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Thomas Nelson Page papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 P14
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence . Correspondence includes letters primarily from 1908-1919, from Nelson Page and his wife Florence Lathrop Field Page to her daughters Minna Field Gibson Burnaby, Florence Field Lindsay, Bryan Lathrop and Helen Aldis Lathrop. The letters concern social life in Washington, D.C., life in Rome during World War I, diplomacy under Woodrow Wilson, and the role of a diplomat's wife. There are forty letters, 1915-1916, from Algernon Edwin Burnaby to his wife...
Dates:
1893-1953
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Ruth Thompson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2012.292
Scope and Contents
Diaries, scrapbooks, and letters, circa 1905-1919, of Ruth Thompson of Indianapolis, Indiana. Includes scrapbooks and diaries of Thompson's time at the Bradford Academy, a women's boarding school in Haverhill, Massachusetts. There are also diaries from after Thompson's graduation, when she returned to Indianapolis. These include entries about World War I, including newspaper clippings of people from her area who were drafted. Finally, there are letters written to Thompson by various...
Dates:
circa 1905-1919
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Troops Arriving at Camp Lee, Virginia Postcard
Collection
Identifier: SC 01645
Scope and Contents
One postcard depicting men in suits and hats arriving at Camp Lee for intake into the United States Army for military training in preparation for World War I.
Dates:
circa 1918
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Virginia Counties Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.4 V82co
Scope and Contents
Artificial collection of papers relating to various counties in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Includes current West Virginia Counties of Berkeley, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan, Nicholas and Pendleton because the material was generated when these counties were part of Virginia.
Dates:
1600-2000; Majority of material found in 1730-1890
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Walter B. Anderson Diaries
Collection
Identifier: SC 01751
Content Description
Two diaries kept by Walter B. Anderson during the end of World War I. Anderson lived on Marshall Street in Richmond and attended Richmond College. He writes extensively about local and international current events, as well as student life and the military training he received.
Content warnings for derogatory language and racial statements.
Dates:
1918 - 1919
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Walter L. Rau Diary
Collection — Container: Small Collections Box 125, Folder: 1
Identifier: SC 01777
Content Description
Walter L. Rau wrote this diary as a member of the World War I Battery "C" 101st Field Artillery of the American Expeditionary Force stationed in France. He also identified himself with the USFA (United States Food Administration). In the dairy, Rau mentions passing through around sixty-one cities in his service, the majority of which were located in France. Upon arrival in France, the 101st was told to report to the Front. Rau writes of running water and food drives to the trenches, digging,...
Dates:
February 1, 1918 - April 10, 1919
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
James W. Willox Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 00218
Scope and Contents
Diary, 1919, of James W. Willox, a private from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who served in the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force in Iraq during World War I. Primarily contains photographs from Willox's time in Iraq, including photographs of himself, his fellow soldiers, captured Iraqi soldiers, and native Iraqis performing their daily activities in Bahgdad. There are also photographs of buildings, a wedding, a soldier from India, among many others. Many of the photographs have a...
Dates:
1918-1919
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
World War I Field Artillery Book
Collection
Identifier: SC 01017
Scope and Contents
Field Book, October-November 1918, kept in France. Records artillery unit activities as well as airplane activity with both the Allies and Germany. Page headings include "Enemy Activity, Infantry," Enemy Activity, Artillery, " "Aeronautics, Airplanes," "Aeronautics, Balloons," "Movement, Visibility," "Works, " "Miscellaneous" and "General Impression of the Day." Includes a photograph of a young woman and a photograph of a baby with unclear note, "Leora. September 15, 1898"...
Dates:
1918
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
World War I Glass Slides
Collection
Identifier: MS 00285
Scope and Contents
Collection of 21 glass slides depicting various scenes from the First World War in France. Images include fox holes, fortification, soldiers in and around camp, and snow scenes.
Some of the slides are numbered and some detail in French location and date descriptions. The individual slides are described below.
1. Alsace Panorama
2. Winter scene
3. La Chillette trench scene
4. Winter trench scene
5. Verdun with horses
6. Trench scene
7. Barricade at Coincy
8. walkway
9. Soldiers eating...
Dates:
1915-1917
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
World War I Postcard
Collection
Identifier: SC 00378
Scope and Contents
One postcard depicting an American soldier towing a pretzel, a beer stein, sausages, and a dachshund. The caption says "I'll bring you back some souvenirs." The postcard was not sent but does bear the name "Harry Lydie" in pencil on the reverse.
Dates:
1917-1918
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
World War I Postcards and Newspaper Clippings
Collection
Identifier: SC 01405
Content Description
10 postcards and eight newspaper clippings relating to World War I. The postcard images include uniformed men carrying artillery over a pontoon bridge, Battalion Drill at Camp Warden McLean in Chickamauga Park, Chattanooga, TN, Night Time at the U.S. General Hospital No. 12, formerly Kenilworth Inn, in Asheville, NC, The Salvation Army making doughbuts under bombardment of German guns along the front lines in France, an image of an unidentified US battleship, a war carnage scene from the...
Dates:
1917-1919
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
World War I Posters
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2008.338
Scope and Contents
Ten posters from the World War I era for the Red Cross and Victory Loans. Please note, posters are fragile and will require careful handling.Red Cross (8 posters): "Is There a Red Cross Service Flag in your Home? A heart and a dollar are all you need, join the Red Cross" Printed by the Wells Fargo and Co. and Seiter and Kappes Litho Co., NY; "Ten Million new members by Christmas. Join the Red Cross and On Christmas Eve, a Candle in Every Window, a Service Flag for Every Home;"...
Dates:
1917-1922
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
World War I Red Cross Hospital Train Photograph Album
Collection
Identifier: SC 00040
Scope and Contents
This album contains eleven silver gelatin prints of the train's interior plus one RPPC depicting a machine gun unit. The images of the hospital train interiors include unidentified soldiers and medical staff.
Dates:
1918
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
World War I Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.309
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook pages from the unbound scrapbook of an unidentified member of the 78th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army, on duty in France from the time of his departure from New York on May 19, 1918 to his return and discharge on May 29, 1919.
Dates:
1918-1919
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
World War Through the Stereoscope
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.178
Scope and Contents
100 photographic prints on stereo cards (stereographs, b&w ; 9 x 18 cm. in case 19 x 19 cm) from the Keystone View Company's Stereographic Library Series (Rare Book Call No. D522 .W67). The slides were produced in 1923, but the photographs were taken from 1914-1921.The stereoscopic views depict World War I scenes with lengthy captions (on back of cards). Included are images of battlefields and trenches, armaments, cavalry, buildings, hospitals and cemeteries, dirigibles,...
Dates:
circa 1914-1923
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center