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Biographical Material and Personal Papers

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Material Created by Tony and Dickey Chapelle

Dickey Chapelle's Writings and Captions

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Container	Title
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.