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  1. An International Affair

    Robert William Chambers (1865-1933) was an artist; illustrator; and an author of romantic fiction, military articles, and sketches. The collection includes a 40 page holograph manuscript written in pencil. It pertains to a fictional story about Civil War ...

    castanoe - 2021-06-14 10:47

  2. Official Report of the Chief of the United States Army Ambulance Service with the French Army, to the Surgeon General of the Army

    This original typescript relates the history of the Ambulance Service with the French Army on the Western Front, during WWI. ...

    castanoe - 2021-06-18 14:40

  3. Letter of B. Tiernan, March 26, 1900

    B. Tiernan was an American who spent time in the Territory of New Mexico. The collection includes a holograph letter written to Harvey Whitehill, Sheriff of Grant County, NM, dated March 26, 1900. It was sent from Tiernan's office in Galveston, TX. ...

    castanoe - 2021-06-24 16:01

  4. Correspondence of John D. Burgess

    Captain John DeWitt Burgess (1847-1918) was a soldier, mining engineer, Indian scout, and early pioneer of Tucson. After serving in the Civil War, he came to Arizona in 1873 and became involved with mining in the Prescott area. However, he also scouted ...

    castanoe - 2021-07-16 09:37

  5. Ralph Everett Ellinwood Collection

    This collection includes the correspondence of Ellinwood to and from family members and friends as well as personal diaries during his deployment to Europe and subsequent internment as a prisoner of war. The handwritten journals from 1917-18 detail his ...

    castanoe - 2021-07-16 09:50

  6. George Lippitt Andrews Papers

    This collection consists of a 90-page manuscript diary for year of 1870, written by Colonel George Lippitt Andrews while superintendent of Indian Affairs for Arizona Territory at Fort Yuma. ...

    castanoe - 2021-07-16 09:59

  7. Charles Herner papers

    This collection contains research files covering the life and histories surrounding Alexander O. Brodie and the Rough Riders of Arizona. Rough Riders was the name given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, a response to the understaffing of the ...

    trentp - 2016-07-08 08:47

  8. Ada M. Slatter Burlingham World War II correspondence

    Ada Mary Slatter Burlingham (1922-1997) served in the Army Nurse Corps from June 1, 1944 to February 2nd, 1946, reaching the rank of first lieutenant. She served in the European Theater of World War II, working mainly in France and Germany. Burlingham was ...

    mnboyer - 2021-09-14 09:26

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