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LOC/D/D3.. Wars and Historical Events

 Record Group Term
Identifier: LOC/D/D3.

Found in 97 Collections and/or Records:

Ruth Evelyn Morse Parkhurst and Austin Flint Parkhurst papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 228
Abstract Ruth Evelyn Morse (1899-1983) taught in American Indian schools and was employed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and her husband, Austin Flint Parkhurst (1885-1965), was in the Navy during WWI and became a radio engineer. The collection contains personal and professional records of Ruth Parkhurst, including her career as a teacher in American Indian schools and her work with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) as well as personal and professional (mostly military) records of Austin...
Dates: 1936-1983

Parman Shoemaker Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 286
Abstract

The Parman Shoemaker Family papers are divided into eleven series, according to family members and also by medium. The bulk of this collection consists of letters, notably correspondences from World War I and World War II.

Dates: circa 1850-2015, undated; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1989

Joseph Benjamin Pate papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Ax 790
Abstract

Colonel Joseph Benjamin Pate (1879-1964) served in the Philippine Constabulary, WWI, and was assigned to South America from 1936-1942. The collection contains biographical files, photographs, a Philippine Constabulary officer list, diaries and mementoes, 1908-1964.

Dates: 1908-1964

Clifton Pease papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Ax 161
Abstract

Clifton Pease (1884-1937) was a Seattle publicist, and radio program writer with a special interest in Asia. The collection contains radio scripts and interviews, diaries from when Pease served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (1917-1919), and a diary from a trip to Japan, Korea, and China (1929), 1917-1938.

Dates: 1917-1938

Arthur Perry papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 35025042632980]
Identifier: A 095
Abstract

Arthur Perry (1885-1948) was a newspaper reporter and paragrapher from Medford, Oregon, who is best known for hisMedford Mail-Tribune column "Smudge Pot," which was widely reprinted. The collection (1918-1948) contains a wartime diary (WWI), scrapbooks, correspondence, and clippings of Perry's writings.

Dates: 1918-1948

Frank Purinton papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 210
Abstract

Frank Purinton (1895-1991) was an activist who sought to preserve the United States and Christianity from the "Communist-Zionist-Satanist" plot. He was active in the American Legion and the John Birch Society and published a patriotic Christian newsletter. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials reflecting Purinton's views.

Dates: 1970-1986

Floyd Cleveland Ramp papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 189
Abstract

Floyd Cleveland Ramp was a member of Socialist and Communist Parties in the United States and Russia in the 1900's as a college student and an adult. The collection consists of diaries and letterbooks; incoming letters; family correspondence; materials documenting his arrest, trial, and incarceration for espionage; Socialist and Communist Party materials; speeches; tapes; and broadsides.

Dates: 1874-1973

William J. Rapp papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 604
Abstract

William Jourdan Rapp (1895-1942) was a free-lance writer, playwright, radio script writer, and producer. The collection contains correspondence, plays, advertising and article manuscripts, Harlem Renaissance research, biographical material, publications, photographs, and a WWI era scrapbook of a YMCA camp in Greece.

Dates: 1911-1942

Malcolm Reiss papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 016
Abstract

Malcolm Reiss (1905-1975) was an editor, author of stories and a book, China Boat Boy, and also an author's agent. The collection contains personal papers including correspondence, manuscripts, and published articles, and also business records of Fiction House including correspondence, contracts, and financial records.

Dates: 1922-1975

Russian War Relief, Inc. Oregon Committee newsletter

 Collection — Multiple collection box [SFM 036] 1: [Barcode: i18652657]
Identifier: SFM 036
Abstract

Newsletter (no. 1) of Russian War Relief, Inc., Oregon Committee, July 1942.

Dates: 1942 July

Frederick and Myra Scovel papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 707
Abstract

Dr. Frederick Gilman Scovel (born 1902) and his wife Myra Scovel (August 11, 1905- August 26, 1994) were missionaries overseas for the United Presbyterian Church for almost thirty years. The works in this collection are a collection of correspondence, diaries, manuscripts and other miscellaneous items that represent the Scovels’ missionary work and their time spent overseas.

Dates: 1930-1974

Alice B. Sheldon, pen name James Tiptree, Jr., papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 455
Abstract Alice B. Sheldon, pen name James Tiptree, Jr. (1915-1987), was a much acclaimed science fiction author, publishing from 1968 to 1987. She was also briefly a painter, an art reviewer for the Chicago Sun, a chicken farmer, and a CIA analyst. She earned a doctorate in experimental psychology, and corresponded with and reviewed the work of several well-known psychologists. This collection contains correspondence, drawings, manuscripts, and her writing, from childhood to her death, in all of...
Dates: 1892-2006; Majority of material found within

Harold B. Smith letter

 Collection — Multiple collection box [CA 1918 Dec 19] 1: [Barcode: i5017163x]
Identifier: CA 1918 Dec 19
Abstract

Harold B. Smith served in the 49th Company, 5th Regiment of the U.S. Marines during World War I. The collection contains a letter dated December 19, 1918, to his Aunt Belle and Uncle Phil of Albany, Oregon, in which he describes his experiences as a soldier.

Dates: 1918 December 19

Harold B. Smith letter

 Collection — Multiple collection box [CA 1919 Jan 5] 1: [Barcode: i50171653]
Identifier: CA 1919 Jan 5
Abstract

Harold B. Smith served in the 49th Company, 5th Regiment of the U.S. Marines during World War I. The collection contains a letter dated January 5, 1919 from Smith to his Aunt Belle and Uncle Phil of Albany, Oregon, regarding his experience while stationed in Germany.

Dates: 1919 January 5

John Howland Snow papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll 106
Abstract

Consists of personal correspondence between Snow and his wife-to-be Mary Elizabeth German Robey, owner and operator of the Robey Drilling Company and president of the National Association of Pro America; Snow's London diary documenting and analyzing Worl.

Dates: 1939-1974

Myra Snow papers

 Collection
Identifier: A 186
Abstract

Myra Snow was a Methodist missionary in Tientsin, northern China from the late 1920s through the early 1940s. The collection comprises letters that reflect her work as a missionary.

Dates: 1928-1944

Ze'ev Soronowsky papers

 Collection — Multiple collection box [Coll 395] 1: [Barcode: 35025042654331]
Identifier: Coll 395
Abstract

Ze'ev Saronowsky (1922-2012) was a Holocaust survivor, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and other labor/death camps during World War II. The collection (1997-2012) contains his autobiography, photographs of Buchenwald, and a photograph of Saronowsky with his cousin, William Sarnoff.

Dates: 1922-2012

John Spears diaries

 Collection — Box 1 : [Barcode: 35025041119096]
Identifier: Coll 097
Abstract

Consists of daily diaries, 1938-1944, detailing his language studies at U.C.L.A., park work, and soldier life after joining the Army in 1942 and being stationed for a time in England.

Dates: 1938-1944

Keith Stimely collection on revisionist history and neo-Fascist movements

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 183
Abstract

Collection comprises subject files, research files, and correspondence created and compiled by Keith Stimely while researching, writing, and promoting revisionist historiography and journalism. The bulk of the collection concerns the First and Second World Wars, Holocaust denail, and research into European and American new-facist, neo-Nazi, and racialist political movements in the 1970s and 1980s.

Dates: 1957-1991

Lifeboat : screenplay, 1943 July 29 / by Jo Swerling

 Collection — Multiple collection box [SFM 137] 1: [Barcode: i19790491]
Identifier: SFM 137
Abstract

Screenplay by Jo Swerling for Lifeboat. Includes typed revisions.

Dates: 1943 July 29

David S. and Luella R. Tappan papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 103
Abstract

David S. and Luella Tappan (husband and wife) were Presbyterian missionaries in Hainan, China. The collection includes correspondence, diaries, and miscellaneous materials that relate to their missionary work.

Dates: 1913-1966

Grace Terrell papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 264
Abstract

Grace Terrell was a Christian missionary and teacher at a girl's school in Seoul, Korea (later, South Korea), from 1931 to 1966. This collections consists almost entirely of correspondence Terrell received during those years from family, fellow missionaries, and students.

Dates: 1931-1966

Thomas Brady, Sr. collection of conservative materials

 Collection — Multiple collection box [Coll 404] 1: [Barcode: 35025032078889]
Identifier: Coll 404
Abstract

Thomas A. Brady, (1902- ?) was a professor and administrator at the University of Missouri. The collection contains conservative correspondence, pamphlets, and publications sent to Brady by individuals and conservative groups.

Dates: 1940-1962

Herbert C. Thompson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 067
Abstract

American journalist and historian Herbert Cooper Thompson worked as a reported for the Associated Press in England and France during World War I and in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution from 1916 to 1918. From 1924 to 1940, he worked as a writer and observer for the American Red Cross, visiting Cuba, Puerto Rico and Europe. Collection comprises diaries, correspondence, literary manuscripts, and photographs by Thompson.

Dates: 1864-1960

Otto David Tolischus papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 368
Abstract

Otto D. Tolischus was a German immigrant and journalist and is known for his Pulitzer Prize winning coverage of Nazi Germany. Collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, editorials, lectures, scripts, biographical information, memos, and a photograph.

Dates: 1927-1966

United States of America vs. Ernst Von Weizsäcker, et al. records

 Collection
Identifier: Bx 083
Abstract

Trial documents and transcripts relating to United States of America vs. Ernst von Weizsäcker, et al., also known as “The Ministries Trial” or U.S. Military Tribunal IV, Case No. 11, 1948-1949.

Dates: 1948-1949

Vietnam Feature Service records

 Collection
Identifier: Bx 169
Abstract

The Vietnam Feature Service was the propaganda arm of the Joint United States Public Affairs Office that offered their stories gratis to newspapers and magazines in the U.S. The collection (1968-1971) contains feature stories written by Ted J. Bush, and others, regarding life in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

Dates: 1968-1971

Gertrude Bass Warner lantern slides

 Collection
Identifier: PH 014
Abstract

Gertrude Bass Warner (1863–1951) was an Asian art enthusiast, internationalist, and traveler. The collection consists of lantern slides documenting Asian art, culture, religion and architecture before World War II, in China, Japan, Korea and Cambodia. Images of the Warner art objects are also included. Inventory is incomplete.

Dates: 1904-1930

Wartime Posters collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 467
Abstract

This artificial collection comprises propaganda posters and magazine covers, created primarily during World War I and World War II.

Dates: 1914-1953

James Weaver papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 321
Abstract

James Howard "Jim" Weaver (August 8, 1927- ) was a U.S. Congressman for Oregon's 4th congressional district. He served six terms in the House. The collection represents records produced by Weaver and his congressional office during his service as a congressman.

Dates: 1970s-1980s