World War (1939-1945)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Part of TARO subject browse terms
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
American Defense Group records
Collection
Identifier: MS 0353
Overview
This collection contains correspondence, memos, organizational and reading lists, and budget information regarding an organization called the American Defense Group. The Group consisted largely of professors from three California institutions who were interested in assisting the American war effort by reading foreign-language domestic publications and reporting editorial comments to U.S. Naval Intelligence.
Dates:
1941 - 1944
Anne Wheeler papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0381
Abstract:
Letters received by Anne Wheeler, secretary to the first President of Rice Institute and a travel diary presumed to be written by her.
Dates:
1924 - 1953; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1953
Anonymous Girl's Diary, Saarland, Germany
Collection
Identifier: MS 0274
Abstract:
The manuscript diary is by a young German girl from the Saarland area of Germany, possibly from a rich, Catholic family. The bulk of the diary pertains to the girl’s personal life and daily activities; however, comments about conditions in Germany during the war are also found in the work.
Dates:
1939 - 1941
Ben T. "Buddy" Lewis WWII Memoir and information files, c. 1940s-2005
File
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection includes individual files from the South Texas Jewish Archives including: newsclippings, notes, correspondence, photographs, and other materials. The contents are donated by community members and/or gathered by the HJHA staff.
Dates:
c. 1940s-2005
Benjamin M. Anderson Aeronautical History collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0069
Abstract:
The Benjamin M. Anderson Aeronautical History collection consists of a wide assortment of materials related to the history of aeronautics, including photos, artistic renderings, postcards, schematics and diagrams, publications and papers from aircraft manufacturers, clippings, calendars, scrapbooks, and 8mm movies and audio recordings.
Dates:
1784 - 1988
Carl Woodring papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0551
Abstract:
This collection contains nine boxes of material related to the life and career of Carl Woodring, Professor of Literature, Emeritus, at Columbia University. The collection includes family diaries, family and career-related photographs, personal and literary correspondence, and works written by Woodring.
Dates:
1894-2009
Claude Addison McElroy papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0622
Overview
This material primarily consists of correspondence to and from Addison McElroy during the Second World War and immediately thereafter. Included are letters from his friends at Rice, giving insight into wartime life at the Institute. There is also an extensive number of letters from McElroy to his mother and her responses thereto. His naval service is detailed in his official personnel file and sets of orders to various duty stations, as well as material from his wartime service in the...
Dates:
1941-1947
Clinton S. Quin, Jr. World War II letters
Collection
Identifier: MS 0559
Scope and Contents
These letters, written to Quin's sister, Derby, cover his call to active duty in 1944, and training as a communications watch officer in Norfolk, Virginia, in preparation for his assignment to Landing Ship Tank (LST) 573. Within the constraints of wartime censorship, the letters describe shipboard life, the latter part of the war in the Pacific, and post-war occupation duties in the Far East.
Dates:
1944-1946
Congregation Beth Jacob - Houston, World War II banner
Collection
Identifier: MS 822
Overview
Silk banner embroidered with 220 names of World War II veterans associated with Beth Jacob Congregation, then located at 3847 Turnberry Circle, Houston, TX.
Dates:
1945
Congregation Beth Yeshurun of Houston records
Collection
Identifier: MS 722
Overview
This collection is made up of 51 boxes and includes materials from Congregation Adath Yeshurun, Congregation Beth El, and Congregation Beth Yeshurun; the Schwartz Family Library; materials from the congregations' merger; Shearith Israel Congregation in Wharton, Texas and a few other congregations from the years 1891-2021.
Dates:
1891 - 2021