Box 1
Container
Contains 16 Results:
Award of merit given to Strmiska by labor-management committee of Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation for Strmiska's participation in women's national welding championship (photocopy), 1943 June
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
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 June
Letter from to Strmiska from Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation sent with $50 war savings bond for Strmiska's participation in women's national welding championship (photocopy), 1943 October 5
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
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 October 5
Color print of S.S. John Nolan, 1943
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
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
Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Albert Bauer of Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation that Bauer forwarded to Strmiska (photocopy), 1944 August 17
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
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:
1944 August 17
Commercial Iron Works commemorative publication, 1944
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
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:
1944
Issue of Bo's'n's Whistle (Oregon shipyard newspaper edition), 1945 July 27
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
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:
1945 July 27