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Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

AEF Railway Engineers WWI photo-scrapbook, 1917-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 2013-022
Scope and Contents

The album documents barracks life, rifle range acitivity, the Army Service School, Leavenworth prison, engineer training (road march, bivouac, pontoon bridges, walls, base camps, and locomotives (including some from the Paris-Orleans railway), rolling stock (box cars, flat cars, and tank car gondolas), steam shovels, and trucks (5 ton and ambulances). Post-war images include vehicles, buildings, construction (railroad bridge, river lock, river boat crane, barges, paved roads, etc.).

Dates: 1917 - 1919

Air service mechanics school WWI-era photographs, 1917-1957

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-003
Scope and Contents

Photographic record of the men and their activities at the Air Service Mechanics School, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1917-1919 in 2 photo ablums plus loose photos and press cutting regarding Williamette National Cemetery. Most photo pages were annotated in white pencil by the owner.

Dates: 1917 - 1957

Alice Welford WWI photograph album and military nursing lecture journal, 1911-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-064
Scope and Contents A personal archive of a WWI military nurse stationed in Gibraltar and Malta during the Great War between 1913 - 1918. Captures a unique view of the fighting in the Mediterranean during such battles as the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 from the perspective of various nursing hospitals in Spain and Malta, but also includes images of soldiers in trenches. 2/3 of the photographs are accompanied by captions including locations, dates, and first or last names of individuals. Included is an image...
Dates: 1911 - 1918

Armistice Day ceremony photograph, 1918

 Item
Identifier: 1000-131
Scope and Contents Photograph caption: "Early in 1918 President Wilson, together with the heads of othe Allied governments, decided to send troops to keep the German submarines from occupying the ice-free harbors of Murmansk and Archangel. The people of north Russia invited this action. Five thousand American troops and other from England, France and Italy were used. This occupation lasted about one and a half years. This photo by H. W. Wyckoff shows the ceremony celebrating the news of the armistice. The...
Dates: 1918

Charles G. Aldrich WWI-era photograph album, 1917-1920

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-033
Scope and Contents This collection documents the time of Charles G. Aldrich and his time in Siberia from 1917-1920. Aldrich was with the American Army/Navy, YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association). The photos document his time in Vladivostok during the Civil War. There are photos of a few other areas, including his time aboard the ship America, etc., but the majority are of Vladivostok. Included are a couple pieces of ephemera (hand drawn card, and certificate from G. S. Phelps, National Secretary to Russia...
Dates: 1917 - 1920

Dennis E. Nolan papers, 1918-1927

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-023
Dates: 1918 - 1927; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1919

Harvey D. Higley WWI-era field notebook, approximately 1909-1921

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-020
Scope and Contents

American artillery field notebook, alphabetically tabbed, with typed and handwritten notes by various hands; photographic portrait of Major Harvey D. Higley; press clipping.

Dates: circa 1909-1920

H.M.S. Digby WWI photograph album, 1914-1915

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-007
Scope and Contents A collection of photographs chronicling the voyages of the Armed Merchant Cruiser H.M.S. Digby while on loan to the British Navy during World War I. More a travelogue than a war journal, the photographs document how the ship sailed from the North Sea to Greece, through the Suez Canal, to Singapore and Hong Kong, British Columbia, down the California and Mexican coasts, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Most of the photos show stunning views from the deck of the ship looking out towards sea, of the...
Dates: 1914 - 1915

Jean Carlisle Barnes WWI ephemera, 1913-1943

 Collection
Identifier: 2001-071
Scope and Contents

Collection of materials belonging to 1st Lieut. Jean Carlisle Barnes of the U.S. 303 Field Signal Battalion, WWI. Items include his Soldier's Diary and Record Book, photographs, military documents and certificates. Found with these materials are war ration books and other miscellaneous items from the WWII era.

Dates: 1913 - 1943

Leman L. Babbitt WWI photographs, 1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-065
Scope and Contents

9 B/W WWI-era photographic aerial views and ground views of the Gujan air station, compound, hangars, and YMCA club, located in France.

Dates: 1918-11

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  • Subject: World War, 1914-1918 -- Photographs. X

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World War I Collection 15
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States. 6
Special Collections -- Photographs -- World War, 1914-1918. 5
Special Collections -- Scrapbooks -- World War I. 4
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain 4
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World War, 1914-1918. 4
World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations, American 3
World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations, French 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- France 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives -- United States. 2
Antiaircraft artillery -- United States -- History 1
Daily Mirror (London, England). 1
Europe -- Politics and government. 1
Fort Leavenworth (Kan.). 1
France -- Description and travel. 1
Kelly Field (Tex.) -- Photographs 1
London (England) -- Description and travel. 1
Military decorations -- Great Britain 1
Military hospitals. 1
Military nursing -- Great Britain 1
Munition workers -- United States 1
Nurses -- Training 1
Paris (France) -- Description and travel. 1
Photographers -- Canada. 1
Postcards -- World War I. 1
Prisoners of war -- 1910-1920. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Higley, Harvey D. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Jager, Walter. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Nolan, Dennis E. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- World War, 1914-1918. 1
Weapons industry -- Employees 1
Weapons industry -- History 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Aftermath -- France 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Macedonia 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Correspondence. 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Diaries 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Economic aspects 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Manuscripts 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval Operations, British 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval Operations, United States 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Reconnaissance operations. 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- United States. 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia 1
World War, 1939-1945. 1
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