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Items with subject 'Ration Books'
Freeny Family papers
by Freeny, Lula Belle; Freeny, Susan "Addie" W. (1889 – 1970)
1 box (0.5 linear feet)
The Freeny family papers document the life of Lula Belle Freeny and the life accomplishments of her many family members and friends including Susan “Addie” Freeny, Munsey White, and Bessie Luffman in Hebron, Wicomico County, Maryland, 1889-1970 with the bulk of the material dating from 1908-1948. Personal and professional activities of their lives are documented through a series correspondences, military documents, education materials, photographs, and various other booklets that the family had acquired over the years.
Levin and Alys Handy ration book
by Handy, Alys; Handy, Levin (1944)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
The Levin and Alys Handy ration book documents a couple in their fifties rationing during World War II in Salisbury, Maryland. Documenting materials include the ration book (1944) and photocopies of the pages.
Rebecca Lee Larmore papers
by Larmore, Rebecca Lee (1930 – 1944)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
This collection documents the childhood of a Tyaskin, Maryland girl, Rebecca Lee Larmore (later Griffith), from 1930 to 1944. Included are Sharptown and Hebron Elementary and High School report cards from 1930 to 1940 (grade 2 through high school) and a ration book holder with an advertisement for Cook's Cab Service. The rations were issued to the Jones and Larmore family members who lived at the Turnstile Farm in Tyaskin near Coxs Corner in 1944: Irving C Jones, Martha Ellen Powell Jones, Ethel Jones Larmore, Lloyd Lennox Larmore, and Rebecca Lee Larmore. Included are notes from the donor (Rebecca Lee Larmore's daughter), Lee Ellen Griffith.
Robert E. Dewlin papers
by Dewlin, Robert E. (1943 – 1945)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
The papers of Robert E. Dewlin include a series of notices sent to him in Baltimore and Cambridge, Maryland including his selective service notice and classification as well as ration books for food and gasoline.
World War II Ration Books
by Unknown (circa 1943)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
The World War II Ration Books Collection contains two World War II ration books originally belonging to Fannie White.