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World War I Collection

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 127 Collections and/or Records:

Robert Alfred Doring WWI archive, 1887-1939

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-008
Scope and Contents Archive of Robert Alfred Doring, a non-commissioned officer in the Schutzen-Fusilier Regiment, Prinz Georg (Koniglich Sachsisches) Nr. 108. Born in Wermsdorf, Germany in 1887. Survived the war and was awarded a certificate of 25 years service (Leipzig) by the German Chief of Presidential Chancellery [Otto Meissner] in 1939. Archive includes a war diary, Doring's National identification book, his military identification booklets, several military certificates, a letter, 4 photo-postcards,...
Dates: 1887 - 1939
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Robert J. R. Harvey WWI-era diary

 Item
Identifier: 2007-018
Dates: 1915-12-31 - 1917-04-08
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Rowland C. Taylor WWI archive, 1914-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2001-023
Scope and Contents

Includes a flight log book, a detailed diary of his POW experiences, and various photographs, service documents and POW ephemera.

Dates: 1914 - 1918
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Sally Appel papers, 1911-1934

 Collection
Identifier: 1989-003
Scope and Contents The Sally Appel papers consist of the writings, war camp documents, correspondence, photographs, and publications (including a complete run the newspaper, Der Vergessene Michel) relating to Sally Appel, a German soldier held prisoner by the French during World War I. While a prisoner, Appel was permitted by the French camp commandant to create the newspaper, Der Vergessene Michel, 14 issues of which were lettered and illustrated on mimeograph masters and published between October 1919 and...
Dates: 1911 - 1934
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Salonika Macedonia WWI-era photograph album, 1916-1917

 Collection
Identifier: 1000-061
Scope and Contents A photograph album containing approximately 44 images (some duplicates or alternate views) taken in Salinka and further Macedonia, 1916-1917. Most images have some form of caption. Indentified individuals and units include "Father Verzin", the "Royal Munsters", several group shots if the "Officers of the 1st BN, Royal Irish Regiment" "Capt. Magner and Jolly Coy Commanders" (probably John Magner): "Capt ----- Royal Munster Fusiliers". The owner may have been an officer in the 1st BN, Royal...
Dates: 1916 - 1917
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Schreiner Reinhold Rott WWI-era ephemera, 1914-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-022
Scope and Contents

138 page manuscript pocket diary, 2 studio portraits, 4 photo-postcards, and death certificate of Medical-Segeant Schreiner Reinhold Rott, Ersatzbataillon, 3rd Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment In German.

Dates: 1914 - 1918
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Tagebuch über den 22/55 p.s. Mercedes Wagen des General-Kommandes, Strassburg, 1914

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-031
Scope and Contents

36 page typed and handwritten vehicle travel log kept by General Berthold von Deimling's driver. The log began on 5 May 1914, and ends on 30 Jun 1914. There were more entries, but the 48 pages following have been excised. A small handwritten comparison French/German translation appears on page 180. There is also a photo of a car and a man in uniform.

Dates: 1914
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

The Great War - WWI collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1992-004
Scope and Contents

Consists of manuscripts, letters, photographs, artifacts and ephemera.

Dates: 1915-1918, 1997
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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
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

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