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Smith Lowry Green Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 179-2016-018

Scope and Contents

The bulk of the papers contains artifacts from WWII, documents, correspondence, ephemera, journals, photographs, etc. from his time as a prisoner of war in Hirohata, Japan. The collection also covers his post-military life and contains Texas Christian University ephemera, photographs, correspondence, etc..

Dates

  • 1929-2009
  • 1906-1909

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Biographical / Historical

Smith L. Green fought in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. He was a prisoner of war from 1942 to 1945. He also fought in the Korean War. Green attended graduate school at Texas Christian University, graduating in 1961.

Extent

3 Linear feet

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

The collection is arranged alphabetically by subject.

Physical Location

Vault: AD2

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated on January 12, 2012. Donated by James and Johnny Bobo.

  • Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942 Subject Source: Local sources
  • Correspondence Subject Source: {:aat=>"Art & Architecture Thesaurus", :cash=>"Canadian Subject Headings", :gmgpc=>"TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms", :ingest=>"Unspecified ingested source", :lcgft=>"Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms", :lcsh=>"Library of Congress Subject Headings", :lcshac=>"Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings", :local=>"Local sources", :mesh=>"Medical Subject Headings", :nal=>"National Agricultural Library subject headings", :ram=>"Répertoire d'autorités RAMEAU", :rbgenr=>"Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing", :rvm=>"Répertoire de vedettes-matière", :tgn=>"Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names"}
  • Korean War, 1950-1953 Subject Source: Local sources
  • Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Printed ephemera Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
  • Prisoners of war Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • World War II - Pacific Theatre Subject Source: Local sources
Title
Guide to the Smith L. Green Collection
Author
Lisa Pena
Date
July, 2016
Language of description
English
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Archives and Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library Repository

Contact:
TCU Box 298400
2800 S. University Drive
Fort Worth, Texas 76129-0001
Fort Worth Texas 76129
(817) 257-4566
(817) 257-7282 (Fax)