major Robert W. Adams at the Selective Service Association convention (1920); a letter dated March 4, 1924 and sent by former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George's private secretary, A. J. Sylvester, regarding...
Dates:
1873-1945
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Harry B. Dynes collection
Harry D. Hartley collection
Collection
Identifier: L273
Scope and Contents
The collection includes Harry D. Hartley’s correspondence and papers regarding his family’s property (1925–1940), particularly property in Kokomo, Howard County, Indianak, which was leased for an A and P grocery store in 1930. Also included is correspondence pertaining to his proposed book on the contributions of Hoosiers to the development of the United States and western civilization (1939–1951), and letters relating to an Indianapolis talk given by Arthur E. Morgan on his investigations into...
Dates:
1925-1951
Hazel W. Hopper papers
Collection — Folder S0681
Identifier: S0681
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters, receipts, and other materials from the Pickard and Hopper families, ranging from 1864 to 1975. The Pickard papers, include the correspondence, tax receipts, and bank receipts of Thomas, Henry (Bluford), and Jeff Pickard from 1864 to1931; an Encampment Week letter dated April 4th, 1893 from Evansville, Indiana; a letter to Gorman Pickard from The Home Journal magazine regarding a contest he entered in 1898; a certificate from T.A. Slocum, M.C. for...
Dates:
1864-1942
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hazel W. Hopper papers
Henry E. Wahl collection
Collection
Identifier: L172
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of letters to Henry E. Wahl from his parents (1936–1945) and letters to his parent during World War II. The letters originate from Bloomington, Indiana, California, Hawaii, and the Pacific. Included are letters from Donald Wahl, a naval officer serving in the Pacific.Additionally, the collection contains a notebook with a diary of a trip from Evansville Indiana to Nashville, Tennessee in and accounts for a schoolteacher in Gibson County in 1866, as well as...
Dates:
1865-1945
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Henry E. Wahl collection
