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Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 758 Collections and/or Records:

Gustave Edwin Putnam papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8899
Scope and Contents

Contains photographs and awards from Gustave Edwin Putnam's work with veterans and his service in World War I, family photographs, and a brief autobiography. Most of the collection is from Putnam's life in Ogden, Utah. Approximately 1918-1976.

Dates: approximately 1918-1976

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

 Collection — Oversize-folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232573698]
Identifier: MSS 8379
Scope and Contents

Material is a print from the original negative of Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of five Marines and one Navy corpsman raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima during World War II on February 23, 1945.

Dates: 1945 February 23

Ralph Sanford Kelly : autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230309277]
Identifier: MSS SC 1194
Scope and Contents

Privately published autobiography. Kelly was a dentist who served in the U. S. Army and Navy.

Dates: undated, circa 1990s

Virginia Kay Rawley autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337914]
Identifier: MSS 2715
Scope and Contents

Typed autobiography. Rawley served as a nurse during World War II. She was trained as a nurse at the Latter-day Saint Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. She worked at Bushnell General Hospital in Brigham City, Utah. She treated Edward Rawley who lost both hands in the wreck of a B-24 bomber. They were married in 1946.

Dates: 2002

Sam Brannan receipt

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233291761]
Identifier: Vault MSS 647
Scope and Contents

Ten dollar receipt for a publishing bill, incurred for the printing of a conditional pardon granted to deserters from the U. S. Navy on the coast of California.

Dates: 1847

Clarence Reckmeyer correspondence

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230232529]
Identifier: MSS SC 19
Scope and Contents Handwritten letter from Reckmeyer to Le Roy Hafen discussing the Indian battle of Summit Springs, Colorado (1869) and the roles played by Major Frank J. North, Brevet Major Eugene A. Carr, and Travelling Bear, A Pawnee scout. Also includes handwritten copies (carbon copies) of portions of North's diary, 1869, and an 1870 joint resolution of the Nebraska State Legislature honoring North and Carr. Also includes a photograph of Major North as well as a September 9, 1928 newsclipping from the...
Dates: 1928

Rory Reid interview with Lawrence H. Johnson

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3028
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an interview by Rory Reid on 26 Jan. 1985 for Dr. Hillam's War Project at Brigham Young University. Also included is the reel-to-reel sound tape from which the interview was transcribed. Johnson talks about joining the Army Air Corps, his training, and his combat missions in the Pacific area.

Dates: 1985 January 26

Betty Jo Carter Reiser autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337906]
Identifier: MSS 2716
Scope and Contents

Typed autobiography. Reiser writes about her training as a nurse at the L.D.S. Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, and about her service in the U.S. Army Cadet Nurse Corps. She also writes about her courtship and marriage to A. Hamer Reiser on 7 January 1946.

Dates: 2001

Casimir Rekucki letters

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233650875]
Identifier: MSS 8389
Scope and Contents

Collection contains letters, a newspaper clipping, and a flyer from a coin retailer. Dated 1936-1965.

Dates: 1936-1965

Dorothy Cabris Peay autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341254]
Identifier: MSS 2617
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Dorothy Cabris was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1924, served as a nurse for the United States Army from 1944 to 1945, and married Richard V. Peay in 1945.

Dates: 2000