Etta Jones collection, 1922-2011
Title:
Etta Jones collection, 1922-2011
Physical Description:
1.75 linear ft.
Abstract:
The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, records, certificates, photographs, and ephemera pertaining to Etta Jones and C. Foster Jones. Materials were created or collected by Etta Jones or by Mary Breu. Items in the collection include: correspondence of Etta Jones (includes post-war letters from Australian P.O.W.'s), Etta Jones manuscripts, Bureau of Indian Affairs settlement claim correspondence, correspondence of Mary Breu, liberation records, miscellaneous vital records, gifts given to Etta Jones, 242 black-and-white and color photographs, Mary Breu book manuscript, and Bureau of Indian Affairs personnel records. Locations of photographs include: Tanana, Kipnuk, Old Harbor, and Attu, and Totsuka, Yokohama, Japan. Subjects of photographs include: boats, dog sleds, sled dogs, Aleut children, and the Totsuka P.O.W. building,
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Biographical/Historical Data:
Etta Eugenie "Tetts" Schureman was born to Abram and Esther Parker Schureman in Waterbury, Conn. on Sept. 30, 1879. In 1922, she traveled to Tanana, Alaska with her sister Marie "Dump." In 1923, she married Charles Foster Jones in Tanana, Alaska. Foster was born May 1, 1879 in St. Paris, Ohio, to Dr. Caleb and Sarah E. Morris Jones. Foster had come to Alaska in 1898 to join the gold rush. Etta and Foster lived in Tanana, Old Harbor, and Kipnuk, Alaska, before moving to Attu in Sept. of 1941. Etta was working as a Bureau of Indian Affairs teacher and Foster as a radio technician on Attu when the Japanese Navy invaded the island in 1942. Foster was killed during the invasion and Etta was taken to Japan as a prisoner of war. There she was interned with Australian nurses who had been taken prisoner in New Guinea. Etta remained in a Japanese POW camp from June 1942 until her liberation in July 1945. Etta died Dec. 12, 1965 in Bradenton, Florida.