Posy Adler scrapbook, 1943-1945

Containers:

Box 5

Box 6

Box 7

Extent:

3 boxes

Scope and content:

The scrapbook maintained by Posy Adler (1943-1945) contains naval service forms, letters, informational documents, certificates, and newsletters and publications, along with a few family letters and letters from business connections regarding Leon's commission, greeting cards and postcards, mementos and newspaper clippings, and twenty two black-and-white photographs. However, the primary focus of the scrapbook was to hold Leon's telegrams and over 183 letters he wrote to Posy during his service. Leon wrote weekly, sometimes daily, and the letters provide a complete description of his service, including training, leisure activities, excursions, homesickness, and other experiences. They often also touch on Adler Company business matters, and his pride in his wife's operation of the store during his absence. Once Leon joined the crew of the Biloxi, his letters focused on life aboard ship, his duties, description of ports, family matters, then the end of the war, the dropping of the atomic bombs, and his preparations to leave the navy.

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