World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Dillon family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 429
Scope and content
John L. Dillon papers include account books, receipts, bills, and correspondence of a coal business and a produce business variously known as Dillon & Larmon and Dillon & Associates. Also, accounts of the coal, flour, feed, fertilizer, and seed business operated by Dillon and his son, E. Gordon Dillon (d. 1960), and correspondence, receipts, inventories, and other papers pertaining to the family business and to their investments in securities, much of the latter with August Belmont...
Dates:
1873-1954.
Donald Hammond letters
Collection — Manuscript box 69 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924078882622]
Identifier: 6391
Scope and content
His letters describe his training, life in the trenches, and battles in vivid detail.
Dates:
1914-1915.
Ford Madox Ford collection
Collection
Identifier: 4605
Abstract
Correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, broadsides, bound manuscripts, photographs, and clippings, mainly spanning the period from the maturity of Ford's grandfather, Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown, to the death of Ford himself. Material from Ford's career ranges from unpublished novels and short stories of the 1890's and early 1900's to journal articles, literary reviews, lectures, addresses, and radio talks he wrote or delivered in the last 20 years of his life, including...
Dates:
1850 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1939
George Mead Palmer letters
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937158]
Identifier: 1665
Scope and content
Letters and postcards to relatives, mostly while on duty in France during World War I.
Dates:
1911-1919.
Harry S. Truman papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4655
Scope and content
Letters, clippings, photographs, slides, film reels, television scripts, and sound recordings by, to, or about Harry S. Truman, focussing on his experiences as an artillery captain in World War I and his years as President. Letters, chiefly between Truman and Arthur W. Wilson, include a substantial letter Truman wrote from Verdun in January 1919, detailing his artillery unit's movements and experiences in combat in the fall of 1918. Subsequent letters are mainly social in nature, but include...
Dates:
1918-1981.
Howe family papers
Collection
Identifier: 6373
Abstract
Correspondence from Almon A. Jaynes to Grace Howe. WWI letters to Grace Howe from a number of soldiers. Twenty-six daily diaries of Grace Howe, 1905-1935. Photographs of Grace Howe, her sister Josephine Howe, A. A. Jaynes, among others.
Dates:
1861-1935.
Wyndham Lewis Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4612
Abstract
Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, printed material, graphics, and bound manuscripts by, to, or about Wyndham Lewis, covering all aspects of his career and life. Includes one of two known proof copies of his novel The Roaring Queen, which was withdrawn before publication; unpublished novels, short stories, essays, and notebooks; and manuscripts and notes for several of Lewis's published books. Also included are diaries of Lewis's wife, G. Anne Hoskyns Lewis, from 1953-1967, and Civil...
Dates:
1877-1975.