COLIN F. BAXTER COLLECTION

undated

East Tennessee State University

University Archives

Box 70295

Johnson City, Tennessee 37614

E-Mail – archives@etsu.edu

Telephone - (423) 439-4338

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INTRODUCTION

Title: Colin F. Baxter Collection

Collection Number: Accession No. 592

Physical description: 1.5 linear ft. (1 box)

6 oversized folders

Creator: Colin F. Baxter

Repository: University Archives, East Tennessee State University

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Provenance: The Colin F. Baxter Collection was donated to University Archives by Dr. Colin F. Baxter, ETSU, Department of History, on July 11, 2001.

Access: The collection is open for research.

Processing Information: The collection was processed by Kirk Hrivnak in April 2008.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Dr. Colin F. Baxter is a native of Harrow, England. He received his undergraduate degree in history from East Tennessee State University in 1961 and earned his master’s degree and Ph.D. in history from the University of Georgia in 1963 and 1965, respectively . He returned to teach history at his alma mater in 1971, becoming chairman of ETSU’s history department in 2002. He specialized in teaching British history and expanded his research and teaching interest into World War II history. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the national History Medal of the DAR, ETSU’s Distinguished Faculty Award, the East Tennessee Historical Society’s Teaching Excellence Award, and the Samuel Cole Williams Award from the Washington County Historical Association. He retired as chairman of ETSU’s Department of History in June 2008. He is married to Tamara Baxter and has one son, Andrew.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The Colin F. Baxter Collection consists of 36 undated illustrated posters (mounted) documenting events during World War II such as the attack on Pearl Harbor, the war in Europe, the war in North Africa, and the war in the Pacific. The posters are arranged alphabetically by title first within Box 1 and then within the six oversized map folders.

Important subjects covered in the collection include:

World War, 1939-1945

World War, 1939-1945—Posters

BOX AND FOLDER LIST

Box 1

1. Conveying to the Marshalling Area by Olin Dows, undated.

2. Hill 609 by Fletcher Martin, undated.

3. Queen Elizabeth Comes Up the Clyde by Byron Thomas, undated.

4. Salvage Roses by Edward Reep, undated.

5. Signal to the Russians by Olin Dows, undated.

6. Skidloads & Conveyors by David Lax, undated.

7. Train Crossing the Moselle by A. Brockie Stevenson, undated.

Oversized Folders

Folder 1

1. Across the Rhine, To the Elbe, undated.

2. Air War Over Europe, undated.

3. Carrier War, undated.

Folder 2

1. Day of Infamy: The Attack on Pearl Harbor, undated.

2. Documents from the National Archives, undated.

3. Ending the War Against Germany, undated.

Folder 3

1. “Forgotten Soldiers” – China, Burma, India, undated.

2. Holocaust, undated.

3. Island Hopping, undated.

Folder 4

1. North Africa: War in the Desert, undated.

2. Origins of a Catastrophe, undated.

3. Return to the Philippines, undated.

Folder 5

1. “Their Finest Hour” – the Battle of Berlin, undated.

2. Victory and Aftermath, undated.

3. Women at War, undated.

Folder 6 (larger sizes)

1. Air War in Asia & the Pacific, undated.

2. Ardennes: the Battle of the Bulge, undated.

3. Breakout from Normandy, undated.

4. Conflict & Consensus on the Homefront, undated.

5. Grand Alliance: Waging Coalition Warfare, undated.

6. Japan Advances, undated.

7. Mobilizing the Homefront, undated.

8. Naval War in the Pacific, undated.

9. Operation Barbarossa: Hitler Turns East, undated.

10. Operation Overlord: D-Day in Normandy, undated.

11. The Shadow War: Intelligence & Espionage, undated.

12. “Tough Old Gut” – Sicily & Italy, undated.

13. U-Boats & Convoys: the Battle of the Sea Lanes, undated.

14. War in the Mists: New Guinea & New Georgia, undated.