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1. Carol Olive Haley collection : Veterans History Project (U.S.), 1944-1958, 2014 March 18

   11 photographs.. 134 letters.. 5 items.. -- Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Carol Haley served in the United States Navy WAVES (Navy Women's Reserve), and served as a procurement officer and as a recruiter. Collection includes correspondence, military papers,creative works, and photographs relating to her service.

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2. Mark Ryan Black collection, 1966-2011 : Veterans History Project (U.S.)

   26 sound recordings.. 2 video recordings.. 352 photographs.. 1 book.. 1 scrapbook.. -- Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Collection includes audio correspondence, home movie footage, a book, a scrapbook, and digital copies of photographs documenting Black’s service as an infantryman in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.

3. Samuel J. Woolf collection

   146 drawings : chiefly charcoal and white chalk drawings ; sheets 65 x 50 cm and smaller. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Collection contains formal portraits of political and military leaders, many from World War I and World War II, as well as documentary sketches from that time period by artist Samuel J. Woolf. Notable individuals include Aristide Briand, Neville Chamberlin, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Rudolf Hess, Roberto M. Ortiz, Pope Pius XI, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., among others. Much of the work in this collection is the result of Woolf's live sketching of portrait sitters and of scenes of soldiers fighting or in transit, military headquarters and encampments, daily life during the wars, and the civilian response to wars.