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Contains supply catalogs and ordering information for suppliers of Anderson Lumber Company between 1942 and 1946, and several items from the War Production Board issued in 1942 and 1943.

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The Asa "Wayne" Arrington photograph collection consists of 207 images including a handful of black and white photographs from WWII taken from 1943 to 1946 and include shots of Wayne Arrington in uniform, the crew on the deck of the USS Currier (DE-700), and images of Wayne and his brother Leonard from Oran, Algeria in July, 1944. The remaining photographs, taken between 1992 and 1999, are large group pictures taken at U.S.S. Currier reunions. Arrington appears in many of these images.

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This collection documents the life of Royce S. Bringhurst, a Bennion, Utah native who went on to become a strawberry pomologist at the University of California at Davis. It includes material from his mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, military service in WWII, pomology career, and retirement prior to his death in November of 2005.

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Questionnaires sent to Italian and German P.O.W.s who were imprisoned in Utah during World War II. The research data collected were used in an article for the Utah Historical Quarterly.

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Consists of photocopied obituaries from the Herald Journal and funeral programs for members of the Cache County American Legion.

Abstract Cache Valley, Utah is the home of Burmese Muslim, Karen, and Eritrean refugees. Documenting and preserving their stories is an important goal of Utah State University’s Fife Folklore Archives (FFA). In May 2015, USU’s FFA and Folklore Program, with help from the Karen community, hosted a Library of Congress Field School for Cultural Documentation: “Voices: Refugees in Cache Valley.” Field school students worked to document Cache Valley’s recent refugee communities. This collection, Folk Coll...

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The Camp Downey oral histories mainly consists of audio recordings and transcripts of several interviews which John Olinger conducted for his 1987 master’s thesis in history, Camp Downey: A Conscientious Objector Work Camp .

Abstract Papers include biographical material, correspondence, personal papers, miscellaneous reports and orders, flight record, decorations, citations, awards. Correspondence primarily from the period when Cannon served as Commander in Chief of U.S. Air Forces in Europe (1945) with a limited amount of material in regard to his post as Commander of the U.S. 12th Air Force and all allied air forces in the European and Mediterranean theatres of World War II. Also includes collection of correspondence...

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The 834 black & white and color photographs in this collection are mostly publicity photographs which document Cannon's duties (such as military parades, medal pinning ceremonies, graduation exercises, fund raising, inspections, retirements, visiting dignitaries, and high-level meetings) as an Air Force General; some black & white images also include negatives. Nearly all the photographs were taken between 1947 and 1953.

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This collection contains twenty-nine items including thirteen letters, fourteen itemized bills, an account statement, and a page of blank checks from Judge William Alexander Carter of Fort Bridger, Wyoming.