Taj Mahal (Agra, India)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Hazel Louis Bowman collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 10.0050
Content Description
This collection relates to Hazel Louis Bowman who worked for the Signal Corps and lived in India with the American Red Cross for two years. Bowman's collection contains six full boxes, one oversize box, a phono records box, and two photograph boxes. Four of the boxes include letters written to and from Hazel to her parents, family, neighbors, and friends. The collection also contains an oral history transcript, newsletters and bulletins, American Red Cross publications, her diary, a book written by Bowman, photograph albums, and ephemera.
Dates:
Event: Majority of material found within 1930-1948
Mildred Shearer papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 02-01.0535
Scope and Contents
This collection contains personal papers including letters, notes, sketches, newspaper articles, and a radio interview of Mildred Shearer about her work with the United Service Organization (USO) sketching servicemen. Almost 600 photostatic copies and a few original portraits are included as well. The letters are mainly thank you notes in which servicemen and family members of servicemen commend her for her sketches.
However, there are a few personal letters from friends and in one case, an entire collection of correspondence with one man in the Marines named Lieutenant Ralph Hunter Bennett. Her letters from Bennett are romantic in nature, unfortunately, they are abruptly cut...
Dates:
Created: 1944-1953; Other: Date acquired: 09/26/2001
- Florida State University Special Collections & Archives
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