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World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, American.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Ethel S. Carpenter papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112448430]
Identifier: 37-5-3756
Scope and content

Photograph album with snapshots and photographs of scenes and people at Cornell in the late 1920s, also scenes of Niagara Falls in the winter; negatives of Cornell, Six Mile Creek, Enfield Glen and other local places; photographs by U.S. Navy photographers and others of naval officers teaching midshipmen, and doing other exercises, 1942-1946. Also miscellaneous items including an Old Gold cigarette advertising letter and two postcards designed by Alexis Romanoff.

Dates: 1929-1946.

Master roster of battalion IV (old B) Cornell University V-12

 Collection — Manuscript box 5 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065267159]
Identifier: 33-4-2455

Maxine Katz Morse scrapbook and memorabilia

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113241362]
Identifier: 37-5-3829
Abstract

Maxine Katz (Class of 1945) chaired the Cornell Victory Chest campaign and the Red Cross student drive in 1942-1943. She was also a member of Alpha Epsilon Phi and an editor of the Cornellian. This collection documents her time at Cornell and contains a scrapbook and assorted memorbilia, primarily from the 1940s.

Dates: 1941-1943.

The fogy

 Collection — Manuscript box 43 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924093406498]
Identifier: 33-4-3644
Scope and content

Yearbook of Class 3-M-45, with photographs and texts about the members of the program.

Dates: 1944.

William D. Knauss photograph album

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113242535]
Identifier: 37-5-3830
Scope and content

Photograph album of a Cornell student, who first saw the Cornell campus when his mother attended her Reunion in 1938. It documents his experiences, with extensive captions, including winter scenes, dorms, the Hobe Young Race, a cross-country race, Phi Delta Theta, and, especially, the Navy V-12 program.

Dates: 1938-1944.