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World War, 1914-1918 -- Correspondence.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

Lt. Willhelm "Willi" Landahl WWI-era letters, 1914-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-027
Scope and Contents

Lt. Wilhelm Landahl (159th Regt), 180 letters. Landahl was killed in action on 9 April 1916.

Dates: 1914 - 1918

Otto Biber WWI archive, 1914-1934

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-004
Scope and Contents

The archive of 2nd Lt. Otto Biber of the 17th Bavarian Regiment. Includes approximately 220 letters and cards, 15 photographs, pocket calendar, newspaper death notices of fellow soldiers, and miscellaneous documents.

Dates: 1914 - 1934

Paul Baumann WWI-era letters, 1914-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-005
Scope and Contents

Paul Baumann archive of approximately 200 letters, fieldpostbriefs, fieldpostcards, and postcards between Baumann and his family and friends, during his service on the Western Front in a German Army machine gun unit.

Dates: 1914 - 1919

Paul M. Hollister Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-009
Content Description

This collection of papers includes letters, notes, post cards, and newspaper clippings to and from Paul M. Hollister, a Michigan journalist, regarding service during WWI, with additional material that is not war related.

Dates: 1915 - 1927

Perry Douglas Erwin WWI-era letters, 1918-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-009
Scope and Contents Perry Douglas Erwin was a soldier during World War I who was stationed at Ft. Sill in Oklahoma. During his time as a lieutenant in the 9th Field Artillery during World War I his wife wrote to him nearly every day. The Erwin letters, dating January 1918 through January 1919, consist primarily of (173) letters from Erwin's wife, Vivian (living in Oswego, Kansas) to Erwin (stationed at Fort Still, Oklahoma and other locations); other correspondents include Erwin's sisters Harriet, Dorothy,...
Dates: 1918 - 1919

Roy G. Saunders collection of Mattie Dial Hughes WWI letters, 1918-1922

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-102
Scope and Contents

17 letters in French (10 of which have English translations) plus 2 English tranlations with no accompanying French letters from Gilberte Laplace and her [adoptive] mother, a refugee from the Ardennes during WWI; written to Gilberte's "god-mother" and benefactor, Mattie Dial Hughes.

Dates: 1918 - 1922

Thomas C. Kyle WWI travel diary, 1919

 Collection
Identifier: 1991-016
Scope and Contents Travel diary of a trip to England in the form of a letter to Kyle's mother and dated April 18, 1919, written from Chaumont, France. The trip dates were April 2 through 16, 1919. The letter, which consists of thirteen closely typed pages signed 'Tom', are interspersed with postcards, train tickets, receipts, maps, bus ticket, rugby game program, Y.M.C.A. bunk ticket, theatre program, movie ticket, church service program and a 16-page booklet on the Tower of London.Thomas C. Kyle...
Dates: 1919

Tyner Smith WWI materials, 1918-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-055
Scope and Contents

Photographs, postcards, carte d'identitie, 1921 transcription of Chaplain of USA Ambulance Assoc. reply to New York Times maligning Dos Passos and Ambulance Service, Ambulance Serivce Bulletin 1918, 1918-1919 personal letters, Discharges papers, two maps of Paris

Dates: 1918 - 1919

Vernon S. Grabill WWI correspondence

 Item
Identifier: 2001-035
Content Description

15 letters and postcards from Vernon S. Grabill (Regt. 301, Battalion C, Heavy Tanks, American Expeditionary Forces) to his cousin, Lillian Singer (Detroit, MI and Chicago, IL).

Dates: 1918 - 1919

William Hammond Smith WWI correspondence

 Item
Identifier: 2001-022
Content Description

A transcription of the war-time letters of Major William Hammond Smith, Royal Field Artillery Brigade, from May 1915 to October 1916; written to his mother. Smith was killed in action on April 12, 1917 at Athies, near Roeux, during the Battle of Arras.

Dates: 1915 - 1923