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Claude Reagan Jr. papers

Guide to the Claude Reagan Jr. papers
circa 1942-1945

Collection number: HMC-1238.
Creator: Reagan, Claude Jr.
Title: Claude Reagan Jr. papers.
Date: circa 1942-1945.
Volume of collection: 0.01 cubic feet.
Language of materials: Materials in this collection are in English.
Collection summary: A Yellow Cab Company card and photographs of Kodiak and the Aleutians.

Biographical note:
Claude Constant Reagan Jr. was born in 1921. He graduated high school in 1939 and joined the US Navy, serving as a warrant officer. During WWII, Reagan was stationed in the Aleutians on the USS Teal. He retired from the Navy in the 1960s. Claude Reagan Jr. died in 2006.

Collection description:
The collection contains a Yellow Cab Company card and photographs of Kodiak, the Aleutians, and the USS Teal. The Yellow Cab Company card is from Juneau and signed by Ray Baxter. The photographs of Kodiak depict the Bank of Kodiak, a street in Kodiak, and the city. Other photographs depict Reagan and other men who served on the USS Teal, dogs, and scenery. The collection also contains a shipping receipt to send mail from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, to Seattle, Washington.

Arrangement: The collection is arranged in the order in which it arrived at the Archives.

Digitized copies: This collection has not been digitized. For information about obtaining digital copies, please contact Archives and Special Collections.

Rights note: The Archives holds copyright to materials created by Claude Reagan Jr.

Preferred citation: Claude Reagan Jr. papers, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage.

Works used in preparation of inventory: Biographical information was provided by the donor.

Acquisition note: The collection was donated to the Archives, and a deed of gift signed, by Susan Hicks, Claude Reagan’s niece, in 2016.

Processing information: This collection was described by Veronica Denison in 2016.

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