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Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

7th Field Artillery - Vermont & Massachusetts WWI photographs, approximately 1918-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 2001-031
Scope and Contents

Photo album containing photo-postcards.

Dates: approximately 1918-1919

A Soldier's Capture at the Front: A Memoir

 Item
Identifier: 2001-030
Content Description

A handwritten memoir of a soldier's (British officer's) capture at the front, life in a prison camp, and his various escapes. Written in Scotland, December 1917. The soldier, whose identity is known only by his first name "Gordon", served with the 7th Battalion of the 1st British Columbia Regiment (CEF) and No. 2 Company of the 16th Battalion.

Dates: 1916 - 1917

Albert C. Hansen WWI archive

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-006
Content Description

Albert C. Hansen was a Corporal with the American Expeditionary Force. This collection consists of letters from Hansen to his sister Ida M. Hansen and an unnamed brother, one photograph of a group of people, and various religious writings and commentary on Bible quotes.

Dates: 1884 - 1919; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1919

Corinna Haven Putnam and Joseph Lindon Smith WWI archive, 1914-1958

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-038
Scope and Contents

Catalog of World War I archive of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lindon Smith of material gathered while preparing their work Rising above the Ruins in France.


These materials are in English and French.

Dates: 1914 - 1958; Majority of material found within 1914 - 1921

Edward E. MacMorland WWI archive, 1914-1977

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-008
Scope and Contents

Approximately 100 WWI-era letters and diary.

Dates: 1914 - 1977

Erich Pattky German WWI-era photographs, 1914-1940

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-007
Scope and Contents First acquisition: 86 photo-postcard and photo archive of Erich Pattky, a German telephonist during WWI. Postcard messages are from Pattky to his parents in Berlin, Germany. Postcard images depict various soldiers' activities, accommodations and equipment. According to the bookseller, Pattky was probably stationed in France. Included are Christmas celebration cards. Many cards have been trimmed, possibly to accommodate the size of the wartime envelopes. Second acquisition:...
Dates: 1914 - 1940

Kriegs Erinnerungen (War Memories) photographs, 1915-1916

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-017
Scope and Contents The Kriegs Erinnerungen (War Memories) photographs. A historical WWI German photographic album kept by an unidentified member of the 64th feld Flieger Abteilung (Field Aviation Unit). Book contains 324 photos on 80 pages covering the period of 1915-16. The album details the aviation group's journey to the front, features aeorodromes, personnel, equipment. 53 photos feature aircraft including a series of the rare Pfalz E1 of which only 60 were built. The Feld Flieger Abteilung 64 was...
Dates: 1915 - 1916

Les Ruines Apre le Passage des Allemandes photo-postcards, 1914-1915

 File
Identifier: 2001-072
Scope and Contents

Les Ruines Apre le Passage des Allemands photo-postcards - an 18-page commemorative album of photo-postcards depicting scenes in France during 1914-1915. Printed captions are in both French and English.

Dates: 1914 - 1915

Paul M. Hollister Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-009
Content Description

This collection of papers includes letters, notes, post cards, and newspaper clippings to and from Paul M. Hollister, a Michigan journalist, regarding service during WWI, with additional material that is not war related.

Dates: 1915 - 1927

Rowland C. Taylor WWI archive, 1914-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2001-023
Scope and Contents

Includes a flight log book, a detailed diary of his POW experiences, and various photographs, service documents and POW ephemera.

Dates: 1914 - 1918

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  • Subject: World War I Collection X

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Subject
World War, 1914-1918 -- Photographs. 10
World War, 1914-1918. 10
World War, 1914-1918 -- Correspondence. 5
World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany 4
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives 4
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Diaries 3
World War, 1914-1918 -- France 3
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States. 3
Special Collections -- Photographs -- World War, 1914-1918. 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations, American 2
Aeronautics, Military -- Germany -- History 1
Air power -- Germany -- History 1
Armed Forces 1
Italy -- Description and travel -- 1900-1920 1
Photographs -- Germany -- Holzminden. 1
Prisoner of War Camp (Augustabad, Germany) 1
Prisoner of War Camp (Darmstadt, Germany) 1
Prisoner of War Camp (Salzerbad, Germany) 1
Prisoner of War Camp (Schweidnitz, Germany) 1
Prisoner of War Camp (Zorndorf, Poland) 1
Prisoners of war -- British -- 1910-1920. 1
Refugee children -- Belgium -- History -- 20th century. 1
Refugee children -- France -- History -- 20th century. 1
Refugee children -- International cooperation. 1
Scrapbooks. 1
Slovenia -- Description and travel -- 1900-1920 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Taylor, Rowland C. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- World War, 1914-1918. 1
Special Collections -- Photographs -- 16th Engineers, U.S. Army 1
Special Collections -- Photographs -- Kriegs Erinnerungen. 1
Special Collections -- Postcards. 1
Trieste (Austria) 1
United States -- Emigration and immigration. 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations, British 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations, German 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Manuscripts 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- United States 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval Operations, British 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval Operations, United States 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives -- Great Britain. 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Pictorial works. 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, English. 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, German -- Holzminden. 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, German -- Ingelmunster. 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, German -- Karlsruhe. 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, German -- Landshut. 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Refugees. 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women. 1
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