{"id":50,"date":"2020-06-22T13:44:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/archives-month-merci-train\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2020-06-22T13:44:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:44:53","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/archives-month-merci-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>This site has been archived. By clicking the exhibition link below, you are leaving the University of Delaware Library&#8217;s website. Pages in this exhibition may be out of date, and links may be broken and\/or no longer maintained.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wayback.archive-it.org\/10305\/20180403191857\/http:\/\/www.lib.udel.edu\/ud\/spec\/exhibits\/archivesmonth2011\/merci.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Take me to the\u00a0archived exhibition. (opens in a new tab)\">Take me to the\u00a0archived exhibition.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>American Archives Month&nbsp;raises public awareness about the importance of historic documents and records in archives and special collections.&nbsp; The theme for 2011 is \u201cI Found it in the Archives!,\u201d highlighting discoveries of families, heritage, and treasures in each institution\u2019s collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the aftermath of WWII, individual French citizens donated enough gifts to fill 49 boxcars, which were then shipped to the United States. Each state received a boxcar from the \u201cMerci Train,\u201d with Hawaii (then a territory) and Washington, D.C., sharing one. A selection of the gifts from Delaware\u2019s boxcar were given directly to the University. Over time the whereabouts of many of the \u201cMerci Train\u201d gifts have been lost, but three of Delaware\u2019s gifts remain in the holdings of the University of Delaware Library\u2019s Special Collections Department (MSS 440). On display are three manuscripts of local history and geography produced by A. Carriere of Millau, Aveyron, France, as well as a letter expressing the thanks of the author and the people of that region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This single case exhibition was originally on display in the Morris Library Information Room from October 4-31, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tags:&nbsp;<\/strong>World War, 1939-1945; Gifts; United States\u2013Foreign relations\u2013France<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This site has been archived. By clicking the exhibition link below, you are leaving the University of Delaware Library&#8217;s website. Pages in this exhibition may be out of date, and links may be broken and\/or no longer maintained. Take me to the\u00a0archived exhibition. American Archives Month&nbsp;raises public awareness about the importance of historic documents and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition-venue.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/archives-month-merci-train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/archives-month-merci-train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/archives-month-merci-train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/archives-month-merci-train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/archives-month-merci-train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/archives-month-merci-train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/archives-month-merci-train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/archives-month-merci-train\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}