Record Group 092
Date Span 1905-1920, 1963
Historical Note: Albert Love graduated from medical school in Memphis, TN, in ca. 1905 after which
he enlisted in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. His original station was in San Francisco
in 1906. He was joined there by his wife, Alice, for assignment to Jolo, Department
of Mindanao, Philippine Islands, 1907-1908. He remained in the medical corps and
was assigned to Ft. Gibbon at the junction of the Tanana and Yukon rivers. He served
there 1914-1917. Eventually, Dr. Love retired as a Brigadier General. Dr. Love saved
many postcards, letters, pictures, etc. of his postings in the Philippines in the
immediate aftermath of the Philippine Insurrection and Alaska during World War I.
Scope/Content: Contains 2 CD-Roms. One is a digital copy of Love visual material assembled by
a family member in a modern, archivally sound scrapbook, the other is a digital copy
of the taped 1963 interview given by Dr. Love. Also includes a typed 55-page transcript
of that interview produced by Jack Clements in 1975.
File Folder 1: Love Interview Transcript, 1975
File Folder 2: Love Interview and Scrapbook CD-Roms
Provenance: Although Dr. Love's family never lived in the Wiregrass, his grandson, John K. (Jack)
Clements, retired here from the U. S. Army ca. 1975. Clements owns the scrapbooks
and transcribed a 1963 interview with Dr. Love in 1975 which describe these exotic
postings in great detail.
Processing: Scrapbook scanned on an Minolta MS 7000 planetary scanner, without disassembling
the scrapbook. Captured in a 190 meg PDF. Jack Clements had the audiotaped interview
digitized onto the second CD-Rom in eleven WAV files totaling 153 megs. The transcript
is a photocopy typescript.
Preferred Citation: Dr. and Mrs. Albert G. Love Collection, RG 092, Wiregrass Archives, ÁùºÏ±¦µä
Dothan Campus, Dothan, AL.
Access Limits? Open per donor agreement 10-24-2008
Proc Date 10/27/2008
Processor DAMJ