Typescript diary of Milton P. Skinner for 1928, bound with string. Brief daily entries from January to July describe Skinner's work on various manuscripts, local weather, auto trips, and outings with his wife Eva, including a trip to Washington in April for the annual meeting of the Society of Mammalogists and a trip from the Skinner home in Jamestown, New York to Crater Lake in Oregon. Entries omitted from August through November. December entries relate Skinner's life in Long Beach, California and note arrangement of lecture engagements at high schools and social clubs in Southern California. Typescript and manuscript financial accounts for house and automobile expenses, as well as expenses for clothes, books, amusements, and personal items are appended. Typescript calculation of personal assets dated 1928 Jan 1 also bound with diary.
Description:
Milton P. Skinner, naturalist and author. In 1920, appointed Yellowstone National Park's first park naturalist. and Purchased from Ron Lerner on the William Robertson Coe Fund, 2004.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Southern--Social life and customs, Crater Lake National Park (Or.), Jamestown (N.Y.), and Long Beach (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
American Society of Mammalogists, Skinner, Eva, and Skinner, Milton P. (Milton Philo), b. 1879
Diary completely digitized. and William E. Prince, born in and appointed from Massachusetts to the United States Army, describes the military posts in which he served, namely: Ringgold Barracks, Forts Clark, Terrett, Duncan, McKavett, Texas, and Fort Arbuckle, Indian Territory. He describes the wagon trains, the difficulties with the Mexicans crossing the border, the Carbajal revolt in Mexico, 1850-1853, known as the Merchants War, and his command along the Rio Grande where the army was preserving civil authority.
Description:
Accompanied by a typewritten summary of the diary.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Arbuckle (Okla.), Fort Clark (Tex.), Fort Duncan (Tex.), Fort McKavett (Tex.), Fort Ringgold (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Fort Terrett (Tex.), Mexico--History--1821-1861, and Texas--History--1846-1950
Subject (Name):
Carbajal, José María Jesús, d. 1874, Prince, William E., d. 1892, and United States--Army--Military life--History--19th century
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Texas, Merchants War, 1850-1853, and Military bases--Texas
Yonekazu Satoda papers, photographs, and moving films
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 1
Image Count:
178
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Material related to his internment at the Jerome Relocation Center includes a diary he kept from May 1942 to February 1945, as well as photographs that document the camp and his family., Material related to his military service includes training information from Officer Candidate School at the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, as well as photographs and moving films created during his service in Japan., and This collection includes papers, photographs, and moving films that document the internment of Japanese American Yonekazu Satoda at the Jerome Relocation Center in Denison, Arkansas, 1942-1945, as well as his military service with the United States Army in Japan, 1946-1948. Additional material documents other aspects of his life, especially his education as an accountant, as well as correspondence with friends and businesses.
Description:
Blank pages at end not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Arkansas--Pictorial works, Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952--Pictorial works, and Japan--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Infantry School (U.S.), Jerome Relocation Center (Ark.), Jerome Relocation Center (Ark.)--Pictorial works, Satoda, Yonekazu,--1921-, and United States.--Army--Officers--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Concentration camps--Arkansas, Concentration camps--Arkansas--Pictorial works, Japanese American soldiers, Japanese American soldiers--Pictorial works, Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arkansas, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arkansas--Pictorial works, World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans, and World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Japanese American