Great Lakes Naval Training photographs

Collection — Box: SC

Identifier: S4520

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of three 8x10 (broken at the folds), black and white photographs of Duluth men who served in the Great Lakes Naval Training program in WWI. Photographs like these were used in the publication Great Lakes Recruit, of which pages 39, 40 of the October 1918 issue is also in this collection (torn in half at the fold). The Great Lakes Recruit magazine was published monthly between 1915 and 1919.

In photographs labeled 2 and 3 by the donor, identification of one man is supplied: "The warrant officer is Art MacGregor, the brother of Louis who owned MacGregor-Soderstrom a Duluth men's clothing business." There is one 1940s photographic postcard of an unidentified Duluth young woman in a wool coat in front of the windows of the Granda News store of Duluth. There are magazines visible through the glass, as well as popcorn and Coca-Cola signs.

Dates

Creation: 1918, 1940s

Creator

Great Lakes Naval Training, 1918, 1940s (Family)

Conditions Governing Access

Open for use in the Kathryn A. Martin Library, Archives and Special Collections.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection may be protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials. Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provision of the copyright law.

Extent

4.00 Photographic Prints

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The collection consists of three 8x10 (broken at the folds), black and white photographs of Duluth men who served in the Great Lakes Naval Training program in WWI.

Physical Location

This collection is located at the University of Minnesota Duluth Archives. For more information about this collection or to make an appointment, contact us at libarchives@d.umn.edu or 218-726-8526.

General

This collection is part of the Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections, which are housed in the University of Minnesota Duluth Archives at the Kathryn A. Martin Library.