World War, 1914-1918
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 141 Collections and/or Records:
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
Paul Breitmeir papers
Collection
Identifier: S0161
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of letters from John F. Jones in Charlotte, Virginia and Brooklyn, New York; Speed in Bloomington, Indiana; Tom at Camp G.L.; D.F. Moore at Camp Taylor, Kentucky; Paul in Bloomington, Indiana; Thomas V. Dewey in France; Paula in Bloomington, Indiana; Paula in Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana; and Ira D. Funkhouser in La Crosse, Indiana ranging from 1917 to 1918 (and one letter undated) regarding life in camp, being drafted, military and language...
Dates:
1917-1918
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Paul Breitmeir papers
"Pictures of Scenes and Activities in Indiana connected with the World War" photograph album
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: P044
Scope and Contents Note
This collection includes panoramic photographs in a photogrpah album by: Moorefield, Bretzman, W. L. Dalbey Photography Company, Wallace, Pierce, Bass Photography Company, and William A. Swift. Photographs include the following subjects: Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, 1st Contingent in front of the Vocational Training Detachment National Army Headquarters; Soldiers at Fort Benjamin Harrison, entertained by Catholic women of Indianapolis at the Knights of Columbus Club House.;...
Dates:
1917-1919
"Pictures of Welcome Home Day in Indianapolis after the World War" photograph album
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: P067
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photograph album of photographs taken in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana on May 7, 1919 depicting the Welcome Home Day celebration and parade to Monument Circle featuring marching troops, Red Cross workers, crowds, and school children after the end of World War I.
Dates:
1919/05/07
Porter-Griffin family papers
Collection
Identifier: L535
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises correspondence, papers, accounts, school and organizational papers, pamphlets, periodicals, publications, broadsides, ephemera, and business records from the Porter and Griffin families, as well as their business enterprises, in Corydon, Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1813 to 1983, regarding their lives and businesses, as well as related family and friends, and the history of Harrison County and Indiana. The collection is organized in eight...
Dates:
1813-1983
Purdue University, Students' Army Training Corps panoramic photographs
Collection — Folder OBF025
Identifier: OBF025
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises 3 black-and-white panoramic photographs taken by O. L. Foster, likely in Lafayette, Indiana, of the Purdue Training Detachment on June 8, 1918; and of the headquarters staff of the Purdue University Students' Army Training Corps and the 3rd Truckmaster School on November 26, 1918.
Dates:
1918
