Papers, 1916-1968.

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Papers, 1916-1968.

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Newspaper clippings, military correspondence, letters of affection, and short stories of Ethel W. Sly McCart. War correspondence, diaries, and photographs documenting her career in the U.S. Marine Reserve as a corporal during the first World War. The bulk of the McCart collection comprises William McCart's papers: high school exam papers, his participation in athletics, war correspondence, address booklets, newspaper clippings, and a journal of his and Ethel's mining endeavors. After Ethel died William joined a lovelorn club and saved much correspondence dating from 1957-1968.

2 boxes (1.17 cu. ft.) + 1 oversize folder

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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United States. Marine Corps

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The U.S. Marine Corps was established on November 10, 1775. From the description of Papers, 1933-1945. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 754107146 The history of the Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers dates from 1942-1945. In 1942, a white man by the name of Phillip Johnston, who had lived on a Navajo reservation for many years of his life, conceived an idea that he thought might help the war. He believed that the Navajo language, a verbal, rarely-written language, coul...

McCart, Ethel W., 1891-1957.

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McCart family.

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Ethel W. Sly McCart, born 1891, Trinidad, Colorado, died 1957, Albuqueque, New Mexico. Corporal with the Adjutant and Inspector's Department in Washington D.C., collaborated with husband, William, in a joint mining operation. William Henry McCart, metallurgist, born 1898, Detroit, Minnesota. Private in the U.S. Marine Corps, wounded in the Dominican Republic at Santo Domingo City. From the description of Papers, 1916-1968. (University ...

McCart, William H., b.1898.

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