James Philip Keel Collection

1945-1946
Manuscript Collection #1132
Portions of this collection are digitized (1 item)
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Creator(s)
Keel, James Philip
Physical description
0.83 Cubic Feet, 527 items
Preferred Citation
James Philip Keel Collection (#1132), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
Repository
ECU Manuscript Collection
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Custodial History

September 10, 2008, (unprocessed) 527 items, 0.83 cubic feet; Collection (1945-1946) of manuscript materials, photographic prints & negatives, printed materials & oversized materials relating to the family, military training & service of Staff Sgt. James Philip Keel, from Robersonville, North Carolina, who served in the 61st Finance Disbursing Section, Headquarters, Seine Section, Theater Services Forces, European Theater, during World War II, & including materials relating to Robersonville, North Carolina, Indianapolis, Indiana, Paris, France, Basle & Kandersteg, Switzerland. English & French language. See preliminary inventory attached. Donor: Philip W. Keel; Richard C. Keel; Walter M. Keel

Source of acquisition

Gift of Philip W. Keel

Gift of Richard C. Keel

Gift of Walter M. Keel

Processing information

Encoded by Jonathan Dembo, September 10, 2008

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.

Key terms
Personal Names
Keel, James Philip
Family Names
Keel family
Corporate Names
United States. Army--Officers
Topical
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
Places
Paris (France)--Photographs
Robersonville (N.C.)--Photographs
Switzerland--Photographs
Container list
Box 1 Folder a 1945 The Mill Mutuals Southeastern Department Nashville, Tennessee Pocket Calendar containing diary of James Philip Keel's military service (1945-1946) including an account of the his vacation in Paris, France 12/30/1945 - 2/2/1946. Mss. 1 vol., 78 pages. Note: Includes notes on photographs the donor took in Paris, beginning on p. 6
Box 1 Folder c Keel Family, Robersonville, North Carolina - France. Photographic prints (ca. 1945) 3.5" x 5.75" Black & White. 16 items
Box 1 Folder d Keel Family, Robersonville, North Carolina. Photographic prints (ca. 1946) 2.5" x 4.5" Black & White. 11 items
Box 1 Folder e Eiffel Tower - Fontainebleau - Statue of Liberty - St. Augustin - Notre Dame - Misc. Photographic prints. (Dec. 1945 - May 1946) 2.5" x 3.75" Black & White. 86 items
Box 1 Folder f Parades & Carnivals, Paris, France. Photographic Prints (Dec. 1945 - May 1946) 2.5" x 3.75" Black & White. 86 items. Note: Includes photo of Charles de Gaulle marching in VE Day Parade, May 1946
Box 1 Folder g Parisian Street Scenes, France. Photographic prints. (Dec. 1945 - May 1946) 2.5" x 3.75" Black & White. 103 items
Box 1 Folder h Switzerland & Paris, France. Photographic prints. (April - May 1946) 2.5" x 3.75" Black & White. 71 items
Box 1 Folder i Zoo de Paris, Paris, France. Photographic prints. (April 1946) 2.5" x 3.75" Black & White. 86 items
Box 1 Folder j Item 1 Negative strips #01 (4/7-4/8/1946) Paris Zoo, Champs, Madeleine, Concorde, Tuilleries, Misc. 7 strips
Box 1 Folder j Item 2 Negative strips #02 (4/13/1946): Mr. Hedges, The Louvre, Notre Dame. 7 strips
Box 1 Folder j Item 3 Negative strips #03 (4/13 & 4/14/1946): Notre Dame, Seine River scene, Paris garbage truck, St. Augustin, Sidewalk market, Pictures, Arc of Triomphe, Fontainebleau. 7 strips
Box 1 Folder j Item 4 Negative strips #04 (5/1/1946): Fontainebleau. 7 strips
Box 1 Folder k Item 1 Negative strips #05 (4/14-5/1/1946) The Rocks between Paris and Fontainebleau; Bois de Boulogne; Statue of Liberty. 7 strips
Box 1 Folder k Item 2 Negative strips #06 (4/21 & 4/22/1946): Eiffel Tower, Trocadero, Statue of Liberty. 7 strips
Box 1 Folder k Item 3 Negative strips #07 (4/28 & 5/1/1946): Trinite, Casino, French Bread, Peddlers, The Bastille, May Day Parade, Scavengers. 7 strips
Box 1 Folder k Item 4 Negative strips #08 (5/1/1946): May Day Parade. 7 strips
Box 1 Folder l Item 1 Negative strips #09 (5/1/1946): May Day Parade, Sidewalk café, Misc. 7 strips
Box 1 Folder l Item 2 Negative strips #10 (5/4-5/5/1946): Arc of Triomphe, St. Augustin, Opera, Unknown Soldier's Tomb, French Bread, Misc. 7 strips
Box 1 Folder l Item 3 Negative strips #11 (5/15/1946): American Cathedral, French Bread, Jardin Des Tuilleries, Misc. street scenes. 7 strips
Box 1 Folder l Item 4 Negative strips #12 (5/5/1946): Tuilleries, Joan of Arc, Barge, Notre Dame, Pantheon, Luxembourg, Misc. 7 strips
Box 1 Folder m Item 1 Negative strips #13 (5/5-5/8/1946): Luxembourg, St. Sulpice, Concorde, Madeleine, Notre Dame of Lorette, Carriages, Flower vendors, Street scenes. 7 strips
Box 1 Folder m Item 2 Negative strips #14 (5/12/1946): VE Day, Jean of Arc Day, Parade. 7 strips
Box 1 Folder m Item 3 Negative strips #15 (5/12/1946): VE Day Parade, Night Scenes. 7 strips
Box 1 Folder m Item 4 Negative strips #16 (5/26-5/30/1946): The Opera (inside), Notre Dame de Lorette, Eiffel Tower, Trocadero, River Seine, Palace of Versailles. 7 strips
Box 1 Folder n Negative strips #17 (5/30 & 6/5/1946): Palace of Versailles gardens, Folies Bergère . 7 strips
Box 1 Folder o Paris, France Landmarks, by Bert Larrens [?] Prints (ca. 1946) Color prints. 6 items
Box 1 Folder p Indianapolis, Indiana Tourist Views. Prints. (ca. 1945) 3.5" x 2.25" Black & White. 17 items
Box 1 Folder q Film Developing & Enlarging Instructions, by Argus, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI (undated) Mimeographed typescript. 2 items
Box 1 Folder r Folies Bergère Program (ca. 1946) Pamphlet. French language. 1 item
Box 1 Folder s Welcome to Santa Maria [Airport] Terminal Building. Passenger Personnel [Azores Islands, Spain] (ca. 1945-1946) Brochure. 1 item
Box 2 Folder a Item 1 Film-Album Leicathèque Negative Strips Page 01: Strip #1: Scene at Trocadero, Same, Eiffel Tower, Same Same; Strip #2: Sacre-Coeur, Pigalle Circus, Madeleine, Llama at the Zoo; Strip #3: Sacre Coeur, Same, Same Same, Same; Strip #4: Street scene, A Picture, Same, Same, Same; Strip #5: No. 1 Mess Hall, Guaranty Bank Building, Same, Flower vendor; Strip #6: Workers, A Picture, Same, D-E, Pigeons. 6 strips
Box 2 Folder a Item 2 Film-Album Leicathèque Negative Strips Page 02: Strip #1: Street scene, Acre-Coeur, Same, Same, Same; Strip #2: Camel at the Zoo, Same, Same, Same, Same; Strip #3: Kitts, Knicker bocker, Me; Strip #4: Laper, Laper, A Picture, Me; Strip #5: Mayo 1, Same, Same ,Same Same, ; Mayo 1, Same, Same, Same, Same. 6 strips
Box 2 Folder a Item 3 Film-Album Leicathèque Negative Strips Page 03: Strip #1: N. G, Me, DE, Eiffel Tower, Trocadero; Strip #2: Trocadero, Statue at Trocadero, Street scene, Statue, Fuhrman; Strip #3: Statue on Bridge, Same, Me, Fishing on the Seine; Same; Strip #4: Trocadero, Apartment, Eiffel Tower, Seine Foot Bridge, Seine Bridge; Strip #5: Seine Bridge, Fishing, Same, Same, Eiffel Tower; Strip #6: N-G, N-G, Sacre-Coeur, Same, Scene at Sacre-Coeur.; Strip #7: Horses. 7 strips
Box 2 Folder a Item 4 Film-Album Leicathèque Negative Strips Page 04: Strip #1: Fogg on Train to Mulhouse, Me on Train to Mulhouse, N, G., N.G., N.G.; Strip #2: N.G., Fogg & Sad Sack, Me & Sad Sack, N.G., N.G.; Strip #3: Street scene Basle; Same, D.E., Me, Schutzenhaus in Basle; Strip #4: Schutzenhaus in Basle, Church in Basle, Same, Buick in Basle, Street vendor in Basle; Strip #5: Signpost in Basle, Laper in Basle, Store window in Basle, N.G., Policeman in Basle; Strip #6: Policeman in Basle, Store window, Castle-Thun; Strip #7: Castle-Thun, Hotel-Thun, Same. 7 strips
Box 2 Folder a Item 5 Film-Album Leicathèque Negative Strips Page 05: Strip #1: Kandersteg Mountain scene, Same, Same, Same, Sleigh at Station; Strip #2: Kandersteg Mountain scene, Same, Laper, Mountain scene, Fogg; Strip #3: Kandersteg Mountain scene, Same, Fogg on Skiis, Same, Same; Strip #4 Laper on Skiis, Same, Same, Same, Same; Strip #5: Fogg & Laper, Same, Fogg & Me, Me, Me; Strip #6: Table scene, N. G., Children, Mountains, Same; Strip #7: Mountains, N.G., Fogg & Laper, Same. 7 strips
Box 2 Folder a Item 6 Film-Album Leicathèque Negative Strips Page 06: Strip #1: Laper mountain climbing, Same, Kandersteg Village, Same, Same; Strip #2: Kandersteg Village, Same, N.G., Laper "on the way down," Same; Strip #3: Laper "on the way down," Same, Same, Same, Same; Strip #4: Tailing Party, Same, Same, Same, Same; Strip #5: Tailing Party, Same, Same, Same, Same; Strip #6: Tailing Party, Same, Same, Same, Same; Strip #7: Tailing Party, Same. 7 strips
Box 2 Folder a Item 7 Film-Album Leicathèque Negative Strips Page 07: Strip #1: Kandersteg Winter Scenes, Same, Same, Same, Same; Strip #2: Kandersteg Winter Scenes, Same, Same, Same, Same; Strip #3: Kandersteg Winter Scenes, Same, Same, Same, Same; Strip #4: Kandersteg Winter Scenes, Same, Same, Same, Laper; Strip #5: Kandersteg Winter Scenes, Same, Same, Me, Winter Scene; Strip #6: Kandersteg Winter Scenes, Same, Same, Same, Laper; Strip #7: Laper, Laper, Same, Same. 7 strips
Box 2 Folder a Item 8 Film-Album Leicathèque Negative Strips Page 08: Strip #1: Kurhaus, Same, Winter scene, Same, Church steeple; Strip #2: N.G., Church, Same, Store, Store; Strip #3: Street scenes, Same, Same, Same, Same; Strip #4: Church, Ski jump, Ski jump, Ski jump, Street scene; Strip #5: Street scene, Sleigh, Sleigh, N.G., N.G.; Strip #6: Snow scenes, Same, Same, Same, Kandersteg Station; Strip #7: Kandersteg Station. 7 strips
Box 2 Folder a Item 9 Film-Album Leicathèque Negative Strips Page 09: Strips #1-7: Martigny Carnival. 7 strips
Box 2 Folder a Item 10 Film-Album Leicathèque Negative Strips Page 10: Strips #1-4: Martigny Carnival; Strip #5: Swans at Geneva; Strip #6: Swans at Geneva. 6 strips
Box 2 Folder a Item 11 Film-Album Leicathèque Negative Strips Page 11: Strip #1: Lake Geneva Birds; Strip #2: Geneva Street scenes; Strip #3: Geneva Street scenes; Strip #4: Geneva Street scenes, Same, Geneva Railway Station, Same, N.G.; Strip #5: Paris Art on Display. 5 strips
Box 2 Folder a Item 12 Film-Album Leicathèque Negative Strips Page 12: Strips #1-4: Folies Bergère; Strip #5: Folies Bergère, Same, Animal, Llama, Llama; Strip #6: Llamas; Strip #7: Llamas. 7 strips
Box 2 Folder a Item 13 Film-Album Leicathèque Negative Strips Page 13: Strip #1: Buffalo, Elephant, Same, Same, Same, Same; Strip #3: Elephant, Same, Same, Same, Same, Same; Strip #3: Wildebeest, The "Rock", Giraffe, Giraffe, Giraffe, Camel; Strip #4: Camels, The "Crowd", Goats, Goats; Strip #5: Mountain sheep, Same, Goat, Monkeys, Same. 5 strips
Box 2 Folder a Item 14 Film-Album Leicathèque Negative Strips Page 14: Strip #1: Zoo visitors, Animal, Swan, Same, Same; Strip #2: Giraffe, Donkeys to ride, Same, Walrus, Riding camel; Strip #3: Riding camel, Flamingoes, Same, Same, Same; Strip #4: Pony, Pony, Peacock, Pony, Pony; Strip #5: Bears, Bear, Bear, Bear, Bear; Strip #6: Bear, Bear, Bear, Bear, Bear; Strip #7: Bear, Bear, Bear, Elephant. 7 strips
Box 2 Folder a Item 15 Film-Album Leicathèque Negative Strips Page 15: Strip #1: Sacre Coeur, Same, Same, Same, Same; Strip #2: Sacre Coeur, Same, Same, Same, Same; Strip #3: Opera, Opera, St. Augustin, St. Augustin, American Embassy; Strip #4: American Embassy, Same, Concorde Square; Same, Same; Strip #5: Concorde Square, Arc de Triomphe, Same, Same, Same; Strip #6: Arc de Triomphe, Same, Same, Same, Same; Strip #7: Mess No. 1, Same, Parrot at Zoo, Same, Same. 7 strips
Box 2 Folder a Item 16 Film-Album Leicathèque Negative Strips Page 16: At the Zoo: Strip #1: Monkeys, Same, Lion, Bird, Tiger; Strip #2: Tiger, Tiger, Tiger, Elephant, Same; Strip #3: Bear, "Flamingoes", Same, Bear, "Flamingoes"; Strip #4: "Flamingoes", Same, Hippo, Sea Lion, Same; Strip #5: Sea Lion, Kitts, Kitts, Swans, Swans; Strip #6: Swan, Swan, Lion, Lion, Lion; Strip #7: Goats, Goats, Llama, ?, ? 7 strips
Folder os1 Plan de Paris / Nouveau Paris Monumental [Map of Paris / New Paris Monuments Map] French language. Scale: 1: 17.5. [ca. 1945] 29.75" x 22" 1 item