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John E. Fagg Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Personal and professional papers of historian Dr. John E. Fagg.

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.

Marshall Harvey Twitchell Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Papers of a Vermonter who was a Freedman's Bureau agent in old Sparta, Louisiana, and was later the North Louisiana leader of the Radical Republicans and owner of a plantation in Red River Parish.

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

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Papers of the Albery Wasson family.

Graham Family Artifacts, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Artifacts from a prominent North Louisiana family.

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

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Materials concerning Enzo Siena, Italian prisoner of war at Camp Ruston.

G. W. Mcginty - Francis T Nicholls Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Notes on Nicholls by G.W. McGinty; several notes refer to correspondence by Nicholls; collection contains only the notes and quoted passages compiled by McGinty.

Margaret Pesnell Colvin Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Painting by Camp Ruston P.O.W., photographs of prisoners' paintings and of rocking chair constructed by them, and service records of donor's father James F. Pesnell, a member of the American staff at the camp.

C. Wade Mead, "Road To Babylon", University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Typescript of "Road to Babylon" by Louisiana Tech University professor of History, C. Wade Meade, typed by Mrs. Nell Hutchins.

C. Michael Ramsdell Camp Ruston Sound Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Six 78 rpm records from Camp Ruston Library.

Camp Ruston Former P.O.W. Correspondence, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Primarily correspondence between Camp Ruston Foundation President Vince Spione and former prisoners from U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp Camp Ruston, including letters from Otto Fernholz and Hans Stollenwerk, and records and photographs of Franz Stich.

Camp Ruston U-505 Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Booklet and tape about World War II German submarine U-505 housed since 1954 in Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois.

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

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Materials concerning Camp Ruston Symposium, programs correspondence, publicity and records.

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

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Artifacts, journal, correspondence, and drawings of Cesare Puelli, Italian prisoner of war at Camp Ruston, including drawings of scenes of camps Como, Monticello, and Ruston, the tennis racket he used at Camp Ruston, and the journal he kept during his return voyage home.

W.T. Block Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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“The Diary of 1st Sergeant H. N. Connor” edited and annotated by W.T. Block. 1861-1863. 36 pgs.

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

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Audiotape of nine speeches by Harry S Truman and 2 speeches on the death of Truman.

Eulis L. "Joe" Carroll Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Material concerning donor who was a guard in hospital stationed at Camp Ruston (1943-46).

Felix Pierre Poche Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Diary of a young Confederate Army officer kept 1863-1865, including eyewitness account of two 1864 battles in North Louisiana; after the War, Poche an attorney from St. James Parish, Louisiana, was elected a state senator and later an associate judge of the Louisiana Supreme Court.

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

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Materials concerning Franco Montecchi, Italian prisoner of war at Camp Ruston.

Charles L. Tannehill Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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The Rosinbelly, a mimeographed publication created and printed in Urania, Louisiana, for distribution to servicemen from the area.

Camp Ruston National Register Of Historic Places, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Materials concerning application for nomination of U.S. World War II prisoner of war Camp Ruston to the National Register of Historic Places.

James L. Hogan Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Afrika Korps pattern eagle and swastika. This artifact was given to American civilian camp employee, James L. Hogan by German POW Robert Kopriwa. Also, includes a book entitled The Brothers Karamazov written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Random House in 1943.

Joseph J. Corneille Record Book, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Confederate Army soldier and businessman from New Orleans. Most of his military service was spent in St. Tammany and Tangipahoa Parishes and later in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he spent several months ill in a hospital. He rejoined his unit, was captured near Jackson, Mississippi, in July 1863, and was released May 18, 1865.

Mary Simms Hope Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Deed of the sale of slave, Henry, age 13, to Isaac L. Leonard, 1858.

Bessie Mays Mcdonald Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Papers related to Bessie Mays McDonald, 1917 graduate of Louisiana Industrial Institute.

South Union Messenger (Winter 2019), Kentucky Library Research Collections

South Union Messenger

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Front Matter

Adams County History

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Thirty Two Days In The Argonne Offensive, Grover C. Maus

Adams County History

It is manifestly impossible for one man, without access to official records, to write anything like a comprehensive history of the great Meuse-Argonne conflict. So no attempt will be made to write a history, but simply to describe some events, experiences, feelings, and hardships from the standpoint of a personal observer in the hope that they will provide to be typical of the experiences of the average Adams County boy who book part in that battle. [excerpt]

Bringing To Life The Grandfather I Never Knew, Valerie J. Young

Adams County History

My grandfather, Chester Allen Bower, was born in New Oxford, Pennsylvania on August 30, 1894 and died near there in Hanover on December 30, 1939. He was my mother's father, and she was just 12 years old when he died. I never had the chance to meet him.

Chester served in the Great War in the U.S. Army's 79th Division, which took part in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive from September to November 1918. This Offensive was the largest military operation ever undertaken by the U.S. Army at that time and its success led, in part, to the end of the war. …

From Buffalo Soldiers To Redlined Communities: African American Community Building In El Paso's Lincoln Park Neighborhood, Miguel Juárez

Departmental Papers (History)

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