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Stuff All Your Junk In Your Gas Mask

One newspaper clipping of a cartoon panel entitled, "Stuff All Your Junk In Your Gas Mask." Depicts a soldier stuffing his belongings inside of his gas mask.

GLC09662.187.02

Male Call: Contor Map

One comic entitled Male Call by Milton Caniff sent by Raymond James Graeff and Susan Prowell Graeff to Leonard Eugene Graeff dated October 22, 1944. Features four panels of women in fancy dresses posing. In the last panel it comments "You mean you...

GLC09611.351.02

Male Call: Tool-Happy Terminology

One comic entitled Male Call by Milton Caniff sent by Raymond James Graeff and Susan Prowell Graeff to Leonard Eugene Graeff dated October 22, 1944. Features eight common mechanic terms and illustrates how they are used to refer to women. Distributed...

GLC09611.351.03

The Proposition

One newspaper clipping sent by Frank B. White to L. Jean White dated October 9, 1944. Included in a letter (GLC09855.097.01.) The clipping features a comic strip of "Sad Sack, the most doleful, pathetic, set-upon, heart-rending buck private who ever...

GLC09855.097.03

"Why don't you sew to me while I read dear..."

One newspaper clipping sent by Frank B. White to L. Jean White dated 1944. The clipping is of a comic featuring a married couple in armchairs with a table between them. The man is reading the paper while the woman does needle point.

GLC09855.122.02

to Ruth Fairchild

One letter addressed to Ruth Fairchild from Don dated October 2, 1945. Gives updates on his work. Expresses that he misses her and wishes to return home soon.

Enclosed with a two-paged newspaper clipping from the "Newport Navalog," related to Navy...

GLC09903.48

To Paul H. and Margaret Frances Lobik [Decimalized .001-.111.02]

A collection of one hundred and fifty three letters, photographs and greeting cards sent to Paul H. Lobik and his wife Margaret Frances Lobik. Some letters are from service men during World War II. There are also letters from friends of Margaret...

GLC09578

Frank and Jean White Collection [Decimalized .001-.286]

A collection of 276 letters, 12 greeting cards, 10 newspaper clippings, 9 photographs, 5 photograph negatives, 3 sketches, 2 menus, 1 document and 1 postcard. The letters were exchanged between World War II Marine Frank B. White, and his wife L. Jean...

GLC09855

[World War II letters of Leonard Eugene Graeff of Harrisburg Pennsylvania] [Decimalized .001-.602]

672 items, primarily letters from and to Leonard Eugene Graeff. Many of the letters are between him and his parents Raymond James Graeff and Susan Prowell Graeff. The items date from 1937 to 1963 with the bulk of the material from 1942-1945. The...

GLC09611

Gone Off with the Yanks

Marked "Plate 32." Contains 4 images. Upper left image is titled "Gone off with the Yanks," and shows what appears to be an abandoned shack that was inhabited by enslaved people. Upper right image is titled "A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey," and...

GLC02199.32

Slaves Concealing Their Master From a Search Party

One etching entitled, "Slaves Concealing Their Master From a Search Party," by Adalbert John Volck, political cartoonist and sympathist with the Confederacy. Depicts an enslaved woman, directing mounted Federal soldiers as the enslaver hides in the...

GLC00493.12

Free Negroes in Hayti

One print entitled, "Free Negroes in Hayti" by Adalbert John Volck dated approximately 1861-1863. Volck's illustration is a caricature of Haitians. To raise money for the Confederacy, he has satirized Black Haitians as savages who sacrifice their...

GLC00493.27

The Freeman [Volume 9, No. 32 (October 16, 1897)]

One issue of The Freeman printed in Indianapolis, Indiana dated October 16, 1897. Contains news related to Black communities in Indiana: the erection of a new church and community programs planned, advertisements, cartoons, book reviews, serials...

GLC09971

to Paul H. and Margaret Lobik

One postcard from Ray Korman to Paul H. and Margaret Lobik dated June 28, 1944. The postcard features a cartoon of a drill sergeant yelling at a soldier digging a hole it reads, "Stop pestering me. I'll let you know when the war has ended"

GLC09578.068.02

Stuff All Your Junk In Your Gas Mask

One newspaper clipping of a cartoon panel entitled, "Stuff All Your Junk In Your Gas Mask." Depicts a soldier stuffing his belongings inside of his gas mask.

GLC09662.188.02

Citizen 13660

One book entitled Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo published 1946. The book details Okubo's life in an internment camp. Most pages in the book contain text and a drawing done by Okubo. It contains 206 drawings from her time in the camps. It was the first...

GLC09987

From One in a Million

One pamphlet entitled From One in a Million sent by Robert Winemiller to Leonard Eugene Graeff dated 1942. This pamphlet is folded into the shape of an envelope. When opened the inside of the pamphlet folds out into a long strip. The contents of the...

GLC09611.569

Los Angeles Evening Herald Express [Vol. LXXV No. 17 (April 14, 1945)]

One issue of the Los Angeles Evening Herald Express dated April 14, 1945. Articles printed pertain to the Truman Administration transferring from the Roosevelt Administration; reports of the Japanese army's response to Roosevelt's death...

GLC09619.096

Nuts and Jolts

One newspaper clipping of a cartoon entiteld "Nuts and Jolts" with a caption that reads, "You can't hire a carpenter or plumber these days. I don't know where we'd be if my wife didn't practice first aid!" Depicts two men sitting in a living room...

GLC09953.025

Funny Business

One newspaper clipping of a cartoon entitled, "Funny Business." Depcits two soldiers talking by tents. Caption reads, " I know it's not according to regulations for sentry duty, but I hear the boys were having a cake sent in." Illustrated by Ralph A...

GLC09953.033

Grin and Bear It

One newspaper clipping entitled, "Grin and Bear It," illustrated by George Lichty. Related to the type of men who are being drafted or enlisting during World War II.

GLC09993.175.02

[Cartoon depicting military servicemen]

One clipping of a cartoon dated June 19, 1943. Caption reads, "Well now ain't that nice Smitty got another gift from home."

GLC09953.148

Finn Beetle Bailey

One newspaper clipping of a comic strip entitled, "Finn Beetle Bailey." Dated 1951.

GLC10004.03.67

The Literary Digest [Vol. 98, No. 12 (September 22, 1928)]

One printing of The Literary Digest dated September 22, 1928. Front cover contains an image of 'Dry Land Harvest' painted by J. Leo Fairbanks. Image is of farmers plowing hay. Headline on cover reads, "First Returns in Mammoth Presidential Poll of 19...

GLC10083