Scope and content Album consisting mainly of photographs taken by then Lieutenant Helen M. Holcomb; contents include 494 of her photographs, 25 commercially printed photographs, 96 postcards, and an additional 18 photos and some ephemera laid in. Photographs document the entire period of Holcomb's Army training and service, including shots of Omaha Beach, the hospital at Bolleville, candid shots of nurses washing their hair and clothes using helmets as basins, daily life for residents and soldiers in France...

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...