Title: Dickey Chapelle Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1933-1967

Creator:

• Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965

Call Number: U.S. Mss 87AF; Audio 437A; CA 530; VHA 342; PH 3301

Quantity: 8.4 cubic feet (18 archives boxes and 2 volumes), 5 tape recordings, 1 film, 1 videorecording, and 6,414 photographs, 17,695 negatives and 6,444 transparencies

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Dickey Chapelle, a photographer and writer who was one of the first women foreign correspondents to cover World War II, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and military struggles worldwide, particularly against communism. Her work appeared in Reader's Digest, National Geographic, Look, and Saturday Evening Post. Chapelle was killed in Vietnam in 1965. The bulk of the collection is comprised of drafts, notes, notebooks, photograph captions, and reference material for her articles, and drafts of two autobiographies, Trouble I've Asked For (1960) and What's a Woman Doing Here? (1961), which won the Overseas Press Club's George Polk Memorial Award. An important portion of Chapelle's articles concern Vietnam. There is a small amount of material co-authored by her former husband, Anthony Chapelle, also a photographer, and files on the couple's post-World War II public relations work for the American Friends Service Committee.

Note:

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Language: English

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Dickey Chapelle, born Georgette Louise Meyer, was born March 14, 1919, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She gave herself the nickname “Dickey” after pioneer aviator Admiral Richard Byrd, whom she admired. Her parents were Paul G. and Edna F. (Engelhardt) Meyer. She graduated from Shorewood High School as valedictorian in 1935 and, fascinated by airplanes, won a scholarship in aeronautical engineering to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She attended MIT for two years, 1935-1937. While there, she took the first steps toward a reporter's career. When she discovered later that her lack of ability as a pilot practically banned her from the air, she turned to reporting air shows as a way to remain associated with flying.

From that beginning, she went on to work for Trans World Airlines in New York where she met Anthony (Tony) Chapelle, a photographer, whom she married in 1940. He taught her the techniques of news photography. Soon after Pearl Harbor, Tony enlisted in the Navy and was assigned to Panama and then the South Pacific. Dickey could not go along as a Naval wife but she was able to get an assignment as a war correspondent, and this was the beginning of a career among fighting men. She went ashore with the Marines at Okinawa and at Iwo Jima. Later she covered the fighting in Korea and Taiwan.

Following her divorce in 1956, Dickey's work as a free-lance writer-photographer took her to such places as Algeria, Hungary, the Middle East, and Cuba, while in the midst of revolution. While in Hungary she was arrested and imprisoned from late 1956 to early 1957 for illegal crossing of the border. Her imprisonment may have been pivotal in fostering her intensely anti-communist beliefs, which became part of all of her subsequent writings.

As a free-lance writer, Dickey Chapelle worked for the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, National Geographic, Look, and other magazines. She was a member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers, 1948-1950, and an active member of the Overseas Press Club until her death in 1965. Chapelle wrote at least two books including an autobiography, What's a Woman Doing Here?, for which she received the George Polk Memorial Award in 1962, given by the Overseas Press Club “for the best reporting, any medium, requiring exceptional courage and enterprise abroad.” In addition to free-lancing, she served as public relations consultant for the National Research Institute, a business advisory service in New York, and as an associate editor of Seventeen, 1945-1947.

A contrasting area of interest was various humanitarian projects with which Dickey Chapelle was involved. She and her husband founded the American Voluntary Information Services Overseas (AVISO), which supplied information to the American Friends Service Committee on U.S. brotherhood projects. Dickey worked with the Red Cross blood program in 1951; the United States State Department in India, 1951-1953; the United Nations; the American Friends Service Committee, covering relief activities in Europe with Tony; and the International Rescue Committee, delivering antibiotics in Hungary.

Dickey Chapelle's final war was Vietnam, which she covered from its early days. She was killed by a mine in Vietnam on November 4, 1965, while covering Marine operations near Chu Lai Air Base for The National Observer and WOR-RKO radio. She was the first newswoman and fourth member of the American press corps to be killed there.

The Dickey Chapelle papers have been arranged in six series: Biographical Material and Personal Papers, Correspondence, Articles and Captions for Photographs, Book Drafts, Notebooks, and Visual Materials. Chapelle's papers document her career and travels as correspondent, photographer, and writer for major U.S. periodicals, with some material concerning her humanitarian aid projects.

The BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL AND PERSONAL PAPERS consist of news clippings about Chapelle before and after her death; obituaries; transcripts of three interviews, one of which also involved Tony Chapelle; and materials concerning publication of her writings and lectures she gave. In the latter group are book reviews, contracts and royalty statements, lecture contracts and itineraries from lecture tours, and legal releases for photographs. Miscellaneous materials include unidentified and scattered correspondence, notes, and memos. Tape recordings in this series include a 1962 interview by Mike Wallace concerning Chapelle's work as a war correspondent; a 1962 interview by Patty Cavin of NBC, discussing What's a Woman Doing Here?; a speech by Chapelle, March 18, 1963, and an undated speech entitled “The Ultimate Weapon,” by Major William E. Meyer.

CORRESPONDENCE includes letters both to and from Dickey Chapelle and is arranged chronologically. There is a great deal of personal correspondence with her family, as well as professional correspondence concerning her career after 1950.

ARTICLES AND CAPTIONS FOR PHOTOGRAPHS has been arranged in four subseries: Material Created by Tony and Dickey Chapelle; Dickey Chapelle's Writings and Captions; Articles, by Geographic Location; and Other Articles and Reference Material.

The Material Created by Tony and Dickey Chapelle includes articles and captions mainly dealing with topics from the immediate post-World War II period. There are also a few scripts and notes for a proposed documentary film and television show. The film proposal as well as the article drafts and captions were prepared for the American Voluntary Information Services Overseas.

Dickey Chapelle's Writings and Captions include captions for World War II photographs of the South Pacific and Iwo Jima and for photographs of the Vietnam War which were taken solely by Dickey Chapelle and are filed separately. Also included is a folder of very early writings. The majority of Chapelle's articles, drafts, notes, caption data, and reference material have been arranged as Articles By Geographic Location. Within each geographic file the materials have been arranged chronologically, where possible, although many of the drafts are undated. The files represent Chapelle's interest in reporting and photographing war, revolutionary struggles, and especially after the mid-1950s, military action taken to combat communism. There are folders representing Algeria's rebellion against French rule; Cuba, and the anti-Castro forces training in Florida (with whom Chapelle worked); the Dominican Republic; Greece, Rumania, Yugoslavia, and Albania; and Hungary, particularly articles reflecting Chapelle's arrest and imprisonment in 1956-1957. There are also Chapelle's statement and a memo to her Hungarian interrogator, dated January 3 and 4, 1957. Other files concern India; Iraq; the World War II battles for Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Saipan; Iraq; Jordan; Korea; Laos; Lebanon; the Pacific in World War II; and Turkey. Articles and notes regarding the United States mainly concern Chapelle's interest in the military, armed forces training, and planning and strategy for war. Of particular interest to her was the U.S. Marine Corps, but material on the U.S. Sixth Fleet and the U.S. Army Special Warfare Center is also present. A major section of the series is comprised of Chapelle's numerous articles, drafts, notes, and reference material on Vietnam. These articles especially reflect Chapelle's active anti-communist ideology and her belief that the U.S. military and civilians should dedicate themselves to winning the war in Vietnam.

Chapelle's Other Articles and Reference Material includes miscellaneous articles which were not easily identified with a geographic area. Likewise, the reference material is a general file including miscellaneous articles, drafts, and notes of Chapelle's, printed copies of her articles, and miscellaneous printed and other material collected for reference use.

There are numerous BOOK DRAFTS from Chapelle's autobiographical work What's a Woman Doing Here? (formerly entitled “Trouble I've Asked For”), 1960-1961, and sample chapter drafts from “Another Day You'll Flinch” (also entitled “U.S. Reporter in a Red Prison”).

The collection also includes 99 NOTEBOOKS, kept by Chapelle for recording her notes for articles. The notebooks also contain what appear to be drafts of letters and cables; interview notes, mainly with members of the military; addresses and telephone numbers; and numerous shopping lists and personal financial notes. Many of the notebooks are not well identified as to subject nor dated. However, it appears that the collection contains notebooks corresponding to most or all of Chapelle's writings. Volume 100 is a pilot log book kept by Chapelle in 1939-1940, and Volume 101 is a scrapbook, apparently compiled by others, from Chapelle's speaking engagement at the Oklahoma College for Women Press Club Dinner, Chickasha, Oklahoma, February 10, 1964.

The AUDIO RECORDINGS include an interview, February 15-16, 1962, by Mike Wallace concerning Chapelle's work as a war correspondent; an interview, January 17, 1962, by Patty Cavin of NBC, discussing What's a Woman Doing Here?; a recorded speech by Chapelle, March 18, 1963; and an undated speech entitled “The Ultimate Weapon,” by Major William E. Meyer.

VISUAL MATERIALS include photographs from various assignments throughout her career including World War II--Pacific Ocean region, military training camps, India, Caribbean Sea region, Algeria, Mediterranean Sea region, Hungary and Hungarian protesters, East China Sea and South China Sea, Vietnam and Laos. Also includes photographs used for an unpublished book project, This Is My Outfit. Films include an interview with Chapelle by Donald Bruce and a profile of Chapelle on Entertainment Tonight.

Use Restrictions

COPYRIGHT RESTRICTION: Individuals or corporate bodies other than the Wisconsin Historical Society hold the copyright(s) for this collection. Permission from the appropriate copyright holder(s) is required before reproducing items from this collection.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Robert Meyer, Madison, Wisconsin, 1966, and by Nancy Palmer, New York, New York, 1980. Accession Number: MCHC66-028, MCHC80-085

Processing Information

Processed by R. Sullivan and Karen Baumann, 1968; reprocessed with additions by Hans Kaiser and Menzi Behrnd-Klodt, 1986.

U.S. Mss 87AF	Series: Biographical Material and Personal Papers
Box   1 Folder   1-2	Biographical news clippings, 1940s-1965
Box   1 Folder   3-4	News clippings, obituaries, and memorial dedication, 1965-1966
Box   1 Folder   5	News clippings, undated
Box   1 Folder   6	Tony and Dickey Chapelle television interview, 1953 April 14
Box   1 Folder   7	Transcription of Time/Life tape on Hungarian experiences
Box   1 Folder   8	Transcription and questions from radio interview, 1958 February 25
437A/1-2	Mike Wallace interview of Dickey Chapelle, Westinghouse TV, 1962 February 15-16
437A/3	Patty Cavin, NBC interviewer in Washington, D.C., talking to Chapelle about What's a Woman Doing Here?, 1962 January 17
U.S. Mss 87AF Box   1 Folder   9	Book reviews and miscellaneous printed material
Box   1 Folder   10	Writings contracts and royalty statements, 1941-1945
Box   1 Folder   11	Lecture contracts and itineraries, 1964-1965
Box   1 Folder   12	Legal releases, 1941-1944
Box   1 Folder   13	Miscellaneous materials
Box   2 Folder   1A	Miscellaneous materials (continued)
Box   2 Folder   1B	Proclamation, “Wisconsin Combat Journalists Day,” 2015
Box   19 Volume   101	Scrapbook from speaking engagement, Oklahoma College for Women Press Club dinner, Chickasha, Oklahoma, 1964 February 10
Box   20 Volume   102	Scrapbook on “Dickey and Tony Chapelle, European Photo Team, American Friends Service Committee,” 1947-1948
437A/4	Chapelle speaking at GCA (Girls Clubs of America?) dinner, 1963 March 18
437A/5	“The Ultimate Weapon,” a speech about brainwashing, delivered by Major William E. Meyer to employees at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard, undated
U.S. Mss 87AF	Series: Correspondence	⇧
Box   2 Folder   2-9	1933-1950 August
Box   3 Folder   1-7	1951-1956
Box   4 Folder   1-7	1957-1958
Box   5 Folder   1-7	1959-1961
Box   6 Folder   1-7	1961-1962
Box   7 Folder   1-5	1963-1964
Box   8 Folder   1-3	1965 January-1967 November
Box   8 Folder   4	Underground letters (Patrick), 1963-1964
Box   8 Folder   5-9	undated
	Series: Articles and Captions for Photographs	⇧
	Subseries: Material Created by Tony and Dickey Chapelle
Box   8 Folder   10	Articles and drafts, 1952-1956
Box   9 Folder   1	Outline for “America Delivers the Goods” Note: A photographic explanation of how the Marshall Plan works in the United States and France, AVISO documentary film.
Box   9 Folder   2	Work script for “A Letter to All Americans” Note: A Marshall Plan documentary film.
Box   9 Folder   3	Photographs, captions, and notes for Marshall Plan film
Box   9 Folder   4	Script for “The Invisible Weapon,” by Tony Chapelle Note: Proposed television show.
Box   9 Folder   5	Article on photography, by Tony and Dickey Chapelle, 1955 September
Box   9 Folder   6-10	Background and captions for AVISO, 0001-6500
Box   9 Folder   11	Background and article drafts
	Subseries: Dickey Chapelle's Writings and Captions	⇧
Box   9 Folder   12	Captions for South Pacific and Iwo Jima photographs
Box   9 Folder   13	Captions for Vietnam photographs
Box   9 Folder   14	Early writings, before 1937
	Subseries: Articles, by Geographic Location	⇧
Box   10 Folder   1	Algeria: drafts, notes, reference material, captions
	Cuba
Box   10 Folder   2	“The Marine Who Fought for Castro” - draft, 1960 August 29
Box   10 Folder   3	Articles and drafts, 1963-1964
Box   10 Folder   4	Drafts and notes, 1958-1964
Box   10 Folder   5	Notes on Commandos “L” and miscellany
Box   10 Folder   6	Dominican Republic: article drafts, 1965
Box   10 Folder   7	Greece, Rumania, Yugoslavia, and Albania: article drafts
	Hungary
Box   10 Folder   8	Articles and drafts
Box   10 Folder   9	Chapelle's statement, 1957 January 3 Note: Also includes Memo to interrogator, 1957 January 4.
	India
Box   10 Folder   10	“Perspective” - draft, 1953, and other drafts
Box   11 Folder   1	“Mud Hut” - draft, 1954, and other drafts
Box   11 Folder   2	Iraq: article drafts, 1952
	Iwo Jima Note: See also The Pacific.
Box   11 Folder   3	Untitled article, 1945 February 28
Box   11 Folder   4	Notes, drafts, and captions, 1945, from Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Saipan
Box   11 Folder   5	“The Quality of Mercy” - two drafts, circa 1957 September
Box   11 Folder   6	Jordan: draft and notes regarding King Hussein, 1958
	Korea
Box   11 Folder   7	“The Most Resisting American” - four drafts, undated; “The Execution of Captain Harris” - draft, , undated
Box   11 Folder   8	“Our Secret Weapon in the Far East” - draft, 1960 March
Box   11 Folder   9	Drafts, photographs, notes, 1959
Box   11 Folder   10	Laos: “The Men Who Didn't Give Up Laos” - two drafts, 1961 July 10
Box   11 Folder   11	Lebanon: notes, 1958
	The Pacific
Box   11 Folder   12	“Civilians Just Don't Get the Word” - drafts
Box   11 Folder   13	“Reports From the Pacific” - drafts and notes, circa 1960 May
Box   12 Folder   1	Reference material for “Reports From the Pacific”
Box   12 Folder   2	Panama and the Pacific: drafts, 1942-1945
Box   12 Folder   3	Turkey: article drafts
	United States
Box   12 Folder   4	Limited War - research notes
	U.S. Marine Corps
Box   12 Folder   5	Drafts, articles, notes, outlines, circa 1950-1965
Box   12 Folder   6	Reference material, 1950s
Box   12 Folder   7	Sixth Fleet - drafts and notes
Box   12 Folder   8	U.S. Army Special Warfare Center - “School For Winners” - notes, drafts, and captions, 1963-1964
	Vietnam
Box   12 Folder   9	“An American's Primer of Guerrilla Warfare” - draft, 1961 July 20
Box   12 Folder   10	“Binh Hung Diary,” 1962 January 2
Box   13 Folder   1	“Fighting the Communists in South Vietnam: The One-Night Operation,” 1961 October 28 Note: Also includes “The Three-Day Operation,” 1961 October 23.
Box   13 Folder   2	“The Soldier-Priest of Vietnam” - two drafts, 1962 October 14; 1963 February 22
Box   13 Folder   3	“Viet Nam: Win, Lose or Draw?” - draft, 1965 March 21
Box   13 Folder   4	“The Vote of the Village” - draft, 1961 October 20
Box   13 Folder   5	“The War We Have Just Begun to Fight” - draft, 1962 January 24
Box   13 Folder   6	“Water War in Vietnam” - two drafts, 1965 January 28, February 15
Box   13 Folder   7	Notes and miscellaneous material
	Subseries: Other Articles and Reference Material	⇧
Box   13 Folder   8	“My Hair Is Down” - drafts, 1963 March 9, 14
Box   13 Folder   9	Nursing in wartime
Box   13 Folder   10	“The President Is Sending Robert Murphy...or: Twenty Years of Troubleshooting” - draft, undated
Box   13 Folder   11	“Self-Defense” - notes and two drafts regarding self-defense for women
Box   13 Folder   12-14	Miscellaneous articles, drafts, notes, and reference material
Box   13 Folder   15	Miscellaneous reports, quotations, and material from others
Box   14 Folder   1	Magazine and newspaper copies of Chapelle's articles
Box   14 Folder   2-5	Reference material and notes
	Series: Book Drafts	⇧
	What's a Woman Doing Here? Note: Until December 1960 entitled “Trouble I've Asked For.”
Box   15 Folder   1	1960 July 25
Box   15 Folder   2	1960 August 1, 15
Box   15 Folder   3	1960 August 23
Box   15 Folder   4	1960 September 1
Box   15 Folder   5	1960 September 5, with revisions of 1960 October 15
Box   15 Folder   6	1960 September 20
Box   15 Folder   7	1960 October 15
Box   16 Folder   1	1960 December 15, 23
Box   16 Folder   2-3	1961 January 9
Box   16 Folder   4	1961 January 23
Box   16 Folder   5	1961 February 1
Box   16 Folder   6	1961 February 6
Box   16 Folder   7	1961 February 10
Box   16 Folder   8	1961 February 13
Box   16 Folder   9	1961 February 20
Box   16 Folder   10	1961 March 5
Box   17 Folder   1	1961 March 11
Box   17 Folder   2	1961 February 10-March 11
Box   17 Folder   3	Discarded Pages, 1961 January 9-March 11
Box   17 Folder   4	Chapter 17, 1961 November 19
	“Another Day You'll Flinch”
Box   17 Folder   5	Sample chapter drafts
Box   17 Folder   6	Drafts
	Series: Notebooks	⇧
Box   17 Volume   1	Middle East I - Washington, 1952 February 18-March 10
Box   17 Volume   2	Middle East II - New York, Baghdad, Neutral Zone, 1952 March 11-27
Box   17 Volume   3	Middle East III - Saudi Arabia, Nasiriya, 1952 March 28-April 15
Box   17 Volume   4	Middle East IV - Dujaila, 1952 April 17-May 11
Box   17 Volume   5	Middle East V - Dujaila, 1952 May 11-15
Box   17 Volume   6	Middle East V - Iran, 1952 June 10-28
Box   17 Volume   7	Middle East VI - Tehran, 1952 June 29-July 21
Box   17 Volume   8	Middle East VII - Azerbaijan, 1952 July 22-August 2
Box   17 Volume   9	Middle East VIII - Tehran, 1952 August 3-30
Box   17 Volume   10	Middle East IX - Isfahon, 1952 September 1-14
Box   17 Volume   11	Pacific I, 1959
Box   17 Volume   11A	Pacific II, 1959
Box   17 Volume   12	Pacific III - Formosa, 1959
Box   17 Volume   13	Pacific IV - Kinmen, Pava Briefing, Korea, 1959
Box   17 Volume   14	Pacific V - Korea, 1959
Box   17 Volume   15-20	Hungary
Box   18 Volume   21	Hungary; miscellaneous
Box   18 Volume   22-23	Algeria
Box   18 Volume   24	Algeria; miscellaneous
Box   18 Volume   25	Algeria
Box   18 Volume   26-29	Turkey
Box   18 Volume   30	Turkey (not written by Chapelle)
Box   18 Volume   31	U.S. Marine Corps I, 1955 July 18-August 1
Box   18 Volume   32	USMC II, 1955 August 2-19
Box   18 Volume   33	USMC III, 1955 August 20-29
Box   18 Volume   34	USMC IV, 1955 August 30-September 19
Box   18 Volume   35	USMC - Napalm, TU-1 FEX, TU-1 Gen'l
Box   18 Volume   36	USMC - training
Box   18 Volume   37	USMC - TU-1, Recon/Pactraex 56L
Box   18 Volume   38	USMC - air trip, training
Box   18 Volume   39-40	India - Bastav
Box   18 Volume   41	India - Sindewahi
Box   18 Volume   42	India - Hirakud
Box   18 Volume   43	India - Delhi
Box   18 Volume   44	India - Mirindising
Box   18 Volume   45	Miscellaneous, 1955 December 5-1956 January 18
Box   18 Volume   46	Miscellaneous, 1956 January 19-February 22
Box   18 Volume   47	Cuba, 1959
Box   18 Volume   48	Laos - Bay/B, 1961
Box   18 Volume   49-53	Vietnam, 1961
Box   18 Volume   54	Laos and Vietnam, 1961
Box   18 Volume   55	Laos and Vietnam, 1961
Box   18 Volume   56	Vietnam, 1961
Box   18 Volume   57-60	Binh Hung, 1961
Box   18 Volume   61	Vietnam, 1962; miscellaneous
Box   18 Volume   62-63	Vietnam, 1962
Box   18 Volume   64	Miscellaneous, 1963
Box   18 Volume   65	Jordan; miscellaneous, 1963
Box   18 Volume   66	Cuba; miscellaneous, 1963
Box   18 Volume   67	Cuba, 1963
Box   18 Volume   68	Cuba; miscellaneous, 1963
Box   18 Volume   69	Miscellaneous, 1963
Box   18 Volume   70	Vietnam, 1963
Box   18 Volume   71	Iwo Jima, 1945
Box   18 Volume   72	Saipan, 1945
Box   18 Volume   73	Far East (Vietnam or Laos?)
Box   18 Volume   74	Laos and Vietnam
Box   18 Volume   75	Hawaii; Vietnam; miscellaneous
Box   18 Volume   76	Pacific, 1945
Box   18 Volume   77	Pacific, 1940s
Box   18 Volume   78	Pacific
Box   18 Volume   79	Hungary; Mediterranean
Box   18 Volume   80	Miscellaneous
Box   18 Volume   81	Hungary; miscellaneous
Box   18 Volume   82	Vietnam
Box   18 Volume   83	Lebanon; 6th Fleet; miscellaneous, 1958
Box   18 Volume   84	Miscellaneous
Box   18 Volume   85	Lebanon
Box   18 Volume   86	Hungary, 1956
Box   18 Volume   87	World War II, North Africa(?)
Box   18 Volume   88	Middle East
Box   18 Volume   89	Mediterranean/Middle East
Box   18 Volume   90	Cuba, 1958
Box   18 Volume   91	Interviews with Officers and Men from Aircraft Carrier
Box   18 Volume   92	Vietnam; miscellaneous
Box   18 Volume   93	Vietnam
Box   18 Volume   94	Laos or Vietnam
Box   18 Volume   95	Vietnam
Box   18 Volume   96	Pacific
Box   18 Volume   97	Miscellaneous
Box   18 Volume   98	Hungary, miscellaneous
Box   18 Volume   99	Interview notes
Box   18 Volume   100	Pilot log book, 1939-1940
	Series: Visual Materials	⇧
PH 3301A	Chapelle on assignment Physical Description: 476 photographs, 106 negatives, and 4 transparencies  Scope and Content Note: Photographs that show Chapelle on various assignments throughout her career, including formal portraits of her. The photographs also include images from the posthumous dedication of a memorial plaque to Chapelle in Vietnam.
PH 3301A (3)	Oversize material
PH 3301B	This Is My Outfit Physical Description: 264 photographs, 102 negatives, and 24 transparencies  Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by and assembled by Chapelle from various assignments throughout her career for an unpublished book project, This Is My Outfit.
PH 3301B (3)	Oversize material
PH 3301C	World War II, Pacific Coast region Physical Description: 595 photographs, 792 negatives, and 30 transparencies  Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle during World War II in the Pacific Ocean region, including images of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Guam. The photographs also include images of the training of female flight nurses.
PH 3301C (3)	Oversize material
PH 3301D	Military training camps Physical Description: 2,494 photographs, 2,077 negatives, and 586 transparencies  Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle of military training camps, including United States Marine Corps and United States Army paratroopers.
PH 3301D (3)	Oversize material
PH 3301E	India, circa 1952 Physical Description: 306 photographs and 787 transparencies  Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle in India of village life in 1952, of the Indian Army, and of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
PH 3301E (3)	Oversize material
PH 3301E (5)	Oversize material
PH 3301F	Caribbean Sea region, circa 1950s Physical Description: 442 photographs, 2,672 negatives, and 690 transparencies  Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle in the Caribbean Sea region, including images of forces under Fidel Castro in Cuba during the late 1950s, Guantanamo Bay, and the Dominican Republic.
PH 3301G	Algeria, 1957 Physical Description: 517 photographs and 877 negatives in 4 boxes  Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle in Algeria during its military unrest, 1957.
PH 3301G (3)	Oversize material
PH 3301H	Mediterranean Sea region, circa 1950s Physical Description: 316 photographs, 2,947 negatives, and 1,302 transparencies in 10 boxes  Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle in the Mediterranean Sea region, including images of Turkey, Lebanon during the 1958 crisis, and Jordan.
PH 3301H (3)	Oversize material
PH 3301J	Hungary and Hungarian protesters, circa 1956 Physical Description: 37 photographs and 453 negatives  Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle in Hungary during the revolution of 1956 and of Hungarian protesters in New York City.
PH 3301K	East China Sea and South China Sea, circa 1955 Physical Description: 112 photographs, 1,145 negatives, and 532 transparencies  Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle in the East China Sea and South China Sea, including images of Taiwan, circa 1955.
PH 3301K (3)	Oversize material
PH 3301L	Vietnam and Laos, circa 1955-1965 Physical Description: 586 photographs, 4,951 negatives, and 2,258 transparencies  Scope and Content Note: Photographs made by Chapelle in Vietnam and Laos, circa 1955-1965. The photographs include images of South Vietnamese paratroopers, of United States military advisors, and of the resistance leader of Bien Hung, Father Hoa (Nguyen Hua Hua).
PH 3301L (3)	Oversize material
PH 3301L (5)	Oversize material
PH 3301M	Miscellaneous Physical Description: 269 photographs, 1,573 negatives, and 231 transparencies  Scope and Content Note: Photographs of miscellaneous subjects made by and collected by Chapelle, including images of her family and others related to various stories throughout her career. The photographs also include unidentified images.
CA 530	Untitled interview with Dickey Chapelle by Donald Bruce Physical Description: Approximately 14 minutes, b/w, sound, 16 mm  Scope and Content Note: Interview with Chapelle by Councilman Donald Bruce on an unidentified weekly television program in Indianapolis, Indiana. Includes a review of Chapelle's career, honors, and reputation as a war correspondent and photographer; some details of her experiences with Cuba; and vigorously expressed views on Communism and the situations in Vietnam and Algeria.
VHA 342	Profile of Dickey Chapelle on Entertainment Tonight Physical Description: 30 minutes, sound, b/w and color, 1/2-inch video  Scope and Content Note: Includes interviews with her brother, Robert Meyer, her biographer, Roberta Ostroff, and author James Michener, who was in Hungary with Chapelle in 1956 covering the flight of refugees. Also interviewed is Marine Captain Philip Fehlen (retired), who was present when Chapelle became the first female war correspondent to die in action. Archival material from the WHS Chapelle collection is used.