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Robert M. Briggs Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0453
Scope and Contents
The Robert M. Briggs Papers (1943-2004) document Brigg's military duty during the Second World War and his paintings and personal writings. Highlights include Briggs' scrapbook of photographs, newspaper clippings, sketches, and watercolors of fellow servicemen, local Okinawans, landscapes, and battleships during World War II. Briggs drew many of the sketches rapidly while under enemy fire and painted them in later. Filed alphabetically, the collection...
Dates:
1943-2004; Majority of material found in 1943-1945