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Box 1

 Container
Call Number: RH MS 1575

Contains 31 Results:

[Photographs of Ernest Wayne Dewey]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Includes wedding photo with Ernest Wayne Dewey's parents, Ernest and Violet Dewey and Helen Scamell and her parents, Ralph and Eva (Bernhard) Scamell.

[Letters from the early life of Helen Scamell], 1924, 1929, 1934

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Includes letters to Santa and a letter from a local bank upon her birth.

Dates: 1924, 1929, 1934

[Correspondence from Helen Scamell Dewey to her sister Eva Scamell], October 10, 1943 – July 31, 1946

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Letters detail life in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), cost and types of food and clothing, lack of time off, encouraging sister through courses at KU, and offering advice.

Dates: October 10, 1943 – July 31, 1946

[Correspondence from Helen Scamell Dewey to her parents, Ralph and Eva Scamell], October 19, 1944 – July 31, 1966

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Topics mentioned in letters include pregnancy, gifts of food and clothing, vacations, and relocating the family.

Dates: October 19, 1944 – July 31, 1966

Family of Ralph Scamell and Eva Bernhard Scamell [photographs], 2002, mostly undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7-8
Scope and Contents

Includes undated black and white photos from the 1900s, along with color photos that are dated 2002. Removed from an album with the folder title as label.

Dates: 2002, mostly undated

[United States Navy WAVES publications], 1943, 1944, 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Includes recruiting pamphlets and 2 volumes of the SK-ROLL, the newsletter from the Mlledgeville, Georgia storekeeper training school.

Dates: 1943, 1944, 1945

[U.S. Navy-issued publications], 1941, 1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

Includes two pocket bibles and a leatherbound pamphlet about the U.S. Naval Hospital at San Diego, California.

Dates: 1941, 1943

[Correspondence from Alva Bernhard to his sister Eva (Bernhard) Scamell], 1926

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of Alva Bernhard, one of which was erroneously labeled with a sticky note as Ralph Scamell.

Dates: 1926

[Ralph Eugene Scamell photographs], [1910?]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 20-21
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of Ralph Scamell and Hugh Fisher’s room on Tennessee Street and of the engineering camp on Blue Mound outside Lawrence, KS.

Dates: [1910?]

[Kansas Alpha of Phi Sigma Chi dance card with pencil labeled Elliot, Phila], April 5, 1907

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents

Includes list of fraternity members, as well as names marked in pencil.

Dates: April 5, 1907

[Photographs of Charlotte, Ralph, Helen, and Evalyn Scamell], 1943, 1945, 1989

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents

Includes the wedding photos of Ralph and Helen Scamell taken at “Uncle Alva’s” in California.

Dates: 1943, 1945, 1989

[Photographs of the Joseph and Charlotte Bernhard family]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 27-28
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of Joseph Carvossa Bernhard and Charlotte White (Fleming) Bernhard and their children: Clarence, Leslie, Emma, Inez, Alice, Alva, Vera, Lillie and Rillie (twins), and Eva Charlotte, along with a gift agreement signed by Eva Bernhard Scamell giving some of Joseph Bernhard’s papers to the United Methodist Church archives. Some portraits are labeled with the names of two different people.

[Photographs of relatives], 1906

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents

Labels on photographs include Grandma Scamell, Mrs. Fred Scamell, Blanche Scamell Mangelsdorf, and Great-grandmother Mothersead (Hannah) on porch in Talmage, Nebraska.

Dates: 1906