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

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Lt. Hans Schilling WWI-era ephemera, 1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-029
Scope and Contents

German lieutenant of the 5th Reserve Division Hans Schilling. 118 page manuscript diary (1918), 6 field post cards, a manuscript notebook, 2 newspapers from the Front, 9 handwritten forms (possibly instructions/locations for shelling or bombardment), and 2 mimeograph typed military documents.

Dates: 1918

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

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

Pocket notebook of sermons preached at Weldon, 1934 - 1935

 Item
Identifier: 2010.054.1.42
Scope and Contents

Pocket notebook, with handwritten entries, titled "Sermons Preached at Weldon [Glenside]".

Dates: 1934 - 1935