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World War, 1939-1945

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

Ernest Herman Hespelt papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 16 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065242582]
Identifier: 3715
Scope and content

Letters from Hermann C. and Margarethe Davidsen to Ernest H. and Miriam V. Hespelt, in German; and letters from the Hespelts, in English. Letters from the Davidsens describe Germany after World War II.



Dates: 1948-1964.

Food and recipe booklets collection

 Collection
Identifier: 8006
Abstract

Booklets relating to food and cooking.

Dates: 1864-1976.

Frank Ernest Gannett papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1900
Abstract

Papers include correspondence, news releases, speeches, scrapbooks, articles, and pamphlets concerning FEG's youth, his student days at Cornell, editorial policies of the Gannett Newspapers and the establishment of the Frank E. Gannett Newspaper Foundation in 1935, temperance and liquor advertising, and newspaper and professional organizations in which FEG was active.

Dates: [ca. 1859]-1958.

Frank Norton Decker papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 335
Scope and content Correspondence, accounts, labor records, deeds, farm leases, articles, speeches, pamphlets, photographs, memoranda, briefs and other legal papers relating to Decker's dairy farm and cattle breeding, and to the New York State dairy industry generally, and specifically the Albany movement, the fight in the New York milkshed against the Dairymen's League, and other dairy issues of the 1920s and 1930s. Political materials include correpondence about Decker's managing the campaign of former...
Dates: 1832-1961,-1920-1961 (bulk)

George Jarvis Thompson papers

 Collection
Identifier: 18-2-1173
Abstract

Collection includes student and professional papers from several schools and travels.

Dates: 1906-1957.

George Peacock papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6735
Scope and content George C. Peacock's letters to his wife, Genevieve, and his son Stephan, date from 1942 when he was stationed in Boston until 1945 when he received his orders to return home. He wrote regularly, discussing life at home and the activities of his family, gifts and pictures received, as well as life in the South Pacific with the Navy. Collection includes correspondence, greeting cards, newspaper articles, war-time poems, Rosters of Naval Officers, a flag raising day program, a newsletter from...
Dates: 1942-1945.

James M. McHugh papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2770
Abstract

Included are military correspondence and intelligence reports, personal correspondence, diaries, including a journal McHugh kept on his trip over the Burma Road (Dec. 1938-Jan. 1939), photographs (ca. 1300 items, many not precisely identified, of wartime figures, and colleagues and friends), manuscripts of articles and books, and printed items.

Dates: 1930-1965.

James T. Duff memorabilia

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924091539597]
Identifier: 37-5-3449
Scope and content

Photographs, yearbook, "Cornell in Pictures," and graduation programs.

Dates: 1944.

John Stanley writings

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065223707]
Identifier: 4307
Scope and content

"Sgt. John Paul Merton: A Short, Elegant, Lonely Life" (1985), typescript biography of the life of Merton, includes information on his student life at Cornell, his friendship with Leonard Miscall and his death during World War II. Also, "The Pigeon, Caged, Drowns" (1987).

Dates: 1985, 1987.

Kramer family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3970
Abstract

Papers include letters written to the Kramer family from Kevin Kramer while in Vienna. Also, pictures, letters, and diaries relating to Jeffrey A. Kramer's service aboard the U.S.S. Nimitz; papers concerning Samuel Kramer's World War II service; and Anne Gudis' and Samuel's war-time correspondence. Also, papers, research materials, notes, clippings, and correspondence relating to the history of the Ithaca Jewish Community.

Dates: 1939-2009.