Floyd Kelly Jr. Service Scrapbook, 1944 - 1946

Item — Box: AR00037

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

A black cloth scrapbook with two red and blue embroidered dragons moving in a circle on the front cover. This scrapbook is bound together with black string, with the ends of the string heavily frayed. Five pieces of transparent tape have been applied to the spine. A large split has formed between the front cover and the spine. This scrapbook contains 40 pages of material collected, curated, and compiled by Kelly Floyd Jr. S 1/C United States Navy. Material within this scrapbook includes newspaper clippings, black-and-white photographs, color photographs, postcards from islands in the Asian-pacific theatre, pencil sketches by Floyd Kelly Jr., poems, and various objects collected by Floyd Kelly Jr. during his service with the United States Navy.

Dates

Creation: 1944 - 1946

Creator

From the Collection: Kelly, Floyd Jr., 1925-2011 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for reseach.

Folders 17 and 25 contain sensitive material that has been redacted. The original copy has been removed to box RE0001. Contact the archivist for more information.

Extent

From the Collection: 0.5 Linear Feet (This collection contains 18 full 1/2" tab legal-size folders and one oversized folder housed within one archival banker's box and one oversized box. )