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0541: Huntington Jaycees Scrapbook, 1945-1946, Marshall University Special Collections
0541: Huntington Jaycees Scrapbook, 1945-1946, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection is composed of a scrapbook created by the Huntington, West Virginia Junior Chamber of Commerce, or Jaycees, in application for the Geissenbier Award, an award of excellence distributed for exemplary community works. The scrapbook features the work conducted by the Jaycees on behalf of the war effort during World War II in Huntington, and includes photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, ephemera, and some hand drawn illustrations for the various areas in which the Jaycees did work.
0118: Jane Adams Dingess Papers, 1906-1976, Marshall University Special Collections
0118: Jane Adams Dingess Papers, 1906-1976, Marshall University Special Collections
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Huntington, West Virginia, clubwoman and educator. Papers consist primarily of scrapbooks of school days at Huntington High School, West Virginia University, and Washington and Lee University; also included are resource materials related to conservation and social studies and items concerning the Junior League, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Colonial Dames, and garden club activities. Photographs of Italy in WWI, papers from the Marshall University plan crash in 1970, extensive newspaper clippings from circ WWII and conservation resource material.
To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Jane Adams Dingess Collection, 1906-1976 here.