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Camp Howze Museum

Take This Home to New Baby

Item

Title
Take This Home to New Baby
Description
Magazine article from 1981, written by the daughter of a prison guard at Howze. The article discusses the relationship between her father and one of the POWs under his watch. This relationship culminated in the POW making a crib and miniature house as gifts for the author's father, whose wife had just had a baby (the author).
Date
1981-07
Source
Kay Hively, "Take This Home to Baby," All Around Gainesville and the Red River Valley, July 1981. Courtesy of the Morton Museum.
Subject
Hively
POW
POW guard
POW guard child
Gifts
Crib
Miniature house