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Coxey's Army- a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey. They marched on Washington, D.C. in 1894, the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history to that time (Letter to Shirley, May 3, 1945).

Garrison State- a state organized to serve primarily its own need for military security, a state maintained by military power (Letter to Shirley, May 6, 1945).

Longchamps candy-popular candy sold in the 1940s (Letter to Shirley, December 13, 1944).

V-mail- short for Victory Mail, was a hybrid mail process used by the United States during the Second World War as the primary and secure method to correspond with soldiers stationed abroad. V-mail correspondence was on small letter sheets, 17.8 by 23.2 cm (7 by 9 1⁄8 in), that would go through mail censors before being photographed and transported as thumbnail-sized image in negative microfilm. Upon arrival to their destination, the negatives would be printed (Letter to Shirley, December 13, 1944).

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Letters, Photos and Texts Donated by Larry White, Eric Krebs and John B. Moullette, Susette Brooks,Taryn Cooper, Adam Straus, and Hugh Martin

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