The Carl Lippman Scrapbook documents Lippman’s service with the 153rd Infantry and QMC Labor Company 5 during World War I and his active involvement with veterans’ organizations after the war.

Snapshots taken during the war show Lippman and his fellow soldiers, as well as the cities, villages, and battlefields of Europe. The scrapbook also includes documents such as draft registration cards, a form letting the recipient know that the soldier’s ship arrived safely overseas, a troop billet, and an order listing troops to report for discharge.

Photographs taken after the war show Lippman’s involvement with veterans’ organizations, including the American Legion and the Société des Quarante Hommes et Huit Chevaux (40 and 8). Events include a 1942 state convention and a 1952 birthday dinner, as well as a newspaper clipping and photograph that describe Post No. 143 of the American Legion donating a World War I field howitzer to be melted for scrap during World War II. Other photographs show an older Lippman posed in uniform, as well as standing next to a train car belonging to Voiture No. 38 of the Grande Voiture du Missouri, the St. Louis chapter of the 40 and 8.

One carte de visite shows a studio portrait of Lippman as a young boy. The photograph was taken in Neuwied, Germany, presumably before the family immigrated to the United States in 1890.