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John Marston Family Collection
The Marston family has a long lineage that goes back to John Marston II who fought in the Revolutionary War. John Marston VI was the collector of his family’s papers and the one most represented in the collection. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in 1908 and served in the Marine Corps. In 1937 Marston was the Commanding Officer of the U.S. Marine Forces in North China. He was promoted to Brigadier General in 1940. During World War II he served in the South Pacific and ended his military career as Commanding General, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He retired in 1946.
The collection spans six generations of the Marston family and consists of official and personal correspondence of the Marstons, journals and diaries, newspaper clippings, photographs and engravings, wills, and scrapbooks.
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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.
Full coal cars in northern French coal mine.
Wheat field in northern France. In the background, coal mine and huge slag heap.
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: 293 LL
Date: 1944 - 1949
Collection Size: 3.5 lf
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