World War, 1914-1918
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85148236
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
Lamar Aldridge papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0059
Overview
Letters home written while Aldridge was in training in Georgia and then serving in France during World War I.
Dates:
1917-1919
Alston Fitts Letters and Photograph
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0520
Overview
Letters from this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, physician to his wife and children before and after he was shipped to France during World War I, as well as a photograph of Fitts.
Dates:
1917 - 1919
Andrew Dawson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1626
Abstract
Contains correspondence and other material relating to this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, native's service in Europe during World War I.
Dates:
1918 - 1919
Blue Star Salute Foundation Materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4051
Overview
United States Blue Star Service Flag (roughly 8.5" x 14"), membership brochures, and announcements of upcoming events honoring U. S. veterans in the Jefferson and Shelby Counties, Alabama.
Dates:
2014
Ottokar T. Cadek papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0253
Overview
Correspondence, diaries, genealogies, and various other documents relating to the life of this violinist, conductor, and teacher.
Dates:
unknown
Durst Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0461
Overview
Letters, newspapers, and miscellaneous documents from the Durst family. There is also a World War One era panoramic photograph and United Stated Service, or Blue Star Mother's flag.
Dates:
1708-1977; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1868
E. M. Shackelford Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3880
Overview
The collection contains one solicitation letter from Shackelford, president of the State Normal School in Troy, Alabama, recruiting teachers who have not attended college and received "special training" to attend the school as a means of securing their teaching positions in the future.
Dates:
1919-02
Earl Elmer Stewart Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1989
Abstract
Letters written by Private Earl Elmer Stewart of the Headquarter Company, 70th Artillery, Coast Artillery Command from April 5, 1918 to March 4, 1919 to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Elmer Stewart of English, Crawford County, Indiana.
Dates:
1918 - 1919
Janie May Eppes papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0489
Overview
Teaching materials and clippings gathered by a Birmingham, Alabama, school teacher for use in her classroom, and in the course of her own education
Dates:
1907-1957
Four Minute Men, Women's Division, Birmingham, Alabama, scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0539
Overview
Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and other materials about this organization, whose members gave speeches in support of World War I.
Dates:
1918 - 1919
Louis Giesler letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2148
Overview
Letter to brother Albert, from Army sergeant serving during World War I and training in Camp Sherman, Ohio, discussing camp life, training, rifles, and a fire that killed horses and mules. He mentions the possibility of "going over" soon.
Dates:
1918 August 18
Charles S. Goodrich Diary and World War I Memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4097
Overview
Diary, banquet programs and menus, uniform insignia, and miscellaneous medals of a World War I veteran of the 167th Infantry, part of the Rainbow Division.
Dates:
1918-1951
H. C. Powell Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3822
Overview
The H. C. Powell Papers contain materials related to Powell’s service during World War I and his service on the Board of Trustees of the Louisville Free Public Library.
Dates:
1917 - 1978
Mrs. Oscar Hall scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0611
Overview
Scrapbook created by Birmingham, Alabama, resident containing clippings and other items related to World War I, particularly Birmingham soldiers and sailors.
Dates:
1918-1919
Wade Hall Collection of Stereocards
Collection
Identifier: 2014-004
Abstract
Collection consists of 1708 stereocards depicting scenes from all over the world.
Dates:
1874 - 1950
Herbert J. Taylor Jr. Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2652
Overview
Correspondence between Major Herbert J. Taylor, Jr. (Battery 13, 136th Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Forces) and his wife, Roberta Dorsey Taylor of Columbus, Ohio, from 1917 to 1920.
Dates:
1917-1920
Thomas Wade Herren Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4154
Overview
Papers, correspondence, and photographs documenting the life and military career of Lieutenant General Thomas W. Herren of Dadeville, Alabama
Dates:
1942-1985
Jim Hollingsworth Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4195
Overview
Papers concerning WWI military disability claims
Dates:
1918-1956
Hughes family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3748
Overview
Letters written by brothers Arley and Eli Hughes while serving in the Army during World War I and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artifacts of this large, rural Alabama family.
Dates:
1885-1919
Huston Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0724
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other materials created by the Huston family in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, and extended family in Mobile, Alabama. Most materials center around George Waring Huston, who was killed in World War One.
Dates:
1831-1937
J. Alfred Swatkins Sketchbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3911
Overview
Four bound sketchbooks filled with drawings by Swatkins, a World War I era permit book, issued in England to John Alfred Swatkins, and a letter from noted British author Marie Corelli in Stratford-on-Avon, to Swatkins, complimenting his work and inquiring if it was ever used in the London press or by publishers.
Dates:
1912-1947
Joseph Wilbourn Young letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1596
Abstract
A collection of letters home from Europe, during and immediately after World War I.
Dates:
1918 - 1919
Lillian Cunningham and Daphne Cunningham Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2691
Overview
A collection of love letters and friendly correspondence from Alabama and Mississippi, addressed to Lillian Cunningham of Tuscaloosa, with the bulk of the contents originating in the latter part of the 1910s. There is also a small series of older sister Daphne Cunningham's correspondence.
Dates:
1907 - 1967; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1920
Paoli Ashe Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1294
Abstract
This collection consists mainly of personal correspondence from this jorunalist and Greensboro, Alabama, native to his mother during World War I, letters received from several of his cousins, financial and legal papers, and photographs. It also contains materials relating to other members of his family.
Dates:
1882-1970
Roland Lee Adams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0011
Abstract
This collection includes documents related to the army service of this York, Alabama, native; an essay; a biographical sketch; and three miscellaneous letters.
Dates:
1891- circa 1919
Roy C. Corbell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0358
Overview
Miscellaneous financial documents and copy of General Order No. 38-A, American Expeditionary Forces, February 28, 1919 (letter from General John J. Pershing to soldiers at the end of World War I).
Dates:
1919-1952
Roy C. Corbell Photograph
Collection
Identifier: 2009-201
Overview
The collection consists of one photograph of R.C. Corbell of Bidford, Alabama, in World War I soldiers' uniform.
Dates:
1919
Schaudies-Banks-Ragland Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2014-021
Scope and Contents
Thirty seven framed photographs of African Americans in military uniforms, Border War, WWI, and WWII including portraits of Duncan Fields and Rubin Fields; portraits of women and families; large plaque with two photos of military men (Willie L. E. Means and James E. Means, date of their enlistment in the army).
Dates:
1898 - 1959
Shelby Iron Company Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1261
Abstract
Contains records of the Shelby Iron Company from 1862 to 1930, including correspondence, directors' minutes, stockholder records, manufacturing records (charcoal reports, stable reports, mining, time books, payrolls by department), commissary records, grist mill toll books, furnace record books, and many other records. It also includes records of a subsidiary, Shelby Manufacturing and Improvement Company, 1890-1923. The virtually complete set of manufacturing records also parallels the birth...
Dates:
1862-1930
Roy and Sara Swindell Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2926
Overview
Letters from Roy Swindell and Sara Swindell to their family, who lived in Chattanooga, and later Nashville, Tennessee. The letters discuss missing home, traveling for work, and Bible verses. One letter is from Sara to their son James, an officer in the armed services during World War II.
Dates:
1918-1935
Victor Hugo Friedman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0545
Overview
Personal and official correspondence, photographs of a camp in the Alps, lieutenant's commission, Croce al Merito di Guerra, and various items issued by the military to this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, native.
Dates:
1918
Wade Hall Collection of World War I Materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4251
Overview
Letters and documents to and from American World War I soldiers and their families
Dates:
1908-1978
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.006: [1006241503]
Identifier: 2009-032
Abstract
This collection of 208 black and white photographs depicting unidentified people playing in a snow, on the beach, in the garden, and World War I soldiers.
Dates:
1910 - 1920
Wade Hall World War I photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-034
Abstract
This collection consists of 534 photographs from World War I, a drawing, and a short narrative.
Dates:
1914 - 1918
Walter Bryan Jones photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2011-004
Overview
Includes personal and family photographs, as well as photographs taken in association with Jones' professional endeavors as state geologist of Alabama and during his military service in World War I and World War II.
Dates:
1915 - 1950; 1890 - 1973
Annie Early Wheeler scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2890
Overview
Extensive scrapbook concerning the life and home of Annie Wheeler, daughter of "Fighting" Joe Wheeler.
Dates:
1950
William Crawford Gorgas Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0581
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, writings, and other material of this Alabama native who eradicated yellow fever from the Panama Canal Zone and served as Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
Dates:
1869-1920
William March Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0266
Abstract
Correspondence, literary papers, clippings, criticism, photos, and memorabilia of this author.
Dates:
1897 - 1980
Willie T. White papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1548
Abstract
Contains correspondence, photographs, financial records, and other materials, the majority of which are related to Willie T. White, who resided in Rockford, Birmingham, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1860-1970
World War I Military Unit Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4087
Overview
Photographs of military units in camps in the United States
Dates:
1917-1918
World War I photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2468
Overview
Three photographs of World War I era soldiers
Dates:
circa 1917-1919
World War I Posters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4200
Overview
A variety of American World War I propaganda posters
Dates:
circa 1917 - 1918