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War work

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Raymond Millholland collection

 Collection
Identifier: L460
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, manuscripts, and copies of the published articles and short stories from Raymond “Ray” Millholland in Indiana, ranging from circa 1912 to 1971. The collection includes letters exchanged between Ray and Sara Milholland and their sons Robert and James while the sons served in the U.S. Army Air Forces and Navy during World War II (1942-1945); two sets of transcriptions of the letters written by Arthur “Mac” Millholland;...
Dates: circa 1912-1971
Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Raymond Millholland collection

Robert Cummings family collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2492
Scope and Contents This collection includes photostats of correspondence, account books, and other papers from the Cummings family in Cannelton, Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1857 to 1932 regarding the accounting records of the Torrent Fire Company of Cannelton, Indiana; family and military life during the U.S. Civil War; and fundraising efforts of the Young Men's Christian Association during World War I.
Dates: 1857-1932
Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Robert Cummings family collection

Stenotype Company photograph collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SP028
Scope and Contents This collection includes photographs from the Stenograph Company in Indianapolis, Indiana, ranging from circa 1913 to 1919, regarding the company's workers, equipment, and factory in Mars Hill, workers engaged in munitions manufacturing during World War I, residential homes on a street, and a banquet hosted by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce for transportation commissions on October 16, 1919.Eight panoramic and one oversize photographs from the collection are located in an...
Dates: circa 1913-1919
Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Stenotype Company photograph collection

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 French war orphan photographs

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, Indiana War Records, Colored Section documents

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