Search

This folder contains a letters from Laura Julia Chapman to Albert Fuhrman on January 6, 1942 where she describes her experiences teaching social studies to 7th graders, defense measures taken to protect the region, enrollement in a first aid class, cigarette habit, views on books and motions pictures, and sketches of some of her students, including one who has developed head lice. The envelope covers in the folder indicate her fiance was deployed on the USS USS Sturgeon. The folder also contains a number of published cartoons clipped from trade magazines that Chapman sent to Fuhrman.

This folder contains letters sent from Kass to his sister Rose, his nephew Robert, and his parents. The folder also contains some of Rose's responses. The letters describe life on the bases including basic training, chores, health services, wartime procedures in training and leave, and the town of Macon. This folder also contains a souvenir card booklet from Macon, Georgia, and two postcards.

This folder includes letters from Laura Julia Chapman to Albert Fuhrman from March 1942 where she discusses war news, talking golf lessons, and work as a teacher including an incident where the Superintendent of Schools witnessing several of her women colleagues smoking cigarettes in public. In a letter dated March 16, 1943 contained in this folder, Chapman writes of an incident regarding a "masher" who waited on her at a Chinese restaurant and also an incident in her classroom related to the behavior of a Mexican student. This folder also contains a number of published cartoons clipped out from trade magazines that Chapman sent to Fuhrman.