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Box 1

 Container

Contains 16 Results:

Letter certifying that Strmiska has completed 130 hours of training in welding, 1942 June 9

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of newspaper clippings, publications, correspondence, images, and ephemera gathered by Billie H. Strmiska relating to her career as a shipyard welder during World War II in Portland, Oregon. A substantial amount of the collection concerns Strmiska's participation in welding contests in 1943, culminating in a national championship held at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula, Mississippi. These include newspaper clippings; issues of the Bo's'n's Whistle,...
Dates: 1942 June 9

Issues of Bo's'n's Whistle (magazine editions), 1943 February 4; 1943 April 8; 1943 August 19

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of newspaper clippings, publications, correspondence, images, and ephemera gathered by Billie H. Strmiska relating to her career as a shipyard welder during World War II in Portland, Oregon. A substantial amount of the collection concerns Strmiska's participation in welding contests in 1943, culminating in a national championship held at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula, Mississippi. These include newspaper clippings; issues of the Bo's'n's Whistle,...
Dates: 1943 February 4; 1943 April 8; 1943 August 19

Newspaper clippings, 1943 March-June

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of newspaper clippings, publications, correspondence, images, and ephemera gathered by Billie H. Strmiska relating to her career as a shipyard welder during World War II in Portland, Oregon. A substantial amount of the collection concerns Strmiska's participation in welding contests in 1943, culminating in a national championship held at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula, Mississippi. These include newspaper clippings; issues of the Bo's'n's Whistle,...
Dates: 1943 March-June

Welding contest rules, 1943 March 30

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of newspaper clippings, publications, correspondence, images, and ephemera gathered by Billie H. Strmiska relating to her career as a shipyard welder during World War II in Portland, Oregon. A substantial amount of the collection concerns Strmiska's participation in welding contests in 1943, culminating in a national championship held at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula, Mississippi. These include newspaper clippings; issues of the Bo's'n's Whistle,...
Dates: 1943 March 30

Transcript of Northwest Neighbors radio program, including interview with Strmiska about winning welding contests (photocopy), 1943 March 31

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of newspaper clippings, publications, correspondence, images, and ephemera gathered by Billie H. Strmiska relating to her career as a shipyard welder during World War II in Portland, Oregon. A substantial amount of the collection concerns Strmiska's participation in welding contests in 1943, culminating in a national championship held at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula, Mississippi. These include newspaper clippings; issues of the Bo's'n's Whistle,...
Dates: 1943 March 31

Telegram wishing Strmiska luck in welding contest; guest pass to Ingalls shipyards for welding contest given to Maude Ladner, 1943 May 27; 1943 May 28

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of newspaper clippings, publications, correspondence, images, and ephemera gathered by Billie H. Strmiska relating to her career as a shipyard welder during World War II in Portland, Oregon. A substantial amount of the collection concerns Strmiska's participation in welding contests in 1943, culminating in a national championship held at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula, Mississippi. These include newspaper clippings; issues of the Bo's'n's Whistle,...
Dates: 1943 May 27; 1943 May 28

Issue of Ingalls News with article about welding contest; Ingalls News page with photographs of welding contest, 1943 May 28; 1943 June 4

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of newspaper clippings, publications, correspondence, images, and ephemera gathered by Billie H. Strmiska relating to her career as a shipyard welder during World War II in Portland, Oregon. A substantial amount of the collection concerns Strmiska's participation in welding contests in 1943, culminating in a national championship held at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula, Mississippi. These include newspaper clippings; issues of the Bo's'n's Whistle,...
Dates: 1943 May 28; 1943 June 4

Photographs relating to women's national welding championship, 1943 May 28

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of newspaper clippings, publications, correspondence, images, and ephemera gathered by Billie H. Strmiska relating to her career as a shipyard welder during World War II in Portland, Oregon. A substantial amount of the collection concerns Strmiska's participation in welding contests in 1943, culminating in a national championship held at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula, Mississippi. These include newspaper clippings; issues of the Bo's'n's Whistle,...
Dates: 1943 May 28

CD of digitized photographs relating to welding contests, 1943 March-May

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of newspaper clippings, publications, correspondence, images, and ephemera gathered by Billie H. Strmiska relating to her career as a shipyard welder during World War II in Portland, Oregon. A substantial amount of the collection concerns Strmiska's participation in welding contests in 1943, culminating in a national championship held at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula, Mississippi. These include newspaper clippings; issues of the Bo's'n's Whistle,...
Dates: 1943 March-May

Issue of The Victory Fleet, discussing women shipyard workers, 1943 May 31

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of newspaper clippings, publications, correspondence, images, and ephemera gathered by Billie H. Strmiska relating to her career as a shipyard welder during World War II in Portland, Oregon. A substantial amount of the collection concerns Strmiska's participation in welding contests in 1943, culminating in a national championship held at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula, Mississippi. These include newspaper clippings; issues of the Bo's'n's Whistle,...
Dates: 1943 May 31