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Contact information: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/vhp.contact
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2017655344
In English.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
Arranged in one series: Manuscripts
Accessioned, 2010.
Duplication of collection materials may be restricted.
Collection is open for research; access restrictions apply. To request collection materials, please contact the Veterans History Project at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/vhp.contact
Selected items from the Howard Elbridge Robbins collection are available on the Library of Congress web site at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadvhp.vh017020.01.
Howard Elbridge Robbins Collection (AFC/2001/001/75907), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
Howard Elbridge Robbins was born March 28th, 1888, in Shelton, Nebraska. Prior to World War I, he married his wife Mildred. He enlisted in the United States Navy in the summer of 1917, and was assigned as a Baker First Class for the USS
The Howard Elbridge Robbins collection includes correspondence and military papers related to Robbins' service in the United States Navy during World War I. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence from the veteran to his wife, Mildred, and his parents, while he was at sea on the USS
Digital content available
MS01: Veteran's Navy war service certificate.
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MS01: Twenty-one letters written in 1918 from Robbins to his wife, Mildred, and his mother and father. Robbins wrote to his family regularly about his daily life aboard the USS