World War I Collection
Found in 127 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas Faulkner WWI-era diary
Tyner Smith WWI materials, 1918-1919
Photographs, postcards, carte d'identitie, 1921 transcription of Chaplain of USA Ambulance Assoc. reply to New York Times maligning Dos Passos and Ambulance Service, Ambulance Serivce Bulletin 1918, 1918-1919 personal letters, Discharges papers, two maps of Paris
Unknown soldier, US Army 5th Infantry Division WWI diary, 1917-1918
1915 pocket diary, repurposed as a journal by an unknown soldier in the US Army 5th Infantry Division. Very brief entries describe his division's constant movement through France, the soldier's experiences being shelled by the Germans, snipers, dead Frencgh civilians in the streets, gas alarms while in the field, sleeping in holes in the ground, meals eaten, etc. Although each entry is marked with day and date, they are often not correct when compared to a perpetual yearly calendar.
Unknown soldier WWI diary, 1918
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.
US Army 16th Engineer Regiment photographs, 1914-1919
Series of 159 black and white photos, most with captions, printed on card stock, most taken between June 1917 and April 1919. Images include scenes of men as they enlist at the Fairgrounds in Detroit; views of the exterior and interior of the barracks at the Fairground in Detroit; scenes of the men enroute to Europe; scenes of thei engineers' work and activites while in France; and scenes of their return trip to the States.
Vernon S. Grabill WWI correspondence
15 letters and postcards from Vernon S. Grabill (Regt. 301, Battalion C, Heavy Tanks, American Expeditionary Forces) to his cousin, Lillian Singer (Detroit, MI and Chicago, IL).
Wagoner Fay M. Ham WWI diary, 1917-1928
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.
"Wallace" WW I-era photographs, 1918-1919
Walter Oswald "Toby" Watt WWI-era photographs, 1914-1916
Photograph album consisting of 126 original captioned photographs capturing Walter Oswald "Toby" Watt's service in the French Aeronautique Militaire.