Scrapbook, 1941/1949

Containers:
Box 1
Scope and content:

The scrapbook contains James W. Caywood's photographs, newspaper clippings, postcards, poems, songs, and drawings collected while he served in Hawaii as part of the 26th Special Naval Construction Battalion. Some of the photographs document the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Content warning: The scrapbook contains partially nude images of indigenous Hawaiian women.

Other descriptive data:

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Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Parent restrictions:
Collection is open to all researchers.
Parent terms of access:
Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.