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Works Progress Administration records
Collection
Identifier: L343
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed surveys from Works Progress Administration in 1942 regarding defense capabilities of local and county clubs, timekeeping, and division of service projects including programs for libraries, museums, welfare, recreation, and more.
Dates:
1939-1942
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Works Progress Administration soil erosion index
Collection — Volume: V255
Identifier: V255
Dates:
circa 1940s
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Works Project Administration (WPA), Indiana State Library projects volume
Collection
Identifier: V472
Dates:
1940/05
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
World War I collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1535
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a variety of items from World War I ranging from 1917 to 1919 and includes typewritten copies of letters sent to Oscar and Rosa Watkins of Indianapolis, Indiana from their son Osric while he served with the 94th Aero Squadron in France; two letters sent to Miss Ida Anderson of the Indianapolis News from Marie M. Burke, a nurse from Vincennes, Indiana who was serving with the Roosevelt Base Hospital Unit No. 15 in France; a letter and the...
Dates:
1917-1919, 1940
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
World War I French war orphan photographs
Collection — Folder: SP130
Identifier: SP130
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 3 black-and-white photographs of French war orphans assisted by war work in Indiana during World War II with handwritten notes of gratitude to their benefactors in French and English. One photograph likely taken in Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France shows an 8-year old child named Pierre Mordrel in 1917, which has a note on the back that reads, "Souvenir affectueux de Pierre Mordrel à son aimable bienfaifrice Mrs. Lucius B. Swift." The other photographs show young men who...
Dates:
1917-circa 1930
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
World War I German antiwar propaganda flyer
Collection — Folder: S3217
Identifier: S3217
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one printed, World War I propaganda flyer from Germany, found in the German trenches after the taking of Apremont, circa September-November 1918, which asks German soldiers to stop fighting for the benefit of the country and its people, both soldier and civilian, because Germany was sure to lose the war and the soldiers' manpower would be desperately needed in the rebuilding efforts.
Dates:
1918
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
World War I "Illustrative Review" dummy copy
Collection — Folder: S3379
Identifier: S3379
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a dummy copy of an "Illustrative Review" of World War I published by the American Publishing Company of New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1914. It contains primarily photographs of soldiers.
Dates:
circa 1914
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
World War I, Indiana War Records, Colored Section documents
Collection — Folder: S0730
Identifier: S0730
Scope and Contents
This collection, authored by Elder Watson Diggs, includes data bearing upon the part in which colored citizens of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana took in World War I ranging from 1917 to 1919.
Dates:
1917-1919
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
World War I war work and leisure lantern slides
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: P025
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 72 glass lantern slides ranging from circa 1917 to 1918. The slides depict the efforts of various American service organizations to entertain soldiers and sailors, both in the United States and overseas in Europe, during World War I. Organizations include the YMCA, Knights of Columbus, Jewish Welfare Board, American Library Association, and Salvation Army. All but slide numbers 71 and 72 were produced by the Novelty Slide Company, 209 West 48th Street,...
Dates:
circa 1917-1918
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
World War II clippings scrapbooks
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: L706
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 24 scapbooks with newspaper clippings recording Indiana-related events and people involved with World War II during 1941-1945.
Dates:
1941-1945
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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