Richard W. Ziegler Collection

The Richard W. Ziegler collection consists of photographs, documents, scrapbook pages, and materials gathered by Richard W. “Dick” Ziegler during his military career as a Corporal with the United States Marine Corps. The photographs included in this collection are either black-and-white or sepia-toned and feature various topics. These topics include Korean workers, United States Marines in uniforms, marines training at Linda Vista in the southern California desert, living conditions for Marines at Tinian, Richard W. Ziegler in Uniform, Marines posing together, and native Pacific islanders. The documents included in this collection feature Richard W. Ziegler’s USMC honorable discharge paperwork, certificates, development plans for Nukufetau Atoll, and identification cards related to his military career. Included in this collection is a letter written by an indigenous island boy to Richard Ziegler's mother with the purpose of being able to practice his english. This collection prominently features scrapbook pages with photographs of key locations throughout Tinian, Marines training at Linda Vista, United States Marines marching together, American and Japanese aircraft, Island indigenous, and the 17th aircraft artillery base. The final portion of this collection are three publications titled “Leatherneck,” “Story of Marine Skytillerymen,” and “Tinian Then and Now…”