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Military

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:

Gideon Stolz papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1589
Abstract

Collection includes certificate of Honorable Discharge from the Ohio National Guard, May 1866; certificate of enrollment in Grand Army of the Republic, Post No. 10, Salem, Oregon, January 1936; invitation to the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, June 1938.

Dates: 1866-1938

Alfred L. Stone papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2431
Abstract

Collection includes personal articles and memorabilia regarding Alfred L. Stone's military appointments and jewelry store in Portland, Oregon, 1881-1943.

Dates: 1881-1943

Scrapbook about 1937 Fleet Week in Portland, Oregon, presented to Vice Admiral W. T. Tarrant

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1044
Abstract Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, a souvenir program, invitations, and other ephemera about the 1937 Fleet Week in Portland, Oregon. The scrapbook was presented to Vice Admiral W. T. Tarrant (1878-1972) by C. T. Haas (1888-1975), chair of the Fleet Week Committee. The scrapbook also includes multiple handwritten inscriptions from Haas to Tarrant. Tarrant commanded the scouting force aboard the U.S.S. Indianapolis during that year's Fleet Week in Portland, which lasted from July 16 to July...
Dates: 1937 July

Kate D. Taylor letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2615
Abstract Kate D. (Catharine Dewees) Taylor was the wife of Captain Oliver Hazard Perry Taylor, who was killed during the 1858 Steptoe Expedition in Washington Territory. She was a resident of Fort Walla Walla. Collection includes correspondence to Kate D. Taylor and Oliver Hazard Perry Taylor, 1859-1868, from Major William N. Grier, James Wheeler Jr., and others regarding events at Fort Walla Walla and Indian hostilities; correspondence, 1858-1859, from family and friends; and a biographical sketch...
Dates: 1855-1868

Melvin G. Thompson letters

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 172
Abstract

Letters of a soldier from Portland, Oregon, who served in the C Company, 329th Infantry Regiment, in Europe during World War II.

Dates: 1943-1945

Allen B. Tint World War I letters and memorabilia

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 907
Abstract

Postcards and letters from Allen B. Tint (1895-1960), written during his service in World War I, to the family of his brother, Leopold "Lew" M. Tint, as well as newspaper clippings, a poem, and two issues of the newspaper for the base hospital where Allen B. Tint was stationed. The Tints were Latvian-Americans; Leopold M. Tint (1882-1951) moved to Portland, Oregon, in the early 1920s, while Allen B. Tint stayed on the U.S. East Coast.

Dates: 1917-1918

Hideto Tomita letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2704
Abstract

Hideto Tomita was a Portland, Oregon, Japanese American who was incarcerated by the U.S. government at the Minidoka camp in Idaho and later joined the 442nd regiment of the U.S. Army. Collection consists of Tomita's correspondence with Cora B. Oliver, a former teacher, 1942-1945, regarding his experiences of incarceration, of basic training in Mississippi, and of life at the front in Italy and France.

Dates: 1942-1945

Transport attack ship drawing

 Collection
Identifier: Mss4073
Abstract

Blueline inboard oblique drawing of a transport attack ship design for the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation.

Dates: circa 1940-1945

United Service Organizations records and scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2510
Abstract

Collection includes minutes, 1951-1955; memoranda and news releases, 1957-1969; newspaper clippings, 1951-1974; and correspondence, 1951-1968. Also included are scrapbooks, 1951-1976.

Dates: 1951-1976

United Spanish War Veterans, Department of Oregon records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1683
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence, minutes, applications, roll books, and disbursements of of Scout Young Camp #2; minutes and roster of Bert B. Chandler Camp #26 in Cottage Grove, Oregon; minutes and proceedings of encampments of Camp Venville #1 in Portland; correspondence of the national auxiliary, Pan American Study Committee; history of the Department of Oregon Auxiliary; and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1904-1969