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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
Collection
Identifier: 2005-005
Scope and Contents
Letters of George M. Martin, Private and Wagoner in the US Army, 163 Ambulance Company, American Expeditionary Forces. Also includes 2 photo-postcards featuring portraits of Martin and a fellow soldier.
Dates:
1917 - 1919
Collection
Identifier: 2003-006
Scope and Contents
The Gustav Keller archive of approximately 270 fieldpostcards and fieldpostbriefs between his wife Maria and their children. Keller served as a Lieutenant in the German 5th Army, 4th Company.
Dates:
1914 - 1917
Collection
Identifier: 2003-023
Scope and Contents
Approximately 300 letters and postcards from Hans von Steffins, a military aristocrat (7th Reserve Corps), to his wife Baronin Leoni Steffins. Included are a handful of letters and postcards from von Steffins to Countess Nini Pocci and to unidentified recipients.
Dates:
1914 - 1918
Collection
Identifier: 2003-024
Scope and Contents
Letters, postcards, and telegrams, most of which are from someone [possibly named Heme or Hana] to a Professor [Irmgard] Heinrich and children.
Dates:
1918
Collection
Identifier: 2001-021
Scope and Contents
Henry Augustus Batchelor III, American from Saginaw, Michigan. Served briefly with the Lafayette Flying Corps in France from August 1917-March 1918. Was then transferred to the United States Air Service, serving as Chief Pilot and instructor at Moutchic-Lacanau from March 1918 to Armistice. He also served in the American Amublance Corps in France and, immediately after the war, in the service of the American Red Cross in the Balkans. Included in Batchelor's archive is correspondence to...
Dates:
1914 - 1970
Item
Identifier: 2001-034
Collection
Identifier: 1995-003
Scope and Contents
Hawley was managing editor of the Paris Herald for 46 years, during the time it served as a staging platform for Lost Generation writers including Hemingway, Pound, and Gertrude Stein. Correspondence from Hawley to various people, plus the manuscript of The Dizziest Daily.
Dates:
1923 - 1955
Collection
Identifier: 2009-019
Scope and Contents
A set of 7 letters from James B. Williamson, serving with the 101st engineers.
4 handwritten letters from Williamson to his sister.
3 handwritten letters from Williamson to Mary and to Mary and Agnes.
Dates:
1917 - 1918
Collection
Identifier: 1980-010
Scope and Contents
Consists of the correspondence, writings, personal ephemera, and photographs of 1st Lieutenant John Carlisle Johnson of the 167th Infantry, 42nd (Rainbow) Division, American Expeditionary Forces.The correspondence is comprised of 60 autograph and typescript letters from Johnson to his wife Beula Addison Johnson, his mother and father, and a friend, Cliff Jones. Johnson's letters (dating from 1917-1919)--written from officer's training camp, from New York prior to his being...
Dates:
1913 - 1919
