Marston, Frank Rutherford, Papers, 1914-1931, Date acquired: 08/29/1966
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Marston, Frank Rutherford
- Extent:
- 91.00 items
- Language:
- English
Background
- Scope and content:
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials concerning Lieutenant Marston of Pensacola who was killed in action with the Allied Expeditionary Forces in France, July 1918. Correspondents include Lois Mayes, Frank Allen Patillo, and Duncan Fletcher. Also includes papers concerning naming of American Legion post in Pensacola after Marston and on Mrs. Marston's trip to France to the American cemeteries in 1931. Additional items include materials on the death of Pensacola merchant Frank Marston and glass lantern slides of Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Paraguay, and the Danish West Indies.
Marston Collection is stored in Small Collections; box of glass slides is on shelf by acccession number.
- Acquisition information:
- estate of Frank Marston, August 29, 1966
- Processing information:
Revised 01/03/1991
Revised 12/08/1981
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- American Legion.
World War, 1914-1918--Casualities--United States.
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American.
Patriotic societies--Florida--Pensacola.
Veterans--Florida--Pensacola -- Societies, etc.
Photographs.
Lantern slides. - Names:
- United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces.
Fletcher, Duncan Upshaw, 1859-1936 -- Correspondence.
Mayes, Lois -- Correspondence.
Pattillo, Frank Allen -- Correspondence.
Marston, Mrs. - Places:
- Bolivia--Photographs.
Peru--Photographs.
Paraguay--Photographs.
Venezuela--Photographs.
Virgin Islands of the United States--Photographs.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
Open to researchers, dependent on our compliance with U.S. Copyright Law, HIPPA requirements, donor agreements and other applicable state and federal statutes. Occasionally we may need to review a collection before permitting immediate access.
- Terms of access:
Digital photography, scanning, and photocopying of materials is prohibited. Permission may be granted by the Special Collections Librarian for such reprography dependent on issues of copyright, ownership, condition, donor agreements, etc. In general, staff do not make reproductions of copyright materials or materials for which title is not owned by the institution. Recent revisions in the U.S. Copyright Law extended the copyright of correspondence, letters, and other personal papers to the life of the author plus seventy years.
- Location of this collection:
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University Archives and West Florida History Center11000 University PkwyPensacolaFL32514USA
