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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], West Virginia War History Commission, Papers of Festus P. Summers, Chairman, World War II Records, A&M 1705, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
The West Virginia War History Commission was organized in 1943 to collect and preserve a record of the activities of West Virginia and her citizens during World War II.
Records of Festus P. Summers regarding his activities as chairman of the West Virginia War History Commission. Contains a speech, newsletter, war records collecting manuals, lists of Office of Civilian Defense directors, lists of potential and confirmed war records collectors, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and a traveling expense account.
Items within this collection include: drafts for a speech entitled "Let History Arm the Mind". The some pages are handwritten, others are typed (undated); mock-up of vol. 1, no. 1 of "The Collector", the newsletter of the West Virginia War History Commission. (1944); typescript of the "War History Manual" prepared by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission (1942); typescript of the "West Virginia War Records Collecting Manual" (1944); typescripts including lists of Office of Civilian Defense directors; lists of potential and confirmed war records collectors and sample forms (undated); 2 pamphlets regarding war records collecting (undated); traveling expense account from trips Summers took to organize county collecting committees (1944); 2 newspaper clippings (1942, 1945).
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