Fairy Walsh Collection
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MS.84Scope and Content
The Fairy Walsh Collection is a series of 12 postcards mailed from Boulder City between February and December 1942 by a woman married to a soldier named "Johnie," who was stationed at Camp Williston. We presume that those to whom she mailed the cards were her family back home in Missouri. We don't know this GI wife's name because she didn't sign her cards, yet she provides an intimate glimpse of her life in Boulder City at the beginning of World War II and of what it was like to be married to a soldier in those uncertain times. Spellings, diction, and syntax have been preserved, except where the words would be garbled and difficult to understand. Notes following the transcript explain specific details of these anonymous messages. The postcards were published by the Boulder Dam Service Bureau, a private tourist company established in Boulder City in 1933, which produced and sold postcards, booklets, brochures, films, and souvenirs related to the construction of Boulder [Hoover] Dam. * * *Collection
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