Letter home, from Korea, 1953-1955.

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Letter home, from Korea, 1953-1955.

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A series of letters (with transcriptions), b&w photographs, and color slides documenting Spofford's service in the Army Medical Service during the Korea War. Letters are addressed to Spofford's parents. Photographs and slides were taken by Spofford in Japan and Korea in 1954.

2 liner feet, including 222 letters, 351 slides, 450 photographs ; 42 cm. or smaller.

Boston Athenaeum

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SNAC Resource ID: 8145674

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Spofford, Hildur E.

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Spofford, John Eliot.

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Born Wellesley Hills, Mass. 1931; son of Hildur Emelia (Dahl) and Harry Herbert Rawson Spofford; attended Wellesley Public Schools, Roxbury Latin School and Harvard (Class of 1954); served in U.S. Army Medical Service, as a ambulance driver in Korea from 1953 to 1955; received degree from Havard after service and began work at the Claim Department of the Prudential Insurance Company (Newark, N.J.); two years later, returned to Boston to work for the Clam Department of New England Mutual Life Ins...

United States. Army Medical Service

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Spofford, Harry H. R.

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