American Militaria Collection
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists of militaria belonging to various service-members in the WWII and Cold War eras. Included are: the lapel pins and certification cards of WWII Merchant Mariner William H. Pabst Jr.; a WWII-era Army Medical Department First Aid Kit assigned to a service-member with the surname Daley; photographs, documents and historic objects belonging to WWII Army soldier James Nolan Hoover, who served in North Africa and occupied Japan with the 62nd Signals Battalion and Thomas J. Durkin, who served in the U.S. Air Force in the early 1950s and was stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska with the 925th Engineer Aviation Group.
Dates
- Creation: 1931-1996
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the San José State University Library Special Collections & Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the SJSU Special Collections & Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Copyright restrictions also apply to digital reproductions of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Extent
3 boxes (3.42 linear feet)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection consists of militaria belonging to various service-members in the WWII and Cold War eras. Included are: the lapel pins and certification cards of WWII Merchant Mariner William H. Pabst Jr.; a WWII-era Army Medical Department First Aid Kit assigned to a service-member with the surname Daley; photographs, documents and historic objects belonging to WWII Army soldier James Nolan Hoover, who served in North Africa and occupied Japan with the 62nd Signals Battalion, and Thomas J. Durkin, who served in the U.S. Air Force in the early 1950s and was stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska with the 925th Engineer Aviation Group.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in four series: Series I. Thomas J. Durkin; Series II. William H. Pabst, Jr.; Series III: The Hoover Family; Series IV.: The Daley Medical Kit.
- Title
- Guide to the American Militaria Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- June 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the SJSU Special Collections & Archives Repository
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
San José State University
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San José, CA 95192-0028
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