Handwritten text: "Monday morning Dec 20, 1943. Dear Mr West: Thanks again for the picture, and when the boys saw it they all wanted one too. If you will have one for each of the boys made or send me the negative I will be glad to pay for it. The boys are from left to right. Elwood S McClintic P.R.1/c. 'Mickey'. William D. Johnston, 36th Reg. Co A. 'Johnnie'. Paul A Word 4th Marine Div. 'Paul'. Edward C Shaw N.A. 1/c 'Eddie'. Robert L Ward U.S.N. F.M.F. 'Bob'. Some of these have already [handwritten text in right margin:] 6 [encircled] [end right margin text] shipped. The others go soon. Thank you. Sincerely Mrs B B Borgman. 'Merry Christmas'"
Arthur Morgan was the design engineer for the Miami Conservancy District flood control system and the first chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority from 1933 until 1938.
Handwritten letter on paper ripped from a notebook that Adnan wrote to his eldest son Mohammad. Adnan promised his son a bicycle if he did well on his exams, but the letter took two years to arrive and his son already had a bicycle by then.
A short handwritten note that Adnan wrote to his wife, and a note to the wife of another prisoner. Adnan tells them that they need to put the other message he sent in the sun so that they can read the invisible ink. They destroyed the note with the invisible ink.
Development of the different meetings of the Organizing Committee of the Eighth Congress: reports, list of members of the Organizing Committee, work plan, directive, minutes. El folder has 74 sheets
William Starke Rosecrans (1819-1898) commanded the Army of the Cumberland during the Tullahoma campaign and at the battles of Stone's river and Chickamauga during the U.S. Civil War. After the war, he moved to Los Angeles, California and became an advocate for railroad building and Mexican trade in the West before being appointed as the U.S. Minister to Mexico (1868). He later served in the U.S. Congress (1881-85), and as the Register of the U.S. Treasury (1885-93). The collection consists of correspondence, papers, diaries, accounts, photographs, maps, realia, and related printed material of Major General William S. Rosecrans and his family. The papers cover nearly a century of American history and are comprised of materials from three generations of the Rosecrans family.