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| | 21 | Author: | Peterman, Evans Percy. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Evans Percy Peterman papers
1893-1938
(bulk 1914-1919) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1893-1938 | | | | Abstract: | Evans Percy Peterman was a Texas contractor and lieutenant in WWI; his father A.L. Peterman was a professor, salesman, and real estate agent
in Texas, several Southeastern states, and Mexico. Chiefly miscellaneous financial papers and correspondence, from 1914 to 1919, related to the
son, generally referred to as Percy Peterman in the documents. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 22 | Author: | Crowley, Thomas Nugent. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Thomas Nugent Crowley diary
1941-1945 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1941-1945 | | | | Abstract: | Holograph diary contains brief entries of Crowley's personal and professional experiences as a U.S. Army officer, stationed in various places
in the United States, during World War II. He served in California at an Immigration and Naturalization Service detention center, Tuna Canyon
Detention Center, during December 1941; a German prisoner of war camp at Alva, Oklahoma, from September to December 1944; and an army
administrative school in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Crowley also served as an escort for troops, rifle range officer, trial judge advocate of special
court martials, and various other duties. Includes a fold-out world map. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 23 | Author: | United States. Navy. Training School (Tucson, Ariz.) | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Records of the United States Naval Training (Indoctrination) School),
1944 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1944 | | | | Abstract: | The Naval Training (Indoctrination) School, headquartered
in the Old Main Building on The University of Arizona
campus from 1942 to 1945, was responsible for training
over 10,000 men during World War II. The collection includes typescript
(carbon and mimeograph) orders, memoranda, and schedules relating to the organization,
conduct and training of the student officers. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations -- United States. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 25 | Author: | United States -- Army -- Regimental Combat
Team -- 442nd -- Photographs | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | United States War
Relocation Authority Collection,
1942-1946 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1942-1946 | | | | Abstract: | Publications, reports, manuals, correspondence, photographs, and
other materials relating mainly to the internment of Japanese Americans during
World War II. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- United
States | Concentration camps -- United States | Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 | Japanese Americans -- Photographs | Japanese in the United States | World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans | Land grants -- Arizona | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 26 | Author: | United States. Wartime Civil Control Administration. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | United States Wartime Civil Control Administration records
1940-1942
(bulk 1942) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1940-1942 | | | | Abstract: | In 1942, to carry out Executive Order No. 9066, Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt was designated military commander for the western half of the United States.
He created the Wartime Civil Control Administration; its mission was to evacuate and relocate people of Japanese ancestry. One portfolio of
miscellaneous reports, procedural manuals, memoranda, forms, orders, official announcements, and newspaper clippings concerning the evacuation and
relocation of Japanese Americans. Most items are from the San Francisco office of the Wartime Civil Control Administration; one report is addressed
specifically to Col. Bendetson. Most of the material is dated 1942, although a 1940 alien registration form is also enclosed. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Concentration camps -- United States. | Japanese -- United States. | Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- United States. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 27 | Author: | Cranston, George, b.
1848? | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | George Cranston
correspondence,
1860-1883 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1860-1883 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains one series, correspondence. It is
comprised of 57 letters, 34 of which were written by George Cranston, primarily
to his sister, Gertrude. 14 of these letters relate Cranston's experiences as a
soldier in the Arizona Territory, from 1866 to 1870. Cranston was stationed at
Fort Yuma, Camp Lowell, Fort Grant, Camp Tubac and Camp Crittenden, and his
letters reveal the privations of a soldier's life, the uncertainties of living
on the frontier, and the fear of Indian attacks. Leaving the army and Arizona
in 1870, the letters continue with Cranston's travels in New Mexico, Kansas and
Texas. The remaining letters, the bulk of which are addressed to Gertrude, are
correspondence from other Cranston siblings, and letters from James Cranston,
their father. Many of these are accounts of family activities and events,
others reveal some of the emotional undercurrents in family life. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Apache Indians -- Wars | Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 29 | Author: | Lee, Kenneth Horace, 1927-2005 | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Kenneth Horace Lee letters1944-1946 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1944-1946 | | | | Abstract: | Letters written by Kenneth H. Lee, while in the U.S. Navy during
World War II, to family members back home, from 1944 to 1946. He describes training camp
in San Diego, training and work as a hospital corpsman, and life on board ship, and then
in Japan after the surrender. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Soldiers -- United States -- Correspondence | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 32 | Author: | West, Frank,
1850-1923 | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Frank West
journal,
1884-1885 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1884-1885 | | | | Abstract: | Contains a handwritten journal recording military marches from
Fort Huachuca, Arizona, to Fort Craig, New Mexico; from Fort Craig to Fort
Wingate; and from Fort Wingate to Deming, New Mexico, during the Apache
campaign. Includes logs of miles traveled, maps, and some biographical
information. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Apache Indians -- Wars, 1883-1886 -- Personal
narratives | Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwest, New | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 34 | Author: | Roby, Kenneth | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Kenneth Roby Mexican Documents Collection
1788-1917
bulk 1824-1857 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1788-1917 | | | | Abstract: | Kenneth Roby Mexican Documents Collection, 1788-1917 (Bulk 1824-1857),contains seven series of documents that were written and distributed by various federal, state, and local government officials in Mexico between late 18th Century and early 20th Century. This collection also contains a small series of documents that were written and distributed by Spanish and English government officials in their colonies between late 19th Century and early 20th Century. Overall, this decree and orders collection includes military correspondence, constitutions and laws, appointments and promotions in the government. The collection also includes a chronological list of political leaders, important events, financial issues such as taxes and budgets, and overall customs in Mexico. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Administrative Law -- Mexico. | Elections -- Mexico -- History. | Generals -- Mexico. | Governors -- Mexico. | Mexico -- History -- Spanish Colony, 1540-1810. | Mexico -- History -- Wars of Independence, 1810-1821. | Mexico -- History -- 1821-1861. | Mexican War, 1846-1848. | Mexico--History--European Intervention, 1861-1867. | Mexico -- Politics and Government -- 1867-1910. | Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 35 | Author: | Herner, Charles. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Charles Herner Research Papers
1834-2011
(bulk 1870-1965) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1834-2011 | | | | Abstract: | The Charles Herner Research Papers (1834-2011) contains research files documenting the histories of the Arizona
Rough Riders as well as of Alexander O. Brodie. These papers serve as the basis for two of Herner’s books, The Arizona Rough Riders (1970)
and Alexander O. Brodie: Frontiersman, Rough Rider, Governor (2012). | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Arizona -- History to 1912. | Arizona -- History, Military. | Governors -- Arizona -- Biography. | Regimental histories. | Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Personal narratives. | Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Regimental histories -- United States. | United States -- Army -- Volunteer Cavalry, 1st. | United States -- Army -- Volunteer Cavalry, 1st -- Officers -- Biography. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 36 | Author: | Pace, James, 1811-1888. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Autobiography and Diary of James Pace,
1831-1888
(bulk 1846-1847) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1831-1888 | | | | Abstract: | James Pace, 1811-1888, was a Lieutenant in the Mormon Battalion in the U.S. Army.
Includes autobiography, pp. 1-18, and diary, pp. 19-86. Typescript of diary compiled
while serving with Mormon Battalion describes events, travel conditions, and encounters
with Native Americans, Spaniards, and Americans. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Personal narratives. | Mormons -- Arizona -- History. | Mormons -- Utah -- History. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 38 | Author: | Udall, Levi
Stewart | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Levi Stewart Udall
collection,
1842-1974 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1842-1974 | | | | Abstract: | Papers, 1842-1974 (bulk 1910-1960), of Levi
Stewart Udall (1891-1960), lawyer and judge. Includes personal files,
correspondence, reminiscences, activity files, ledgers, and speeches relating
mainly to his family, their settlement in Saint Johns, Arizona, his
professional activities and services to the state and the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Graham-Tewksbury Feud | Mormons -- Arizona -- History | World War, 1939-45 -- Personal narratives | Judges -- Arizona | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 39 | Author: | Schloss, Gerd T. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Dr. Gerd T. Schloss papers,
1900-2007 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1900-2007 | | | | Abstract: | Dr. Gerd T. Schloss was a microbiology
professor at the University of Arizona whose research revolved around microbiology,
pathology, and cancer research. Schloss fled his German homeland during World War II, was a
refugee in Switzerland, and then emigrated to the United States with his wife, where he
would settle in Tucson as a working doctor. The collection contains Schloss' personal and
professional correspondence, diaries, personal papers and family history research,
professional papers on research, subject files on areas on interest to Gerd in his personal
life, as well as many of Schloss' publication. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Medical colleges -- Faculty | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | World War, 1939-1945 | Physicians -- Arizona -- History | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 40 | Author: | Mazzanovich, Anton | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Anton Mazzanovich Papers, ead | | | | Date(s): | unknown | | | | Abstract: | The collection contains correspondence, diary, newspaper clippings, articles, theater programs, photographs, and other materials relating to Anton Mazzanovich's experiences in Arizona and New Mexico, and his theatrical activities in New York. The materials date from 1885-1934, with the bulk of materials dating from 1924 through 1934. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Frontier and pioneer life. | Apache Indians -- Wars. | Apache Indians -- Photographs. | Theater -- United States. | Cities and towns -- Arizona -- History -- Photographs. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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