Summary Information

Title: Van Gorden Family Papers : transcriptions and copies
Inclusive Dates: 1940-1945

Creator:

• Van Gorden family

Call Number: Eau Claire Mss CE

Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 half-archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the Area Research Center, William D. McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-Eau Claire McIntyre Library / Eau Claire Area Research Ctr. (Map)

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

Abstract:

Transcriptions completed by Cyrena Dierauer of her grandfather's diary (1940-1945) and her father's World War II letters home. Harry Van Gorden kept the diary while living in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he operated a gasoline supply business and several gas stations. His diary entries reflect family life of the times, the gasoline business during World War II, and his interest in news events of the day. The letters are from his son, Archie “Red” Van Gorden, written while serving with the 32nd Division between July 1941 and December 1943 in Australia and New Guinea. Dierauer compiled the letters into a volume entitled “Red Arrow 'Red' Letters Home from WW2” with a brief family history, transcriber's notes photocopies of family photographs, a few newsclippings, and an index to names mentioned in the letters.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ec00ce

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