Veterans -- Missouri

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This collection consists of scrapbooks and photographs that document the American Ex-Prisoners of War-Heart of America Chapter‘s activities. Also included in this collection is a manuscript for the book Former American Prisoners of War Tell Their Stories and a history of Stalag IVB, Muhlberg, Germany.

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As I Live and Breathe and Okuna and the Kabuki Dance are both hand printed autobiography of Robert Brackenbury telling of his family history as well as his experiences growing up during the Depression, serving in the military in World War II, and his family life after the war. Other stories from his life are recorded in an oral history through the Tell Me A Story program at the Midwest Genealogy Center.

Scope and Contents This collection contains family history records for the Rufi family, including a brief autobiography of Civil War veteran Jacob Rufi, a scrapbooks with images dating from the 1900s to the 1960s, and correspondences. The collection also contains family history research and family trees for the Rufi and Wolf families. John Rufi, whose materials make up much of the collection, was a professor at the University of Missouri. The materials of Joan Rufi are included as well, including papers...