Smitty & Friend
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Title
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Smitty & Friend
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Author
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Alfred P. Maurice
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Date
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1/23/1945
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Type
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Image; StillImage
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Description
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WWII-Tent Life/New Guinea.
Ink drawing of two men sitting on a cot in a tent, the closest man is smoking a cigarette and looking down at something in his hands.
Verso: "23 Jan 45. This is Smitty, one of my tentmates in the 282d R/Co. He is in the act of placing a coin & bracelet in an envelope to mail it home. A friend looks on. This is his bunk with all allied paraphernalia."
Maurice added that Smitty would take the coin with the flower. He had a spoon that he would tap on the coin to flatten it out, then cut out the center to make a ring. The sound of tapping would drive everyone nuts.
Maurice.1676.
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Rights
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In Copyright: 2017 -- Hamersly Library knows this item to be in copyright, which is held by Alfred P. Maurice. No permission is required from the rights-holder for educational uses.
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
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Identifier
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1006
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Spatial Coverage
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Lae (Papua New Guinea)
