Scope and Contents The papers contain a passport, World War I military documents, and a newspaper clipping relating to Dr. Edgar Ferdinand Schmitz. The papers date from 1913 to 1919, with a gap from 1915 to 1916, and are arranged chronologically. Schmitz’s passport was issued in 1913 and has stamps from Berlin, Germany, dating August 26, 1914, which was weeks after the First World War began. The first military document is a circular from the Surgeon General to the officers in the Medical Officers...