World War, 1939-1945

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Papers of Rutledge (1907-1994), MSU historian and teacher, include materials for her thesis on James A. Lyon and other writings and articles; history class lectures; Mississippi Historical Society materials. Also includes family materials: Will J. Saunders family letters, 1931-1943; materials concerning the World War II activities of Glenn Cowan Rutledge.

Scope and Content Genealogical notebooks concerning the Sessums family (1942, 1949); photographs of I. D. Sessums, Henrietta Kirksey Sessums and others; portrait of Henrietta Kirksey Sessums; funeral broadside (1896), and yearbooks of the Greenwood Leflore Chapter, DAR, Columbus, Mississippi (1967-1968, 1976-1977); DAR certificate of Carrie Battle Palmer Maddux Howard. Also includes collected materials: newspapers concerning the Kennedy assassination and a scrapbook of clippings and other materials concerning...

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This collection contains documents and ephemera removed from the office and personal files of Ulysses S. Grant Association Executive Director Dr. John Y. Simon. These items include orginal documents signed by Presidents of the United States, political ephemera, and personal items related to Dr. Simon's father's service in World War I.

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World War II Navy Notebook.

Scope and Content Materials documenting the life of William Clayton Walker (1919-1995) of Lauderdale, Mississippi. Included are letters and military records of Walker, who served in World War II in the 123rd Infantry, Co. I, the 20th Infantry, Co. H, and the 6th Quartermaster Company. Most of the letters are written to his mother, Mrs. Sallie E. Walker, from U.S. training camps and New Guinea and the Philippines, 1942-1945. Two grade reports and a registration card (1940-1942) document that Walker was a...

Scope and Content Biographical information about Windham (1913-1977), chairman of the Pabst Brewing Company and resident of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Noxubee County, Mississippi; clippings concerning the world premiere of the Pere Marquette Symphony, sponsored by the Father Marquette Tercentenary Commission, which was chaired by Windham. 28 issues of Yank: The Army Weekly (British edition) (1943-1944). Copy of Report by the Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the Operations in Europe of the...

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World War II Ration Books belonging Horace G. Bettersworth.