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Janis Scogin Pierce And James Lee Pierce Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Miscellaneous collection of memorabilia of Louisiana Tech University alumni over the years.

"The Civil War In Tensas Parish, Louisiana: A Community History", University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Master's thesis concerning the Civil War in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, written by Jeffrey Alan Owens.

John B. Wise Letters, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Letters of a young Confederate soldier in Virginia to his mother and brother in or near Greenwood, Louisiana.

John Bell Hood Photographs, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Photographs of Hood and family.

Margery Kidd Nicholl And Gertrude Mayfield Brown Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials of the Kidd and Mayfield families, early residents of Ruston, Louisiana; contains muster-out roll of Co. F, First Regiment of Louisiana Infantry from Ruston, 1898, and related records, interviews with Gertrude Mayfield Brown related to Brown and to Louisiana Industrial Institute, items regarding Ruston College and Louisiana Industrial Institute.

Martha M. Mccardell Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Historical memorabilia from the donor's student years at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute.

Mary Snelling Duchaney Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials from U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp, Camp Ruston, acquired by donor while working as a camp laboratory technician.

Mckinney Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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"Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," vols. 2, 3-7, 10-12.

Nicola Mattiace Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Material concerning Nicola Mattiace, Italian prisoner of war at Camp Ruston.

Pete Sterling Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Contemporary photographs of ships, planes, and personnel of U.S.S. Task Force Guadalcanal, which captured the German U-505 submarine, whose officers and crew were housed secretly at Camp Ruston. Donor served on U.S.S. Guadalcanal

Plase E. Maxey Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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U.S. Army uniform, sleeping bag, and service records of Winnfield, Louisiana native Sgt. Plase E. Maxey, who entered service at Camp Livingston, Louisiana; was separated at Camp Shelby, Mississippi; and served as an artillery gun crewman in the campaigns of Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno, southern France, the Rhineland, and in central Europe.

Civil Neighbors To Violent Foes: Guerrilla Warfare In Western Virginia During The Civil War, Lauren Michelle Milton

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

“Civil Neighbors to Violent Foes” researches the effect of guerrilla warfare in West Virginia during a national war and statehood movement, and the impact that emotions had on the people of the state. When President Lincoln won the election in 1860, secession was inevitable and war a likely possibility. At the time, West Virginia was still a part of Virginia, but old state political divisions, combined with the current national political divisions, fueled the fire for a new state, separate from Virginia and loyal to the Union. It would take West Virginia two years from the time delegates began holding …

Kline Collection Finding Aid, Casey Bush, Robyn Conroy

Strassler Center Archival Collection Finding Aids

This collection was purchased in 1997 through the generosity of the following donors: Michael J. Leffell ’81 and Lisa Klein Leffell ’82, the Sheftel Family in memory of Milton S. Sheftel ’31, ’32 and the proceeds of the Carole and Michael Friedman Book Fund in honor of Elisabeth “Lisa” Friedman of the Class of 1985

The collection contains books, pamphlets, magazines, guides, journals, newspapers and screenplays related to Jewish history, German history, World War II, and the Holocaust. Of the at least 3,600 volumes, valued at approximately $300,000, 60% are in English, 30% in German, and 10% in other languages …

Camp Ruston Artifacts - American Section, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Artifacts from American section of Camp Ruston.

Ua1c2/6 Barracks Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of the barracks

Ua1c2/71 Schneider Hall Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of Florence Schneider Hall also known Gatton Academy of Mathematics & Science in Kentucky

Ua36/4/1 College Of Education & Behavioral Sciences Military Science Administration, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Correspondence to and from the department of Military Science.

Ua12/2/42 Student Mobilization Committee, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the Student Mobilization Committee.

Ua37/30/4 Faculty Personal Papers Lowell Harrison, Sam Bruer, Bess Mchone, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Personal papers created by and about Lowell Harrison.

Camp Ruston Correspondence, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Correspondence relating to Camp Ruston Documentation Project, a joint project of the Ruston Developmental Center and Louisiana Tech University to document the U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp located near Ruston, Louisiana.

Camp Ruston Literary Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Collection of books from former prisoner of war camp, located in Ruston. Texts primarily in German. All stamped “Censored" PW Camp, Ruston, La. and initialed. Housed in the rare book collection of the Department of University Archives and Special Collections (formerly SCMA).

Gaylord Lincoln Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials related to Camp Ruston.

Gladys Brand Stinson Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials donated by former U.S. Army nurse who worked at Camp Ruston P.O.W. camp.

Helen K. Evans Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Material from U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp Camp Ruston acquired by camp cook Walt Hintz.

Heinz Hennrich Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Items of Heinz Heinnrich, former German P.O.W. at Camp Ruston.

Kellam Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Letters received by members of the Kellam and related families, prominent residents and plantation owners in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana.

Otto Fernholz Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Contemporary identified pfotographs of Camp Ruston buildings, model castles, statues, and of the grave of a German soldier; maps of Camp Ruston annotated by donor, a German former prisoner at Camp Ruston; donor's list of former POWs in Louisiana.

75th Anniversary Of D-Day, Boise Public Library

History

Resources and Photographs of a display of government documents from Boise Public Library, Boise ID.

Israel Shreve Letters, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Correspondence of Colonel Israel Shreve, who served with Washington during the Revolutionary War; provides information on battles, conditions, etc., during the Revolution, including Ticonderoga, Valley Forge, Brandywine.

Joseph J. Corneille Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Photocopied papers of the Joseph J. Corneille family.