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Letter to Mrs. Howard E. (Hilda) Babcock from Dimijian focus on his activities during the first World War, including information on army camp, military training, personal problems, his experiences with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, the city of Tours, Jacob Gould Schurman's visit to the front (August 27, 1918), Dimijian's membership on the Allied War Claims Commission (1919), and his return to the United States. Also, one photograph of Dimijian.

Scope and content Business and family papers of Clarence Beverly Davison, Millbrook, Dutchess County, New York. Business papers include materials relating to the Petroleum Investment Company, investments, securities, and tax records. Also, business records of the Millbrook Pheasant Farm, 1929-1954 and three silent films on the subject of pheasant hunting. Family papers include wills; genealogical materials; photograph negative albums; address book; land maps; photographs; diaries; and material concerning...

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Forty-four letters from C.R. Gross to members of his family concerning his service with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I and afterward with the army of occupation in Luxembourg. Also included are newspapers, monographs on agricultural chemistry, postcards, and other printed items.

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Miscellaneous army papers relating to Bowers' service as a map draftsman with the American Expeditionary Forces in Germany, including 23 military and general maps.

Scope and content Student scrapbook, 1910-1914; student diaries, 1912-1913 (2 volumes) describing his academic and social life and some notes about current events, including the Titanic, national elections, and the Lusitania ; diary kept by Babcock from May 31 to Christmas 1918 while he served with the American Expeditionary Force in France, includes note of meeting with U.S. ace Eddie Rickenbacker, description of carnage in and around Verdun; photographs of Howard Babcock, the Cornell Law School Class of...

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Scrapbooks chiefly concern Letsche's service as an American Expeditionary Force officer in World War I; included are letters to his family from training camps in Georgia and Tennessee and from France; postcards, pictures, maps, military orders, commissions, citations, and other items pertaining to his active duty; newspaper clippings and personal items from the postwar period; and a copy of the history of the 326th Regiment.

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Pilot's Book documenting training exercises; "Military Sketching and Map Reading," by Captain John B. Barnes, New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1917; 2 Officer's Record Books; and American Expeditionary Forces Identiy/Pilot's Card.

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Letters mainly written to his mother and sister describe Logsdon's experience preparing for war and the conditions upon arriving in France. He mentions living at the 15th century castle Countess d'Cadillac's Chateau, discusses transportation, food, the Spanish influenza, pay, stocks his family is invested in, and his fellow colleagues amongst other subjects. Also included are typed transcripts of the letters in physical and electronic format.

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Letters written by William D. Warren while serving in France with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I to his father, sister, and grandmother. Also, "An Imperfect Genealogy: Tates, Hastings, Warrens," compiled by Dorothy Warren Rinaldo, 2005.

Scope and content Government documents presented to the British Parliament, chiefly concerning Allied shipping casualties (including those lost in the sinking of the Lusitania), the treatment of British prisoners of war by the Germans, and the rupture of relations with Turkey. Also, a brochure issued by the Mounted Service School at Fort Riley, Kansas, in 1916, detailing its training methods for cavalrymen and their horses. Maps showing battle lines for various battles, and depicting the European populations...