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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

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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

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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

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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

World War II V-Mail Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SC-VML
Abstract

The collection consists of 12 V-mail letters written to and collected by George “Geo” Hennessey between 1943 and 1944. The letters are written to both Geo and his wife, Peg, who were living in Brooklyn, New York at the time. The correspondents include Peg’s brothers Lyle Claussen, Harry Claussen and an undecipherable name that could be “Kermit” Claussen, as well as Imrie Anderson. The letters discuss daily life in the war as well as commentary on news from the homefront.

Dates: 1943-1944
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Harry Wugalter Collection

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Identifier: OCH-HWC
Abstract Harry Wugalter was a United States Marine who served in Northern China from 1945-1947. The collection contains copies of photographs taken by Wugalter during his tour in China, and includes photographs of Marines, Japanese prisoners of war, Allied internees, and local Chinese and Russians who interacted with the troops. Also included is a letter written by Wugalter and published in the China Marine Association's newsletter, Scuttlebutt, about his time in...
Dates: 1945-1994; Majority of material found within 1945-1947
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Ralph J. Wyatt California Missions Lantern Slides

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SC-CMLS
Abstract

The Ralph J. Wyatt California Missions Lantern Slides contains lantern slides of California Missions taken by Pasadena photographer Ralph J. Wyatt, and used as educational aids in Santa Monica City Schools.

Dates: ca. 1920-1953
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

Richard Wyatt Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OCH-RW
Abstract

Richard Wyatt lived in China during the 1930s, and was an active member of the Boy Scouts Association in Shanghai. As part of the Seventh Shanghai Rovers troop, Wyatt became one of the most highly decorated Scouts in Shanghai troop history, earning the highest level of badges available to Scouts at that time. The collection consists of the shirt from Wyatt’s Boy Scout uniform, which also includes the numerous badges and cords awarded to Wyatt.

Dates: circa 1930-1939
Found in: Special Collections & Archives

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