World War, 1914-1918
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
Rausendorf Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A1802
Scope and Contents
The Rausendorf Family Papers consist of correspondence, including letters written during World War I and World War II, family records, passports, certificates, notebooks, programs, newspaper clippings, journals, medals, and foreign currency.
The Family Records consist of general Rausendorf family documents, ranging in date from 1864 to 1947, including ancestry charts, Charles Rausendorf’s citizenship papers, baptismal...
Dates:
1892-1988
Rice Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A1293
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of letters to Maurice Rice from his family while he was stationed at Camp McArthur in 1918. Collection also contains other family correspondence; newspaper clippings regarding the Rice, Ritter, and Kenney families; and a family photograph album.
Dates:
1879-1961; Majority of material found in 1918
Charlotte Rumbold Papers
Collection
Identifier: A1330
Scope and Contents
The Charlotte Rumbold Papers Series comprises mostly correspondence to and from family members and colleagues from 1918 to 1937. The papers are arranged chronologically and include four letters from Roger Nash Baldwin, a prominent social activist who helped form the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Caroline Rumbold Papers Series includes mostly correspondence to and from family members from 1918 to 1929....
Dates:
1846-1946
San-Del Printing Company Collection
Collection
Identifier: A3123
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of advertising and packaging literature printed by the San-Del Printing Company from circa 1917 to 1930. The publications are arranged alphabetically by the name of client/company with the exception of tobacco-related advertisements/packaging which are placed in a single folder. Much of the collection is undated.
The publications include packing labels, stickers, product image/sales sheets, brochures of all sizes, large broadsides printed in black and...
Dates:
ca. 1917-1930
Eugene Oberly Sanguinet Papers
Collection
Identifier: A2981
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of military papers of Eugene O. Sanguinet, including appointments, commissions, correspondence, orders, enrollment certificate, and discharge certificates.
Dates:
1875-1943
Edgar Ferdinand Schmitz Papers
Collection
Identifier: A3130
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...
Dates:
1913-1919
Lloyd C. Stark Collection
Collection
Identifier: A3037
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 16 letters written to Maud B. MacBride by Stark and newspaper clippings saved by MacBride about Stark. Only one of the letters is dated, 25 July 1917, in which Stark tells Maud of his commission as captain in the U. S. Army Field Artillery. There are two envelopes with 1919 postmarks but it is unclear which letters they held.
Being love letters, the correspondence lacks the mention of daily news and events that often prove...
Dates:
1916-1950
Sunder Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A3029
Scope and Contents
The collection contains World War I-era letters exchanged between Leo John Sunder and his family in St. Louis while he was serving in Europe, which mention the injuries Leo suffered in France during a mustard gas attack and an outbreak of Spanish Influenza in St. Louis. The collection also includes military documents relating to the service of Pvt. Leo John Sunder and Pvt. Edward R. Dependahl; a circular letter of General John J. Pershing thanking American soldiers for their service in the...
Dates:
1890-circa 1943
Oliver Vie Papers
Collection
Identifier: A2285
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence of Oliver Vie, primarily to his sister, Grace Ashton, documenting his service in the army along the Mexican border and later in France during World War I. The collection also includes correspondence between his sister and officials regarding Vie’s missing-in-action status and death. The undated letters were given approximate dates.
Dates:
1913–1919
R.J. Walker Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: P0959
Scope and Contents
The R.J. Walker Photograph Collection contains 162 photographs documenting Walker’s World War I service with the 314th Engineer Regiment of the 89th Infantry Division and with the post-war occupation army in the German Rhineland. Many of the photographs were taken by Walker himself, and many have been printed as postcards. The photographs document training activities at Camp Funston in Kansas; construction of bridges and other activities of the 314th Engineers; war damage in Rheims and...
Dates:
1917-1919