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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 758 Collections and/or Records:

Texas in Revolt

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2652
Scope and Contents

Typescript of a book manuscript with handwritten corrections. Gaddy tells the story of the Texas war for independence. The manuscript was submitted to the Old Army Press for publication.

Dates: 1973

These we honor

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233630356]
Identifier: UA 921
Scope and Contents Contains photographs, programs, and transcripts of speeches given at the dedication of an addition to the Memorial Hall in the Ernest L. Wilkinson Center on the Brigham Young University campus, held November 11, 1983, for BYU alumni who died in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Includes speeches by Stephen L. Barrett, executive director of BYU Alumni Association; Greg Fullmer, president of Associated Students of BYU; Joni Littler, daughter of an honoree; Harry A. Wesche, veteran of the Korea and...
Dates: 1983

Henrietta Oberlander Thomas autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337815]
Identifier: MSS 2717
Scope and Contents

Typed autobiography. Thomas served in Hawaii where she met her husband, Thayne L. Thomas. They married on 15 May 1947. She writes about her training and her service. Also included are letters she wrote in 1945.

Dates: 1945-2002

Doris Thompson autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337807]
Identifier: MSS 2718
Scope and Contents

Typed short paragraph states that Doris Thompson was indeed a nurse during World War II.

Dates: 2001

Emily Lydia Snyder Thompson autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230349463]
Identifier: MSS 4135
Scope and Contents

Emily Lydia Snyder Thompson writes about her immigration to Utah in 1848, her father taking the family to California in 1850, her father starting a boarding house, a flood, being threatened by Indians, food shortages, following Brigham Young's counsel and abandoning her home in 1858, her husband's call to go to Sanpete in 1866, the Black Hawk War and other topics.

Dates: 1920

Dean S. and Lu Jean Robinson Thornock correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232560315]
Identifier: MSS 8830
Scope and Contents

Includes handwritten letters written by Dean Thornock to his wife Lu Jean Robinson Thornock. Each of these writings were written to LuJean (who lived in various locations including California, Idaho, and Montana) from his time in the Philippines during World War II. Also includes a birthday and Christmas card for her. Materials dated 1944-1945.

Dates: 1944-1945

Tiger Jack

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1589
Scope and Contents

Printer's proofs, a rough draft, and newsletters. These include a printer's proof of "Tiger Jack" and a photocopy of printer's proofs with handwritten corrections superimposed on each. Also included is a typewritten rough draft of "Division Commander: Study of a leader, 'P' Wood and the 4th Armored Division," and newsletters (1973-1974) describing the history of the division during World War II.

Dates: 1979

John Harvey Tippets World War I correspondence

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8497
Content Description

Collection contains correspondences between John Harvey Tippets and Irene Smith throughout World War I documenting their lives and pursuits during the war as well as uniform patches. Also includes documents from World War II. Materials date from 1918-1919 and 1935-1947.

Dates: 1918-1919; 1935-1947

To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233289831]
Identifier: Vault MSS 406
Scope and Contents

Handwritten copy of a document issued and signed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison dated 21 Aug. 1801. Jefferson, as president of the United States, grants land in Ohio to soldiers of the Virginia Line.

Dates: 1801

To Japan with encouragement and hope

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225523031]
Identifier: MSS SC 3060
Scope and Contents

Jacobsen writes about being held in captivity by the Japanese for three and one-half years in the Philippines and Japan during World War II. Comments on the strength that he derived from his belief in the Mormon Church and in his family.

Dates: 2000