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World War I Collection

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 489 Collections and/or Records:

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

Permission to be Absent from Camp, 1917

 Item
Identifier: 2010.044.1.6
Scope and Contents

Headquarters, 315th Engineers, Camp Travis, TX. Six permission slips granting J.O. Miller permission to be absent from camp, pasted together in pairs.

Dates: Issued: 1917

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

Personal ephemera, Undated

 Item
Identifier: 2010.044.1.11
Scope and Contents

Western Union telegraph receipt, received from Edith Miller; portion of a studio photo portfolio, Watt and Sons, Dundee; calling card for Miss Laura V. Haynes.

Dates: Undated

Photograph album, 1910 - 1915

 Item
Identifier: 2007.013.1.2
Content Description From the Collection:

Archive of Private William Hurford Hutchins of the Canterbury Infantry Battlion, 2nd New Zealand Regiment. Consists of a 181 page handwritten diary with extensive, descriptive entries. Includes photocopied list of wounded, service medallion, and a small photo album containing 59 photographs documenting Hutchins's experiences while in service in Egypt, with a few photos documenting his departure from New Zealand.

Dates: 1910 - 1915

Portrait of an officer

 Item
Identifier: 2010.044.1.8
Scope and Contents

Litho-reproduction featuring an unidentified middle-aged, mustached man, dressed in a double-breasted jacket with buttons and shoulder insignia.

Dates: 1912 - 1921

Portrait of John O. Miller and two young men

 Item
Identifier: 2010.044.1.1
Scope and Contents

Studio portrait featuring John O. Miller and two young men in, all dressed in suit coats, neck ties and hats, posing shoulder to shoulder.

Dates: 1912 - 1921