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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives -- United States.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

George W. Sadlo WWI journal, 1918-1921

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-018
Scope and Contents Small journal, kept in a German pocket notebook, with handwritten entries by George W. Saldo while en route to and in France during the final months of the war; entries continue for several months following the Armistice. George W. Sadlo served as Musician 1st Class in the HQ Band GHQ (Chaumont, France), the 133rd Infantry Band, and the the 4th Infantry Band. Other items laid in includ 2 b/w snapshots of military bands on the march; postcard from Amra McDowell addressed to Geo. Sadlo...
Dates: 1918 - 1921
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Hugo August "Hap" Gruenberg WWI archive, 1917-1972

 Collection
Identifier: 1991-008
Scope and Contents Consists of the personal ephemera and photographs of Private 1st Class Hugo A. "Happy" Gruenberg of Ambulance Company 167, 117th Sanitary Train, 42nd (Rainbow) Division, American Expeditionary Forces.The personal ephemera includes Gruenberg's diary kept during 1917-1918; soldier's pay record book; Gruenberg's dog tags and brass key on a leather thong, as well as one pair of regulation leather leggings; photocopied press cuttings of Gruenberg's obituaries and memorial and funeral...
Dates: 1917 - 1972
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Leo McCusker WWI diary, 1918

 Item
Identifier: 2009-032
Scope and Contents Pocket diary of Captain Leo McCusker (US Army, HQ Troop, 4th Div) dating from May 6 through September 26,1918. The diary begins with McCusker's boarding ship for England. It continues with excellent detailed descriptive accounts of battles (including September 25th battle on Hill 304), German bombing and shelling raids, the elaborate German dugouts, dead and wounded on the battlefields, prisoners of war, etc at and near the Front in France. It also includes his experiences in various...
Dates: 1918
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Louis Vogel WWI diary, 1918-1919

 Item
Identifier: 2009-030
Scope and Contents Diary of Sgt. Louis Vogel, US Army, with entries about his experiences beginning from his departure from Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma in May of 1918 through his service in France near the Front, and up to his return to the US in May of 1919. The diary entries actually begin on the pages for May and continue through December, then resume on the pages for January (1919). PLEASE NOTE: It is not always clear where entries begin and end as they often continue through many dates as one...
Dates: 1918 - 1919
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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

Unknown soldier's WWI photo album

 Item
Identifier: 2019-057
Dates: 1907 - 1919
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Wagoner Fay M. Ham WWI diary, 1917-1928

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-016
Scope and Contents

Small collection of items reproduced from the originals of Wagoner Fay M. Ham, of the 167th Tulsa Ambulance Company, 42nd Rainbow Division, US Army. The collection includes: 2 photo-reproductions of photographs of W.Fay M. Ham in uniform; photocopy of travel document following his release as POW; photocopy of a photo of ambulance; photocopy of Ham's pencilled journal titled, "Life of a German Prisoner of War", a recollection written in 1928.

Dates: 1917 - 1928
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

William G. Adams WWI ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-016
Content Description

Ephemera of William G. Adams, 472nd Aero Squadron. Contents include: a pocket memorandum book with handwritten entries made primarily in England where Adams performed maintenance on aeroplanes plus newspaper clippings pasted in; printed program for the celebration of the squadron's one-year anniversary of service, 3 September 1918; and an orange and black felt pennant ("Aero Squadron: San Antonio, Tex") representing the squadron.

Dates: 1918
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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