Western Carolina University (21)
View all
- Canton Champion Fibre Company (2308)
- Cherokee Traditions (291)
- Civil War in Southern Appalachia (165)
- Craft Revival (1942)
- George Masa Collection (83)
- Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America (2921)
- Highlights from Western Carolina University (422)
- Horace Kephart (941)
- Journeys Through Jackson (159)
- LGBTQIA+ Archive of Jackson County (85)
- Oral Histories of Western North Carolina (314)
- Picturing Appalachia (6829)
- Stories of Mountain Folk (413)
- Travel Western North Carolina (154)
- Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum Vitreograph Collection (129)
- Western Carolina University Herbarium (92)
- Western Carolina University: Making Memories (738)
- Western Carolina University Publications (2491)
- Western Carolina University Restricted Electronic Theses and Dissertations (146)
- Western North Carolina Regional Maps (71)
- World War II in Southern Appalachia (131)
University of North Carolina Asheville (6)
View all
- Allanstand Cottage Industries (62)
- Appalachian National Park Association (53)
- Bennett, Kelly, 1890-1974 (1463)
- Berry, Walter (76)
- Brasstown Carvers (40)
- Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943 (26)
- Cathey, Joseph, 1803-1874 (1)
- Champion Fibre Company (233)
- Champion Paper and Fibre Company (297)
- Cherokee Indian Fair Association (16)
- Cherokee Language Program (22)
- Crowe, Amanda (40)
- Edmonston, Thomas Benton, 1842-1907 (7)
- Ensley, A. L. (Abraham Lincoln), 1865-1948 (275)
- Fromer, Irving Rhodes, 1913-1994 (70)
- George Butz (BFS 1907) (46)
- Goodrich, Frances Louisa (120)
- Grant, George Alexander, 1891-1964 (96)
- Heard, Marian Gladys (60)
- Kephart, Calvin, 1883-1969 (15)
- Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931 (313)
- Kephart, Laura, 1862-1954 (39)
- Laney, Gideon Thomas, 1889-1976 (439)
- Masa, George, 1881-1933 (61)
- McElhinney, William Julian, 1896-1953 (44)
- Niggli, Josephina, 1910-1983 (10)
- North Carolina Park Commission (105)
- Osborne, Kezia Stradley (9)
- Owens, Samuel Robert, 1918-1995 (11)
- Penland Weavers and Potters (36)
- Roberts, Vivienne (15)
- Roth, Albert, 1890-1974 (142)
- Schenck, Carl Alwin, 1868-1955 (1)
- Sherrill's Photography Studio (2565)
- Southern Highland Handicraft Guild (127)
- Southern Highlanders, Inc. (71)
- Stalcup, Jesse Bryson (46)
- Stearns, I. K. (213)
- Thompson, James Edward, 1880-1976 (226)
- United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board (130)
- USFS (683)
- Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894 (1)
- Weaver, Zebulon, 1872-1948 (58)
- Western Carolina College (230)
- Western Carolina Teachers College (282)
- Western Carolina University (2008)
- Western Carolina University. Mountain Heritage Center (18)
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 (10)
- Wilburn, Hiram Coleman, 1880-1967 (73)
- Williams, Isadora (3)
- Cain, Doreyl Ammons (0)
- Crittenden, Lorraine (0)
- Rhodes, Judy (0)
- Smith, Edward Clark (0)
- Appalachian Region, Southern (2693)
- Asheville (N.C.) (1936)
- Avery County (N.C.) (26)
- Blount County (Tenn.) (195)
- Buncombe County (N.C.) (1672)
- Cherokee County (N.C.) (283)
- Clay County (N.C.) (556)
- Graham County (N.C.) (236)
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.) (519)
- Haywood County (N.C.) (3569)
- Henderson County (N.C.) (70)
- Jackson County (N.C.) (4913)
- Knox County (Tenn.) (35)
- Knoxville (Tenn.) (13)
- Lake Santeetlah (N.C.) (10)
- Macon County (N.C.) (420)
- Madison County (N.C.) (215)
- McDowell County (N.C.) (39)
- Mitchell County (N.C.) (132)
- Polk County (N.C.) (35)
- Qualla Boundary (982)
- Rutherford County (N.C.) (76)
- Swain County (N.C.) (2182)
- Transylvania County (N.C.) (270)
- Watauga County (N.C.) (12)
- Waynesville (N.C.) (86)
- Yancey County (N.C.) (72)
- Aerial Photographs (3)
- Aerial Views (60)
- Albums (books) (4)
- Articles (1)
- Artifacts (object Genre) (228)
- Bibliographies (1)
- Biography (general Genre) (2)
- Cards (information Artifacts) (38)
- Clippings (information Artifacts) (191)
- Copybooks (instructional Materials) (3)
- Crafts (art Genres) (622)
- Depictions (visual Works) (21)
- Design Drawings (1)
- Drawings (visual Works) (185)
- Envelopes (73)
- Exhibitions (events) (1)
- Facsimiles (reproductions) (1)
- Fiction (general Genre) (4)
- Financial Records (12)
- Fliers (printed Matter) (67)
- Glass Plate Negatives (381)
- Guidebooks (2)
- Internegatives (10)
- Interviews (815)
- Land Surveys (102)
- Letters (correspondence) (1013)
- Manuscripts (documents) (618)
- Maps (documents) (177)
- Memorandums (25)
- Minutes (administrative Records) (59)
- Negatives (photographs) (6090)
- Newsletters (1290)
- Newspapers (2)
- Notebooks (8)
- Occupation Currency (1)
- Paintings (visual Works) (1)
- Pen And Ink Drawings (1)
- Periodicals (193)
- Personal Narratives (10)
- Photographs (12976)
- Plans (maps) (1)
- Poetry (5)
- Portraits (4568)
- Postcards (329)
- Programs (documents) (181)
- Publications (documents) (2443)
- Questionnaires (65)
- Relief Prints (26)
- Sayings (literary Genre) (1)
- Scrapbooks (282)
- Sheet Music (2)
- Slides (photographs) (402)
- Songs (musical Compositions) (2)
- Sound Recordings (796)
- Specimens (92)
- Speeches (documents) (18)
- Tintypes (photographs) (8)
- Transcripts (322)
- Video Recordings (physical Artifacts) (23)
- Text Messages (0)
- A.L. Ensley Collection (275)
- Appalachian Industrial School Records (7)
- Appalachian National Park Association Records (336)
- Axley-Meroney Collection (2)
- Bayard Wootten Photograph Collection (20)
- Bethel Rural Community Organization Collection (7)
- Blumer Collection (5)
- C.W. Slagle Collection (20)
- Canton Area Historical Museum (2110)
- Carlos C. Campbell Collection (462)
- Cataloochee History Project (64)
- Cherokee Studies Collection (4)
- Daisy Dame Photograph Album (5)
- Daniel Boone VI Collection (1)
- Doris Ulmann Photograph Collection (112)
- Elizabeth H. Lasley Collection (1)
- Elizabeth Woolworth Szold Fleharty Collection (4)
- Frank Fry Collection (95)
- George Masa Collection (173)
- Gideon Laney Collection (452)
- Hazel Scarborough Collection (2)
- Hiram C. Wilburn Papers (28)
- Historic Photographs Collection (236)
- Horace Kephart Collection (861)
- Humbard Collection (33)
- Hunter and Weaver Families Collection (1)
- I. D. Blumenthal Collection (4)
- Isadora Williams Collection (4)
- Jesse Bryson Stalcup Collection (47)
- Jim Thompson Collection (224)
- John B. Battle Collection (7)
- John C. Campbell Folk School Records (80)
- John Parris Collection (6)
- Judaculla Rock project (2)
- Kelly Bennett Collection (1482)
- Love Family Papers (11)
- Major Wiley Parris Civil War Letters (3)
- Map Collection (12)
- McFee-Misemer Civil War Letters (34)
- Mountain Heritage Center Collection (4)
- Norburn - Robertson - Thomson Families Collection (44)
- Pauline Hood Collection (7)
- Pre-Guild Collection (2)
- Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual Collection (12)
- R.A. Romanes Collection (681)
- Rosser H. Taylor Collection (1)
- Samuel Robert Owens Collection (94)
- Sara Madison Collection (144)
- Sherrill Studio Photo Collection (2558)
- Smoky Mountains Hiking Club Collection (616)
- Stories of Mountain Folk - Radio Programs (374)
- The Reporter, Western Carolina University (510)
- Venoy and Elizabeth Reed Collection (16)
- WCU Gender and Sexuality Oral History Project (32)
- WCU Mountain Heritage Center Oral Histories (25)
- WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives (71)
- WCU Students Newspapers Collection (1923)
- Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project (69)
- William Williams Stringfield Collection (2)
- Zebulon Weaver Collection (109)
- African Americans (390)
- Appalachian Trail (35)
- Artisans (521)
- Cherokee art (84)
- Cherokee artists -- North Carolina (10)
- Cherokee language (21)
- Cherokee pottery (101)
- Cherokee women (208)
- Church buildings (190)
- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) (111)
- College student newspapers and periodicals (2012)
- Dams (107)
- Dance (1023)
- Education (222)
- Floods (61)
- Folk music (1015)
- Forced removal, 1813-1903 (2)
- Forest conservation (220)
- Forests and forestry (1195)
- Gender nonconformity (4)
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.) (181)
- Hunting (45)
- Landscape photography (25)
- Logging (119)
- Maps (83)
- Mines and mineral resources (8)
- North Carolina -- Maps (18)
- Paper industry (38)
- Postcards (255)
- Pottery (135)
- Railroad trains (72)
- Rural electrification -- North Carolina, Western (3)
- School integration -- Southern States (2)
- Segregation -- North Carolina, Western (5)
- Slavery (5)
- Sports (452)
- Storytelling (243)
- Waterfalls -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.) (66)
- Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern (280)
- Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern (328)
- World War, 1939-1945 (173)
Memoirs of Ruth Hooper
Memoirs of Ruth Hooper
HL_MSS04_09_02_03_02
Item
Item’s are ‘child’ level descriptions to ‘parent’ objects, (e.g. one page of a whole book).
-
-
You will find it to be a tiny Island, far down in the Sulu Sea near Borneo. Jolo Island was the most beautiful place I think I have ever seen. I had joined Carr there after he was settled in. the compound in which the school was located consisted of the school building, dormitory, dining hall, shops for different projects and our home which was a modern American style home, furnished beautifully. We had beautiful lawns, flower gardens, vegetable gardens, etc. The flowers were not only the exotic ones of the tropics – the bougainvielia, gardenias, hibiscus, flame trees and the fragapina (used in many expensive perfumes) a small coffee plantation near the house and the blossoms filled the air with heavy and sweet perfume, but we also had many of the flowers we have here such as roses, nasturtiums, verbenias, pansies, sweet peas, marigolds and many others. There were also delicious fruits; mango, mangostine, avocados, papayas, fifty-two varieties of bananas and the durian, called the food of the Gods and was reserved for and eaten only by the nobility. It was delicious but did not have a very nice aroma. The island was inhabited by Moros, the Mohammedan Tribe of the Filipinos. In other words, they were Malays. They wore colorful costumes. For the women it was a tight fitting blouse with long very tight sleeves buttoned half-way to the elbow with some ten or twelve small shiny buttons. With this they wore pajama like pants with very wide legs and slung over shoulder and down one side (very gracefully) they wore always a piece of material sewed together at both ends and reaching to the ankles. This was called a sarong and served many purposes such as carrying articles. The blouse had also at the next and partly down the front, the same shiny buttons as on the sleeves. The
Object
Object’s are ‘parent’ level descriptions to ‘children’ items, (e.g. a book with pages).
-
In this personal narrative Ruth Williams Hooper shares her experiences in the Philippines before World War II, of her time at Santo Tomas Internment Camp with her husband Carr Hooper, and of their return home. The camp, also known as the Manila Internment Camp, was run by the Japanese military during World War II and housed over 3,000 internees from January 1942 until February 1945.
-
-
World War II
Related items
-
Anderson Copy Book
-
Notes on weaving
-
Nomenclature notes: various spellings of Tuckaseegee
-
History of weaving in the southern Appalachian mountains
-
William Twaddell copybook, 1761-1762
-
Nomenclature notes: N. C. stream diagrams with tributaries
-
William Twaddell Copybook, 1758
-
Trail of a Bullet draft page
-
Isadora Williams Weaving Notebook I
-
Nomenclature notes: Great Smoky Mountains: Origin of the name
-
Activities of the Appalachian National Park Association and the Appalachian National Forest Reserve Association: 1899-1906
-
William Twaddell copybook, 1761-1762
-
Physique
-
Pedestrian Equipment
-
Trip into the Smokies with Horace Kephart
-
Cataloochee tract 255: Levi N. Hall
-
Isadora Williams Weaving Notebook II
-
William Twaddell copybook, 1761-1762
-
Aboard ship on way to States by Carr Hooper
-
Permanent Camp -- Shanty
-
Our Southern Highlanders
-
Weaving Institute, 1937
-
Civil War Diary of Absalom Joshua Burum
-
Inventory of Horace Kephart collection
-
Anderson Copy Book
-
Appalachian Trail in the Unaka and the Pisgah National Forests
-
Early lumbering in western North Carolina
-
The First Ten
-
Weaving Institute, 1935
-
William Twaddell copybook, 1761-1762
-
William Twaddell Copybook, 1758
-
Account of the USS Canopus written by Capt. E. L. Sackett
Part of Collection
World War II in Southern Appalachia
-
Mary K. and Frances Elvira Owens to Samuel Robert Owens, August 1945
-
Venoy Reed to Elizabeth Hope, February 18, 1945
-
Account of the USS Canopus written by Capt. E. L. Sackett
-
Helen to Samuel Robert Owens, October 23, 1945
-
Samuel Robert Owens to Frances Elvira Owens and Steven J. Owens, October 05, 1945
-
The Canopus
-
U.S.S. Oklahoma Second Division, 1937
-
Canopus (Submarine tender), United States
-
Memories of the September 21, 1944 air raid by Carr Hooper
-
Hospital Corps; 105's Battery B - 61st F. A. -- 1st Cal. Div.
-
In memorium
-
Account of the USS Canopus written by Capt. E. L. Sackett
-
Mines Operational Course, Yorktown, VA 1947
-
Frances Elvira Owens to Samuel Robert Owens, February 15, 1942
-
Shin Seiki: Bagong Araw. New Era
-
Shin Seiki: Bagong Araw. New Era
-
Harry D. Gault to Frances Elvira Owens, August 24, 1942
-
Group of U.S. Navy sailors saluting at a ceremony
-
Randall Jacobs to Steven J. Owens, June 28, 1943
-
Frances Elvira Owens to Samuel Robert Owens, undated
-
The Canopus
-
Memories of the September 21, 1944 air raid by Carr Hooper
-
Randall Jacobs to Hugh Peterson, July 17, 1942
-
Venoy Reed to Elizabeth Hope, May 29, 1945
-
Hospital Corps; 105's Battery B - 61st F. A. -- 1st Cal. Div.
-
Millitary orders
-
U.S.S. Oklahoma Second Division, 1937
-
Account of the USS Canopus written by Capt. E. L. Sackett
-
Frances Elvira Owens to Samuel Robert Owens, October 21
-
Shin Seiki: Bagong Araw. New Era
-
F. E. Hope to Venoy Reed, September 2, 1942
-
Randall Jacobs to Hugh Peterson, July 17, 1942