This collection relates to Jean Crosby Olsen who served as an American Red Cross worker during and after World War II. This collection consists mostly of photographs taken by Olsen, personal artifacts from her deployments in France, Japan, and Guam (mainly pamphlets and booklets), as well as two nurses' caps, various Red Cross pins, and official I.D. card. This collection, in particular, reveals much about immediate post-war life in France and Japan, as well as an insight into China in the last year of Nationalist rule.
The collection contains a 113-page manuscript, "Eleven Who Served: Narratives and Letters from World War II." The manuscript's author, Jean Finley Maynard, interviewed 11 servicemen and transcribed, edited, and compiled their accounts. Also included in the manuscript are the extensive letters she received while in correspondence with William Muddinan, an officer in the US Marines serving in the Pacific. The interviews include members from the Army, Air Corps, Navy, and Merchant Marines. They cover a variety of topics, from training and camp life to combat, postwar experiences, recreation, etc. The manuscript includes some photographs of the men interviewed.
This family collection relates to three relatives who served during World War II: Rollin Lewis Gibbs, Jr. who served with the U.S. Navy as a Storekeeper 2nd Class; Helen Jean Brickley who served with the United States Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve) as a Lieutenant Commander; and Frank Brickley who served with the United States Marine Corps as a Technical Sergeant. The collection includes photographs, certificates, documents, and artifacts.
Publications, translations, photographs, and correspondence created and collected by Katherine Allen Clarke, documenting her research on French author and poet Jean Giono, including: translations by Clarke of selected Giono works; a 120 page interview of Giono by Clarke; 3 letters by Giono to Clarke, in French; 1 telegram to "Mlle. Clarke"; a poem; 40 post cards with views of France; 67 Kodak pictures of Giono, his family, his friends and his home town of Manosque, and the wedding of Sylvie Giono and Gerard Durbet.
This collection contains several Florida State University publications, including the performance program from the first ever Flying High Circus performance run on May 1st through 6th, 1948, following their first preview performance on February 12, 1948.
This oral history interview transcript relates to Jean Krauklin who served in the USO United Service Organization and the Office of Price Administration (OPA) during World War II.
Wood-bound scrapbook of F-Club induction, year 1957-1958.
The Collection of Jean M. Colby covers her military service from March 1943, when she joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC); she reenlisted when it became the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in July 1943 and served until sometime in 1946. Afterwards, she continued her service with the Air Force until she retired in 1974. She trained at the first WAAC Training Center at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa and then was stationed at Hammer Field near Fresno, California with WAC Company G, a detachment assigned to the Army Air Corps. In the summer of 1945, she was sent to Ft. Lewis, the Ninth Service Command, as a part of WAC Company G, later Company E. Sgt. Colby served as a postal supervisor, Postal Section, War Department Personnel Center (WDPC). Sometime in 1946, she was sent to Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base, also in California. Colby was born 14 September 1921 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The majority of original materials are comprised of black and white photos from three scrapbooks covering her years of service 1943-1946 (? some items not dated, may be later years). Military documents are mostly photocopies because Colby donated the originals to Women in Military Service to America (WIMSA) memorial in D.C. Original scrapbooks in Oversize Box 07.0035; photocopies in Gen. Coll: Full Box. Scrapbook # 1 contains items from prior to and through her basic training at Ft. Des Moines: photos of Waacs, barracks; news clippings; ephemera; a list of supplies recruits are to bring with them; a short manuscript, (a copy of which is in a folder "manuscript) describes First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's trip to Minneapolis for an induction ceremony for Colby and about one hundred other women enlisting with the WAAC. Scrapbook # 2 covers her years as an Air Wac (Squadron W ?) at Hammer Air Field, California, June 1943-August 1945 where she was assigned to postal duties; she was in charge of the Dispatch and Distribution Department. In addition to photos of Waacs and Wacs (enlisted and officers), barracks, mess hall, recreation, parties, and comedian Harpo Marx, KP duty, there are: a program "A Salute to the Air Wacs" on 12 December 1943; news clippings; articles from newsletter *Air Wac;" articles on the mail service (with photo of Colby); cartoons; songs; and so forth. [Also, see beginning of scrapbook # 3]. Scrapbook # 3 covers Colby's transfer, in summer 1945, to Fort Lewis, near Tacoma, Washington and Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base, California [NOTE: at beginning of scrapbook there are a few military documents regarding Hammer Field]. As a postal supervisor, she assisted with discharging troops from the Pacific Theater (Ft. Lewis was a Separation Center). Photos include a visit from General Eisenhower, 20 February 1946; photos of Postal Section WDPC with Colby and co-workers (Wacs, at least one serviceman, and an ex-GI) and the "mail truck;" scenes around the post, including Wacs, barracks and other building; recreational trip; pets;. Also, news clippings including one regarding a visit by WAC director, Col. Westray Battle Boyce and others celebrating the fourth anniversary of the WAC; the Servicewomen's Center in Fresno, California; cartoons, military documents, poems, songs, greeting cards, and so Monday, January 08, 2018 Page 625 of 1151 forth. Newsletters from Hammer Field include "The Bomb-Bay" and the "Night Hawk"; One issue of "AirWac;" Books include "Sad Sack" by Sgt. George Baker with personal inscriptions throughout. Some of the topics covered by pamphlets include: Hammer Field; Ft. Lewis; Fresno, California; Pi Chi Sigma, WAF Protestant Chapel; "65 Questions and Answers about WACS in the Army Air Forces." Also, see separate table for various medals and other artifacts. She retired after thirty years of service (where she was most notably the first WAF Sgt.) at the rank of SMSGT. In addition to donating items from her period of service, she has encouraged other women to donate their memorabilia. In some cases, women have sent her items, news clippings, and so forth to her and she has passed those on to the Institute. Includes clippings of women serving in post-Cold War US Army.
Draft Manuscript of Back Country, published New York, Pageant Press [c1958]