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World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, American.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Bessie C. Stern and Jeanette Amalie Stern letters : from Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Leaming Forman

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065230900]
Identifier: 37-5-1421
Scope and content

Correspondence between the Stern sisters and the Formans includes topics such as Dr. Forman's opinions concerning American involvement in World War II; the Formans' travels in Central and South America, Europe, Egypt, and the West Indies; Dr. Forman's election to the city council in Ithaca, New York; and other subjects.

Dates: 1906-1933.

Gillette family papers

 Collection — Mapcase item 1
Identifier: 4456
Abstract

Letters and scrapbooks documenting the lives of Edwin S. and Flora Spence Gillette.

Dates: 1876-1922.

Inga Lohne Brauner papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3985
Abstract

Photographs, postcards, souvenir picture folios, and other family items.

Dates: 1909-1966.

Irish family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064926276]
Identifier: 4453
Scope and content

Correspondence and reports concerning the death of Lt. Eugene J. Irish and the disposition of his body. Also, notebook of Lt. Irish, Jan. 14, 1918-March 21, 1918.

Dates: 1918-1919.

J. A. Kohm photographs

 Collection — Manuscript box 48 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113434991]
Identifier: 37-5-4034
Scope and content

Four photographs of a group of students (?)/parade crossing the Central Avenue bridge and assembling in downtown Ithaca, probably 1917 after the U.S. entered World War I.

Dates: 1917.

Jacob Mertens papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088357599]
Identifier: 6550
Scope and content

Letters written home by Jack Mertens, while serving in France to his family, with accompanying documents.

Dates: 1916-1926.

Records of World War I military service

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064935806]
Identifier: 21-3-1838
Scope and content

Records of military service of former New York State College of Agriculture students in World War I.

Dates: 1914-1919.

United States Army School of Military Aeronautics at Cornell University records

 Collection
Identifier: 33-2-110
Abstract Correspondence, financial reports, curricula, inventories, photographs, weekly reports, lists of students, subject files, and other records of the School at Cornell University. Includes registrar cards for students. Photographs include composites, Cornell University cadets during training maneuvers held at Enfield Glen, Tompkins County, New York. Includes a picture of Ray June of Ithaca, New York wearing a World War I uniform. Also, a glass plate positive of an aerial view of a stadium,...
Dates: 1917-1919.

World Wars I and II photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 3457
Scope and content World Wars I and II photographs, dated and labeled in French, document a wide range of activities—from battlefronts and war camps to diplomatic visits and civilian life in both wars. Series I. World War I (1914-1921) features images of Belgian and French soldiers and civilians, Japanese forces in Nice, several photographs of war camps and battlefronts, the German army, civilians, and Allied Forces in Germany, as well as British refugees in Russia (1918), and photographs from the US and...
Dates: [ca.1914-1945],-[ca.1914-1921] and [1939-1945] (bulk).