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Found in 4 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

"War Book" of the U.S. School of Military Aeronautics, 1917-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-023
Scope and Contents War book: 23 leaves of blank paper with photographs and other scrapbook type material glued on, usually to leaf recto only. Illustrated with 44 B/W photographs, 4 half-ton images of airplanes, one photostat of an incendiary bomb fact sheet and one newspaper excerpt of "Christmas and War" by the Univ. of IL Dean of Men. Photo album/scrapbook consisting of 44 B/W photos, 4 half-tone images, press cutting, and one photostat; housed in a 2-ring binder; all regarding the US School...
Dates: 1917 - 1918

WWI British Territorial Forces, 3rd Home Counties Brigade photo album, 1914-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-047
Scope and Contents An album of tipped-in photographs compiled by an unidentified soldier--a member of the 3rd Home Counties Brigade, A Royal Field Artillery (Cinque Ports) division of Britain's Territorial Forces during WWI; the division's purpose was to relieve regular troops needed at the Front. The photos document the soldier's service in India and Mesopotania, showing a variety of both personal and professional experiences ranging from tourist-type acitivities, hunting excursions, and views of the brigade...
Dates: 1914 - 1918

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  • Subject: World War, 1914-1918 -- Photographs. X
  • Subject: Special Collections -- Scrapbooks -- World War I. X

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Special Collections -- Photographs -- World War, 1914-1918. 2
World War I Collection 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain 2
World War, 1914-1918. 2
Fort Leavenworth (Kan.). 1