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World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Carl August Rothenheim WWI memoir, 1914-1919

 Item
Identifier: 2001-011
Scope and Contents A unique scrapbook from a lieutenant colonel in the German army. Probably bound after the war (as all pages seem to exhibit the same extent of wear), Rothenheim compiled an extraordinary number of photographs, newspaper clippings, field post cards, train tickets and military maps detailing troop movements throughout the approximate five years he was enlisted. Stationed in and around Lille in northern France (near the Belgium border), Rothenheim photographed military life; his comrades in gas...
Dates: 1914 - 1919

Eberl family WWI-era letters, 1905-1926

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-009
Scope and Contents

Approximately 600 letters, feldbriefs and feldpostcartes to and from Alois, Gottleib Jr., and Max--three sons serving in the German Army--and their family. Many letters are from France, approximately 130 of which are from Gottlieb Jr. written from an English POW camp.

Dates: 1905 - 1926

Erich Pattky German WWI-era photographs, 1914-1940

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-007
Scope and Contents First acquisition: 86 photo-postcard and photo archive of Erich Pattky, a German telephonist during WWI. Postcard messages are from Pattky to his parents in Berlin, Germany. Postcard images depict various soldiers' activities, accommodations and equipment. According to the bookseller, Pattky was probably stationed in France. Included are Christmas celebration cards. Many cards have been trimmed, possibly to accommodate the size of the wartime envelopes. Second acquisition:...
Dates: 1914 - 1940

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

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

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

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

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