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Donald Harries letters to May Dearing Nicholson
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Creator: |
Harries, Donald Dunbar, Jr. |
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Dates: |
1944-1947 |
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The collection consists of correspondence, photographs and portraits, writings, and artifacts. In his letters to May Nicholson
(nicknamed Midget), Donald Harries (nicknamed Rabbit) describes his pilot training as he progessses from learning to start
a plane, take off, land, and finally fly cross country. The only letter from May is in 1946 when Donald writes that he is
engaged to Sally in Duluth. There are photographs of May, portraits of May and her brother Homer as children, and one photograph
presumably of Donald. The writings are notes on index cards about a thwarted love story between a girl and a pre-flight student.
The story is apparently written hy May, but the author is listed as Dearing Mays. Artifacts are a Navy pin and bracelet inside
a wooden box from Kamp Kahlert in Maryland, where May was a summer counselor.
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ms3919 |
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Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
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Guinn family papers and photographs
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Guinn, Austin Edgar, 1888-1945 |
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Dates: |
1869-1959 |
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This collection contains photographs and documents regarding Austin E. Guinn's activities as a US Navy steward and photographer
from 1909-1922, and as an egg farmer in Butler, Georgia from 1923 until his death in 1945. Included are photographs of events
in the Mexican War, Navy ships in ports in the Caribbean and in World War I Atlantic convoys, Washington DC monuments seen
from the air, photographs of Woodrow Wilson, General Pershing and Marshall Foch, aerial photos of the Billy Mitchell ship
bombing tests, Glenn Curtiss' first seaplane, as well as various other airships in development by the Navy. There are also
many pictures depicting life on the Peach Valley Egg Farm, including legal documents and genealogical information about the
Guinn family and the egg farm.
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ms4029 |
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Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
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