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Ewer, Daniel collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2022.014

Scope and Contents

Personal collection, 2024.014:

Red Clay magazine, approx 40 issues. USMC Vets of Khe Sahn Vietnam.

3 USS Minneapolis St Paul commemorative envelopes. Filed in USSMSP collection.

5 Iraqi soda cans. GWOT era. Mountain Dew in Iraqi script. Rip It. Shani. Rani float. Mirinda.

2 Iraqi Pepsi bottles. GWOT era.

M60 machine gun barrel wrench. Vietnam/Cold War era.

M128A1 Smoke signal parachute cylinder. Discharged. Camp Ripley pickup.

USMC brass belt buckle.

Camp Cody NM research. Paper and digital files. From Deming NM Membres museum.

Camp Cody NM aerial blueprint of entire camp. From Mimbres Museum. filed with rolled materials.

Airman!! United States Air Force Basic Training in Sound. vinyl record album. Lackland AFB, TX. Filed in "Vinyl Records Albums 3" box.

A Chaplain's View, 34th Infantry Division During World War II by Chaplain DeLoss Marken. DVD

Through A Soldier's Eyes, a modern look at the Red Bulls' WWII action in Italy. Twin Cities PBS. DVD

Camp Cody newspaper article. Photo of Zumbrota's Company D loading train for Cody. Star Tribune, July 9 2017.

"And they called it Ireland" booklet. 34ID. WWII. cartoon illustrations. ca. 1942.

1st Minnesota research papers. Mostly from MNHS.

Dakota War of 1862 research papers. Mostly photocopies of published books. Bibliography.

Green Prairie Cemetery, Camp Ripley research. Genealogy on every person interred. Includes every cemetery and individual grave down range, ei. Franzen Cemetery, Crow Wing Cemetery, Stroming Child grave, Leightner baby grave. 3-ring binder next to desk.

Aerial diagram of Green Prairie Cemetery plots, filed with rolled material.

History of the "Famous" 34th Infantry Division, Attack, Attack, Attack. Photocopy of book with my added Table of Contents, numbered pages, and Index. (kept next to desk with other references.)

Decorative glass plate. Minnesota Air National Guard 50th Anniversary. 1921-1971. C-97, F-51, Oriole, F-89 aircraft.

Camp Rucker Home of the Vikings booklet, 47ID, 38 pages

Camp Cody NM business sponsor advertising, 30 pages

A Co, 135th Infantry 1931 panoramic photo

Machine Gun Co, Duluth Aug 1917 panoramic photo

Casual Camp Service Camp Cody June 2 1918 panoramic photo

COB Basrah Iraq flag and certificate





Archivist acquisitions reimbursed by museum, 2023.134:

151st Field Artillery Rainbow Division ring (to Collections)

Postcards. Thanksgiving Battery F 125th Field Artillery, Camp Cody NM; Christmas Joys, Camp Cody 1917;

GEN Vessey photo with Casper Weinberger press photo. Oct 1983 press conference at Pentagon.

George Schafer CDV photo. Owatonna MN National Guard. Civil War era.

USS Minnesota art print. 8x10.

USS Minnesota Christening Ceremony poster.

151st Field Artillery Victory Day parade, Nov 11 1918. photo album. 40 photos.

USS Minneapolis Saint Paul, SSN 708 submarine. Welcome Aboard booklet. ca. 1983.

Co K, 13th Minnesota framed unit photo/print

40th National Encampment of the GAR book, (to Library)

Span Am War photos, embroidery grouping (flat file)





Minnesota National Guard Command Historian donations:

American Legion 382 garrison cap (to Collections) 2021.044

Tan color garrison cap (to Collections) 2021.044

Bugle, E Battery, 151st Field Artillery (to Collections) 2021.044

Aviator headset, marked "Red Bull 7" (to Collections) 2022.013

Bolt of red fabric for exhibits (to Collections) 2022.013

MN flag flown over Bosnia (to Collections) 2022.013

MNNG unit patches, approx. 30 different (to Collections) 2022.013

E Battery, 151st Field Artillery banner signed by unit (to Collections) 2022.013

Patriot Guard signed banner (to Collections) 2022.013

"Mines" warning ribbon/tape 2022.013

Task Force 34, 34ht CAB, OIF 08-10 framed patch poster, signed by COL Brock 2022.013

34th Division News Center framed photo, WWII 2022.013

2 Reveille Field Camp 68th Infantry Brigade 1918 panoramic photos 2022.013

Co C, 1st Regt, MN Vol Cavalry certificate on canvas 2022.013

WWII map case with Polish deserter documents, 168th Infantry, 34ID 2022.013

Robert Jacobson collection, WWII, 734th Ordnance 2023.076

Chandler WWII 17th Field Artillery letters 2023.077

Cpl Arthur Goede collection, 135th Infantry documents and photos, artifacts to Collections 2023.078

Tech5 Archibald Court collection, 151FA photo album, letters, photos, panoramic, uniform, books. 2023.079

Robideau, Sgt B C collection. Court documents. soldier assaulted by Robideau. Gen Walsh presiding. 2024.065

MNNG Command Historian collection. Approx 30 boxes of binders, loose documents, photo negatives and prints, media advisories, newspaper clippings, 34mm slides, etc. See seperate accession record. 2022.013

MNNG Command Historian Library. approx 200 books. periodicals. forwarded to museum library.

Dates

  • 1900-2000
  • Event: Donated by Daniel Ewer on 24 May 2021 and additional dates. Accession 2022.014

Conditions Governing Use

MMVM may, or may not, hold copyrights to materials in this collection. Donors who own copyrights to their donated materials, i.e., photos taken by their grandfather, typically donate their copyrights to MMVM as indicated on the Donation Gift Form. We recognize it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to copy or publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.

Biographical / Historical

MSG (Ret) Daniel Ewer, 101st Airborne Division, 34th Infantry Division. Minnesota National Guard Command Historian. GWOT. Served 1985-2022.

Extent

2 Linear Feet (One white standard banker's box. Shelf 6-C-4.)

Language of Materials

English

Status
In Progress
Author
Daniel Ewer, Archivist
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Minnesota Military & Veterans Museum Repository

Contact:
Minnesota Military and Veterans Museum
Camp Ripley
15000 Highway 115
Little Falls MN 56345 United States