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Roy Richard Thomas Christmas card 1945
Roy Richard Thomas Christmas card 1945
 
 
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Roy Richard Thomas face
Roy Richard Thomas face
 
 
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Roy Richard Thomas Yonezawa, Japan (summer 1946 p. 1)
Roy Richard Thomas Yonezawa, Japan (summer 1946 p. 1)

This rural area in northern Japan had no sanitary sewer system in 1945.

Privies/outhouses were serviced by men with large buckets, who dumped the contents into these large containers on the cart, for transport to the fields and use as fertilizer. 
 
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Roy Richard Thomas Yonezawa, Japan (summer 1946 p. 2)
Roy Richard Thomas Yonezawa, Japan (summer 1946 p. 2)

A sanitation worker paused on his rounds in rural northern Japan. 
 
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Roy Richard Thomas Yonezawa, Japan (summer, 1946)
Roy Richard Thomas Yonezawa, Japan (summer, 1946)

Typical farm and laborer amid rice paddies in this area of northern Japan, near the Sea of Japan.

Roy Richard Thomas took this photo while mounted on horseback. He used his father's Kodak camera from World War I. 
 
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Roy Richard Thomas, Bibliographer and Manuscript Librarian for the Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Roy Richard Thomas, Bibliographer and Manuscript Librarian for the Library of Congress, Washington, DC

As a part of the Library's Bicentennial projects in the early 1970's, Roy studied and wrote annotations for some 900 books for "Revolutionary America, 1763-1789" (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1984, 2 v., 1671 pp.). The green binders in several book cases behind him ultimately contained one page for each of the 14,810 entries in this definitive bibliography.

Reviewer Bernard Freidman, Indiana University-Indianapolis wrote:

". . . Finally, the compiler is to be congratulated on the restraint shown in the annotations accompanying about 40 percent of the entries. . . . Gephart’s annotations are scrupulously objective in describing the contents or point of view of an article or book. . . ." ["Indiana Magazine of History," (Bloomington: History Dept, Indiana Univ.), v. 81 No. 1 (March 1985), pp. 77-78.]

The bibliography may be viewed at this link:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.319510005485911&view=1up&seq=4

The following year, Roy transferred to the Manuscript Division and arranged the nearly one thousand box collection of Josephus Daniels, who was Secretary of the Navy, 1913-1921, under Woodrow Wilson and Ambassador to Mexico before World War II under Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The guide may be viewed at this link:

http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2010/ms010320.pdf


Roy in 1972 presented at the annual convention of the Organization of American Historians at a session about manuscript sources for women's history, which is described at this link:

http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/journals/ed_lead/el_197311_burstyn.pdf 
 
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Roy Richard Thomas, Carol Jean Wehrwein, grandchildren 1989
Roy Richard Thomas, Carol Jean Wehrwein, grandchildren 1989
 
 
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Roy Richard Thomas, Carol Jean Wehrwein, Robert Carroll Thomas, wedding
Roy Richard Thomas, Carol Jean Wehrwein, Robert Carroll Thomas, wedding
 
 
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Roy Richard Thomas, Japan U.S. Army barracks 1946
Roy Richard Thomas, Japan U.S. Army barracks 1946

This photo shows a typical barracks, but wooden ladders had been added as fire escapes.

The American soldiers were billeted in two-story Japanese schools, which were made entirely of wood. In the first few months of the occupation, units oiled the wooden floors to improve their appearance. When these wooden buildings burned,the fire spread quickly in part because of the oiled floors.

When his barracks caught fire in the middle of the night, Roy Richard Thomas was awakened by another soldier who was on his way to a window. There was no light except for the flames and the room was filled with smoke. Roy sleepily followed that soldier, climbed out the window, and fell two stories to the ground. Then both crossed the closed quadrangle and, with the help of already those inside, climbed into a window of a part of the structure not yet engulfed in flames, and exited to safety. Six died in the conflagration, including two who slept a few beds away from Roy Richard Thomas.

The rather primitive Japanese x-ray equipment at this remote base did not reveal any fractures, so Roy returned to duty in a week.

Only some months later, when he was examined by American x-ray equipment at division headquarters in Sendai, was it discovered that he had fractured both ankles in the fall.

It was the only jump, and that one without a parachute, that he made while assigned to the 11th Airborne Division.  
 
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Roy Richard Thomas, Realtor face
Roy Richard Thomas, Realtor face
 
 
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Roy Thomas honored by family for his family history work.  (2006)
Roy Thomas honored by family for his family history work. (2006)
 
 
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roy-richard-thomas-falcon-photo.jpg
roy-richard-thomas-falcon-photo.jpg
 
 
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roy/jacob_przylucki_first_day_school.JPG
roy/jacob_przylucki_first_day_school.JPG
 
 
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roy/jacob_przylucki_first_day_school.JPG
roy/jacob_przylucki_first_day_school.JPG
 
 
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roy/THOMAS Robert Carroll family Annandale VA 2005.JPG
roy/THOMAS Robert Carroll family Annandale VA 2005.JPG
 
 
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roy/THOMAS Robert Carroll family Annandale VA 2005.JPG
roy/THOMAS Robert Carroll family Annandale VA 2005.JPG
 
 
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Ruby M. Wright (1921-1972)
Ruby M. Wright (1921-1972)

Received from Paul E. Williams. 
 
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Ruby M. Wright (1921-1972)
Ruby M. Wright (1921-1972)

Received from Paul E. Williams. 
 
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Rudy Kaufman face
Rudy Kaufman face
From 8 mm home movie he took at 1948 Horwitz Family Gathering  
 
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
 
 
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Russell C. Thomas was looking at the Rio Grande River
Russell C. Thomas was looking at the Rio Grande River
A Colorado state highway bridge crosses the gorge cut by the river, much like the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. 
 
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
 
 
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Russell Cameron Thomas
Russell Cameron Thomas
 
 
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Russell Cameron Thomas
Russell Cameron Thomas
 
 
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Russell Cameron Thomas
Russell Cameron Thomas

Business/pleasure trip to Paris, France 
 

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