Dahlin, Leroy collection
Scope and Contents
Box 1:
Brown scrapbook. Northern Ireland and North Africa. Foreign coins and paper money. 3-135 Infantry reunion Ortonville 1963 program.
Black scrapbook. Homefront, family vacations, Camp Claiborne, postcards, pressed plants, matchbooks, photos aboard ship, ship sinking, North Africa.
Newspapers in unopened rolls mailed home from Europe. Stars and Stripes etc.
Box 2:
Correspondence. Letters, V-mail, greeting cards. 1942-1944. Ireland and North Africa.
Pocket notebooks.
Pocket field manuals.
Box 3:
The First Four Years booklet. British
Final Report on the Vesuvious Emergency Operation. 1944.
Photo scrapbook pages, Roy Dahlin. 1920-1940
Correspondence, misc print collateral. incl Stillwater State Prison letters
Letters, 1942. Incl. transcribed meterial.
Photosand holiday cards.
Newspaper clippings.
Italian maps and post cards.
Stationary portfolio and stationary. blank.
The Ordnance Officer's Guide. Owned by Joseph Putis. Illustrated. Aberdeen Proving Ground. 120 pages.
Newspaper. 34th Division has Enviable Record headline. Stillwater Gazette.
Military documents. 135th Infantry.
Operation Terminal documents.
Protractors and other map/survey tools.
Rinker file. unit photo,Spanish American War?
Newspapers in unopened rolls mailed home from Europe. Stars and Stripes etc. pencils rolled in paper.
GAR and Memorial Day materials. David Hughes post GAR roster. St Paul GAR roster 1915. Minneapolis GAR roster 1918. St Paul GAR roster 1903. Rochester GAR roster 1883. Iowa GAR death roll 1893-94. 9th Regt MN Volunteers roster 1911. Military Order Loyal Legion register 1897. Memorial Day Span Am War Vets 1925. Memorial Day Waseca MN 1973. Minneapolis Memorial Day 1945. GAR Minneapolis 1884. GAR Marshalltown 1897.
Manuals: In and Out of Anderson ville prison by Lyon. Pages Clothed in the Plainest of Dress, The Groat Diary. The Soldier's Handbook, 5th Regt of Infantry 1825 Ft Snelling. GAR Journal 1902 St Paul. Roster George Morgan post GAR 1903. Journal GAR ST Paul 1896. GAR Minnesota 1931-1932.
Loose photos: GAR medals. Sioux Uprising monuments and soldiers.
Oversize materials:
Algiers/Algeria Africa coastline map with hand-written approach markings. Ilot de la Marine.
Illinois National Guard promotion to 2nd and 1st Lieutenant certificates. Company M, 3rd Infantry. 1902.
Artifacts in Collections Dept:
2 bags of insignia
French Foreign Legion kepi hat
Footlocker
Uniform components
Dates
- Creation: 1942-1943
- Event: Donated by Steve Zoller on 16 April 2025. Accession 2025.036
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
Capt Leroy Dahlin, Company I, 135th Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry Division. Bayport MN.
Cpl Charles F. Rinker, 3rd Minnesota Regiment. Spanish American War. Home Guards.
Extent
5 Linear Feet (Three gray standard banker's boxes. At 4-A endcap.)
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
Minnesota Military and Veterans Museum
Camp Ripley
15000 Highway 115
Little Falls MN 56345 United States
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