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World War, 1914-1918.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 442 Collections and/or Records:

Battleships and transports on the water, 1910 - 1915

 Item
Identifier: 2007.013.1.2.47
Scope and Contents

View of battleships and troop transports as seen from the deck of another ship.

Dates: 1910 - 1915
Battleships and troop transports.
Battleships and troop transports.

Battleships and troop transports on the water, 1910 - 1915

 Item
Identifier: 2007.013.1.2.13
Scope and Contents

View of battleships on a body of water off the shores of an unidentified metropolitan area. Troops crowd togeter on a transport looking out at the scene.

Dates: 1910 - 1915

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

Ben Byrnes collection of Edwin Conroy WWI correspondence, 1918-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-020
Scope and Contents

Letters and other materials from Edwin Conroy, 29th Division. The collection contains a personal account of being gassed, writing a letter from a shell hole, and so on.

Dates: 1918 - 1919