Bruce Swope Goodyear World War II scrapbook, 1939-1940, Date acquired: 01/10/2017
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Goodyear, Bruce Swope
- Extent:
- 1 folders oversize folder
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Bruce Swope Goodyear World War II Scrapbook, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_17_0001.
Background
- Scope and content:
This collection contains a Treasure Scrap Book with clipped newspaper articles related to the start of World War II and a grade school assignment of a crayon colored map of Europe in 1939 after the start of the war.
- Biographical / historical:
Bruce Swope Goodyear was born July 4, 1928, in Harrisburg, PA. After graduation from high school in 1946, he joined the United States Marine Corps Band, the President's Own, in Washington, D.C. Starting in 1951, Bruce was employed by American Airlines for 42 years, where he worked at Washington National and Dulles International airports, was regional sales manager in Tulsa, OK in the 1970s, and then completed his work with American in their Fort Worth headquarters as manager of advertising and sales promotion, coordinating those activities in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Following retirement in 1993, he and his wife Betty remained in Arlington. He passed away on July 15, 2014. As part of a 6th grade project in 1939, he assembled the scrapbook from war related news.
Note written by Obituary Credit: Jill Goodyear
- Custodial history:
This collection was donated by Jill Goodyear Silver. The collection was acquired by the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience on January 10, 2017.
Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.
- Arrangement:
Creator
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
This collection is open to all researchers.
- Terms of access:
All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
- Preferred citation:
[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Bruce Swope Goodyear World War II Scrapbook, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_17_0001.
- Location of this collection:
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116 Honors WayTallahasseeFL32306-2047USA
