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Korean War, 1950-1953.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Iva Cowan Adams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2023A009
Abstract

This is a small collection mostly containing correspondence in the form of letters and postcards from family, friends, and soldiers of WWII and the Korean War. This correspondence is largely written to Iva Lorraine Cowan Adams, a long-time resident of Madison County.

Dates: 1940 - 2019; Acquisition: 2022-06-01

Korean War Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0010-061
Scope and Contents

This is an artificial collection created to provide access to materials related to the Korean War. At this time it is composed of propaganda flyers designed to entice servicemen to leave and go back home to their families.

Dates: 1950 - 1953

Kathleen Kenney Wiley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2024A004
Abstract

This collection of scrapbooks shows a detailed slice of the life of an Eastern Kentucky State College student in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Not only is Eastern well represented in the clippings, but so are the lives of her school friends from Walton, KY as they also appear frequently in the scrapbooks.

Dates: 1943 - 2016; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1952; Acquisition: 2004-11-11