LST Shipyard Collection : Materials from or related to the Shipyards which built LSTs during World War II
Title:
LST-242 Christening Scrapbook: Barbara Duskey
Object ID:
2016.082.02
Object Name:
Scrapbook
Date:
07/1943
Scope & Content:
Leather-bound scrapbook containing 10 pages (8 with photos/articles on 1 side, 2 blank) of heavy cardstock held in place by string binding. The 6 photos contained show Duskey family (Barbara, Charles, & son Richard along with Barbara's sister) at christening of LST-242 on July 3, 1943 in Evansville, IN. Other 2 pages with items include copy of photo & caption showing LST-242 alongside other LSTs and landing craft during operations and newspaper/publication cut-out with cut-away sketch of LST and brief excerpt.

Scrapbook assembled in the Occupational Therapy Department of the Boehne Hospital of Evansville, IN.
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