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Zig Boroughs papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-040
Abstract
The collection consists of correspondence, memoirs, and other papers of Zig Boroughs, an American soldier who served with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II. Two memoirs are included: one written by Edith Jakobs, a Jewish native of Germany who was liberated by members of Boroughs's unit while in hiding in the Netherlands; the other by Werner "Tom" Angress, also a Jewish native of Germany, who enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as an interrogator with Boroughs's...
Dates:
1984-2008
Found in:
Special Collections
Vincent P. Lannie collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0077
Abstract
Materials collected by Vincent P. Lannie relate to writer Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle, Allston and Vanderhost family members and their enslaved people, Confederate imprints, a broadside advertisement for a rice planting device, Civil War ships USS Monitor and Keokuk, a Revolutionary era parole, and a letter of John Rutledge. Also includes letters to George N. Shuster, former president of Hunter College and editor of...
Dates:
1733-1974
Found in:
Special Collections
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- Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 1
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- Commonweal (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Hersey, John, 1914-1993 1
- Hunter College 1
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- Keokuk (Ironclad steamer) 1
- Lannie, Vincent P. 1
- Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 1
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- Pringle, Elizabeth W. Allston (Elizabeth Waties Allston), 1845-1921 1
- Resnik, Regina, 1922-2013 1
- Rutledge, John, 1739-1800 1
- Shuster, George N. (George Nauman), 1894-1977 1
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