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William Harry Clarke, Jr. Collection
Ph2021-207


Descriptive Summary

Title: William Harry Clarke, Jr. Collection
Span Dates: 1945-1950s
Bulk Dates: 1945-1946
ID No: Ph2021-207
Creator: William Harry Clarke, Jr.
Extent: 1 box
Language: English
Repository: West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV

Administrative Information

Provenance: William Harry Clarke III
Transfers:
Preferred Citation: [item, collection number], William Harry Clarke, Jr. Collection, West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV.


Box 1

1.  Portraits of Chaplain William Harry Clarke, Jr. (5 print)
2.  Portrait, Ruth Eloise (Gilmore) Clarke (1 print)
3.  Sonny Clarke (William Harry Clarke III) outside tent with American flag and with his mother, Ruth Clarke (3 prints with accompanying letter)
4.  Chaplain William Harry Clarke, Jr., Miscellaneous military photographs (8 prints)
5.  U.S. soldiers in Belgium, 1945 (3 prints)
6.  Captain Cook and (?) Staley, Belgium, 1945 (1 print)
7.  Blown bridge at Dinant, Belgium, 1945 (1 print)
8.  Fireplace in bombed house near Dinant, Belgium (1 print)
9.  Photographs bought in Liege, Belgium, April 5, 1945 (4 prints)
10.  Remagen Bridge, 1945 (4 prints)
11.  Bombed railyards at Bingen, Germany, near Bad Kreuznach, 1945 (2 prints)
12.  Officers' quarters, Bad Kreuznach, Germany (1 print)
13.  Frankfort, Germay, 1945 (3 prints)
14.  Blown railroad station at Frankfort, Germany, 1945 (1 print)
15.  Chaplain William Harry Clarke, Jr. on a "Kaput" tank, Berlin, Germany (1 print)
16.  Chaplain William Harry Clarke, Jr. and Jim Shitlett (driver) outside of Jeep near Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, 1945 (1 print)
17.  Unter Den Eichen near hospital, Berlin, Germany (1 print)
18.  Destruction in Berlin, Germany (4 prints)
19.  Destruction in Augsburg, Germany, May 1945 (1 print)
20.  Chaplain William Harry Clarke, Jr. outside St. Ulrich Catholic or St. Ulrich Lutheran Church, Augsburg, Germany, May 1945 (2 prints)
21.  Captain Glenn, Augsburg, Germany, 1945 (2 prints)
22.  Captain Coggeshall and Captain Glenn, Augsburg, Germany, May 1945 (1 print)
23.  Chaplain (William Harry Clarke, Jr.?) in "Dragon's Teeth," Seigfried Line, May 1945 (1 print)
24.  Chaplain William Harry Clarke, Jr. and Captain Cook in "Angel" Jeep, May 1945 (2 prints)
25.  Near Berchtesgaden, Germany, was here in June 1945 (1 print)
26.  Parts of bombed ruins in Berchtesgaden, Germany hangout, S.S. barracks (1 print)
27.  Chaplain William Harry Clarke, Jr., Captain Cook, and PFC Kenney with a German tank (4 prints)
28.  Chaplain William Harry Clarke, Jr. with a young English girl (1 print)
29.  Headquarters building (1 print)
30.  Pill box in Maginot Line (1 print)
31.  Lugano, Switzerland, March 1946 (3 prints)
32.  Railroad station at Zurich, Switzerland, on way to Rome, March 1946 (1 print)
33.  Inside Vatican City, St. Peter's Dome in background, Tour of Vatican Museum, March 1946 (1 print)
34.  Munich, March 1946 (1 print)
35.  League of Nations building, June 1946 (1 print)
36.  Rosenheim, Germany, June 1946 (7 prints)
37.  Chaplains Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, June 1946 (1 print)
38.  Chaplain William Harry Clarke, Jr. at Protestant Memorial in Geneva, Switzerland, June 1946 (1 print)
39.  Border control into Italy at Chiasso, Switzerland (1 print)
40.  Appian Way, Rome, Italy, 1946 (1 print)
41.  Memorial to Victor Emmanuel II at Rome, Italy, 1946 (1 print)
42.  Wedding of PFC Hacho (?) and Colletta Charpentier at Epernay, France, January 5, 1946 (1 print)
43.  Funeral of Bill Knight, died in 279 Station Hospital, Berlin, Germany, Protestant Chapel (1 print)
44.  German plane (3 prints)
45.  Leopold's Palace, Ardennes (3 prints)
46.  Street cafe in Brussels, Belgium (1 print)
47.  President Roosevelt Bridge, Maine (1 print)
48.  Miscellaneous World War II era negatives (12 negatives)
49.  Miscellaneous military photographs (8 prints)


Transferred to State Museum
Framed portrait, William Henry Clarke (1823-1911)
Framed painted portrait, William Harry Clarke, Jr.


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