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Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

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

Theo Freudenberg WWI journal, 1914-1916

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-023
Scope and Contents

124 page personal journal kept by Theo Freudenbergs in the years 1914, 1915, and 1916, while in the German Army. A studio portrait of Freudenbergs, pictured in uniform with medals, is pasted onto verso of front cover. Text in German.

Dates: 1914 - 1916

US Army 16th Engineer Regiment photographs, 1914-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-016
Scope and Contents

Series of 159 black and white photos, most with captions, printed on card stock, most taken between June 1917 and April 1919. Images include scenes of men as they enlist at the Fairgrounds in Detroit; views of the exterior and interior of the barracks at the Fairground in Detroit; scenes of the men enroute to Europe; scenes of thei engineers' work and activites while in France; and scenes of their return trip to the States.

Dates: 1914 - 1919

William Jason Mixter WWI-era papers, 1916-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 2001-012
Scope and Contents

A group of documents relating to Dr. William Jason Mixter [of Boston, Mass.], Surgeon, Captain and later Major in the U.S. Medical Corps.

Dates: 1916 - 1919; Majority of material found within 1916 - 1919

William V. Lovell Photograph Album, 1918-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-008
Content Description

Photograph album of 1st Lt. William V. Lovell Photograph Album, 22nd Aero Squad. Includes pay documents and some military records.

Dates: 1918 - 1919

WWI photographs, 1918-1935

 Collection
Identifier: 2001-073
Scope and Contents

A broad range of subject matter depicted in 238 snapshots. Subjects include ground-based weaponry (French, German), observation balloons and Zeppelins (American, German); aeroplanes (German, American); naval vessels and ferries; ruins (France, Belgium, Germany); soldiers. Also among the collection are approximately 81 snapshots from a later period, circa 1935, of barracks, airplanes, airports, etc.

Dates: 1918 - 1935; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1919

WWI photographs: France, 1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-009
Scope and Contents 92 photographs in a Ward's Album for Unmounted Photographs, No. 1743. Almost all of the photographs are captioned in the image; possibly translations into less than perfect English. Some of the smaller photos have been pasted in. A good number of the photos appear to be press photographs rather than snapshots taken by a serviceman. Pictures include a German 3-seated bombing plane captured by the French after landing due to engine trouble; a picture of a German bomber causght...
Dates: 1918

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Collection 18
Unprocessed Material 1
Archival Object 1
 
Subject
World War I Collection 14
World War, 1914-1918 -- Photographs. 13
World War, 1914-1918. 13
World War, 1914-1918 -- Correspondence. 5
World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany 5
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Special Collections -- Photographs -- World War, 1914-1918. 4
World War, 1914-1918 -- Diaries 4
World War, 1914-1918 -- France 4
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives 4
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States. 4
World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations, American 3
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France 3
World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Manuscripts 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- United States 2
Aeronautics, Military -- Germany -- History 1
Air power -- Germany -- History 1
Armed Forces 1
Communicable diseases -- Transmission -- History. 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, French 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations, German 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care 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 -- Personal narratives, German. 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 -- Regimental histories -- United States. 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women. 1
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