Contents List

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
Audio   437A/3	Patty Cavin, NBC interviewer in Washington, D.C., talking to Chapelle about What's a Woman Doing Here? 1962 January 17
Audio   437A/1-2	Mike Wallace interview of Dickey Chapelle, Westinghouse TV 1962 February 15-16
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
Audio   437A/4	Chapelle speaking at GCA (Girls Clubs of America?) dinner, Hotel Roosevelt, 1963 March 18
Audio   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
U.S. Mss 87A	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 and other drafts, 1953
Box   11   Folder   1	"Mud Hut": draft and other drafts, 1954
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 from Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Saipan 1945
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": drafts, undated
Box   11   Folder   7	"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": 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
U.S. Mss 87A	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	, with revisions of 1960 October 15 1960 September 5
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
U.S. Mss 87A	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   18A   Volume   61-63	Vietnam, 1962
Box   18A   Volume   64	Miscellaneous, 1963
Box   18A   Volume   65	Jordan; miscellaneous, 1963
Box   18A   Volume   66	Cuba; miscellaneous, 1963
Box   18A   Volume   67	Cuba, 1963
Box   18A   Volume   68	Cuba; miscellaneous, 1963
Box   18A   Volume   69	Miscellaneous, 1963
Box   18A   Volume   70	Vietnam, 1963
Box   18A   Volume   71	Iwo Jima, 1945
Box   18A   Volume   72	Saipan, 1945
Box   18A   Volume   73	Far East (Vietnam or Laos?)
Box   18A   Volume   74	Laos and Vietnam
Box   18A   Volume   75	Hawaii; Vietnam; miscellaneous
Box   18A   Volume   76	Pacific, 1945
Box   18A   Volume   77	Pacific, 1940s
Box   18A   Volume   78	Pacific
Box   18A   Volume   79	Hungary; Mediterranean
Box   18A   Volume   80	Miscellaneous
Box   18A   Volume   81	Hungary; miscellaneous
Box   18A   Volume   82	Vietnam
Box   18A   Volume   83	Lebanon; 6th Fleet; miscellaneous, 1958
Box   18A   Volume   84	Miscellaneous
Box   18A   Volume   85	Lebanon
Box   18A   Volume   86	Hungary, 1956
Box   18A   Volume   87	World War II, North Africa(?)
Box   18A   Volume   88	Middle East
Box   18A   Volume   89	Mediterranean/Middle East
Box   18A   Volume   90	Cuba, 1958
Box   18A   Volume   91	Interviews with Officers and Men from Aircraft Carrier
Box   18A   Volume   92	Vietnam; miscellaneous
Box   18A   Volume   93	Vietnam
Box   18A   Volume   94	Laos or Vietnam
Box   18A   Volume   95	Vietnam
Box   18A   Volume   96	Pacific
Box   18A   Volume   97	Miscellaneous
Box   18A   Volume   98	Hungary, miscellaneous
Box   18A   Volume   99	Interview notes
Box   18A   Volume   100	Pilot log book, 1939-1940
	Series: Visual Materials	⇧
PH 3301A	Subseries: Personal and portraits 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.
Box   1	Prints
Box   2	Oversize material
Box   3	Negatives and contact prints
Box   4	Transparencies
PH 3301B	Subseries: 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.	⇧
Box   1	Prints
Box   2	Oversize material
Box   3	Negatives
Box   4	Transparencies
PH 3301C	Subseries: 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.	⇧
Box   1	Prints
Box   2	Negatives
Box   3, 5-7	Negatives and contact prints
Box   4	Negatives and transparencies
Box   8-9	Oversize material
PH 3301D	Subseries: 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.	⇧
Box   1	Prints
Box   2-5	Oversize material
Box   6-8	Negatives and contact prints
Box   9-18	Transparencies
PH 3301E	Subseries: 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.	⇧
Box   1	Prints
Box   2-3	Oversize material
Box   4-7	Transparencies
PH 3301F	Subseries: 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.	⇧
Box   1	Prints
Box   2-5	Negatives
Box   6-8	Transparencies
PH 3301G	Subseries: 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.	⇧
Box   1	Prints
Box   2-3	Oversize material
Box   4	Negatives and contact prints
Box   5	Transparencies
PH 3301H	Subseries: 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.	⇧
Box   1	Prints
Box   2	Oversize material
Box   3	Negatives
Box   4	Negatives and contact prints
Box   5-9	Transparencies
PH 3301J	Subseries: Hungary and Hungarian protesters, circa 1956 Physical Description: 32 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.	⇧
Box   1	Prints
Box   2	Negatives
PH 3301K	Subseries: 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.	⇧
Box   1	Prints
Box   2	Oversize material
Box   3	Negatives
Box   4-8	Transparencies
PH 3301L	Subseries: 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).	⇧
Box   1-2	Prints
Box   3-5	Oversize material
Box   6-7	Negatives
Box   8-18	Transparencies
PH 3301M	Subseries: 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.	⇧
Box   1	Prints
Box   2-6	Negatives
PH 3301 Box   1	Oversize material
PH 3301N	Subseries: Point Four program, circa 1951-1952 Physical Description: 946 photographs, and 3 transparencies  Scope and Content Note: Photographs taken by Chapelle to document the Point Four program, circa 1951-1952. Point Four was a technical assistance program administered by the Technical Cooperation Administration and the United States Department of State that provided agricultural, medical, and economic expertise to other countries. Chapelle documented Point Four activities across the Middle East and South Asia, including Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and India. Projects documented include locust mitigation, land settlement, and vaccination, while other photographs depict the customs of local populations. Most of the photographs are contact prints made directly from 35mm or medium format film.	⇧
Box   1	Prints and contact prints
Box   2	Contact prints and transparencies
Ovesize folder   1	Oversize contact prints
	Subseries: Motion pictures	⇧
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.
	Series: Audio Recordings	⇧
Audio   437A/3	Patty Calvin interview about Chapelle's book What's a Woman Doing Here?, 1962 January 17
Audio   437A/1-2	Mike Wallace interview, 1962 February 15-16
Audio   437A/4	Speech at GCA (Girl's Club of America?) dinner, Hotel Roosevelt, 1963 March 18
Audio   437A/5	“The Ultimate Weapon” speech by Major William E. Meyer, to employees at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard undated Scope and Content Note: Speech about brainwashing.
Audio   437A/6	Memorial service for Dickey Chapelle, “recorded in the Chapel” 1965
Audio   437A/7	Dickey Chapelle (dub), 1965
Audio   1149A/1	1945 Flight from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Los Angeles, California 1965
Audio   1149A/2	Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulak, 1965
Audio   1149A/3-8	Interview in Japan, 1965
Audio   1149A/9	Interview in Chicago; flight Chicago to San Diego, 1965
Audio   1149A/10	Interview in Chicago; in flight interviews, 1965
Audio   1149A/11	In Vietnam, 1965
Audio   1149A/12-16	Marine Boot Camp, 1965
	Series: Additions	⇧
M87-325 Folder   1	Article reprints, circa 1961-1966
Folder   1	Clippings concerning her death, circa 1965-1966
Folder   1	House Un-American Activities Committee statement regarding the Freedom Academy Bill (H.R. 5368), 1964 May 20
M2009-124 Box   1	Materials documenting Chapelle's coverage of the war, 1965
Box   1	Marine training and Marines' roles in the conflict, 1965
Box   1	Chapelle's death and the subsequent ceremonies and memorials, 1965
Box   11   Folder   1	Photographs depict Chapelle posing with her camera and recovering from knee injury in the hospital, circa 1965