Manuscripts
-----. Loose scrapbook pages of Jack Smith, 1916-1996 in the U.S. Marine Corps. 6 pages. ca. 1944-1945
- Description
Scrapbook page 1: "War is hell." Recto: Jack Smith and fellow Marines. 2 photographs: B&W; 11x8cm and 9x11cm. 1945. Also: Smith, Jack, 1916-1996. To Anna M. Smith. L.S. (typewritten: 1p,); 27cm. Scrapbook page 2. 1944. Recto: Jack Smith, 1916-1996, in uniform, standing by plane. 1 photograph: B&W; 26x21cm. 1944. Verso: Platoon 234 U.S. Marine Corps. San Diego, 1944. 1 photograph: B&W; 21x26cm. Scrapbook page 3. 1945. Recto: Jack Smith, 1916-1996, looking at a "Naming Your Baby" book with three fellow Marines on Iwo Jima. 1 photograph: B&W; 26x21cm. Verso: Jack Smith, 1916-1996, and two marines look on as a marine and a brigadier general pass a clipping. 1 photograph: B&W; 21x26cm. Scrapbook page 4. ca. 1945. Recto: Jack Smith, 1916-1996, looking a camera with cigarette in mount, and five unidentified men in uniform. 1 photograph: B&W; 26x21cm. Scrapbook page 5: "Washington D.C" 1945. Recto: Two unidentified men n uniform and Jack Smith, 1916-1996, holding drinks and barware. 1 photograph: B&W; 21x26cm. Verso: Jack Smith, 1916-1996, and four unidentified men in uniform at a canteen bar. 1 photograph: B&W; 21x26cm. Note: caption "Washington D.C. Just before going to the S. Pacific." Scrapbook page 6. 1944. Recto: Jack Smith, 1916-1996, U.S. Marine Corps certificate of enrollment. 1 item. Verso: Two unidentified men and Jack Smith, 1916-1996, in uniform. 1 photograph: B&W; 11x13cm. Two unidentified men and Jack Smith, 1916-1996, in a small room with Underwood typewriter. 1 photograph: B&W; 11x13cm.
