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World War (1914-1918)

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Cipher Material brought from WWI by Graham, 1916 - 1918

 File — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000005220], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

This file consists of mostly German cipher material.

Dates: 1916 - 1918

Correspondence 1910-1919

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 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: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

Letters to John from his Father, 1916 - 1918

 File — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000005223], Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Letter to John from his father about news in Lexington.

Dates: 1916 - 1918

Maps

 Item — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000007002], Folder: 28
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

McClung Family

 File — Box 6, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

This folder contains handwritten notes on the family of Julian and Nora McClung, family photos, a notice of military selection, enlistment record, and discharge papers for Julian McClung in World War I.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1700 - 1960

Medical Detachment Ledger, 317th Infantry

 Item — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000007001], Folder: 27
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

Miniature Hamlet

 Item — Box 8: [Barcode: 0000006065], Folder: 39
Scope and Contents

Miniature Hamlet which Hart carried with him during WWI

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

Miscellaneous

 Item — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000007003], Folder: 29
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous WWI material including uniform patches, a pamphlet for the Washington and Lee Victory Alumni Reunion, a small American Flag, a photograph of soldiers, a blank Liberty Loan Bond, a song sheet, inventory and personnel documents, personal items, and a graphic guide to identifying military insignia.

Also included is an enveloped color brochure, "Flags of Our Country, National, State, Historic," published in 1962.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

Miscellaneous

 Item — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000007004], Folder: 30
Scope and Contents

Roster and other beaureaucratic documents, a song lyric sheet, a description of meals for several days, and a publication titled Bulletin.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

Newspaper Clippings

 File — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000006056], Folder: 31
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings related to WWI, including local Rockbridge County citizens' experiences, full pages from The New York Herald, the Stars and Stripes, The Bayonet, The News, and The Evening World.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

Notebooks

 Item — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000006057], Folder: 32
Scope and Contents

Several of Hart's notebooks from during WWI.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

Pamphlets

 Item — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000006058], Folder: 33
Scope and Contents Pamphlets from during WWI, including a book of postcards of Loire Valley castles, a booklet on how to use a device used in the military, a pamphlet advertising WWI war bonds, a service song book, a booklet of prayers issued by the YMCA, a booklet in French titled Evangeline selon S. Marc: La Moisson Près de Bethanie, an Anglo-French phrase book, an active service French book, a booklet of appreciaton for WWI soldiers, a booklet of postcards called Les Américains en France, a pamphlet of...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

Postcards

 Item — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000006060], Folder: 34
Scope and Contents

Postcards that are military issued and from different areas of France.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

The War Years - Official Papers, 1914 - 1919

 File — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000005221], Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

This file consists of official documents, such as merandums, official business letters, and reciepts, from John Aleander Graham's war years.

Dates: 1914 - 1919

Unidentified Photographs, 1875 - 1925

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000007740], Folder: 22
Scope and Contents

This folder contains unidentified pictures of the Shields family including a portrait of a soldier from the first World War.

Dates: 1875 - 1925

Victory Finals, 1919-06

 File
Scope and Contents

This booklet contains the schedule of end of year events, which were held to celebrate and commemorate the Washington and Lee students who fought in World War I. Events included several dances, a meeting of the Washington Literary Society, the performance of a band, and commencement. It also contains photographs of Washington and Lee's campus.

Dates: 1919-06

War Memorabilia, 1914 - 1918

 File — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000005222], Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

This file consists of programs of Independence Day and Thanksgiving services, a theatre progam, a photograph, and Graham's certificate of identification.

Dates: 1914 - 1918

W&L Memorabilia

 Item — Box 8: [Barcode: 0000006062], Folder: 38
Scope and Contents

Contains materials regarding the bicentennial celebration at W&L, a reunion book for the class of 1912, and a Ring Tum Phi article from WWI about students including Hart leaving for war

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

World War I Material

 File — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000006040], Folder: 27-34
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965