Summary Information

Title: Harry Trippe Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1861-1936

Creator:

• Trippe, Harry, 1872-1939

Call Number: Whitewater Mss BG

Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (1 archives box and 1 card box)

Repository:

Housed at the University Archives & Area Research Center, Harold Andersen Library, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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

UW-Whitewater Library / Whitewater Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of a civil engineer from Whitewater, Wisconsin who served as a lieutenant colonel with the 308th Engineer Regiment during World War I before reenlisting in the regular army (1920-1936). Included are letters written to his wife and family concerning his training at Fort Leavenworth and Camp Sherman and his duty overseas both during and after the war; official documents concerning the regiment and his duty, a draft regimental history, and 20 pocket diaries covering (with gaps) the period 1903 to 1934.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-whit00bg

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