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Garret G. Ackerson, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS162
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Garret G. Ackerson, Jr. Papers primarily consist of personal correspondence and are arranged in 148 folders and contained in 3 boxes. A majority of the collection consists of correspondence between Garret G. Ackerson, Jr. and his family, including his parents, Garret G. Ackerson, Sr. and Anna Ackerson, his wife Rhodita Edwards Ackerson, and his children. Of special interest are Ackerson's memoranda written during the outbreak of World War II when he was in almost daily contact with high...
Dates: 1923 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1923 - 1959

African American Soldiers in the Philippines Photograph Album

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 2 (Legal), Folder: 4
Identifier: GTM-20220902
Scope and Contents The collection consists of one photograph album that documents the experiences of an unidentified African American soldier in the Philippines towards the end of, or immediately after, World War II, around the year 1945. It includes snap shots, published commercial photographs, and postcards. The photographs primarily feature African American soldiers and also include local Filipinos and enemy combatants. The images document both work and leisure among the soldiers. It also includes the...
Dates: 1945, 1949

Walter S. Atkinson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20240124
Scope and Contents The collection consists of the papers of Dr. Walter S. Atkinson. Of note is a scrapbook of photographs documenting Atkinson's service in World War II as a Hospital Commander in the Phillipines, where he organized and commanded the 107th Station Hospital. The scrapbook includes images of his fellow soldiers, the local population, aerial views, and a visit from Al Jolson.The collection also includes childhood portrait photographs, material related to the Georgetown Clinical...
Dates: circa 1915-1968

Ernesta Drinker Barlow Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-081118
Scope and Contents A collection of the personal papers of Aimee Ernesta Drinker Barlow (1892-1981). Includes autograph memoir, travel diaries (from 1916 and early 1960s), correspondence received from husbands William C. Bullitt (1891-1967), former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union; and composer Samuel L.M. Barlow (1892-1982); as well as from admirers including the artist Rockwell Kent (1882-1971). Of note is an almost complete run of mimeographed scripts of NBC Radio broadcasts by Barlow as "Commando Mary"...
Dates: 1910 - 1962

Alfred M. Beck collection of Friedrich von Boetticher research materials

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Identifier: GTM-171212
Content Description Research files and notes, transcriptions and translations, government documents, microfilm, photographs, and archival film footage and sound recordings compiled by Beck in the course of conducting research for his dissertation on the life of General der Artillerie [Lt. Gen.] Friedrich von Boetticher and his service as German military attaché in Washington, D.C., 1933-1941. Beck’s original dissertation, "The Ambivalent Attaché (1977, Ph.D. in History, Georgetown University) explored the...
Dates: 1900-2006; Majority of material found within 1930-1945

Francis B. Biddle Papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS251
Collection-level Scope and Content Note This collection consists of the personal papers of former U.S. attorney general Francis Biddle. It is one of three portions comprising the larger collection of the Biddle Family papers that include the papers of his wife, Katherine Biddle and a series of family correspondence (see separate finding aids). Of interest are lengthy correspondence files relating to Biddle's appointments as judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1939); U.S. attorney general...
Dates: 1912 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1966

Leon Biles, Jr. Military Service Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20210429
Scope and Contents The collection consists of one photograph album and loose photographic prints which belonged to Leon Biles, Jr. Biles was an African American U.S. Army soldier and the photographs document his military service from 1944 to 1947. The album consists of photographs taken or collected by Biles while serving stateside during World War II.The photographs are extensively captioned and include images of Biles' family in Minnesota, friends, fellow soldiers and sailors (some of whom are...
Dates: 1944 - 1947

Thomas Blake Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-0026
Scope and Contents Papers of Thomas Dawes Blake, a public relations specialist who served in the U.S. State Department in the 1940s. It includes typescripts documenting his time working for the U.S. government during World War II, including his role as assistant to Stephen Early, press secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the reaction to the death of FDR by White House staff. It also includes a file on the Mexico Water Treaty (1945), a file of memoranda to Col. Behn from 1947 (while Blake was employed as...
Dates: 1947 - 1976

Alonza E. Brown Military Records and Photographs

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Identifier: GTM-20220901
Scope and Contents The collection consists of military records and photographs of Alonza E. Brown, a African American who served in the U.S. Army during World War II. The collection includes his “Honorable Discharge” certificate (plus copy); “Separation Qualification Record” describing his military occupations (Engineer, Basic and Truck Driver, Heavy), training (Cooks School, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.), and civilian occupation (cook’s helper at Brown’s Restaurant in Philadelphia); and “Enlisted Record and Report...
Dates: 1943 - 1950

Anthony Cave Brown Papers

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Identifier: GTM-930701
Scope and Contents The Anthony Cave Brown papers comprise the extensive research files of historian and author Anthony Cave Brown used for his numerous books about U.S. and British military intelligence. The collection includes correspondence, subject files, photocopied documents, internet printouts, printed matter, manuscripts of some of his books, audio cassettes, and some photographs. Documents pertaining to various figures in the intelligence field; including William Donovan, H. St. John B. Philby, and Kim...
Dates: 1930 - 2006

Civilian Exclusion Order No. 79 Broadside

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 22 (Oversized), Folder: 1
Identifier: GTM-20231117
Scope and Contents Civilian Exclusion Order No. 79. San Francisco: May 15, 1942. Broadside (sheet size 56 x 35.5 cm).Broadside notice from the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Wartime Civil Control Administration regarding the 1942 relocation of Japanese Americans, dated May 15, 1942, excluding all persons of Japanese ancestry from a portion of Military Area No. 1 within King County, Washington, with specific boundary streets provided outlining the designated area, and calling for...
Dates: 1942

Leo and Jane Codd papers

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Identifier: GTM-830131
Scope and Contents The Leo and Jane Codd Papers contain correspondence to the Codds, photographs, and manuscripts. Correspondence, manuscripts, and related material is arranged alphabetically within the collection. The Codds lived in the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C., and enjoyed travelling, especially to Ireland. Much of their correspondence from friends and acquaintances refers to their trips to Ireland or to their hospitality and cordiality when guests visited them in Washington.The papers...
Dates: 1914 - 1973

Ethel Crocker - Andre de Limur Collection

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS344
Scope and Contents The Crocker-de Limur Collection consists of historical and literary documents assembled by a family of collectors; a small portion of the papers of French diplomat Andre de Limur (1890?-1971); a small part of the papers of Ambassador Aime Joseph de Fleuriau, French Ambassador to Great Britain (1924-1933); French documents from the Bibliotheca Lindesiana concerning political matters in France in the 1790s; and oversized printed proclamations by the French Government during World War I....
Dates: 1737 - 1945

John R. Crown Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-0072
Scope and Contents The Papers of John R. Crown includes materials related to World War II (pamphlets, a Pocket Guide to New Guinea, certificates, Nazi memorabilia), Georgetown University (especially alumni affairs and Kappa Alpha Phi fraternity, 1920s-1960s), U.S. politicians (inaugural materials related to Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson, photograph of John F. Kennedy, various autographs), the Catholic Church (Fulton J. Sheen and Francis J. Spellman), and Crown's personal life. It includes several...
Dates: 1848, 1918-1970

De Luca Family Papers and Photographs

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Identifier: GTM-190709
Scope and Contents

The collection contains over 1,700 photographs and 400 documents recording the history of the De Luca family over 8 decades involving the American Civil War, the unification of Italy, the Japanese invasion of China and the Siege of Peking, and the attack on Pearl Harbor.

See the External Documents section below for more information on the collection.

Dates: 1860 - 1945

Paul F. DuVivier Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-19911001
Scope and Contents

The collection contains Belgian anti-American newspaper cartoons of the Nazi period and World War II propaganda leaflets that were collected by Paul F. DuVivier during his internment during the war (1943-1944). It also includes some published reports written by Woodruff Wallner documenting the internment of U.S. foreign service and others by the Germans during the war.

The collection also includes letters from author Herman Wouk to DuVivier (1976-1988).

Dates: 1943-1944; 1976-1988

Charles Murray Foster World War II Letters

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-20240417
Scope and Contents

Collection of 380 letters written by Lt. Charles Murray Foster to his family while he served in the 1st Battalion of the 114th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army during World War II. It includes letters written when he was stateside (1942-1944) and while in France (1944-1945). 25 letters feature sketches by Foster, usually depicting other soldiers and scenes he observed while serving in France (collected in Binder 4).

Dates: 1942 - 1945

Harald S. Frederiksen papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS450
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The collection is composed of several short typed manuscripts by Frederiksen discussing his personal history and involvement in the OSS, as well as a variety of recommendations and reports on Frederiksen from colleagues, and one of his jailers. Additional documents include application and reference forms prepared by Frederiksen for the U.S. government, and some correspondence relating to his employment plans after leaving Vienna.

Dates: 1945-1952

Harman Grisewood papers 3

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS338
Collection-level Scope and Content Note This collection comprises the third accession of the papers of Harman Grisewood (1906-1997), and contains primarily correspondence from family members. Of particular interest is the series of letters from Grisewood's father, Lt. Col. Harman Grisewood, written from 1936 through 1946, from Nicosia, Cyprus, where the family owned a farm in the mid- to late 1920s until the end of the Second World War. Grisewood recalls life with his family in Cyprus during the earlier of these years in chapter 3...
Dates: 1898-1991; Majority of material found within 1936-1981

James L. Harley, SJ Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-900928
Scope and Contents

The James L. Harley, SJ Papers contain materials surrounding his work as a military chaplain; his studies and teaching career; and his spiritual life in the Society of Jesus. Also included is extensive ephemera from working as a chaplain on cruise ships and a small number of personal papers.

Dates: 1893 - 1989

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