Military
Found in 140 Collections and/or Records:
Fort Walla Walla, Washington Territory photograph
Photograph of Fort Walla Walla, taken on May 1, 1859. The photograph was originally owned and may have been taken by Frederick Tracy Dent (1820-1892). Dent served as captain of the 9th United States Infantry at Fort Walla Walla. In 1859, Fort Walla Walla was a cavalry outpost for the United States military located in the Washington Territory, now Washington State.
List of forts and military posts in the United States and adjacent territory
Mimeograph list of forts and military posts compiled by Edgar M. Ledyard of Salt Lake City, Utah. The list is in alphabetical order by the name of the fort or post, and includes the location of each. Also included is a separate five-page document, which provides additions and includes notes about the history, name, or location of some of the forts.
Fraser family papers
Papers of the Fraser family, primarily correspondence of John A. Fraser and his son, John H. Fraser, but also including papers of John A. Fraser's wife, Flora. John A. Fraser was a carpenter who worked in Portland, Oregon in the 1890s; John H. Fraser served in the 116th Engineers during World War I.
James Fulton papers
Abstract of expenditures, U.S. Navy Yard at Vallejo, California.
John H. Gallagher papers
John H. Gallagher was a soldier in the Spanish American War and a mining engineer in Portland, Oregon. Papers include correspondence, 1902-1909, regarding personal matters; receipts and documents, circa 1895-1900, regarding the Philippines and the Spanish American War, with some items in Spanish; and broadsides for events for U.S. troops in Hawaii, 1898.
Dwight E. Gard papers
Papers of Dwight E. Gard (1909-1971) include a notebook he kept while he was held as a prisoner of war by Japanese forces during World War II, along with related correspondence and articles, and materials relating to Multnomah Bank, the bank he later founded in Portland, Oregon. These include newspaper clippings, reports of condition, and a small quantity of advertisements, photographs, and blank checks and stationery.
Frank S. Godfrey family papers
Frank S. Godfrey was a businessman in Seaside, Oregon, and a soldier in the Spanish-American War, master sergeant of Company B, 2nd Oregon Infantry. Collection includes correspondence of Birdie Ann Godfrey, 1957; ribbons and other ephemera from United States War Veterans reunions, 1898-1955; register of veterans, 1951; and Dorothy Godfrey Otto's reminiscences, 1967.
Grace Howard Gray scrapbook
A scrapbook kept by Grace Howard Gray (1857-1949) to document family history and historic events, including mementos, drawings and ephemera collected during her lifetime. The scrapbook contains items related to the life of General O. O. Howard (1830-1909), Gray's father, and drawings by Guy Howard (1855-1899), her brother, and Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944). Additional materials were added to the scrapbook by other family members.
Andrew A. Hall papers
Two letters and a poem by Andrew A. Hall (1879-1932). Hall was a Scottish-American physician who served in the Canadian army as a medical officer during World War I; after the war he resided at and was vice president of the University Club in Portland, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Charles L. Hayward
Oral history interview with Charles L. Hayward conducted by Linda S. Dodds on December 5, 1979. Hayward served as a balloon lookout for the U.S. Army during World War I.