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Robert McGinnis collection, Date accessioned: 2020-09-16, bulk 1939-1945, 2005-2006

 

Summary

Creator:
McGinnis, Robert S., 1935-2011
Extent:
1 folders 1 folder
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Robert McGinnis collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-06-1982

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains a series of stories from The Burman News, a newsletter from Merrill's Marauders Association Inc. This collections contains excerpts of four newsletters ranging from 2005-2006 that detail personal stories of the China Burma India Theater of Operations.

Biographical / historical:

Robert McGinnis was born January 29, 1935. He received his Master of Science degree from Kansas State University and married Virginia Lee Brown on July 7, 1963, in Wichita. He worked as a medical technologist and was a World War II history buff. McGinnis passed away on November 6th, 2011 at age 76. He is buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Augusta, Kansas.

Custodial history:

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], Robert McGinnis collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-06-1982

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