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New Orleans (La.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Allen Jere Tillery collection

 Collection — 18.0008 - Object 1
Identifier: 18.0008
Scope and Contents

This collection relates to Allen Jere Tillery who served with the United States Marine Corps in the 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division, in the Pacific Theater at the battles for Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Guam, and Tinian. This collection includes a published memoir of Tillery's time in service: Well and Smartly Done: a remembrance of war 1943-1945.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1943-1945; Other: Date acquired: 03/28/2018

Eldridge Williams papers

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2001 Box 11 (01.0278-01.0305), Folder: 01.0298 - Folder 1
Identifier: 01.0298
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of an oral history interview transcript of a retired African American lieutenant colonel, and one of the Tuskegee Airmen, as he discusses his experiences during WWII and the Korean War.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1940-1963; Other: Date acquired: 07/26/2001

Florence Gregory Walker Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: HP 2009-030
Scope and Contents

Personal items of Florida State College for Women student Florence Gregory (B.A. Sociology, 1940) and Florida State University (M.S., Social Work, 1962). Items includes photographs, scrapbooks, and other ephemera related to her years as a student at FSCW/FSU.



Online Copies Available

Select materials from this collection have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library as part of a larger photograph collection.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1931-1962; Other: Majority of material found in 1931-1947; Other: Date acquired: 07/01/2009

Albert and Laura Fuhrman collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 12.0028
Content Description

This collection includes the correspondence between Albert and Laura Fuhrman with gaps from 1939 through 1947. Albert graduated the U.S. Naval Academy in 1937 and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II on submarines. The collection is especially rich in documenting the American home front during World War II, courtship practices, consumerism, personal finances, public education in southern California, child-rearing, and naval culture in the submarine service. Much of the correspondence in the collection centers of Laura's life in southern California and Albert's deployment in both Atlantic and Pacific with submarine service of the U.S. Navy.

Dates: 1939-1948; Other: Date accessioned

Harry L. Andrews Papers

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2000 Box 5 (00.0118-00.0139), Folder: 00.0134-Folder 1
Identifier: 00.0134
Scope and Contents

This collection relates to Harry L. Andrews who served as a U.S. naval officer aboard the USS LST-569 during WWII in the Pacific Theater of Operations. This collection contains a letter from Andrews to Dr. William Oldson in which he describes the route his ship takes throughout World War II. The USS LST-569 initially departed from New Orleans on 29 May 1944 and ended in Shanghai, China before being transferred.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1944-1946; Other: Date acquired: 05/13/2000

Mary Gallant Collection

 Collection — Mod box 1
Identifier: HP 2008-029
Scope and Contents

Photographs and ephemera of Florida State University student (class of 1965), Mary Gallant, formerly Mary Petway, and her mother, Florida State College for Women student (class of 1940), Elizabeth Evans.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1935-1940, 1961-1965