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Mary Fourqurean Fry Collection
The collection consists of clippings, photographs, programs, pamphlets, correspondence, and poetry collected by Mary Fourqurean Fry, a member of the first WAAC officer training class in Des Moines, IA. Documented are WAAC and WAC enlistment procedures and Officer Training Program; life at Camp Upton, NY; overseas service at Naples, Italy; and the formation of the WAC Mothers Club.
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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: 63 UL
Date: 1942 - 1946
Collection Size: .5 lf
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