Smith Lowry Green Collection
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
- Green, Smith Lowry (Person)
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
TCU Box 298400
2800 S. University Drive
Fort Worth, Texas 76129-0001
Fort Worth Texas 76129
(817) 257-4566
(817) 257-7282 (Fax)
LibSpecialCollections@tcu.edu
