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World War I Collection

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 127 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

I.J. Clendinnen WWI-era scrapbook, 1910-1922

 Collection
Identifier: 1000-050
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook/photo album of I.J.Clendinnen of the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps. Contents include photo-postcards, B/W snapshots, newspaper clippings, postage stamps, dance cards, menus and programmes. All items are pasted onto gray paper scrapbook pages. The album is covered in fabric of geometric design and tied with a black cord with wooden beads.

Dates: 1910 - 1922

James B. Williamson WWI letters, 1917-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-019
Scope and Contents

A set of 7 letters from James B. Williamson, serving with the 101st engineers.


4 handwritten letters from Williamson to his sister. 3 handwritten letters from Williamson to Mary and to Mary and Agnes.

Dates: 1917 - 1918

Jean Carlisle Barnes WWI ephemera, 1913-1943

 Collection
Identifier: 2001-071
Scope and Contents

Collection of materials belonging to 1st Lieut. Jean Carlisle Barnes of the U.S. 303 Field Signal Battalion, WWI. Items include his Soldier's Diary and Record Book, photographs, military documents and certificates. Found with these materials are war ration books and other miscellaneous items from the WWII era.

Dates: 1913 - 1943

Jennifer Carlson WWI era Nurse's Cap and Pin, Undated

 Item — Box 000023222274
Identifier: 2017-038
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a nurse’s linen cap, or a part thereof. Buttonholes lay beneath fold, suggesting a scarf may have covered the rear. There is also a mass produced pin with a cameo-like portrait of what may be a nurse.

Dates: Undated

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

Joseph Moller photograph album of Kelly Field (San Antonio, Texas), 1918-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-036
Scope and Contents

Heavily annotated photo album documenting the work and activities of pilots, airplane mechanics, and aeroplane construction at Kelly Field, San Antonio, TX during World War 1.

Dates: 1918 - 1919

Kriegs Erinnerungen (War Memories) photographs, 1915-1916

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-017
Scope and Contents The Kriegs Erinnerungen (War Memories) photographs. A historical WWI German photographic album kept by an unidentified member of the 64th feld Flieger Abteilung (Field Aviation Unit). Book contains 324 photos on 80 pages covering the period of 1915-16. The album details the aviation group's journey to the front, features aeorodromes, personnel, equipment. 53 photos feature aircraft including a series of the rare Pfalz E1 of which only 60 were built. The Feld Flieger Abteilung 64 was...
Dates: 1915 - 1916

Leman L. Babbitt WWI photographs, 1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-065
Scope and Contents

9 B/W WWI-era photographic aerial views and ground views of the Gujan air station, compound, hangars, and YMCA club, located in France.

Dates: 1918-11