The correspondence consists chiefly of letters from Stanley Pogozelski to his wife Mary C. Pogozelski. The letters were written from Yukon, Canada, and Alaska in 1943 and 1944, when Stanley worked as a laborer on the Alaska-Canadian Highway (also known as the Alaska Highway), employed by Bechtel-Price-Callahan, in order to maintain a draft deferral. The letters document the daily life of the workers on the highway, as well as Stanley Pogozelski's travel in the Yukon and Alaska. Material includes letterheads illustrated with scenes of Alaska. Also included are a few letters from Mary C. Pogozelski to Stanley Pogozelski, and correspondence with Bechtel-Price-Callahan relating to Pogozelski's draft status
Description:
Stanley Pogozelski worked as a civilian laborer on the Alaska-Canadian Highway, employed by Bechtel-Price-Callahan, during the Second World War. and In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska., Yukon., Canada., United States., Alaska, Alaska Highway., and Yukon
Subject (Name):
Pogozelski, Mary C., Pogozelski, Stanley., Bechtel Corporation., H.C. Price Co., W. A. Bechtel Company., and W. E. Callahan Construction Company.
Subject (Topic):
Road construction workers, Roads, Design and construction, World War, 1939-1945, Transportation, and Description and travel
A satire on governmental policy towards America. Depicts the Earl of Bute on the left and Earl of Mansfield with Lord North on the right dancing around a tall thistle which is draped with a Garter ribbon emblazoned with the motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" having above it, at the center of a halo of light, the motto "Carduus benedictus." A devil hovers above the scene playing bagpipes. Mansfield holds a copy of the Quebec Bill, with a banner beneath him proclaiming "Nemo me impune lacessit". The banner beneath Bute is labelled "Noli me tangere."
Description:
Title from item. and Probably from the London Magazine v, 44, p. 56 of February 1775, although George gives date as March 1, 1775.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, America., Canada, and Canada.
Subject (Name):
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., and Québec (Province).
Subject (Topic):
Colonies, Politics and government, and Freedom of religion
Coates, Thomas, approximately 1802-1883, collector
Published / Created:
[1834-1836]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 834C
Image Count:
111
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An album compiled by Thomas Coates, solicitor and sometime secretary to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, containing 340 proofs of wood engravings mounted on 68 leaves, with section titles and descriptions: Illustrations of the Hindoos / drawn on the blocks by Wm. Westall, A.R.A. 1835 (ca. [32] p.); British Canada 1835 ([8] p.); British costume ([3] p.); Old English sports ([8] p.); a group of 10 pages (some blank) with Roman ruins and other historic sites in Spain and Portugal; Illustrations of the Modern Egyptians / drawn on the blocks by the Author, Edwd. Wm. Lane Esq. 1836 (24 p.). Many of the ilustrations are captioned in blank ink by the same hand; others prints with pencil notations
Description:
Title from dealer's description., Bound in original black half morocco over marbled boards, spine decorate in gilt and upper cover with morocco label lettered "Scrap-book.", With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Coates. Below bookplate, slip of paper with the name and address of Mrs. Algernon Warren., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Canada., Canada, Egypt, India, Portugal, and Spain
