Finding Aid for the MGC Military Collection

Title: Finding Aid for the MGC Military Collection
extracted text: Collection Summary
Title
Midwest Genealogy Center Military Collection
Date
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Extent
2 archival boxes
Name and Location of Repository
Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence (Mo.)
Reference code: MGC 1082-MGCMC
Processed by: Jolene Clark, 2019; finding aid created by Jolene Clark, 2019.
Scope and Content
The following wars are included in this collection:
Civil War (1861-1865)
Spanish-American War (1898)
World War I (1914-1918)
World War II (1939-1945)
The dates reflect the entirety of the war, not necessarily the time that the United States was involved in
the war. Items contributed to this collection came from various donors. The common theme to the
items is that they all relate to military service. Most items were donated to the Midwest Genealogy
Center with little information about the original owner of the items. Some do contain names and
genealogical or background information. The series within the collection are arranged chronologically by
war. Not all items in the series fall within the dates of the war, but relate to the war in some way. Items
include photographs, ration books, military patches, flags, and printed materials. This collection
represents contributions made by individuals and families to the war through the items that they kept.

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Collection Inventory
System of Arrangement
These records are arranged in 6 series.
Box 1,
Series 1, Civil War
Folder 1, The American Civil War, documentary information
Item 1, Letter from Adams Dairy Farm with documentary information
Item 2, reprint of photograph of bridge over Antietam Creek (2 copies)
Folder 2, Photograph, First Platoon, Central Division, No. 49, U.R.K.P. (Uniform Rank,
Knights of Pythias)-formed by veterans of Civil War, dated September 27, 1894
Series 2, Spanish American War
Folder 1, The Spanish War Veteran, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 15, 1929
Folder 2, List of Company “F”, 3rd Missouri Volunteers
Folder 3, William C. Jungmann
Item 1, Description of photograph
Item 2, Photograph Tent #4, Company C, 21st Kansas US Volunteers
Item3, Reprint of photograph
Item 4, “Kansas in the Spanish-American War, History of Kansas, p. 130
Item 5, Notes on information in donation
Item 6, Photograph, W.C. Jungmann store
Item 7, Photograph, man and woman on steps
Item 8, Postcard
Item 9, photograph, Mineral Springs hotel
Item 10, photograph, vanadinite collected in North Geronimo Mine, AZ
Item 11, photocopy of photograph, William C and Minnie (Graham) Jungmann
Item 12, emails
Item 13, photocopy of photograph of Carbondale Community band with list of
people in photograph
Item 14, photocopy of plaque photograph to Charles “Pat” Jungmann
Item 15, copy of newspaper article, Charles “Pat” Jungmann
Item 16, “My recollections of Carbondale in the 1920s, 30s, and Until Wartime”
by Nadine Cavanaugh
Item 17, Jungman Brothers Drilling Company
Item 18, Main Street (Carbondale, Kansas)
Series 3, World War I
Folder 1, Troop D, 8th Cavalry at Fort Bliss, 1916
Item 1, Photograph, unidentified
Item 2, Photograph, unidentified
Item 3, Christmas menu, Fort Bliss, TX, December 25, 1916 (includes group
photo, roster, toasts, menu, poem, brief history)
Series 4, World War II
Folder 1, Ration books
Folder 2, Ration book for ladies’ brassieres
Folder 3, Pocket Bible from William R. Noland, Chaplain, U.S. Army
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Folder 4, Patches
Item 1, 33 Infantry division Golden Cross
Item 2, 6th Army “A”
Folder 5, Military Publications
Item 1, Army Talks, Vol. 1, No. 9, 24 Nov 1943
Item 2, A Short Guide to Great Britain
Item 3, Stark General Hospital, Charleston, SC
Item 4, A Camera Trip Through Duncan Field
Item 4, New Orleans Army Air Base, Air Depot Training Station, New Orleans, LA
Folder 6, Merchant Ship Recognition Manual
Folder 7, Michael Shine (1924-2018) combat engineers
Item 1, blank V-mail form
Item 2, service flag
Folder 8, Robert A. Higgins, Joplin, MO
Item 1, Letter from Public Relations Office, Pampa Army Air Field, Pampa, TX
Item 2, Photo, 2nd Lt Robert A. Higgins with attached press release for News
Herald, Joplin, MO
Series 5, unknown military service
Folder 1, Richard Westermann photographs [accrual, 2020]
Item 1, Photograph of Richard Westermann and others
Item 2, Photograph of Richard Westermann in cockpt of KC-97g in Lincoln, NE
Item 3, Photograph of Aerial regueling B-47 and KC-97g
Item 4, Wedding photo [Stephen Westermann]
Folder 2, Richard Westermann pins [accrual, 2020]
Box 1, dog tags
Box 2, military ribbons
Box 2
Box 3, insignia and pins
Series 6, Oversize items
Folder 1, Oversize items
Item 1, Lafayette County’s Honor Roll, 1917-1918/Lafayette Mounted
Volunteers Mexican War Company B.
Folder 2, Oversized items
Item 1, Certificate of Service in World War for Charles Schultz, Oneida County,
NY, 1919
Item 2, Army Diploma for Thomas S. Gosch, 1863
Item 3, Camel advertisement with service medals, decorations, and designations
Item 4, We Remember, 90th Anniversary Commemorative poster for Freda I
Provost
Item 5, Stars and Stripes, Vol. 4, No. 279, September 25, 1944
Item 6, Stars and Stripes, Liege Edition, Vol 1, No. 23, February 11, 1945

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Rights and Access
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use by appointment.
Physical Access
Most records within this collection are housed in file folder.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Languages and Scripts of the Material
Materials in the collection are entirely in English.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was donated by various individuals.
Accruals
Accruals 2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Originals owned by the Midwest Genealogy Center.

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