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0846: Earl F. Dickinson Papers, 1942-2009, Marshall University Special Collections
0846: Earl F. Dickinson Papers, 1942-2009, Marshall University Special Collections
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This collection contains photographs and papers related to Earl F. Dickinson’s personal life and time in the United States Marine Corps (USMC). The bulk of the collection relates to Dickinson’s service in WWII and includes combat photographs, portraits and group photos, certificates, and military records. Personal materials include a 1938 Marshall Commencement booklet, family photographs, a birth and death certificate, newspaper clippings, and a brief personal recollections about Dickinson. Also included are artifacts such as USMC pins and a stone taken from Mount Suribachi.
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Part 1: Building Ship No. 290, Jack L. Dickinson
Part 1: Building Ship No. 290, Jack L. Dickinson
C.S.S. Alabama: An Illustrated History
Classified as a bark-rigged sloop-of-war known as “hull 290,” built by Laird Shipbuilders in England, launched 15 May 1862.
0134: Clendenning Family Papers, 1850-1955, Marshall University Special Collections
0134: Clendenning Family Papers, 1850-1955, Marshall University Special Collections
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The collection consists primarily of two groups of letters. The first group were written by Arminda Holiday Clendenning of Freeport, Harrison County, Ohio, to her sister Ann Holliday Winder of Iowa, from 1850 until 1867. She writes of local and family news, life in the country, and later, as a young married woman, of her family and her husband’s business. Several letters mention travels and migrations of family and friends to the West.
The second group of letters were written by Robert Joseph Clendenning, grandson of Arminda Clendenning, to his family during the FirstWorld War. He describes his life in …
0080: Hancock-Wilson-Baise Papers, 1887-1950, Marshall University Special Collections
0080: Hancock-Wilson-Baise Papers, 1887-1950, Marshall University Special Collections
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Correspondence of Proctorville, Ohio, and Huntington, West Virginia, families, including letters written during the first and second world wars. Also receipts, newspaper clippings, grade reports, and other personal papers.
0102: Lorene Enochs Dunlap Papers, 1917-1971, Marshall University Special Collections
0102: Lorene Enochs Dunlap Papers, 1917-1971, Marshall University Special Collections
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Scrapbooks and photographs of Cabell County, West Virginia, family from near Milton; bulk of correspondence dates from the First World War and 1935-1945.
0053: John Gibson Papers, 1842-1887, Marshall University Special Collections
0053: John Gibson Papers, 1842-1887, Marshall University Special Collections
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Description of a tour of Karlee Cave in India in 1842; letters from a British soldier stationed in India in 1843 and from Grover Cleveland thanking Mr. Gibson for the gift of a paperweight (1887).
0054: Aleshire Family Papers, 1862-1889, Marshall University Special Collections
0054: Aleshire Family Papers, 1862-1889, Marshall University Special Collections
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The Aleshire Family Papers consist mainly of correspondence dating from 1863 to 1888. Many of the letters are written by various members of the family to Joseph Aleshire as he traveled the Midwest, buying wheat for the family flour mill. Most of these letters concern fluctuations of the wheat market and other business matters.
There are a number of letters from Mary Aleshire to her parents and brothers, dating from 1863 to 1878. These describe her life at college in Cincinnati, and later, upon her return to Gallipolis, her involvement with social and family matters.
The letters from Charles Aleshire …