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Weaver Family collection, 1942 - 1979, Date accessioned: 2019-03-26

 

Summary

Creator:
Weaver, Ryan
Extent:
2 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Weaver Family collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_19_0003.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Paul Zaccaria and Harry Walters Peters relatives who both served as enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the Pacific Theater of Operations. This collection contains Naval Uniforms from Paul Zaccaria and Harry Walters Peters, as well as Zaccaria's photographs of Nagasaki shortly after the atomic bombs were dropped and Prisoner of War repatriation.

Biographical / historical:

Paul "Sam" Zaccaria was born on September 8, 1923 in Baltimore, MD. The son of Italian immigrants, Zaccaria served on the USS Rutilicus AK-113 during WWII, where he had toured Nagasaki towards the end of the war. After the war, Zaccaria lived in Parkville, MD and owned a service station. He passed away on February 23, 2019

Harry Walters Peters was born July 7, 1925. The son of German immigrants, Peters enlisted into the US Navy at the age of 16 and served on the USS Schuykill A.O.76 until the war's end. He passed away on April 8, 1995.

Custodial history:

Donated by Ryan Weaver, grandson and step-grandson to Harold Peters and Paul Zaccaria respectively.

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

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], Weaver Family collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_19_0003.

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA