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World War II Scrapbooks, 1941-1942 (K1245)
1 c.f.

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Scrapbooks of clippings from Kansas City newspapers.

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World War II Veteran Survey Records, 1942-1995 (S0647)
2 cubic feet, 97 folders

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In 1985, Vice-Chancellor Blanche Touhill asked Dr. Jerry Cooper, professor of military history at the University of Missouri-St. Louis to preserve the memories of World War II veterans. Dr. Cooper conducted the survey in 1988, with the help of a newspaper column by Harry Levins of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Cooper received 83 responses to the survey and additional material from veterans and families. The collection consists of the administrative files of the project and the surveys.

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World War II Veteran's Survey Correspondence, 1991-1994 (S0761)
0.7 cubic foot, 13 folders, 2 photographs, 1 cassette tape

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This collection contains correspondence between Harry Levin, a writer for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and World War II veterans. These letters reflect personal accounts of civilian or military personnel during the bombing of Pearl Harbor or the D-Day invasion. The letters provided Mr. Levin with material from which he could write articles commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of these events.

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World War II Bond Drive Collection, 1942-1945 (C4110)
0.2 cubic feet, 10 oversize items

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The World War II Bond Drive collection contains materials related to the efforts of the War Finance Division, U.S. Treasury, to raise public funds in support of the war. The collection contains promotional materials and forms related to the funding drives of 1945.

World War II Ephemera, no date (CA5990)
1 folder

Blue print for Mauthausen concentration camp and Nazi armband.

World War II Letters, 1941-1945 (C3222)
2 cubic feet

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This collection of World War II letters was collected by W.W. Gillespie for publication in the Memphis Revielle, a weekly newspaper in Scotland County, Missouri, and by Frederick Tainter for publication in the Bugle, published monthly in St. Charles, Missouri. Also included are letters collected by the State Historical Society of Missouri in 1946 from various donors. Most are concerned with acknowledging receipt of the letter.

World War II Letters, 1940-1946 (C0068)
14.6 cubic feet (3,467 folders)

 Digitized Materials

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Letters written by servicemen during the war to friends and relatives throughout the United States. Arranged alphabetically by writer's name.

World War II Letters, c. 1944 (C1329)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Family letters to a Japanese soldier found on a battlefield in Guam by an American soldier and transcripts of the letters. One of the letters is written on rice paper. There is also a brochure that shows naval flag symbols and a postcard depicting Japanese children.

Clark Wright Papers, 1861-1863 (R0523)
2 folder

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These are the Civil War papers of Clark Wright, a resident of Polk County, Missouri, and a Union
cavalry officer. The collection includes an order to Wright from John M. Schofield, letters from
St. Louis and Rolla to his wife, Sarah Jane Wright, newspaper clippings, rosters of the field and staff
officers of the 6th Missouri Cavalry, and a list of signs and countersigns for the post at Lebanon,
Missouri.

Roy A. Wykoff Jr. Papers, 1860-1955 (C0437)
0.17 cubic feet (8 folders)

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Miscellaneous material collected by Wykoff. Missouri University, Stephens College and Christian College programs; letters of Eugene Field, Daniel Read and Homer Croy; and Civil War articles.

William Wymore Papers, 1864 (C0416)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Letters by Wymore to his wife and children from camp at Bridgeport, AL, and to Wymore from his wife, probably from Brazil, IN.

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Cole Younger Papers, 1915 (C1670)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers contain Younger's application for Confederate veteran's pension, data on his Civil War service, correspondence between Missouri and U.S. adjutant's general about Younger, and newspaper clipping about John McCorkle's book, "Three Years with Quantrill." Younger was a member of Quantrill's Raiders and the James Brothers' outlaw band.

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George Younker Papers, 1862-1863 (C2100)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Promotions of Younker to 2nd Corporal and 5th Sergeant. Broadside with names of personnel and memorandum of action of Illinois Infantry, 51st Regiment, Volunteers, Company G, from 14 February 1861 to 20 November 1863.

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Daniel Zachman Civil War Diary, 1863 (C0462)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders)

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Diary of a Union soldier stationed at Strafford, VA, and in skirmishes in Maryland and Pennsylvania and the battle of Gettysburg. Describes religious, recreational, and military activities of the 82nd Ohio Infantry Regiment; health; weather; correspondence; a review for President Lincoln and General Hooker; and reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to the troops.

Frank Zeisler Photograph Collection, 1914-1945 (S1210)
0.4 c.f.

Collection of photographs and postcards depicting scenes in Europe during and shortly after World War I, including monuments, tourist sites, gas attacks, trench warfare, and combat. Also included in the collection is a series of German photographs from World War II, and a book, 'The Horror of It: Camera Records of War's Gruesome Glories' by Frederick A. Barber, Historical Foundations, New York, 1933.

Ziesler World War I Photographs, 1917-1919 (S1174)
0.25 cubic foot

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This collection contains photographs from World War 1 and a book, "The Horror of It."

Lorene W. Zolg Photographs, 1884 (P0967)
2 photographs

Photos of monuments for the Battle of Westport and the Battle of Camden Point

The Zouave Register (Cape Girardeau, Mo.), 1861 (C0802)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Fragment of a newspaper dated 4 September 1861 and published by the Missouri Infantry, 8th Regiment, Volunteers (also known as the American Zouaves). Lists field and staff officers and reports on battles.