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World War, 1939-1945

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

Major General Marion Williamson papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS851
Scope and Content This collection contains Georgia National Guard Annuals; a National Guard register; an army Staff Officer's field manual; a Georgia statistical register; and a United States Army Register of Retired Personnel. There are also awards and certificates that Williamson received during his education, military career, and career in the Georgia Department of Labor. In addition, there are membership and identifications cards from various civic and federal organizations; a certificate to the Georgia...
Dates: 1924-1983, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Major General Marion Williamson papers

Margaret Whitman Lakin papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS14
Scope and Content

This collection contains scrapbooks of newsclippings and memorobilia of Atlanta.

Dates: 1919-1955
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Margaret Whitman Lakin papers

Private Albert T. Davie photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS45
Scope and Content The collection contains one scrapbook documenting the military service of Private Albert Thomas Davie and one panoramic image. Most of the images are personal photographs of members of the military serving with Davie, as well as snapshots of him taken by others. All are either unidentified or identified with only a first name. Interspersed in the scrapbook are images of the family of Davie, presumably sent to him while he was in service. The panoramic image consists of a large unidentified...
Dates: approximately 1949-1952
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Private Albert T. Davie photographs

Reginald Earle Looker papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS691f
Scope and Content This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Reginald Earle Looker. The bulk of the personal papers pertains to R. E. Looker "Look" and Antonina "Nina", and includes correspondence between family, friends, and colleagues in the publishing industry. The personal papers also contain items from R. E. Looker's memorial service in 1976 and newspaper clippings from British newspapers collected in 1967 during Looker and Antonina's six-month stay in England....
Dates: 1928-1980
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Reginald Earle Looker papers

Roan family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1202
Scope and Contents This collection contains documents created and collected by the Roan family. Materials include school documents from various Atlanta and DeKalb institutions; work papers from Judge Roan and Tattie Mae Roan; military and travel papers from Charles Roan; and music and theater programs. The bulk of the material is contained within three scrapbooks, primarily consisting of news clippings, but also including photographs and other ephemera. One of the scrapbooks documents Margaret Zattau Roan's...
Dates: 1913-1971, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Roan family papers

Robert Carr war correspondence

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS756f
Scope and Content This collection primarily contains letters from Robert Carr to his sister, Virginia (1844-1927), and his mother, Sarah. The letters document his time in the Battery F, First Ohio Light Artillery, including a firsthand account of his involvement in Civil War engagements such as the Battle of Shiloh and the United States Army’s capture of John Hunt Morgan. The collection also contains letter from Ripley, Ohio during World War II. The soldier mentioned in the letter is presumably a descendant...
Dates: 1861-1876, 1943, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Robert Carr war correspondence

Robert E. Campbell papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1237
Scope and Contents The Robert E. Campbell papers consist of military documents, travel articles about Europe, family papers, publications, National Bank of Georgia documents, newspaper articles, and copies of the Georgia State University newspaper Georgia State Signal. Newspapers document the women's suffrage movement, John F. Kennedy's assassination, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's death, the first moon landing, and the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks. Records from...
Dates: 1915-2005, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Robert E. Campbell papers

Roy William Wallace, Jr. papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS844
Scope and Content The collection contains material pertaining to the cases in which Wallace served as judge advocate (trial correspondence and proceedings), materials relating to Wallace's Marine service, including payrolls, notice of relief from active duty, home address roster of staff officers, Marine dance invitation, etc., drafts of the historical monograph, The New Britain Campaign, personal items relating to business, notes on the trials at which he served, letters to...
Dates: 1922-1952, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Roy William Wallace, Jr. papers

Rupert Davol papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS739f
Scope and Content

This collection contains materials related to the World War II military service of Rupert Raydon Davol. The bulk of the collection is comprised of letters written by Davol to his family during wartime, updating them on his condition and well-being. The collection also includes newspaper clippings reporting Davol's wartime injuries, the awarding of the Bronze Star Medal upon return home, and his death. Davol's military registration card is also included.

Dates: 1940-1988, undated; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1945
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Rupert Davol papers

Samuel Russell and Julia Colquitt Bridges papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1165
Scope and Content

This collection contains genealogy records, letters, programs, and newspaper clippings about the Bridges family, primarily Samuel Russell, Jr. Included are the military papers of Samuel Russell Bridges from World War II. Of particular note is Mrs. Bridges' guest book which was signed by President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924).

Dates: 1907-1991, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Samuel Russell and Julia Colquitt Bridges papers

Samuel Venable Mason letters

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS454f
Scope and Content

This collection contains letters from Mason to his mother and describe his military activities and surroundings. Other correspondents include Elizabeth Venable Mason, and Ensign Richard Barksdale Harwell. The collection also contains a poem about the 361st Regiment.

Dates: 1944-1945
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Samuel Venable Mason letters

Series III: Personal and business papers, 1889-1993, undated

 Series
Scope and Contents This series contains materials compiled by Harvey Smith Jr. about his personal and professional life. Included are certificates, correspondence, personal and professional financial records, invitations, papers from his service in the united States Marine Corps before and after World War II, and educational records. Additionally there are plays, poems, article clippings, event programs, donation records, real estate deeds, unfinished memoirs, and personal inventories. The series also contains...
Dates: 1889-1993, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / ahc.MSS576, Harvey Smith Jr. papers

U.S.S. Atlanta bond subscribers signatures

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS527f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a ledger of signatures of bond subscribers for the U.S.S. Atlanta (CL- 104) in 1943.

Dates: 1943
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / U.S.S. Atlanta bond subscribers signatures

Walter G. Paschall documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS435f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a telegram requesting permission to include Seargeant Paschall in the welcome home celebration for European veterans to be broadcast over WSB; a wedding invitation for Paschall and his fiancee Eliza King; poetry; and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1945, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Walter G. Paschall documents

William A. Manley World War II scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS869f
Scope and Content This collection contains a scrapbook complied by William A. Manley's father, George T. Manley, in remembrance of his son. It contains letters from William to his mother and his aunt Burnette "Birdie" Manley Fox (1900-?), as well as three letters that George Manley wrote to his son. Topics of the letters include everyday life and concern for William's safety. Newspaper clippings reporting William as missing in action are also included. Of particular note are letters expressing sympathy after...
Dates: 1943-1944, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / William A. Manley World War II scrapbook

William H. Trimble papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS249
Scope and Content This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, financial records, and class notes. Correspondence with family members includes letters from his mother, Lina; his wife, Grace; and his sister, Florence. The letters date 1910-1945 and include his school years through his military service in North Africa during World War II. There are newspaper clippings on topics such as his childhood in rural Hogansville, Georgia; novelist Corra Harris and her home in Bartow County, Georgia;...
Dates: 1909-1945, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / William H. Trimble papers

William L. Funkhouser, Jr. papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS47
Scope and Content

These papers consist of correspondence and military service records of William L. Funkhouser of Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1899-1945, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / William L. Funkhouser, Jr. papers

Willis Menefee Timmons, Jr. papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS352f
Scope and Content

This collection contains postcards, newspaper clippings, and publications.

Dates: 1860-1958, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Willis Menefee Timmons, Jr. papers

World War II memorabilia

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS598f
Scope and Content

This collection consist of seven patriotic envelopes and two editions of Guinea Gold, Australian Edition dating May 16, 1945 and August 10, 1945. The two papers were newspapers for soldiers in camp. Six of the seven envelopes were mailed to Edward V. Sachtleben of Newark, New Jersey.

Dates: 1943-1945
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / World War II memorabilia

WRFG records of the Living Atlanta oral history project

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS637
Scope and Content The bulk of this collection consists of tape recorded interviews of Atlantans used to create fifty programs titledLiving Atlanta: Atlanta Life from World War I through World War II, and the programs themselves, which aired on WRFG Radio in Atlanta, Georgia. The programs were composed of excerpts from the interviews connected by music and explanatory narration. During the course of the project, hundreds of Atlantans were interviewed, resulting in approximately...
Dates: 1977-1980, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / WRFG records of the Living Atlanta oral history project