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Armed forces

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Mark Keyser interview, 2020-07-16

 File
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc023
Scope and Contents Mark Keyser discusses his childhood visits to Washington, D.C. and his recollections of his grandfather, Adolph Kaiser, his Aunt Amelia Heurich and visiting her at the Heurich House, and her sisters. He discusses his father Karl Anton Keyser's U.S. Navy service during World War II, along with ancestors on the Dilger side of his family and their service in the Civil War. One Dilger relative was a German operative working in D.C. during World War I. Although Mark does not have strong memories...
Dates: 2020-07-16
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 23: HOME/BREWED Oral History Project / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

National Rifles Scrapbook Collection

 Collection — External hard drive DIG_00012
Identifier: 051
Scope and Contents The scrapbooks contain clippings, invitations, programs, memorabilia, handwritten and typewritten letters, ledgers, receipts, meetings minutes, and a few copies of Canteen, the daily record of the National Rifles and an oversized poster for the July 4th Military Celebration in St. Louis, Missouri. Also included is a box of cabinet card images of uniformed members of the National Rifles. Notes on the back of the photographs indicate that the images came from the Evans Collection in...
Dates: 1880-1889
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Patrice Cleary interview, 2019-07-02

 File
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc014
Scope and Contents

Patrice Cleary discusses her experience of growing up in Massachusetts as Filipino American, joining the Marine Corps, various Filipino dishes, opening and running her restaurant in Washington, D.C., and promoting Filipino cuisine in America.

Dates: 2019-07-02
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 14: Asian American Voices in the Making of Washington, D.C.’s Cultural Landscape / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Raymond Henderson interview, 2018-07-02

 File
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc006_03.wav
Scope and Contents Raymond Henderson, a native of Washington, D.C., discusses his childhood mostly spent in the Anacostia neighborhood, attending different elementary and junior high schools before dropping out of high school to join the Marine Corps at the age of 17, his experiences during the Vietnam War, earning his GED and enrolling in Federal City College (now the University of the District of Columbia) to study political science, the evlution of his political conscieness and his involvment with student...
Dates: 2018-07-02
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 6: Federal City College Oral History Project / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Washington Navy Yard Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P018
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 31 3.5x5 inch and 30 8x10 inch images of buildings 137 (General Foundry) and 167 (Boiler Makers shop) in the Washington Navy Yard complex. The smaller images are interior and exterior views of buildings and the larger images are reproductions of architectural blueprints.

Dates: 1975
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Will Alvarez interview, 2020-12-17

 Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc026_07.wav
Abstract

This is an individual interview of Will Alvarez in which he discusses his Salvadoran upbringing in the DMV, his experiences in the bartending industry as a Latino and U.S. Army Veteran, and the impact of COVID-19 on residents and service professionals in the D.C. bartending community.

Dates: 2020-12-17
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 26: From Pandemic to Protest: Black Bartenders in Washington, D.C. / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

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