World War (1914-1918)
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Brown Family Photo Collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-PP-0167
Scope and Contents
The Brown Family Photo Collection ranges in date from 1875 to about 1960. The collection includes studio portraits and outdoor imagery of the Brown family, friends and acquaintances, groups and outdoor scenery from in and around the Lexington, Collierstown, Murat, North Buffalo, and Oxford Presbyterian Church communities in Rockbridge County. One of the highlights of the collection is Coray Swink Brown's photo album which includes images from his time as a student at Washington and Lee...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1910 - 1970
Cipher Material brought from WWI by Graham, 1916 - 1918
File — Box 7: [0000005220], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
This file consists of mostly German cipher material.
Dates:
1916 - 1918
Correspondence 1910-1919
Item — Box 1: [0000006041], Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence with Henry St. George Tucker regarding the maintenance of Lexington, Virginia's Col Alto estate, where Hart was residing prior to World War I. Also contains correspondane concerning WWI, including notices of military protocol. The U.S.S. Mongolia and 317th Infantry at Sea, and the medical detachment of which Hart was a part, are topics of interest.
Dates:
1910 - 1965
Dale L. Walker Research Collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0334
Scope and Contents
The series contains primary and secondary resources on the Rockwell brothers, Paul Ayres and Kiffin Yates, and World War I aviation history utilized by author and historian Dale L. Walker in his research. Walker has written, among others, Only the Clouds Remain: Ted Parsons of the Lafayette Escadrille, Amsterdam, NY: Alandale Press, 1980.
Dates:
1914 - 1985
G. Raymond Womeldorf Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0530
Scope and Contents
George (G.) Raymond Womeldorf was born in Lexington, Virginia in 1893 and raised on the family farm near east Lexington (Va.). He attended Washington and Lee University, graduating in 1917. During that year Womeldorf volunteered to join Washington and Lee University's ambulance unit, which would become U.S. Army Ambulance Service Section 534 and serve with distinction in France. During his deployment, Womeldorf was wounded in the right leg and gassed. He subsequently lost the leg just above the...
Dates:
1917-1919
John Alexander Graham Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0307
Scope and Contents
This collection includes Graham's compositions, World War I papers and correspondence, memorabilia of Washington and Lee University activities, scores, sheet music, notebooks, and other correspondence.
Dates:
Inclusive 1910-1947; Majority of material found within Bulk 1915-1947
John H. Tucker Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0008
Dates:
1903-1981
Found in:
Wilbur C. Hall Law Library
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John H. Tucker Papers
Letters to John from his Father, 1916 - 1918
File — Box 7: [0000005223], Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Letter to John from his father about news in Lexington.
Dates:
1916 - 1918
Maps
Item — Box 7: [0000007002], Folder: 28
Washington and Lee Special Collections and Archives
204 West Washington Street
Leyburn Library
Lexington, VA 24450
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