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Special Collections -- Photographs -- World War, 1914-1918.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

604th Engineers WWI photographs, Undated

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-089
Scope and Contents 166 silver print photographs, 3 1/16 x 5 3/16 plus margins, each with a printed caption.A substantial group of World War I photographs portraying the men of the 604th Engineers, their activities and quarters, and a wide variety of scenes in the war zone. Included are views of such subjects as the regimental colors of the 604th, training at Camp Glenburnie in Maryland, troops on board the USS New Hampshire, troops marching toward the front, "gas mask training preparatory to going...
Dates: Undated

Alice Welford WWI photograph album and military nursing lecture journal, 1911-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-064
Scope and Contents A personal archive of a WWI military nurse stationed in Gibraltar and Malta during the Great War between 1913 - 1918. Captures a unique view of the fighting in the Mediterranean during such battles as the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 from the perspective of various nursing hospitals in Spain and Malta, but also includes images of soldiers in trenches. 2/3 of the photographs are accompanied by captions including locations, dates, and first or last names of individuals. Included is an image...
Dates: 1911 - 1918

Ben Byrnes collection of James David Martin WWI-era papers

 Item
Identifier: 2013-016
Content Description

Miscellaneous collection of World War I letters, some service record materials, and personal papers.

Dates: 1917 - 1941

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

Ben Byrnes collection of Thomas Hastings Travilla WWI diary and photographs, 1918-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-018
Scope and Contents

Diary of Lt. Thomas H. Travilla, Dentist, 310th Infantry, 78th Division, American Expeditionary Forces. Includes nearly 27 photographs, a leave of absence pass, and a map of Camp Dix.

Dates: 1918 - 1919

Bert Hebbes WWI letters, 1916-1920

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-017
Content Description A personal archive of a WWI Rifleman stationed in Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Sudan between 1916 - 1920. Comprises primarily of correspondence written to and from Bert Hebbes. Over 240 long detailed letters from Bert Hebbes to his mother, father, and siblings with sketches and drawing throughout, including 4 letters with stunning watercolor drawings. Contains 50 letters written from his mother, siblings, and friends. Also included are over 40 newspaper clippings and 21...
Dates: 1916 - 1920

Charles Alfred Bredin WWI-era papers, 1918-1968

 Collection
Identifier: 2001-020
Scope and Contents

A collection pf papers, letters and ephemera relating to Charles Alfred Bredin. A Diary and some materials set during his time in Co. D, 317th Machine Gun Battalion, 81st Division, AEF during the first World War. He later served with the 15th Infantry Regt. in China. Correspondence with his fiance, Grace Manning (AKA Olivia Lee Bredin). Bredin was originally from New York, and later moved to Tulsa in the 1930s.

Dates: 1918 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1926 - 1936

Corinna Haven Putnam and Joseph Lindon Smith WWI archive, 1914-1958

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-038
Scope and Contents

Catalog of World War I archive of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lindon Smith of material gathered while preparing their work Rising above the Ruins in France.


These materials are in English and French.

Dates: 1914 - 1958; Majority of material found within 1914 - 1921

Peggy Hamilton. Three Years or the Duration: The Memoirs of a Munitions Worker, 1914-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 1992-021
Scope and Contents

Layouts of title page and preliminary pages, heavily revised typescript, mock-up/layout of proposed illustrations, and original specimen pages (Peter Owen Ltd/Daedalus Press 1978 edition) of Lady Peggy Hamilton's memoir, Three Years or the Duration, concerning women workers in English munition factories during World War I. The book was published in 1978 by Peter Owen.

Dates: 1914 - 1918

Remembrances of the Great War, Hounslow, photograph album, 1917-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 1000-062
Scope and Contents

Photo album contains 22 identified photographs, some of which are family portraits, the remainder of which are of men and women in uniform. Many of these deal with people who may have been affiliated with the 85 Squadron during their time at the Hounslow aerodrome in November 1917. Identified photos include "from Altrincham, Cheshire, A. Whitney", "Mrs Horace Levell & baby", "Jack Good", "85 Squadron", "Jim Davis", "Mrs. Herzog", "Billy Bishop".

Dates: 1917 - 1918