Military Manuscript Collections

Unless otherwise specified, the links below go to the ALICE catalog or OhioLINK’s Finding Aid Repository.  For more information about manuscript collections, contact Greta Suiter.

Civil War

• Brown Family Collection  (MSS18)
• Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War  (MSS53)
• Grosvenor Family Papers  (MSS150)
• Henry Hannan Correspondence  (MSS294) - Ohio University student
• Joseph Aplin Martin Collection  (MSS106)  
• Sgt. William McDonald Collection  (MSS182)
• Samuel Baldwin Pruden Collection  (MSS17) - Athens business, Civil War, and slavery
• Colonel John Stone Collection  (MSS140) - Belpre pioneer & abolitionist
• Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company C Reports  (MSS240)
• Nelson Homes Van Vorhes Papers  (MSS10) - Athens publisher, Civil War officer, and politician
• Milo Wilkerson Diary  (MSS193) - Belmont County

Spanish-American War

• Clarence E. Scott Scrapbook of United States Army Volunteer Engineers in Cuba 1898-1899 (MSS195)

First World War

• Carl Arthur Engle Diary (MSS211)
• Lerouville, Fliegerbilder Von Blatt Volume  (MSS165) - aerial photographs
• Earl C. Shivley Collection  (MSS28) - soldier, attorney, and Ohio University Trustee
• Wyckoff – Gerling Collection  (MSS126) -  postcards and scrapbook

Central America

• Emil Porter Thomas Letters  (MSS192) - Marine in Nicaragua

Spanish Civil War

• Spanish Civil War, World War II, and Cold War Bubblegum Cards  (MSS186)

Second World War

• Athens County War Loan Scrapbooks  (MSS209)
• Allan Cannon World War II Scrapbooks  (MSS284)
• Iris Carpenter Typescript  (MSS147)  - correspondent]
• Richard E. Cole Papers  (MSS191) - Doolittle’s Raiders
• William H. Culver Diary  (MSS210) - D-Day
• Hugh H. Davis Collection  (MSS121) - military intelligence
• William Diles and Thomas Morgan World War II Collection  (MSS281)
• Walter R. Ervin Collection  (MSS144)  - POW
• Hans Flaechsner Papers on the Defense of Albert Speer  (MSS125)
• Marcius P. Garafalo Collection  (MSS208)  Pacific
• Collection on George Hebenstreit  (MSS187)  - cameraman
• OMAHA Beach Maps  (MSS293) - Normandy invasion
• Cornelius Ryan Collection of World War II Papers  (MSS20) [web page]
• Rybarczyk / Fisher Correspondence  (MSS190)
• Spanish Civil War, World War II, and Cold War Bubblegum Cards  (MSS186)
• Ann Stringer Collection  (MSS13) - correspondent
• World War II Era Films  (MSS274)
• Collection of World War II Newsmaps  (MSS204)

Korean War

• North Korean and United Nations/South Korean Propaganda Leaflets  (MSS185)

Vietnam War

• Kenneth J. Heineman Papers  (MSS289)  - campus unrest

Cold War

• Spanish Civil War, World War II, and Cold War Bubblegum Cards  (MSS186)