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Bernard W. Marchant Scrapbook
Barnard Wilson Marchant (1897-1949), Virginia Military Institute (VMI) ’19, was vice president of the firm Froehling and Robertson, consulting chemists and inspection engineers of Richmond, Virginia. From 1926 until 1949, Marchant kept a scrapbook chronicling the career of GCM and the WW II careers of other VMI alumni.
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Sometime in 1968, C. W. Bowman took care of a young Vietnamese boy. He picked him up off the streets in Saigon during the Tet offensive (January-September of 1968). The boy’s family had been killed and he was living on the street. Charles Bowman bought him a uniform and fed him at the Company area.
Scene along country road in northern France.
Factory under construction in northern France.
Wheat field in northern France. In the background, coal mine and huge slag heap.
Full coal cars in northern French coal mine.
Construction of exhibit barges and trailers for the mobile caravan exhibit prepared by the Visual Information Unit of the Information Division, ECA/OSR, Paris.
Scene along the road in northern France.
Construction of exhibit barges and trailers for the mobile caravan exhibit prepared by the Visual Information Unit of the Information Division, ECA/OSR, Paris.
Collection Number: 81 UL
Date: 1926 - 1949
Collection Size: 1 lf/ 1 vol./OV
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