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Doing Our Part--Letters

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Photos

These photos are in the collection of The Institute on World War II and the Human Experience at Florida State University.

Images of letters

Photos and images of letters
 

These photos are in the American Memory collection, America from the Great Depression to World War II:  Photographs from the FSA/OWI, 1935-1945 . Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.

Fort Belvoir, VA. Sergeant George Camblair writing letters home from camp.

Servicemen writing letters in reading room of USO (United Service Organizations) club. San Francisco, CA

One of the "Flying Sergeants" reads a letter from home, Lake Muroc, CA

Greenville, SC. Air Service Command. Reading a letter from home.

Greenville, SC. Air Service Command. Writing a letter home.
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Gorham (vicinity), NH. Evenings are long and lonely for Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain. Barbara reads or writes letters to her husband who is in the Navy.
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Daytona Beach, FL. Bethune-Cookman College. Student in the girls' dormitory writing a letter to her boyfriend, who is serving in the U.S. Army.

Lititz, PA. Mrs. Viola Marvel in her apartment, writing a letter to her son in the U.S. Army. She works in the Animal Trap Company now, but worked in a Philadelphia department store before the war.

Lititz, PA. Mrs. Julian Bachman, twenty-three, has been married a year. Her husband is in Officers' Candidate School of the U.S. Army Air Corps in Kentucky, so she is living at home and works at the Animal Trap Company from 7 to 4. She spends her evening writing him daily letters.
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New York, New York. Mrs. Rose Carrendeno reading letters from her three sons who are in the armed services.

Hartford, Connecticut (vicinity). Polish farmer's wife reading a letter from her son in the armed forces.

Pittsburgh, PA (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Jo Patenesky, miner, reading a letter from his son who is in the Army.
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Brooklyn, NY. Mrs. R. Drewes reading a letter from her grandson in overseas service to Mrs. A. Laemmel at a Red Cross meeting at the Church of the Good Shepherd.

New York, NY. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Fazio reading a letter from their son in the United States Army in Africa. Mr. Fazio is a journalist. They have three other sons in the Army in training in the United States.
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Adams County, ND. North Dakota stock farmer, George P. Moeller, writing a letter at the kitchen table.

Defense worker writing a letter home in lobby of one of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) dormitories for defense workers. Aberdeen, MD.

Defense worker reading a letter from home. He works at the proving grounds in Aberdeen, MD and lives in one of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) dormitories for defense workers.

Arlington Farms, war duration residence halls. Waiting for letters at the mail desk. Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms.

Arlington Farms, war duration residence halls. Waiting for and opening letters at the mail desk. Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms.

Arlington, VA. Answering mail in a room at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work for the U.S. government for the duration of the war. Most of these girls carry on a voluminous correspondence. This girl averages twenty letters a week.

Arlington, VA. A girl writing a letter in her room at Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the government for the duration of the war.

Niagara Falls, NY. Mrs. Hannegan (right) runs a boardinghouse for girls who work in war plants. Her daughter Nan, nineteen, a chemical operator in the Niacet Chemical Company, and another girl writing letters.

Niagara Falls, NY. Elaine Colgan's bureau in Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse. In the mirror she can be seen reading a letter from home to her roommate, Alice. Girls live two and three in a room; pay eight dollars a week board. Receiving and writing letters is their favorite pastime.

Niagara Falls, NY. Nan Hannegan, a nineteen-year old chemical operator at the Niacet chemical company, and a friend writing letters.
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Posters

These posters are in the Northwestern University Library collection.  Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.

Be with him at every mail call

Christmas overseas gifts
 

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Audio

Click for a free download of  RealPlayer (the free "basic" version is in the upper corner on the far right).

These audios are in the Lost and Found Sound "Audio Artifacts" collection of National Public Radio.

Merlyn Snyder (scroll down to hear Merlyn's audio letter to his folks)

Louie (scroll down to hear Mrs. B's audio letter to her husband)
 

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Ads

These ads are in the Ad*Access collection of Duke University.

Listing of ads about letter-writing

When someone you love goes to war (Westinghouse)

Sweet music for mom (Sonora)

Record that money can’t buy (Sonora)
 

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