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World War I Collection

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 127 Collections and/or Records:

Leo McCusker WWI diary, 1918

 Item
Identifier: 2009-032
Scope and Contents Pocket diary of Captain Leo McCusker (US Army, HQ Troop, 4th Div) dating from May 6 through September 26,1918. The diary begins with McCusker's boarding ship for England. It continues with excellent detailed descriptive accounts of battles (including September 25th battle on Hill 304), German bombing and shelling raids, the elaborate German dugouts, dead and wounded on the battlefields, prisoners of war, etc at and near the Front in France. It also includes his experiences in various...
Dates: 1918

Les Ruines Apre le Passage des Allemandes photo-postcards, 1914-1915

 File
Identifier: 2001-072
Scope and Contents

Les Ruines Apre le Passage des Allemands photo-postcards - an 18-page commemorative album of photo-postcards depicting scenes in France during 1914-1915. Printed captions are in both French and English.

Dates: 1914 - 1915

Leslie Arthur Jenner WWI diary and ephemera

 File
Identifier: 2007-015
Scope and Contents

45-page diary from 1918, handwritten, army registration form, typed and handwritten, certificate of demobilization, typed and handwritten, letter in response to resignation, article on L.A. Jenner.

Dates: 1918 - 1945

Lloyd Henderson Grandy WWI papers, approximately 1918-1968

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-036
Scope and Contents

Col Lloyd H. Grandy (Cdr, 344th Engineers, US Army) archive of letters, photos, and documents of his lengthy career, in both WWI and WWII. Includes 754 photos, many with written descriptions of the scene, predominantly taken during WWI.

Dates: 1918 - 1968

Louis Vogel WWI diary, 1918-1919

 Item
Identifier: 2009-030
Scope and Contents Diary of Sgt. Louis Vogel, US Army, with entries about his experiences beginning from his departure from Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma in May of 1918 through his service in France near the Front, and up to his return to the US in May of 1919. The diary entries actually begin on the pages for May and continue through December, then resume on the pages for January (1919). PLEASE NOTE: It is not always clear where entries begin and end as they often continue through many dates as one...
Dates: 1918 - 1919

Lt. Hans Schilling WWI-era ephemera, 1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-029
Scope and Contents

German lieutenant of the 5th Reserve Division Hans Schilling. 118 page manuscript diary (1918), 6 field post cards, a manuscript notebook, 2 newspapers from the Front, 9 handwritten forms (possibly instructions/locations for shelling or bombardment), and 2 mimeograph typed military documents.

Dates: 1918

Lt. Willhelm "Willi" Landahl WWI-era letters, 1914-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-027
Scope and Contents

Lt. Wilhelm Landahl (159th Regt), 180 letters. Landahl was killed in action on 9 April 1916.

Dates: 1914 - 1918

Malta souvenir. Rememrarance [sic] of the Greatest War in History, approximately 1916

 Item
Identifier: 2005-008
Scope and Contents

Framed mixed media artefact consisting of hand stitched embroidery, on primitive cloth, surrounding a photograph of an unidentified man dressed in a naval uniform. 15 x 20 inches; 24 x 27 inches framed.

Dates: 1916

Munitions factory photographs, 1914-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 1000-129
Scope and Contents

Eighty-eight photographs taken during World War I in a British munitions factory showing women on assembly lines manufacturing shells. Includes one photograph of the plant managers, possibly in Kent.

Dates: 1914 - 1918

New York Air Brake - WWI munitions factory photo album, approximately 1917-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-044
Scope and Contents

Photo album containing (1) 4 3/4 x 8" sepia print and (147) 8 x 10" b/w photographs documenting the building and production of 75mm and 155mm artillery guns and amunition at the New York Air Brake factory located in Watertown, New York, circa 1917-1918.

Dates: 1917 - 1918