Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Military History (8)
- European History (6)
- Social History (6)
- Cultural History (3)
- Asian History (1)
-
- Asian Studies (1)
- Christian Denominations and Sects (1)
- East Asian Languages and Societies (1)
- History of Religion (1)
- International and Area Studies (1)
- Japanese Studies (1)
- Jewish Studies (1)
- Military and Veterans Studies (1)
- Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration (1)
- Public History (1)
- Religion (1)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (1)
- Women's History (1)
- Keyword
-
- War Correspondence (6)
- Second World War (5)
- WWII (5)
- World War II (5)
- Gettysburg College (3)
-
- Civil War (2)
- 105th Sanitary Train (1)
- 130th Field Ambulance (1)
- 14th Wisconsin (1)
- 1968-72 (1)
- 30th Division Field Hospital (1)
- 30th Field Artillery (1)
- 55th Quartermaster Depot (1)
- 72nd New York Infantry (1)
- 76th Infantry Division (1)
- 95th Illinois (1)
- Battle of Malvern Hill (1)
- Battle of Nashville (1)
- Bronze Star (1)
- Civil War Correspondence (1)
- Civil War Diary (1)
- Dickinson Law School (1)
- Excelsior Brigade (1)
- First English Lutheran Church (1)
- First World War (1)
- Gettysburg Theological Seminary (1)
- Holocaust (1)
- Japanese Soldiers (1)
- Jewish soldiers (1)
- Kamikaze Pilots (1)
Articles 1 - 10 of 10
Full-Text Articles in Oral History
Ms – 217: The Lois Davis Hely Papers, Class Of 1972, Devin Mckinney
Ms – 217: The Lois Davis Hely Papers, Class Of 1972, Devin Mckinney
All Finding Aids
This collection contains materials from Lois Davis Hely’s life during and after Gettysburg College, representing her athletic, academic, and political activities. Materials are grouped by type into seven series: I. Correspondence; II. Publications; III. Images; IV. Ephemera; V. Documents; VI. Artifacts; and VII. Oversize Items. Each series is divided by subseries into “Gettysburg-era” and “post-Gettysburg” items.
Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found …
Ms-173: Leo Jarboe Papers, Abby M. Rolland
Ms-173: Leo Jarboe Papers, Abby M. Rolland
All Finding Aids
This collection consists of many, diverse documents, in both English and Japanese, about the USS Callaghan (DD-792) and other ships, newspaper articles, letters, recollections, and other personal items from Kaoru Hasegawa and Leo Jarboe, reunion and exchange program information, material about the second USS Callaghan (DDG-994), images, and veterans information.
Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our website https://www.gettysburg.edu/special-collections/collections/.
Ms-130: World War I Letters Of Henry W. Straus, Devin Mckinney
Ms-130: World War I Letters Of Henry W. Straus, Devin Mckinney
All Finding Aids
This collection comprises 48 letters from Henry W. Straus to his wife Anna. They were written between June 1918 and March 1919, when Henry, as a U.S. Army medical officer, was serving a British ambulance corps in France. Throughout the letters, Straus addresses his wife with great tenderness and yearning, anticipating their reunion and post-war life. He also displays a progressive attitude with respect to women’s independence, abilities, and right to do useful work.
Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information …
Ms-123: Robert D. Hanson Papers, Meghan E. Kelly
Ms-123: Robert D. Hanson Papers, Meghan E. Kelly
All Finding Aids
This collection is mainly comprised of letters and telegrams of the immediate Hanson family during WWII (1942-1946, with gaps), though there is a selection of letters to members of the family from other authors and a small group of letters written from 1904-1924 to Elizabeth and Henry Hanson from Elizabeth’s parents F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) and L. T. ( Laura Trimble) Painter. In the sub-series of other letters addressed to Robert Hanson there are several letters pertaining to Robert’s admission to law school, the bar, and the army in addition to personal correspondence.
Special Collections and College Archives …
Ms-120: Naviglia-Woncheck World War Ii Letters Home: A Family Separated By War, G. Ronald Couchman
Ms-120: Naviglia-Woncheck World War Ii Letters Home: A Family Separated By War, G. Ronald Couchman
All Finding Aids
The collection consists of 31 letters or postcards by service men to loved ones at home. Nearly all of the letters are from members of the Naviglia-Woncheck extended family including the four Naviglia brothers: Louis (14 letters), John (one letter), James (one letter), Joseph (7 letters), and “Check” Woncheck (5 letters) the brother-in-law of their sister Anne. The collection also includes one letter from PFC James Faulkner to his sister and one letter from Pvt. David R. Curry to his cousin, Frances Faulkner, a card address to Ford Peters, a war ration book, a Draft Classification Notice for William Thomas …
Ms-116: 1864 Diary Of Corporal Robert Ridge, Thomas P. Lester
Ms-116: 1864 Diary Of Corporal Robert Ridge, Thomas P. Lester
All Finding Aids
The diary contains information on the activities of Robert Ridge during 1864, and the first two months of 1865. It contains daily entries, list of proverbs, important events and dates, mail sent, mail received, members of Company B 95th Illinois Volunteers, money sent home, clothing acquired, addresses, rations, and Army Corps commanders.
Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our website https://www.gettysburg.edu/special-collections/collections/ …
Ms-117: Papers Of George H. Sweet Jr. ’42, Elizabeth M. Ungemach
Ms-117: Papers Of George H. Sweet Jr. ’42, Elizabeth M. Ungemach
All Finding Aids
This collection gives insight into the pre- and inter-wartime life of George H. Sweet Jr. ’42 as a member and captain of L.S.T. 358 in the Mediterranean. It also provides general information about World War II in the Mediterranean and L.S.T.s. It further gives a glimpse of the experiences of Donald Sweet ’49 as an aircrewman in the Pacific theater, specifically about life and important happenings during the invasion of Okinawa in 1945.
Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about …
Ms-106: J.G. Morris & Morris-Hay Family Diaries, Kate Boeree
Ms-106: J.G. Morris & Morris-Hay Family Diaries, Kate Boeree
All Finding Aids
This collection contains 10 diaries ranging from 1827 to 1890, two of which are written by John Gottleib Morris and eight by M.A. Hay. These diaries contain church membership and donation records as well as Morris' personal thoughts on the ministerial profession, and his duty to the church. He speaks on personal matters like his marriage and his children who have died. One diary also includes his note on the formation of the Lutherville Female College.
Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and …
Ms-105: John L. Barry Civil War Letters, Kate Boeree
Ms-105: John L. Barry Civil War Letters, Kate Boeree
All Finding Aids
This collection contains 47 letters, 37 of which are written by John L. Barry during his time in the Civil War between 20 June 1861 and 7 June 1862. The letters are written to his family in Dunkirk, New York, addressing his mother, father, sister Ellen, and brother Robert.
Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our website https://www.gettysburg.edu/special-collections/collections/.
Ms-104: World War Ii Letters From Carl G. Ohmer And Richard E. Ohmer, Kate Boeree
Ms-104: World War Ii Letters From Carl G. Ohmer And Richard E. Ohmer, Kate Boeree
All Finding Aids
This collection contains 109 letters written by soldiers in World War II. 98 of these are letters are addressed to the Ohmer family in Girard, PA from their sons, Carl and Richard, as well as a friend of the family, Ray O’Connor. 11 of the letters are addressed to Georgia Hitchcock in New York, NY from John V. Starr, as well as one letter signed “Don,” with no other distinguishing factors of his identity. All letters include their original envelope.
Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding …