World War, 1939-1945
Found in 337 Collections and/or Records:
Captives walking--frid00686
Single file line of captives walking in farm field, guarded by soldier with rifle. Wagon wheel in left foreground.
Cards Aboard Train, c. 1940s
A pencil on paper drawing of a soldier sitting on a stool smoking and playing cards, darkly rendered in a soft leaded pencil, titled lower left.
Carrie Herring for Colorado Reflections
Carrie Herring describes her experiences in Iowa and owning a grocery store before moving to Denver in the late 1920s. Herring reflects on her time working at Golden Eagle Dry Goods Company before attending a comptometer course and obtaining a job at Macklem Baking Company, working her way up to the board. Herring discusses the impact of World War II on businesses and her experience at Altrusa Club, a women's service club formed during World War I.
Chaplain Earl Stone, 1944
Yom Kippur in Vesoul, France. Left to right are a Jewish survivor, Joe Burns, and Chaplain Earl Stone performing the Yom Kippur rituals.
Charles Fish for Colorado Reflections
Charles Fish moved to Colorado in 1937 and worked in Blackhawk and Central City at the Bobtail tunnel on the Mammoth vein and at mines in Idaho Springs. Fish reflects on his career as a gold miner and recalls working conditions, pay, and the dangers of mining. Discusses his involvement in the Boy Scouts, his time serving in World War II, and his move to Colorado Springs.
Childs, Ethel, 1993 February 5
An oral history project of the Republic County Historical Society regarding the role of women and their experiences on the home front during World War II.
Company Records, 1945, 2012
Contains folder with brochure for the Siegel Energy Corporation and a framed ration stamp form and gasoline purchase permit.
Container 2: World War II Practice Bomb, 1943
Shell of practice bomb from World War II with signatures of soldiers and airmen.
Correspondence: England and Theresienstadt, 1940-1944
Correspondence to and from the Loewenstein family during World War II. File includes two Red Cross letters from Marie Loewenstein to Henry Loewenstein when he was in England and four postcards from Ernst and Elizabeth Eylenburg, prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, to the Loewensteins in Berlin, Germany and Karin Steinberg in Vetschau, Germany.
Cossack anti-aircraft guardsmen--frid00850, unknown
Soldiers pulling anti-aircraft gun with horses on snow covered ground. Tank and anti-aircraft artillery on either side of road.