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Guide to the Melzrine and Warren Moore Papers
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Warren Moore

Physical Description: 4 folders

Series Scope and Content Summary

Includes Moore's military personnel records, ephemera, and pamphlets documenting his employment and service during World War II; a description of his duties as a custom inspector at the Naval Supply Center in Oakland, California; and assorted club programs of which Moore was a member.

Arrangement

Arranged by into subseries by activity and thereafter by format.
 

Military service

Box 1:1

Personnel records 1946-1947

Box 1:1

Honorable discharge from the Army of the United States 1946

Box 1:1

Enlisted man’s temporary pass 1943

Box 1:1

Names and addresses of the men of the 793d Ordnance LM company circa 1940s

Box 1:1

The blue helmet presents the 93rd 1943

Box 1:1

To the 93rd Fighting Division from service club no. 1 Ft. Huachuca, Arizona circa 1940s

Box 1:1

Information on Louisiana’s veterans’ bonus 1948

 

Employment

Box 1:2

Red ball expeditor description of duties, Customs Unit, Export and Import Section, Freight Transhipment Branch, Naval Supply Center, Oakland, California undated

Box 1:2

Application for federal employment 1946

Box 1:2

Berkeley Evening Trade school identification and admission card undated

Box 1:2

Moore’s tv and radio repair service business cards undated

 

Clubs

 

Benevolent Order of Beavers

Box 1:3

Membership applications circa 1950s

Box 1:3

Membership dues tickets circa 1950s

 

Masons

Box 1:3

Letter, re: first degree of masonry ceremony 1950

Box 1:3

Ritual containing the three symbolic degrees compiled and arranged for the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of California / Will W. Johnson et. al. 1948

Box 1:3

California Baptist State Brotherhood quarterly bulletin March 1967

 

Biographical

Box 1:4

Letter from Prigrean [?] 1946

Box 1:4

Funeral service program 1993

 

Melzrine Moore

Physical Description: 1 folder

Series Scope and Content Summary

Includes Melzrine Moore's student report cards, diplomas, and a commencement program documenting her attendance at Lake Charles's Colored High School in Lake Charles, Louisiana and her funeral service program.

Arrangement

Arranged by format.
 

Education

Box 1:5

Report cards, Jefferson Davis Parish/Lake Charles, Louisiana 1931-1939

Box 1:5

Commencement program, Colored High School 1937

 

Certificates

Box 1:5

State spelling certificate 1936

Box 1:5

Elementary school certificate, Colored High School of Lake Charles, Louisiana 1937

Box 1:5

State High School diploma, Lake Charles Colored High School, Louisiana 1941

Box 1:5

Funeral service program 1994

Box 1:6

File clerk, Naval Supply Center, notice of unofficial efficiency rating 1947-1949

 

Photographs

Physical Description: 1 folder

Series Scope and Content Summary

Includes five photographs of the Moore family in Oakland, California.

Arrangement

Arranged by photograph identification number.
Box 1:6

Melzrine Moore, Warren Moore, Margaret Joseph, and Earl Joseph dancing [001] circa 1940s

Box 1:6

Melzrine Moore and Warren Moore sitting on love seat in living room [002] circa 1940s

Box 1:6

Two men crouching next to two infants riding scooter, caption: ‘Jackie & Felicia Daddy & Gee Oakland, CA on Popular St.’ [003] 1947

Box 1:6

Baby walking on sidewalk in front of building, caption: ‘Gee @ projects on Poplar St. Oakland’ [004]

 

Assorted printed material

Physical Description: 1 folder

Series Scope and Content Summary

Includes assorted church, funeral, and educational programs and a war ration booklet from World War II.

Arrangement

Arranged by format.
Box 1:7

Lake Charles Women’s Chorus music week program 1937

Box 1:7

War ration book circa 1940s

Box 1:7

Lifelong learning class catalog, University of California university extension Spring 1949

Box 1:7

Evergreen Missionary Baptist Church (Oakland, Calif.) membership report yearbook 1976