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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 Two diaries of Andrew Baker of West Dryden, New York, 1871-79, with comments on the local Methodist church and agricultural meetings in Ithaca, New York; a few personal letters; minutes and bylaws from a meeting held in 1874 to organize a chapter of the Y.M.C.A.; minutes of a Farmers Institute meeting in Ithaca, 1878; photographs, bills, and inventories. Also, items collected by Andrew Alvord Baker while serving with a Cornell University contingent of the American Ambulance Field Service in...

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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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His letters describe his training, life in the trenches, and battles in vivid detail.

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Scrapbook with programs, clippings, photographs, brochures, dance cards, and other memorabilia documenting his student experience at Cornell and his experiences in France during World War I, with a few items from Elmira, N.Y. Also, a door stop in the shape of a toy soldier, used at Cornell.

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Daily report in different hands recording attendance, supplies, assignments and duties of a French army unit, March 10-May 8, 1917.

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Letters and postcards to relatives, mostly while on duty in France during World War I.

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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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Correspondence, French notes, department exams and French exercises; newspaper clippings and other printed material and two letters from Andrew Dickson White about birthday celebration and military training at Cornell. Also includes clippings about France during World War I, French Communist party posters, clippings on Guerlac's trip to America, a collection of autographs and lantern slides of Guerlac's trip to the Klondike.

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Typescript description of the work done by the Cornell Bureau on behalf of alumni serving in France during World War I.