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World War I Collection

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 489 Collections and/or Records:

Heliopolis, Egypt.
Heliopolis, Egypt.
Heliopolis Palace Hotel.
Heliopolis Palace Hotel.

Heliopolis Palace Hotel, 1910 - 1915

 Item
Identifier: 2007.013.1.2.36
Scope and Contents

Exterior view of the Heliopolis Palace Hotel as seen from a distance.

Dates: 1910 - 1915
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / William Hurford Hutchins WWI archive / Photograph album

Henry Augustus Batchelor III WWI archive, 1914-1970

 Collection
Identifier: 2001-021
Scope and Contents Henry Augustus Batchelor III, American from Saginaw, Michigan. Served briefly with the Lafayette Flying Corps in France from August 1917-March 1918. Was then transferred to the United States Air Service, serving as Chief Pilot and instructor at Moutchic-Lacanau from March 1918 to Armistice. He also served in the American Amublance Corps in France and, immediately after the war, in the service of the American Red Cross in the Balkans. Included in Batchelor's archive is correspondence to...
Dates: 1914 - 1970
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

HMS Crusader wireless telegraph signal log

 Digital Work
Identifier: 2002.011
Dates: 1914-10-23 - 1914-11-02
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

HMS Crusader wireless telegraph signal log, 1914

 Item
Identifier: 2002-011
Scope and Contents Original wireless signal log of the HMS Cossack (23-24 October) and HMS Crusader for the period 24 Oct 1914 to 2 Nov 1914, describing the naval flank action off the Belgian coast. The HMS Crusader was a destroyer on Dover patrol the first few months of the war and was part of the 6th or Dover Destroyer Flotilla consisting of destroyers, light cruisers, submarines, trawlers, and miscellaneous other auxiliary patrol vessels under the command of Admiral Hood. The 19...
Dates: 1914-10-23 - 1914-11-02
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

H.M.S. Digby WWI photograph album, 1914-1915

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-007
Scope and Contents A collection of photographs chronicling the voyages of the Armed Merchant Cruiser H.M.S. Digby while on loan to the British Navy during World War I. More a travelogue than a war journal, the photographs document how the ship sailed from the North Sea to Greece, through the Suez Canal, to Singapore and Hong Kong, British Columbia, down the California and Mexican coasts, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Most of the photos show stunning views from the deck of the ship looking out towards sea, of the...
Dates: 1914 - 1915
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Holiday letter from Rev. George W. Truett to "My Friends", 1916-12-25 - 1917-01-01

 Item
Identifier: 2010l.044.1.9
Scope and Contents

Press cutting of a published letter, excised from an unknown source: "You are in my kindliest thoughts at this recurring anniversary of Joy and Good Will, of Love and Hope, of Happy Greetings...and at the end of your earthly way, may you find that it is not an end but a beginning...."

Dates: Publication: 1916-12-25 - 1917-01-01
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Ben Byrnes collection of John Oscar Miller WWI archive
Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home

Homer Alva Armstrong WWI memorabilia, 1912-1936

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-026
Scope and Contents

World War I era memorabilia of Homer Alva Armstrong, Bugler Company E, 117 Engineers, 42nd Rainbow Division. Items include 2 pocket diaries; medals, pins and patches; scrapbook; 4 caps, photographs, German souvenir postcards, currency, and a German metal sign for train passengers; National Guard certificate; "Hisory of the 42nd, the Rainbow Division"; "Official Summarized Chronology of the World War"; a field post letter and 2 postcards.

Dates: 1912 - 1936
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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