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Black America: Yesterday and Today Images and Booklet
by Carry, Helen Ward; Lathen, Levi (1969)
1 oversize folder (0.1 linear feet)
The Black America: Yesterday and Today Images and Booklet from 1969 includes 20 images and a 40-page booklet. It was originally created to educate children about African American history from before slavery to life as an African American in 1969. It has images for the slave trade, famous African Americans, fighting in the American Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow Laws, integrated armed forces, integrated schools, African American writers, Art by African Americans and "Black is Beautiful" among other images. The booklet explains each image in detail.
Camp Meade Souvenir Folder
by Chessler Company (Baltimore, MD). (circa 1914)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
This souvenir folder from circa 1914 contains 16 photographs that depict men training at Camp Meade, which was located in Pennsylvania and was where many Maryland service members trained for the First World War.
Charles A. Holland, Jr. papers
by Holland, Charles (1940 – 1960)
1 box (0.25 linear feet)
The papers of Charles A. Holland, Jr. document his military service with the United States Army Air Corps, 1941-1945. Mr. Holland’s military activities are documented via issued special orders, certifications, proceeding specifications, pay allowance and photographs. Also included are a series of hand-drawn political cartoons depicting his rank-in-file men and newspaper clippings.
Chinese Comic Booklets
by People's Republic of China (1962 – 2013)
1 box (0.5 linear feet)
These 46 comic booklets tell stories from 20th century Chinese histories and many are illustrated in addition to the Chinese descriptions. The sets include a 30 volume history of the Korean War (2013), 10 volume history of railway guerrillas (1978), one volume on Chiang Kai-shek as an enemy of the people (1962), one volume on Lenin (1970), one volume on the Chinese civil war (1971), one volume on Chinese mine warfare (1972), one volume on the Xi'an Incident (1980), and one undated volume on the tunnel war.
Chinese Posters and Publications
by People's Republic of China (1930 – 1978s)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
This collection includes Chinese posters, comic book adaptations, and children's books printed between the 1930s and 1970s, though primarily in the 1960s and 1970s after the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Included are: five small Chinese Civil War propaganda posters from Jiangxi in the 1930s; a 1962 comic book adaptation of the movie about "The Five Heroes On Langya Mountain;" a 1969 university student's English notebook that contains dictation of stories about Mao Zedong and the Communists; a 1970 comic book adaptation of the movie "Tunnel Battle;" a 1970 children's book entitled "The Little Red Guard;" a 1972 children's book entitled "Two Grenades" about the Vietnam War; and a 1978 comic book adaptation of a movie about Dr. Norman Bethune.
Clifton E. Burding Letters
by Burding, Clifton (1917 – 1919)
9 folders (0.2 linear feet)
These letters were written from Private Clifton E. Burding to his hometown girlfriend (and future wife) Lillian Snailhan of New Bedford, Massachusetts between 1917 and 1919. Burding was with Company G, 61st Infantry and began training at Fort Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts and Camp Green in Charlotte, North Carolina before being sent to France and, later, Camp Merritt in Creskill, New Jersey. Burding wrote frequently to Lillian and provided insight into the daily routine of military camp life, including frequent drilling and marching, practice with weapons and gas masks, trench digging, medical exams and inoculations, quarantines due to measles, and his assigned details as a hospital orderly, kitchen worker, and provost guard.
Clyde Family Letter Collection
by Clyde, Ethel; Clyde, Jane Leslie "Jennie"; Clyde, Leslie M.; Clyde, Robert A. (1916 – 1919)
9 folders (0.1 linear feet)
The Clyde Family Letter Collection documents the lives of Leslie Clyde and Robert A. Clyde as they served in France during the First World War. The letters date from 1916 to 1919 and describe the men's experiences as they trained at Fort Monroe, Virginia and served with the 2nd Trench Mortar Battery, 2nd Division throughout France. Most of the letters were written by Leslie and Robert to their mother, Jane "Jennie" Clyde, and their father, Robert S. Clyde, as well as their younger siblings: Margaret, Alexander "Sander," Jennie, and Marion. While most of the correspondence contains details about daily life, some mention national and worldwide events such as the Spanish influenza epidemic, Daylight Savings Time in the US, prohibition, the Chicago race riot of 1919, unions and the Railroad Brotherhood, and Charlie Chaplin. Some of the letters include racist slurs and sentiments.
Clyde Gilbert Truitt collection
by Truitt, Clyde Gilbert (1916 – 2011)
1 box, 1 folder (0.25 linear feet)
The Clyde Gilbert Truitt collection includes numerous photographs, documents, newspaper clippings, and handwritten information cards detailing Clyde G. Truitt’s military service in World War I. Other local men’s military careers are also included in this collection, but the main focus of the collection is on Clyde Truitt. Information surrounding Clyde’s family is present in the collection. Documents pertaining to Truitt’s family include birth certificates, wedding announcements, report cards, and other genealogical documents. A vast majority of the collection is made up of photographs. Half of the photographs detail Truitt’s military experience, while the other half depict the Truitt family, the Truitt family home, and Clyde’s career with the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company.
Cold War Era Publications
by Various (1961 – 1977)
1 box (0.25 linear feet)
This collection contains several newspaper issues and publications related to Cold War events and their effects in the Delmarva and Mid Atlantic region. Included are a Time-Life publication about setting up the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair, an Office of Civil Defense publication on "Family Shelter Designs," Baltimore Sun issues from 1962 special on "Inside a Titan Missile Base" and "Eastern Shore Space Shot," Philadelphia Inquirer issues from 1961 on the "Crisis in Berlin" and "Rockets and Space," and a Baltimore Sun issue from 1977 about the "Winter of 1977."
Colonel Freeman Bruce Olmstead papers
by Olmstead, Freeman Bruce (1960 – 1976)
1 box, 1 oversize folder (0.5 linear feet)
The Colonel Freeman Bruce Olmstead papers document Colonel Olmstead's imprisonment in the Soviet Union after his RB-47 reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Barents Sea in 1960 and his release in 1961. His papers date from 1960 to 1976 with the majority of papers from 1960 to 1962. This collection includes telegrams and correspondence, records from the United Nations' Security Council, maps, photographs, press conference notes, a copy of The Little Toy Dog, international press releases, magazines, and newspaper clippings. There is also a calendar by Captain Olmstead that he made and hid in his cell that denotes when he sent and received letters from his family.
Cottman Family War Ration Books (Pocomoke City, Maryland)
by United States Office of Public Administration (1943)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
These nine war ration books issued by the United States Office of Public Administration documents the Second World War rationing experience of the Cottman family in Pocomoke City, Maryland in 1943.
Dashiell Family Pension records
by Lemon, George E. (1900s)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
Photocopied record of pensions issued for the Deshields / Dashiell family members who enlisted in the United States Colored Infantry during the Civil War.