Overview of the Maerose J. Evans papers

Processed by Hoover Institution Archives Staff.

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California 94305-6010

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Overview of the Maerose J. Evans papers

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Processed by:: Hoover Institution Archives Staff
Date Completed:: 2008
Encoded by:: Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record by David Sun.

Collection Summary

Title: Maerose J. Evans papers

Dates: 1969-1994

Collection Number: 95049

Creator: Evans, Maerose J.

Collection Size: 12 manuscript boxes (4.8 linear feet)

Repository: Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford, California 94305-6010

Abstract: Correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, bulletins, newsletters, serial issues, clippings, and photographs, relating to efforts to secure the release of American prisoners of war in Vietnam, efforts to secure information on American servicemen reported missing in action, and the families of those servicemen.

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives

Languages: In English

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

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Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Maerose J. Evans papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1995.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid.

Biographical/Historical Note

Western regional coordinator, National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia; wife of Commander James J. Evans, United States Navy, missing in action in Laos, 1965.

Scope and Content of Collection

Correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, bulletins, newsletters, serial issues, clippings, and photographs, relating to efforts to secure the release of American prisoners of war in Vietnam, efforts to secure information on American servicemen reported missing in action, and the families of those servicemen.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Missing in action.

Prisoners of war.

Navy wives.

United States--Armed Forces.

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