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Samuel Kurlandsky collection, 1942-1945, Date acquired: 2016-05-06, Date accessioned: 2020-05-10

 

Summary

Creator:
Kurlandsky, Samuel
Extent:
1 folders
1 items Violin
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Samuel Kurlandsky collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_16_0011.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection centers around Samuel Kurlandsky, a soldier in the 12th and 15th Army Air Corps units in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations. The collection includes a violin case painted with city and country names and a photograph depicting a soldier assigned to surveying and weather tracking equipment.

Biographical / historical:

Samuel Kurlandsky was born February 28, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois. He served in the 12th and 15th Army Air Corps units as a navigator and meteorologist. After the war, he joined the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, playing violin and viola, and became a lawyer in the state of Michigan. He died in August of 1998.

Custodial history:

This collection was donated by Lawrence Kurlandsky. The collection was acquired by the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience on May 6, 2016.

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.

This collection is in an offsite storage location. Please contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu with requests for access or for more information.

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], Samuel Kurlandsky collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_16_0011.

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