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World War, 1914-1918 -- Manuscripts

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

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

John Carlisle Johnson WWI archive, 1913-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 1980-010
Scope and Contents Consists of the correspondence, writings, personal ephemera, and photographs of 1st Lieutenant John Carlisle Johnson of the 167th Infantry, 42nd (Rainbow) Division, American Expeditionary Forces.The correspondence is comprised of 60 autograph and typescript letters from Johnson to his wife Beula Addison Johnson, his mother and father, and a friend, Cliff Jones. Johnson's letters (dating from 1917-1919)--written from officer's training camp, from New York prior to his being...
Dates: 1913 - 1919

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

Theo Freudenberg WWI journal, 1914-1916

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-023
Scope and Contents

124 page personal journal kept by Theo Freudenbergs in the years 1914, 1915, and 1916, while in the German Army. A studio portrait of Freudenbergs, pictured in uniform with medals, is pasted onto verso of front cover. Text in German.

Dates: 1914 - 1916

Unknown soldier WWI diary, 1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-029
Scope and Contents

Pocket journal or notebook kept by an unidentified AEF Field Artillery soldier/officer, Company A, 114th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, while in France, 1918.

Handwritten contents include: various lists of names of section members, men on specific details, surnames, supplies; disciplinary actions taken; daily schedules and routines; diagrams of manuevers; etc.

Dates: 1918

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

William Robins war machine invention documents, 1912-1920

 Collection
Identifier: 1995-017
Scope and Contents

William Robins, Russian engineer mechanic's proposal for and patent application for a war machine that, among other attributes, is impervious to enemy attack and, although stationary, can move in any direction at great speed by the person within it. Although figures are noted in the documentation, they are not included in this collection of papers. Papers include Robins's letters to H.M. Secretary of War and H.M. Patent Office and their replies.

Dates: 1912 - 1920