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Olinger family papers, 1930s-1980s

 File — Box: 1

Dates

  • Creation: 1930s-1980s

General

Includes correspondence from Davida to family and sorority sisters, manuscripts of stories and histories about Persia, articles and news clippings about Persia/Iran, etc. These materials were associated with Davida's sister Barbara.

The box also includes correspondence from Davida's and Barbara's mother Anna, much of it undated but other letters dated from the 1960s, as well as some notes from their brother Dwight, Davida's letters home while traveling to Havana, Cuba in 1930, information about Davida's work overseas post-WWII in Korea and Japan and in Reno County in the late 1960s, etc. There is a small amount of material related to Anna Olinger's 100th birthday in 1972.

Repository Details

Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository

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