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World War I Collection

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 127 Collections and/or Records:

Otto Biber WWI archive, 1914-1934

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-004
Scope and Contents

The archive of 2nd Lt. Otto Biber of the 17th Bavarian Regiment. Includes approximately 220 letters and cards, 15 photographs, pocket calendar, newspaper death notices of fellow soldiers, and miscellaneous documents.

Dates: 1914 - 1934

P. H. D. Dempsey WWI-era disciplinary log, 1914-1915

 Collection
Identifier: 1995-006
Scope and Contents

Discipline records for members of No. 6 Platoon, B Company, Princess Victoria (Royal Irish) Fusiliers.

Dates: 1914 - 1915

Paul Baumann WWI-era letters, 1914-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-005
Scope and Contents

Paul Baumann archive of approximately 200 letters, fieldpostbriefs, fieldpostcards, and postcards between Baumann and his family and friends, during his service on the Western Front in a German Army machine gun unit.

Dates: 1914 - 1919

Paul M. Hollister Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-009
Content Description

This collection of papers includes letters, notes, post cards, and newspaper clippings to and from Paul M. Hollister, a Michigan journalist, regarding service during WWI, with additional material that is not war related.

Dates: 1915 - 1927

Peggy Hamilton. Three Years or the Duration: The Memoirs of a Munitions Worker, 1914-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 1992-021
Scope and Contents

Layouts of title page and preliminary pages, heavily revised typescript, mock-up/layout of proposed illustrations, and original specimen pages (Peter Owen Ltd/Daedalus Press 1978 edition) of Lady Peggy Hamilton's memoir, Three Years or the Duration, concerning women workers in English munition factories during World War I. The book was published in 1978 by Peter Owen.

Dates: 1914 - 1918

Percy Douglas Willcock WWI military lecture notes, 1916

 Item
Identifier: 1995-008
Scope and Contents Percy Douglas Willcock lecture notes housed in a transfer case. Topics include: 1. Qualifications demanded of Platoon Commander. 2. Composition of a brigade battery squadron & battalion. 3. Extensive details regarding trenches, types of trenches, construction of, defense of communication trenches, plus sketches and diagrams to illustrate. 4. Wiring, plus sketches and diagrams to illustrate. 5. Military law. 6. Military etiquette. 7. Methods of allocating...
Dates: 1916

Perry Douglas Erwin WWI-era letters, 1918-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-009
Scope and Contents Perry Douglas Erwin was a soldier during World War I who was stationed at Ft. Sill in Oklahoma. During his time as a lieutenant in the 9th Field Artillery during World War I his wife wrote to him nearly every day. The Erwin letters, dating January 1918 through January 1919, consist primarily of (173) letters from Erwin's wife, Vivian (living in Oswego, Kansas) to Erwin (stationed at Fort Still, Oklahoma and other locations); other correspondents include Erwin's sisters Harriet, Dorothy,...
Dates: 1918 - 1919

Printz family WWI-era correspondence, 1914-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-025
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Max Printz, his relatives and friends, many of whom were German soldiers (Armee Korps Infantry and Reserve Divisions) in Poland and the Eastern Front.

Dates: 1914 - 1918

Remembrances of the Great War, Hounslow, photograph album, 1917-1918

 Collection
Identifier: 1000-062
Scope and Contents

Photo album contains 22 identified photographs, some of which are family portraits, the remainder of which are of men and women in uniform. Many of these deal with people who may have been affiliated with the 85 Squadron during their time at the Hounslow aerodrome in November 1917. Identified photos include "from Altrincham, Cheshire, A. Whitney", "Mrs Horace Levell & baby", "Jack Good", "85 Squadron", "Jim Davis", "Mrs. Herzog", "Billy Bishop".

Dates: 1917 - 1918

Richard Assmann pencil sketches, 1915

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-032
Scope and Contents

2 pencil sketches. Sketch 1: Soldiers watch men on ladders. Sketch 2: Man and mule lead wagon with two children on it. Captions in German.

Dates: 1915