SIDNEY SHOGREN:
An Inventory of His World War II Photograph Collection at the Minnesota Historical Society
Sound and Visual Collection
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Shogren, Sidney, photographer. | |
| Title: | Sidney Shogren World War II photograph collection. | |
| Dates: | approximately 1936-1993. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Album, memory books and correspondence, newspaper articles, and sketches belonging to St. Paul native Sidney Shogren, a Navy PT boat skipper who served in the Solomon Islands during World War II. The collection primarily documents his journey from the East Coast through the Panama Canal to the Pacific where he served, but also includes some early family photographs and post-war images. | |
| Quantity: | 1 album (203 photographs): black and white; 8 x 10 inches and smaller, 56 photographs: black and white; 8 x 10 inches and smaller and 4 folders. | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Shogren, Sidney. Sidney Shogren World War II Photograph Collection. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additionalexamples.
Alternate Form Available:
Selected digital images from this collection are also available.
Accession Information:
Accession number: AV2015.35
Processing Information:
Catalog ID number: 990085221060104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| I.463.1-8 | Family photographs, approximately 1936-1951. 17 photographs: black and white; inches and 1 photograph: negative, black and white; 5x 4 inches | ||||||||||
| I.463.9-56 | World War II photographs, approximately 1940-1945, 1993. 38 photographs: black and white; 8 x 10 inches and smaller. | ||||||||||
| Album 324 | World War II photograph album, approximately 1940-1945. 1 album (203 photographs): black and white; 8 x 10 inches and smaller. | ||||||||||
| I.463.57 | Correspondence, articles and sketches, approximately 1940-1945. 1 folder. | ||||||||||
| II.65.1 | US Navy War Photographs, Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Harbor: a collection of official U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard photographs, approximately 1946. 1 folder. | ||||||||||
| I.463.58 | Snuffy: the story of PT Squadron 19 memory book, approximately 1945-1950. 1 folder. | ||||||||||
| II.65.2 | PT Boat, 1968, 1970. 1 folder. | ||||||||||
| Two issues (late summer 1968, spring 1970) published by PT Boats All Hands HDQ. & Museum. | |||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Torpedo-boat destroyers --Photographs.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American -- Personal narratives.
- Organizations:
- United States -- Navy -- Photographs.
- Document Types:
- Correspondence.
- Photograph albums.
- Photographs.
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