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Ben Byrnes collection of miscellaneous WWI photographs, 1912-1919
Collection
Identifier: 2010-034
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of twenty photographs ranging in dates from 1866 -1917. Seventeen of the photos were taken during World War I, mostly of U.S. and European soldiers in uniform. The WWI photographs were taken in England, France, and Russia. Two other photos were taken in 1866 and 1867 respectively, one is of a man in civilian clothing, the other is of a man in military uniform. Accompanying the picture of the soldier from 1867 are five military documents/correspondence ranging...
Dates:
1912 - 1919
Ferdinand Huszti Horvath WWI archive, 1914-1930
Collection
Identifier: 1000-073
Scope and Contents
Manuscript, correspondence, photographs, original sketches, and maps of Ferdinand Huszti Horvath, who served in the Austro-Hungarian army. The manuscripts consist of Horvath's draft for the publication of his memoir "Captured!" in which he describes his capture and internment by Russians, and his eventual escape.
These materials are in Hungarian and English.
Dates:
1914 - 1930; Majority of material found within 1914 - 1918
Mary Blais collection of WWI-era materials and German picklehaube, 1918-1928
Collection
Identifier: 2014-043
Scope and Contents
89 souvenir WWI-era postcards, some unused, but most containing handwrtten messages postmarked and addressed to a Miss Louise Waite of Shawnee, Oklahoma. The preponderance of postcards feature sites within France and Belgium. Also included is a WWI-era artillery pickelhaube.
Dates:
1918 - 1928