World War, 1914-1918.

Aboard the [HMS Neptune].

Digital Image

Identifier: 2007-013-1-2-027.jpg

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Aboard the [HMS Neptune], 1910 - 1915

Item

Identifier: 2007.013.1.2.27

Scope and Contents

View from above the main deck of the [HMS Neptune], featuring [troops] relaxing on deck. Another large vessel, possibly an escort, is visible in the background.

Dates: 1910 - 1915

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / William Hurford Hutchins WWI archive / Photograph album

AEF Railway Engineers WWI photo-scrapbook, 1917-1919

Collection

Identifier: 2013-022

Scope and Contents

The album documents barracks life, rifle range acitivity, the Army Service School, Leavenworth prison, engineer training (road march, bivouac, pontoon bridges, walls, base camps, and locomotives (including some from the Paris-Orleans railway), rolling stock (box cars, flat cars, and tank car gondolas), steam shovels, and trucks (5 ton and ambulances). Post-war images include vehicles, buildings, construction (railroad bridge, river lock, river boat crane, barges, paved roads, etc.).

Dates: 1917 - 1919

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Albert C. Hansen WWI archive

Collection

Identifier: 2005-006

Content Description

Albert C. Hansen was a Corporal with the American Expeditionary Force. This collection consists of letters from Hansen to his sister Ida M. Hansen and an unnamed brother, one photograph of a group of people, and various religious writings and commentary on Bible quotes.

Dates: 1884 - 1919; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1919

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Alfred G. Lawson USS Paulding log, 1917-1919

Collection

Identifier: 2010-063

Scope and Contents A WWI sailor log of Alfred George Lawson on the U. S. S. Paulding from 1917-1919, which describes Lawon's experiences on the U. S. destroyer and his daily activities. The U. S. S. Paulding's primary duty was to escort convoys and protect them from German u-boat attacks. Most of the entries are very brief, merely talking about the weather and whether they were in port or at sea. However, others are much more detailed, particularly in the cases where the U. S. S. Paulding sank a submarine...

Dates: 1917 - 1919

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Algot F. Carlson WWI archive, 1918-1924

Collection

Identifier: 2012-068

Scope and Contents

Diary, photographs, artefacts

Dates: 1918 - 1924; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1919

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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: 8...

Dates: 1918 - 1919

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Announcement from Bishop Alfred Harding, 1917-06-09

Item

Identifier: 2010.054.1.11

Scope and Contents

"The War and Navy departments have recently committed to the General Committee on Army and Navy Chaplains of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America the duty of furnishing approved applications from the religious bodies commonly designated as Protestant...."

Dates: 1917-06-09

Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Ben Byrnes collection of Chaplain George Copeland WWI archive