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World War, 1914-1918

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Caspar A. Schwab Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: SHW
Scope and Content

Newspaper clippings, bulletins, operations locations, and field orders of the First Division; terrain, position, and operations maps from First Division Headquarters, including a boxed set of official maps of the history of the First Division (1919) and some troop position and objective maps of artillery, infantry, and tanks.

Dates: 1917-1919

Dr. George Marshall Oakden Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3820
Abstract

The manuscript diaries of Surgeon Lieutenant George Marshall Oakden, who served in the British Navy from 1914 to 1919, and the letters of his brother, Arthur, who died in the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915.

Dates: 1915-1917

Frederick Kenkel Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: KNA
Scope and Content Correspondence, speeches, reports, and other papers; with material on the Kenkel family, clippings, maps, notebooks, a reel of microfilm containing letters from Kenkel to Joseph Matt (1906-1913), photographs of Kenkel and members of his family and books from Kenkel's library. Correspondents include Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, John A. Ryan, Congressman John J. Cochran, and Brother Joseph Dutton. Extensive family correspondence includes letters from those serving in World War...
Dates: 1871-1952.

Julia P. Brown Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3825
Abstract

A collection of letters addressed to Julia Pomeroy Brown from three women: Constance L., Emily Drummond, and Elizabeth Spooner. Letters detail life during WWI, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the death of a British soldier.

Dates: 1914-1918

Jutta Schütt Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3826
Abstract

A series of documents and letters from Jutta Schütt, Rose Elvira Grandinetti, Nicholas Emerson Dante Russo, and others, beginning in July 1916 and ending in July 1939.

Dates: 1916 - 1939

Le Rossignol Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3821
Abstract

A collection of personal letters written by Arthur Le Rossignol to his sister, Ethel, while he served in the British Motor Machine Gun Corps on the Western Front during World War I. Also included are letters written by Ethel, her colleague Pierre Pulinekse, and others.

Dates: 1914-1919

S.L. Kelsall Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3827
Scope and Contents

A letter written by British soldier S.L. Kelsall to his sister detailing his participation in WWI in September 1918. He describes the hygenic conditions of the Western Front and a battle against German forces.

Dates: 1918

The Silver Bullet; Or the Road to Berlin Board Game

 Collection — MSSP Game CC-0001
Identifier: MSSP 10091
Scope and Contents British-made patriotic manual dexterity marble maze board game depicting the beginning of World War One and charting an imagined British and Allied military campaign to capture Berlin, the German capital . The object of the game is to maneuver a small metal ball around a recessed playing board and avoid holes distributed around the course. Players win the game by navigating the ball around the course to “Berlin” at the top of the board. The start of the course is labeled “To Berlin” with an...
Dates: c. 1914

Trench Football Board Game

 Collection — MSSP Game CC-0001
Identifier: MSSP 10092
Scope and Contents British-made patriotic manual dexterity marble maze board game simulating trench warfare on the western front in World War One. The object of the game is to maneuver a small metal ball around a recessed playing board and avoid holes distributed around the course. Players win the game by navigating the ball around the course and into the goal which is guarded by a larger hole. Most of the holes on the course are accompanied by caricatures of German military commanders: “Little Willie”...
Dates: c. 1915