MSS Finding Aids
Publication Date
4-24-2020
Abstract
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3525. Letters to Captain Lee Owsley Haskins, written by his family in Bowling Green, Kentucky during his World War I military service. His father describes his business activities, discusses his son’s plans after the war, and reports in November 1918 of the ebbing of the influenza epidemic and the Board of Health’s plan to “lift the Ban.” His mother refers to his recent surgery, and his sister writes of the arrival of a troop train in Bowling Green and the soldiers’ march downtown for canteen service.
Disciplines
Military History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Haskins, Lee Owsley, 1890-1964 (SC 3525)" (2020). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 4808.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4808
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University: 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu