World War, 1914-1918
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 132 Collections and/or Records:
Mrs. K. L. McGill collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0885
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a card from various periods in U.S. history. The earliest document in the collection is dated 1812, and the latest item in 1951. The collection contains Civil War correspondence with Colonel Benjamin Harrison, as well as letter from World War I hero, Sergeant Samuel Woodfill.
The oversize folder contains military orders for the 20th Indiana regiment ranging from 1861 to 1864 (OB093).
The oversize folder contains military orders for the 20th Indiana regiment ranging from 1861 to 1864 (OB093).
Dates:
1812-1951
Mrs. Mary Lasecki letters
Collection — Folder S0806
Identifier: S0806
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 2 handwritten letters sent by Mrs. Mary Lasecki to Roger Bryant Francis, director of the South Bend Public Library, on January 19, 1966 and February 1, 1966. Her letters relate her childhood memories of South Bend and some brief memories of World War I. Mrs. Lasecki wrote the letters in response to the article, "Hunts Hoosier History in Personalities," that appeared in The South Bend Tribune on January 16, 1966.
Dates:
1966
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Mrs. Mary Lasecki letters
Myron R. Bone collection
Collection — Folder S2488
Identifier: S2488
Scope and Contents
The collection includes three pages from a Purdue University alumni newsletter from Indiana in 1918 regarding interesting accomplishments from alumni. There is also a note from 1974 about Myron R. Bone's life and his family's whereabouts.
Dates:
1918, 1974
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Myron R. Bone collection
Norman B. Nash, World War I deaths and burials record book
Collection — Folder S1007
Identifier: S1007
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a bound volume of Rev. Norman B. Nash's record book of the deaths and burials of the 150th Field Artillery, 42nd Division of the American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F) while in France and Germany during World War I (1918-1919). Included in the volume are the colonel's message for Hero Day (Sept. 1918); fatality statistics; a listing of names by company and battery with cause of death; listing of names by rank with full details of death and burial location; and original...
Dates:
1918-1919
Norman L. Welch collection
Collection — Folder S2298
Identifier: S2298
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a copy of Flying Colors, the September 1939 monthly publication of Co. 774, Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) of Palmyra, Missouri; a September 30, 1939 letter from the headquarters of Co. 774 regarding his approved discharge if accepted into the Navy; December 1939 correspondence from the Recruiting Sub-Station at Quincy, Illinois and the Recruiting Station at St. Louis, Missouri regarding Norman Leo Welch's enlistment in the U.S....
Dates:
1919-1940
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Norman L. Welch collection
Northport, Long Island World War I airplane photographs
Collection — Folder SP175
Identifier: SP175
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 6 black-and-white photographs taken at or near Northport on Long Island, New York on August 3, 1918 and circa 1918 depicting airplanes, military pilots, and other personnel during World War I. The photographs belonged to an unidentified soldier, probably a pilot stationed at Brindley Field in Commack based on the descriptions he wrote on the back of the photographs.The photographs were originally arranged in a frame that once hung on a wall before it was...
Dates:
1918/08/03, undated
Oral history and audio collection
Collection
Identifier: L640
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises the breadth of the oral history collection at the Indiana State Library, ranging from circa 1904 to 2019. The bulk of the collection contains oral histories created during the ISL Oral History Project during the 1960s-1980s and recordings of events, meetings, recitations, and radio interviews created and acquired by library staff during that period. The remainder are oral histories created by various outside institutions and organizations, such as universities, public...
Dates:
circa 1904-2019
Orval Ferguson collection
Collection — Folder S2311
Identifier: S2311
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of news clippings and letters from Corporal Orval Ferguson to his sister, Emma Shepard, ranging from 1917 to 1930, while he was stationed in Europe during World War I. Ferguson's obituary is also included.
Dates:
1917-1930
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Orval Ferguson collection
Otis E. Brown Veterans Post No. 2 collection
Collection — Folder S2342
Identifier: S2342
Scope and Contents
This collection includes nine items, including certificates, fliers, charters, forms and letters, from 1919-1930, regarding the 1919 chartering of the Otis E. Brown Post No. 2, by the National Council of World War Veterans.
Dates:
1919-1930
Parke County, Indiana World War I soldiers photograph album
Collection — Folder SP158
Identifier: SP158
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photograph album compiled by the Indiana Historical Commission with images from Parke County, Indiana ranging from August to December 1918, regarding groups of men from the county, often wearing badges or armbands, who enlisted in the U.S. armed forces or the local guard during World War I. The men in the photographs are unidentified and most of them were taken on the steps of the Parke County Courthouse in Rockville. There is one photograph with four African-American...
Dates:
1918 April-December
