The group includes the organization's bylaws and minutes. References to the impact of federal wartime marketing controls are included in the records.
The Ruddell family papers document the lives of a Louisville family with correspondence, financial and legal documents, journals, and scrapbooks. Some of the correspondence includes letters to Ruddell's mother from her uncle, a Union soldier in the Civil War. Also present are letters to Ruddell's friends and family serving abroad during World War II. The financial and legal documents include estate and inheritance papers, deeds, bank statements, and insurance policies.
These papers consist of chapters, correspondence, and reviews relating to four books from 1935 to 1959, a bibliography; reprints from 1923 to 1960, a typescript manuscript of one article, and diplomas.
Typescript of a semi-fictional personal narrative of the detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexicon on July 16, 1945. The author was present at the detonation, serving as the military representative accompanying Los Angeles Times correspondent Alexander Reid. It is not entirely clear which components of the narrative are factual, and which are fiction. Included with the typescript are two sheets of background information about the author and his role in the events.
Consists of a letter home from Frank A. Thompson dated November 24, 1918 from Chavenay, France, and Dwane Thompson's flight training notebook and logbook of his missions during World War II (1944).
This collection contains the Cadet Nursing records of the Louisville General Hospital School of nursing, along with posters, brochures, and other literature published by the Cadet Nurse Corps.
