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Ethel Wohlfert Scrapbook Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-EWS
Abstract
The Ethel Wohlfert Scrapbook Collection consists mostly of correspondence, with some additional news clippings and ephemera from 1938 to 1945. A majority of the correspondence is from Wohlfert’s brother-in-law, Albert Wohlfert, who was a sergeant in the United States Air Force stationed at Hickam Field in Honolulu, Hawaii, before being sent to Europe during World War II.
Dates:
1938-1945
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the District of Columbia Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
Collection — Box: 1, Item: 1
Identifier: SC-WCTU
Abstract
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the District of Columbia Executive Committee Meeting Minutes is a handwritten book of meeting minutes from the Executive Committee. Mrs. Emma Sanford Shelton was the president of this Chapter during the period recorded. The book contains meeting minutes of the Executive Committee and documents the chapter’s annual and quarterly conventions. Topics include chapter resolutions, prohibition, committee reports, event planning and other administrative...
Dates:
1911-1915
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Women Composers Music Manuscripts Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-WCMM
Abstract
This collection includes music manuscripts for works composed by women, including Emma Lou Diemer, Cynthia Clark Brown, Melanie Newton Williams, Catherine Parsons Smith, Therese Radic, and Victoria Twigg.
Dates:
1981-1985
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Women on the Waterfront Oral History Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: URB-WOWOH
Abstract
The oral history interviews of female ILWU members were conducted between the years 1993 and 1997 as part of the ILWU, Local 13 "Women on the Waterfront" Oral History Project. They were conducted as a continuation of the ILWU Oral History Project which documented the stories of the union's workforce who labored on the docks of the Southern California Waterfront between the 1930s and 1960s. After the "1982 Golden et al. Consent Decree" more and more women came to work on the West Coast docks....
Dates:
1992-2005; Majority of material found within 1992-1997
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Women's Suffrage Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-WSU
Abstract
The Women's Suffrage Collection consists of pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera documenting debates and events surrounding the late 19th- and early 20th-century women's suffrage movement in the United States. It includes materials arguing both in favor of and against the enfranchisement of women, especially prints of some of Elihu Root's anti-suffrage speeches; two racist, anti-suffrage broadsides from the Brown Printing Company of Montgomery, Alabama; broadsides opposing Woodrow Wilson's...
Dates:
circa 1880-1917
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
Raymund F. Wood Iskandar al-Magribi and the Memoirs of Cherif Soliman Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-RFW
Abstract
The collection consists of drafts of Iskandar al-Magribi and the Memoirs of Cherif Soliman, correspondence related to research and publication, and administrative records. It includes a Spanish translation of El Rosal de Las Rosas de Purpura and a photocopy of the French translation from the Arabic of Le Divan d'Amour du Cherif Soliman.
Dates:
1965-1994
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
World War II Joke and Humor Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-WWJH
Abstract
The World War II Joke and Humor Collection consists of jokes, poems, rhymes, letters, cartoons, and other humorous materials read by and exchanged between soldiers serving in World War II. Common topics are sex, women, military life, commanding officers, and Hitler. Most items are hand-written, though some possibly copied out of magazines and other publications as there are multiple copies in different hands. A few items are type written, or small pamphlet...
Dates:
ca. 1941-ca. 1945
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
World War II Rationing Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-WWR
Abstract
In 1942, the U.S. government’s Office of Price Administration (OPA) established a system of rationing intended to control supply and demand by regulating the amount of consumer goods available to Americans. Each American citizen was issued a series of ration books which contained removable stamps specific to particular items or types of items, with a designated quantity and time limit for purchase. This assembled collection consists of War Ration Books 1, 2, and 4 issued in the states of...
Dates:
1942-1967
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
World War II Soldier Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: SC-WWSP
Abstract
The World War II Soldier Photograph Album documents the non-combat life of an unidentified soldier. Most images feature fellow soldiers and include handwritten notes on the front and back of some of the photos. The photo album includes snapshots of nurses, men eating and drinking in dining halls, soldiers’ living quarters, an outdoor performance space, and more. The photo album also included a loose newspaper clipping titled “Eddie M. Norton of Milstead reports the following address” with a...
Dates:
ca. 1939-1945
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives
World War II Survivors Oral History Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: URB-WWSOH
Abstract
The World War II Survivors Oral History Project includes 29 oral history interviews with individuals who lived in Europe during World War II.
Dates:
2001
Found in:
Special Collections & Archives