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World War I Collection

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 127 Collections and/or Records:

Gustav Keller WWI-era letters, 1914-1917

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-006
Scope and Contents

The Gustav Keller archive of approximately 270 fieldpostcards and fieldpostbriefs between his wife Maria and their children. Keller served as a Lieutenant in the German 5th Army, 4th Company.

Dates: 1914 - 1917

Hans von Steffins WWI-era letters, 1914-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-023
Scope and Contents

Approximately 300 letters and postcards from Hans von Steffins, a military aristocrat (7th Reserve Corps), to his wife Baronin Leoni Steffins. Included are a handful of letters and postcards from von Steffins to Countess Nini Pocci and to unidentified recipients.

Dates: 1914 - 1918

Harold S. Sherwin WWI archive, 1915-1919

 Item
Identifier: 2001-026
Content Description

Four pocket diaries by Harold S. Sherwin of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Mounted Brigade; two photograph albums containing a total of 121 photographs plus a signed portrait of Sherwin; 3 postcards; 2 programmes for races and steeplechases; materials found laid into a book; and typed transcriptions of the diaries.

Dates: 1915 - 1919

Harvey D. Higley WWI-era field notebook, approximately 1909-1921

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-020
Scope and Contents

American artillery field notebook, alphabetically tabbed, with typed and handwritten notes by various hands; photographic portrait of Major Harvey D. Higley; press clipping.

Dates: circa 1909-1920

Heinrich WWI-era correspondence, 1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-024
Scope and Contents

Letters, postcards, and telegrams, most of which are from someone [possibly named Heme or Hana] to a Professor [Irmgard] Heinrich and children.

Dates: 1918

Helen T. Slate collection of WWI-era ephemera, 1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-065-OVRSZ
Scope and Contents

Memorial Day Program, May 30th, 1918; Honor Roll and Service Flag Chart of the Village of Sag Harbor, Long Island, NY, bearing the name of Helen T. Slate handwritten at top; a small flag with 2.5 inch red border surrounding a cream-colored rectangle with a blue star at its center; and a miniature French flag.

Dates: 1918

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

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

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

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