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Found in 45 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
Alfred G. Lawson USS Paulding log, 1917-1919
Collection
Identifier: 2010-063
Scope and Contents
A WWI sailor log of Alfred George Lawson on the U. S. S. Paulding from 1917-1919, which describes Lawon's experiences on the U. S. destroyer and his daily activities. The U. S. S. Paulding's primary duty was to escort convoys and protect them from German u-boat attacks. Most of the entries are very brief, merely talking about the weather and whether they were in port or at sea. However, others are much more detailed, particularly in the cases where the U. S. S. Paulding sank a submarine...
Dates:
1917 - 1919
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
Alton Conrad Rowe WWI-era postcards, 1918-1919
Collection
Identifier: 2009-018
Scope and Contents
Consists of 80 postcards, most of which are written by Corporal Alton Conrad Rowe, Jr. (Co. A, 301st Engineers AEF) to family members and to his fiance; mailed from Camp Devens (Massachusetts) as well as various places in France and Germany such as Paris, Coblenz, and Metz.The black & white, tinted, or full-color, postcards are comprised of photographic reproductions, artist's renderings and 2 actual photograph cards.The postcards are addressed as follows:
8...
Dates:
1918 - 1919
Are YOU in this?, 1915
Item
Identifier: 1992.004.5.6.4.3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
World War I era posters produced in England.
Dates:
1915
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
Carroll P. Crosby WWI diary, 1918
Item
Identifier: 2012-024
Scope and Contents
An original manuscript diary kept by Carroll P. Crosby, recording his service during World War I. Also includes his accompanying address book with the names and addresses of fellow soldiers, nurses, French civilians, and young French women, as well as notes. Crosby's account begins in January 1918 and continues until the end of the year, when he returned to the United States from France.Crosby was a PFC in Co. F, 101st Engineers. he describes a number of battles, in 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
David Henry Esten Keller WWI scrapbooks, 1917-1918
Collection
Identifier: 2005-021
Scope and Contents
2 "Ideal Scrapbooks" containing clippings of the war. Hand numbered pagination. Each volume indexed by compiler, which precedes each book's major section. Each volume concludes with key listing newspaper clipping sources. Some clippings laid-in to rear of Book 2. Leaflet of the President's April 2, 1917 War Message is folded and stored in tipped-in envelope in read of Book 1. The majority of clippings are from Chicago, Louisville, or Lexington papers.
Dates:
1917 - 1918
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- Subject: World War, 1914-1918. X
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- Collection 37
- Unprocessed Material 6
- Archival Object 2
- Subject
- World War I Collection 31
- World War, 1914-1918. 22
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Photographs. 19
- World War, 1914-1918 -- United States. 9
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Correspondence. 7
- Special Collections -- Photographs -- World War, 1914-1918. 5
- Special Collections -- Scrapbooks -- World War I. 5
- World War, 1914-1918 -- France 5
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations, American 4
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Diaries 4
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain 4
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- World War, 1914-1918. 3
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Manuscripts 3
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care 3
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives -- United States. 3
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Propaganda. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Kelly Field (Tex.) -- Photographs 2
- Military nursing -- United States 2
- War posters -- Great Britain -- History -- World War, 1914-1918. 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations, French 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Propaganda 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- United States 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval Operations, British 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval Operations, United States 2
- Aeronautics, Military -- Texas -- San Antonio -- History 1
- Aeronautics, Military -- United States -- History 1
- Airplanes -- Design and construction 1
- Airplanes -- Maintenance and repair. 1
- Antiaircraft artillery -- United States -- History 1
- Brest (France). 1
- Cobh (Ireland). 1
- Communications, Military. 1
- Daily Mirror (London, England). 1
- Destroyers -- Warships -- United States. 1
- Europe -- Politics and government. 1
- Flight training -- Technological innovations. 1
- Fort Leavenworth (Kan.). 1
- France -- Description and travel. 1
- Kelly Field (Tex.) -- History. 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
- Navy-yards and naval stations, American. 1
- Newton Lower Falls (Mass.) -- History 1
- Nurses -- Training 1
- Paris (France) -- Description and travel. 1
- Photographers -- Canada. 1
- Postcards -- World War I. 1
- Prisoners of war -- 1910-1920. 1
- Queenstown, Ireland (Naval Base). 1
- Special Collections -- Artwork. 1
- Special Collections -- Correspondence. 1
- Special Collections -- Diaries -- Crosby, Carroll P. 1
- Special Collections -- Ephemera -- Slate Helen T. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Higley, Harvey D. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Jager, Walter. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Keller, David Henry Esten. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Lawson, Alfred G. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Nolan, Dennis E. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Sadlo, George W. 1
- Submarines (Ships) -- Germany. 1
- Visual communication -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Weapons industry -- Employees 1
- Weapons industry -- History 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Aftermath -- France 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Art and the war 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Artwork 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Balloons 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Macedonia 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Economic aspects 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Periodicals 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Pictorial works. 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Posters -- Europe 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Posters -- France 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Posters -- Great Britain 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Posters -- United States 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, 1914-1919 -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Photographs 1 + ∧ less
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