Box Small Collections Box 41
Contains 8 Results:
Folder 1: Booklets, 1944-1945
Collection, 1844-1847
Photographs, 1901, undated
Photograph of "John's Memorial Choir" Farmville [Virginia] dated 1901 and sent to an unknown person by Walter B. Capers, "friend and former rector." Photograph of a wedding party on the steps of a house or hotel with sign, "Sandybrooke." over the porch, undated. Photographs are glued on crumbling black cardboard, but copies of each are also included. Names of wedding party on back of cardboard, but mostly illegible.
Correspondence, 1947-1953
Correspondence, 1947-1952, written by Hattie Sneyley of Crowborough, Sussex in England to Miss Doris Hastings Baxter, Riverdale, on Hudson, New York. The letters describe life in England just after the end of World War II. Some of the topics discussed in the letters include rationing, food shortages, variuos austerity measures, and social changes as a result of the war.
Papers, 1945-1946
Papers of "U.S.S. Attala" with W.S.G. Davis the Commanding Officer. Appear to be stationed in or near Pearl Harbor. Contains memos with commands, usually signed by N. M. Brown, Lieutenant of the United States Navy Reserve, newsletter entitled "The Attala X-Ray," and "Plan of the Day" for days in 1945-1946. Includes typed carbon copy of August 11, 1945 notice received from WVTK Armed Services Radio Station Leyte, Philippines about the terms of the Japanese surrender proposal.
Papers, 1940-1981
Ledger, 1869-1870
Ledger, 1869-1870 recording expenses of the U.S. Navy shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. Entered are payments to bricklayers, machinists, coppersmiths and pattern makers, which are signed twice a month by George Thompson, Quartermaster, and witnessed by Charles Brian, Mate, U.S. N[avy].
Note: The location of the Portsmouth naval yard was provided by the seller and has not been verified at this point.