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Thomas Kingsley photograph album
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Held at: Millbrook Society [Contact Us]32 North York Road, P.O. Box 506, Hatboro, PA, 19040
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Millbrook Society. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Thomas Kingsley was a Hatboro resident who worked for the United States Postal Service for over 20 years. During World War II, Kingsley served as a Navy Hospital Corpsman. He was stationed on Pearl Harbor and survived the attack of December 7, 1941 on board the USS Phoenix.
This collection is made up of one photograph album documenting Kingsley's time on the war ship USS Phoenix during World War II. Some of the photos are captioned and dated. Of special interest are photos of General MacArthur aboard the USS Phoenix.
The Millbrook Society also holds an audiocassette recording of an oral history given by Kingsley, circa 1978, in their Millbrook Society oral history collection.
Gift of Thomas Kingsley, circa 1982.
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- Millbrook Society
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Michael Gubicza through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories
- Sponsor
- This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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