United States -- History -- 1933-1945

Black and white copy prints of scenes of the Depression and dust bowl in rural Oklahoma. Included are photographs of migrants, dust storms, and foreclosed farms.

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U.S. Army officer. Correspondence (1929-1954) concerning McLain's personal and business affairs; orders, memoranda, reports (1920-1937) and correspondence (1939-1940) from McLain's service with the Oklahoma National Guard; speeches (1947-1954) made by McLain as Chief of Information of the U.S. Army and as a member of the National Security Training Commission; typescript account (n.d.) by McLain of his participation as commander of the 45th Division Artillery in the Allied invasion of Sicily during World War II; and a typescript account by McLain of the 45th Division Artillery's role in the Battle of the Aisne (1918) in World War I.

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Collector. Copies of ship's newsletters and military newspapers entitled "Patrol" (1944), the "Fulton Flotsam" (1944) "History of the U.S.S. Caelum (Ak-106)" (ca. 1945), and a "Resume of Shanghai" (n.d.) prepared for the U.S.S. Caelum's crew members.