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Charles Apfelbaum Rare Manuscripts and Archives

 Organization

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Paul Baumann WWI-era letters, 1914-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-005
Scope and Contents

Paul Baumann archive of approximately 200 letters, fieldpostbriefs, fieldpostcards, and postcards between Baumann and his family and friends, during his service on the Western Front in a German Army machine gun unit.

Dates: 1914 - 1919

Printz family WWI-era correspondence, 1914-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-025
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Max Printz, his relatives and friends, many of whom were German soldiers (Armee Korps Infantry and Reserve Divisions) in Poland and the Eastern Front.

Dates: 1914 - 1918

Robert Alfred Doring WWI archive, 1887-1939

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-008
Scope and Contents Archive of Robert Alfred Doring, a non-commissioned officer in the Schutzen-Fusilier Regiment, Prinz Georg (Koniglich Sachsisches) Nr. 108. Born in Wermsdorf, Germany in 1887. Survived the war and was awarded a certificate of 25 years service (Leipzig) by the German Chief of Presidential Chancellery [Otto Meissner] in 1939. Archive includes a war diary, Doring's National identification book, his military identification booklets, several military certificates, a letter, 4 photo-postcards,...
Dates: 1887 - 1939

Schreiner Reinhold Rott WWI-era ephemera, 1914-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-022
Scope and Contents

138 page manuscript pocket diary, 2 studio portraits, 4 photo-postcards, and death certificate of Medical-Segeant Schreiner Reinhold Rott, Ersatzbataillon, 3rd Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment In German.

Dates: 1914 - 1918

Sidney J. Perelman correspondence, 1967-1979

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-005
Scope and Contents

Consist primarily of 95 handwritten and typed letters, postcards, and telegrams from Perelman to his lover Irene O. B. Kemmer. Other correspondence includes letters from Perelman’s secretary to Kemmer, Princess Margaret to Perelman, and letters from Laura, Abby, and/or Sidney Perelman to Kemmer. Also included are newspaper and magazine clippings that Perelman enclosed with some of his letters, many of which bear his added notes and commentaries.

Dates: 1967 - 1979

Tagebuch über den 22/55 p.s. Mercedes Wagen des General-Kommandes, Strassburg, 1914

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-031
Scope and Contents

36 page typed and handwritten vehicle travel log kept by General Berthold von Deimling's driver. The log began on 5 May 1914, and ends on 30 Jun 1914. There were more entries, but the 48 pages following have been excised. A small handwritten comparison French/German translation appears on page 180. There is also a photo of a car and a man in uniform.

Dates: 1914

Unknown soldier, US Army 5th Infantry Division WWI diary, 1917-1918

 Item
Identifier: 2009-031
Scope and Contents

1915 pocket diary, repurposed as a journal by an unknown soldier in the US Army 5th Infantry Division. Very brief entries describe his division's constant movement through France, the soldier's experiences being shelled by the Germans, snipers, dead Frencgh civilians in the streets, gas alarms while in the field, sleeping in holes in the ground, meals eaten, etc. Although each entry is marked with day and date, they are often not correct when compared to a perpetual yearly calendar.

Dates: 1917 - 1918

Unknown soldier WWI diary, 1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-029
Scope and Contents

Pocket journal or notebook kept by an unidentified AEF Field Artillery soldier/officer, Company A, 114th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, while in France, 1918.

Handwritten contents include: various lists of names of section members, men on specific details, surnames, supplies; disciplinary actions taken; daily schedules and routines; diagrams of manuevers; etc.

Dates: 1918

Wilhelm Forster WWI diary, 1914-1928

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-007
Scope and Contents

Kriegstagebuch or War Diary of Wilhelm Forster, a Lt. in the German Army. Forster received the Iron Cross, 2d Class in 1916.

Dates: August 2 - June 23

William G. Adams WWI ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-016
Content Description

Ephemera of William G. Adams, 472nd Aero Squadron. Contents include: a pocket memorandum book with handwritten entries made primarily in England where Adams performed maintenance on aeroplanes plus newspaper clippings pasted in; printed program for the celebration of the squadron's one-year anniversary of service, 3 September 1918; and an orange and black felt pennant ("Aero Squadron: San Antonio, Tex") representing the squadron.

Dates: 1918

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World War I Collection 28
World War, 1914-1918. 24
World War, 1914-1918 -- Diaries 14
World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany 12
World War, 1914-1918 -- Correspondence. 9
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives -- United States. 7
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France 4
World War, 1914-1918 -- Photographs. 4
World War, 1914-1918 -- Manuscripts 3
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States. 3
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- World War, 1914-1918. 2
Special Collections -- Photographs -- World War, 1914-1918. 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives 2
American poetry -- 20th century 1
Beat generation -- Poetry 1
Bohemianism -- United States. 1
Cairo (Egypt) -- Social life and customs. 1
Camp Doniphan (Okla.). 1
Cattle trade -- West (U.S.). 1
Cattle trails. 1
Cherokee Indians -- Government relations. 1
Cherokee Indians -- Land tenure. 1
Cherokee Indians. 1
Cherokee Strip (Okla. and Kan.) -- History 1
China -- History -- 1912-1937. 1
Chisholm Trail. 1
Egypt -- Description and travel 1
Egypt -- History -- British occupation, 1882-1936. 1
Fort Sill (Okla.). 1
Government vehicles -- Germany -- History. 1
Humorists, American. 1
Mercedes automobile -- History. 1
New Zealand -- Social life and customs. 1
Oklahoma -- History. 1
Screenwriters. 1
Special Collections -- Correspondence -- Heinrich, H. 1
Special Collections -- Correspondence -- Perelman, S.J. (Sidney Joseph). 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Adams, William G. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Batchelder, Fred R. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Bredin, Charles A. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Creamer, Ralph B. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Granger, Ed. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Watkins, F. 1
Texas -- Ranching. 1
Tulsa (Okla.) -- History 1
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations, American 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Egypt 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Eastern front 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- France 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- United States 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, New Zealand. 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- New Zealand 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives -- Great Britain. 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Poland 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, English. 1
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