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Alton Conrad Rowe WWI-era postcards, 1918-1919
Collection
Identifier: 2009-018
Scope and Contents
Consists of 80 postcards, most of which are written by Corporal Alton Conrad Rowe, Jr. (Co. A, 301st Engineers AEF) to family members and to his fiance; mailed from Camp Devens (Massachusetts) as well as various places in France and Germany such as Paris, Coblenz, and Metz.The black & white, tinted, or full-color, postcards are comprised of photographic reproductions, artist's renderings and 2 actual photograph cards.The postcards are addressed as follows:
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Dates:
1918 - 1919
Amos V. Todd WWI ephemera, 1917-1919
Collection
Identifier: 1992-007
Scope and Contents
The Amos Todd ephemera consists of a group photo of the members of the Ambulance Company 167, 117th Sanitary Train, 42nd (Rainbow) Division, American Expedition Forces; a framed photographic reproduction of the officers and crew of the US Transport Mount Vernon; and the Roster of the Ambulance Company 167, 117th Sanitary Train, 42nd (Rainbow) Division, American Expeditionary Forces.
Dates:
1917 - 1919
Armistice Day ceremony photograph, 1918
Item
Identifier: 1000-131
Scope and Contents
Photograph caption:
"Early in 1918 President Wilson, together with the heads of othe Allied governments, decided to send troops to keep the German submarines from occupying the ice-free harbors of Murmansk and Archangel. The people of north Russia invited this action. Five thousand American troops and other from England, France and Italy were used. This occupation lasted about one and a half years. This photo by H. W. Wyckoff shows the ceremony celebrating the news of the armistice. The...
Dates:
1918
Australian 25th Field Artillery (Howitzer) Division papers, 1916
Collection
Identifier: 1000-079
Scope and Contents
1 letter, assorted mission reports, 30 daily ammunition reports of the 5th Australian Division, 25th Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade during WWI.
Dates:
1916-09 - 1916-10
Austro-Hungarian and German diplomatic correspondence, 1914-1951
Collection
Identifier: 1983-009
Scope and Contents
Contains "Denkschrift ueber die funkueberwachung ihre auswertung", by Andreas Figl. The second section is coded Austro-Hungarian correspondence between the Austro-Hungarian Foreign minister and his ambassadors to Germany, United Kingdom, and Russia, as well as "Otto". The third section includes coded and clear correspondence from a "Dr. Eiswalt"; The German Chancellor; the German foreign minister; a minister in Belgrade; the German ambassador to London; "Quadt", "Waldburg", "Wedel",...
Dates:
1914 - 1951
Ben Byrnes collection of Aubrey C. Ross WWI letters, 1903-1970
Collection
Identifier: 2010-041
Scope and Contents
Correspondance of Aubrey C. Ross, a chaplain who served with the Y.M.C.A. through the Army's 79th Infantry Division during World War I. In addition to the 104 letters exchanged between Aubrey and his wife, Laura L. Ross, during World War I, the collection includes correspondance between Ross and various members of his immediate family from 1903 to 1970. The majority of the Rosses were Missouri farmers, and even Aubrey, who lived in New Yok until the 1940s, held a deed to farmland in...
Dates:
1903 - 1970
Ben Byrnes collection of Chaplain George Copeland WWI archive
Item
Identifier: 2010-054
Content Description
Letters, 2 manuscript books, and copy of Trench and Camp, in very poor condition. Stateside letters from Copeland at Fort Meade
Dates:
1911 - 1950
Ben Byrnes collection of Charles Gaston Clement letters
Collection
Identifier: 2010-055
Scope and Contents
Contains many of the letters of Charles G. Clement home during the first part of his time in the army. Also contains materials noting his mother's search to discover where he was buried and the 1930 Pilgrimage of War Mothers and Widows to visit his grave. There are also some letters to her younger son, Dennis.
Dates:
1913 - 1962; Majority of material found within 1916 - 1919
Ben Byrnes collection of Denton E. Brome, Jr. WWI diary, 1917-1918
Collection
Identifier: 2010-035
Scope and Contents
World War I diary, written by Denton E. Brome Jr., beginning on approximately September 14, 1917 and ending on August 17, 1918. The diary chronicles Brome's duties as a Navy Corpsman stationed in France. Subject matter includes the daily duties of hospital maintenance, wound clean-up, and patient care, as well as excursions from the hospital to tourist sites, restaurants, and other hospitals. The diary is 200 pages in length with 20 pages containing full diary entries and numerous other...
Dates:
1917 November 27 - 1918 July 14
Ben Byrnes collection of Earl Ceedric James WWI letters, 1917-1921
Collection
Identifier: 2010-037
Scope and Contents
Letters and photographs from Earl C. James to his mother, Emily James, and sisters Gwynneth James and Daisy James, describe basic service training at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, and his service overseas, where he was assigned to Battery F 5th, Field Artillery. Photocopied correspondence between the U. S. Army and the James family discusses the soldier's death 1919 April 21 and return of his body from Germany to the United States. Earl Jones was killed in a motocycle accident, in Simmern,...
Dates:
1917-1921, undated