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Title A name given to the resource Through the Lines: Letters from Home and the Front, 1917-1945 Description An account of the resource These letters, drawn from manuscripts collections held by the Special Collections Department of Mississippi State University Libraries, were written by men and women, including many graduates of the University, who served in World War I or World War II or who lived in hope that their loved ones would return to them after the war. The soldiers’ thoughts on getting accustomed to the pace and structure of military life and missing their homes, families, farms, and favorite foods, like Mama's chocolate cake, are recurrent themes in their letters; their voices, as well as the voices of their loved ones, are represented in the following objects. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mastley, Carrie P. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Manuscripts Division; University Archives; and the Congressional and Political Research Center, Special Collections, Mississippi State University Libraries. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Mississippi State University Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1917-1945 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright Mississippi State Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG files Language A language of the resource en_US Type The nature or genre of the resource Collection Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant England France Germany Mississippi Pennsylvania Philippines South Carolina 1917-1945 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2020-09-17 Subject The topic of the resource Military correspondence War and families World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1939-1945 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Through the Lines: Letters from Home and the Front, 1917-1945, Special Collections, Mississippi State University Libraries. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter, George S. Oakley to F. Warren Oakley, June 13, 1943 Subject The topic of the resource Agriculture--Mississippi World War, 1939-1945 Description An account of the resource Correspondence from from George. S. Oakley to his son, F. Warren Oakley, who served overseas in World War II. In the letter, G. S. Oakley writes that the current season's crops are doing well, especially cotton. During this time, the Oakley owned a substantial dairy farm, Oak-Ayr. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Oakley, George Sanders, 1893-1946 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Manuscripts Division, Special Collections, Mississippi State University Libraries. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Mississippi State University Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943-06-13 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG Language A language of the resource en-US Type The nature or genre of the resource text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Oak-Ayr_Farms_267a.jpg Oak-Ayr_Farms_267b.jpg Oak-Ayr_Farms_267c.jpg Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Oak-Ayr Famrs Collection, Manuscripts Division, Special Collections, Mississippi State University Libraries. Through the Lines: Letters from Home and the Front, 1917-1945, Digital Exhibit, Special Collections, Mississippi State University Libraries. Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. 6/13/42 Sunday Morn’ Well how is my soldier boy this morning! Fine I hope. Everything moving along here about as usual. Put up what hay I cut Monday before you went for camp. Haven’t cut any more on account of having to plow around crop again. Guess I will start up again soon. The crop is doing fine especially cotton. Corn needs rain real bad. May get one today as it has been trying to rain for several days. Guess you don’t know anything about what you are going to do yet. Be contacting us as soon as you find out anything. Not much news here at home. Guess Mother keeps you posted pretty well about the happenings anyway. I haven’t written a letter in so long till I hardly know where to start. Well I must close for now as I hear the milkns coming to the dairy. Wish you the best of luck. Lots of love, Daddy