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National WWI Museum and Memorial 2017 Accessions Report

January 1 to December 31, 2017 Doran Cart, Senior Curator Jonathan Casey, Archivist and Edward Jones Research Center Manager Stacie Petersen, Registrar

2017.1 – Steve Ashe, Overland Park, KS: Presentation box and champagne bottle (unopened) for the Last Man’s Club, Irwin Kirkwood

Post, American Legion; founded February 1, 1937; wooden box has brass label on the interior of the lid which holds the names of the members of the club, led by Orvan M. Ashe; champagne bottle has label for Taylor Vineyards, New York (founded 1890)

Not accessioned but kept in reference file: membership cards, tourist booklet from Ireland, documents from the Last Man’s Club

2017.2 - Karen Irvine Lewis, Arlington, VA: From the volunteer ambulance service of Pvt. Frank Sterrett Irvine from Charlottesville, VA:

Painting, marked for SSU 649 (French Ambulance Section under the American Field Service); scene of eagle landing on the globe; place names on the painting: Cantigny, Soissons, Argonne, St. Mihiel, Paris; signed by J E Hutchins.

2017.3 – Tom Kirk, Wichita, KS: From the service of Lieutenant Andrew Tom Kirk, 139th Infantry, 35th Division, AEF; killed in

action September 29, 1918, Meuse Argonne:

Pistol, U.S. Colt M1911; .45 caliber; made by Springfield Armory in 1913, one of 5,000 from that production year; serial number 104921; etched on right side: Lt. A. Tom Kirk, 139th Infantry;

Personal and official documents; Legionaire Magazine, September 24, 1924, with article about Lt. Kirk

2017.4 – Lisakay Shively-Vitt, Shawnee, KS: German presentation banner for Comrade Schaff from No. 1 Battery, Field Artillery Regiment

104, Karlsruhe; silk banner with gold colored thread embroidery of lettering, appliqued miniature shoulder board for the 104th Artillery Regiment; reverse has painted scene of German field artillery in action; metal hanging rod;

Medallions (2), German: miniature iron Cross in center of wreath, Imperial German eagle in center of other;

Watch fob, German, metal chain with panels for 1916 Gold for Iron fund-raising campaign for the war effort;

Cap badge, British, for the Royal Air Force, attachment loops missing;

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Shell art, German, letter knife made from a shell projectile fragment; Battlefield relic, German fighting knife; wooden handle gone.

2017.5 – San Antonio Public Library, San Antonio, Texas: Books

• The Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare by Lt. Col. Edward B. Vedder

• The Harvard Volunteers in Europe edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe

• Comrades in Courage by Lt. Antoine Redier

• The Ebb & Flow of Battle by P. J. Campbell

• How Belgium Saved Europe by Charles Sarolea

• Russia The Balkans and The Dardanelles by Granville Fortescue

• The Log of a Non-Combatant by Horace Green

• The Deliberations of the Council of Four vol 2 - (March 24 - June 28, 1919) edited byArthur S. Link

• The Deliberations of the Council of Four vol 1 - (March 24 - June 28, 1919) edited byArthur S. Link

• With the American Ambulance in France by Dr. James R. Judd

• In the Enemy's Country by Joseph Crozier

• Dixmude - Un Chapitre de L'Histoire des Fusiliers Marins by Charles Le Goffic

• Where Do You Stand? An Appeal to Americans of German Origin by Hermann Hagedorn

• A College Man in Khaki - Letters of an American in the British Artillery by WainrightMerrill

• The Fifth Glo'ster Gazette 1915-1919 by Anonymous

• Adventures of a Despatch Rider by Capt. W.H.L. Watson

• Early Economic Effects of the War Upon Canada and Chile by Adam Shortt and L.S. Rowe

• French Industry During the War by Arthur Fontaine

• Problems of the German-American Claims Commission by Wilhelm Kieddelbach

Non-accessioned but will be kept for reference:

• Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne by Sgt. Bourgogne

2017.6 – Robin Churchill, M.D., Sanibel, FL: From the service of Corporal Thamer J. Bell, Battery D, 313th Field Artillery Regiment:

Leg brace, U.S., worn because of a medical procedure which fused his knee due to tuberculosis of his tibia; leather with lace close and metal side pieces

2017.7 – Jean Donahue, Olathe, KS: Sweeping the North Sea Mine Barrage 1919 - North Sea Minesweeping Detachment edited by

Lt. Noel Davis

Not Accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material or to benefit the Museum:

• The Northern Barrage Mine Force - The North Sea 1918 by Anonymous

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• The World War A Pictorial History by H.S. Canfield

2017.8 – Craig Whittington, Kansas City, MO: United States Pacific Fleet postcard booklet

2017.9 – Jim Fortier, Hancock, ME: Miscellaneous photo postcards

• U.S. Navy

• U.S.S. Utah

• Baseball

2017.10 – Jeff Archer, Houston, TX: Austro-Hungarian film footage

2017.11 – David Doss, Allen Park, MI: Miscellaneous Photographs Luxury Tax Exemption Coupons Booklet

2017.12 – Stephen Johnson III, Oberlin, OH:

Miscellaneous Photographs

2017.13 – Shawn Garner, Ash Grove, MO: Photograph – Children/For Our Deliverers

2017.14 – Helena Bland, W. Brookfield, MA: From the service of Private Arthur S. Nelson, 308th Infantry, 77th Division, AEF.

Diary

2017.15 – Le Denniston, Leavenworth, KS: Photographs

• YMCA Canteen Workers

• Portrait Photographs

• Roster for the Secretaries of the National War Work Council of the Young Men’sChristian Association (YMCA) of the U.S. at Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas

2017.16 – Karl D. Gerhard, Fort Lauderdale, FL: From the service of Karl William Gerhard, Company H, 316th Infantry, 79th Division, AEF.

Shoulder sleeve insignia for 79th Division Photographs Postcards

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The Lorraine Cross (Camp Newspaper)

• Volume 1, Number 2: February 13, 1919

• Volume 1, Number 12: April 17, 1919

• Volume 1, Number 13: April 27, 1919Map: The Fighting Line on the Western Front, September 23rd, 1917 Pamphlet: An Appreciation from Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Reading, Pennsylvania Souvenir Folder of Camp Meade, MD Panoramic View Camp Meade, Admiral, Maryland Semaphore Card Sketch by Karl William Gerhard

Not Accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material or to benefit the Museum:

• Songs the Soldiers and Sailors Sing

2017.17 – Jeff Fuglestad, Essex Falls, NJ: Photograph – The Sinking of the Battleship Audacious

2017.18 – Transfer: Victory Boys United War Work Campaign Certificate issued to William Walton

2017.19 – Michael B. Wood, Kansas City, MO: Given in honor of Richard F. Wood, Jr.

The United States Navy in the World War Official Pictures

2017.20 – Betty M. Taylor, Wilmington, DE: From the service of William Waston Taylor, U.S. Navy.

Photographs

• Division 34 Destroyer Force

• USS NevadaHonorable Discharge from the United States Navy War Service Certificate

2017.21 – Betty M. Taylor, Wilmington, DE: From the service of William Waston Taylor, U.S. Navy

Photographs

• Division 34 Destroyer Force

• USS NevadaHonorable Discharge from the United States Navy War Service Certificate

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2017.22 – Robert Sharp, Ft. Worth, TX: From the service of Alexander Sharp, King’s Own Scottish Borderers.

Journal with roster lists that has a piece of shell fragment wedges through half of book Pocketbook with roster lists Soldier’s Pay Book Hand Drawn Trench Map Hand Written Rosters Absentee Report Sick Report Certificate of Discharge Combined Leave and Railway Ticket Portrait Photograph of Alexander Sharp

2017.23 – Richard D. Rees, Overland Park, KS: The National Geographic Magazine

• 1914 Editions (Missing January, February, May, June, October, November andDecember)

• 1915 Editions (Missing March and August)

• 1916 Editions (Full Year)

• 1917 Editions (Missing February, March, May and July)

• 1918 Editions (Full Year)Judge

• July 13, 1918

• July 20, 1918

• July 27, 1918

• August 3, 1918

• August 24, 1918

• August 31, 1918

• September 7, 1918



• October 5, 1918

• October 12, 1918

• October 26, 1918

• November 30, 1918

• December 14, 1918

Editions that duplicate copies already owned by the Museum will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material or to benefit the Museum.

2017.24 – Niel Johnson, Independence, MO: The Literary Digest

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• 1914 Editions (July - December)

• 1915 Editions (July - December)

• 1916 Editions (January - July) Editions that duplicate copies already owned by the Museum will not be accessioned, but

accepted to be used as educational material or to benefit the Museum.

• The Independent: April 26, 1915 2017.25 – Caleb Todd, Kansas City, MO: Allied Cookery 2017.26 – Purchase: Documents archive from Pershing’s headquarters 2017.27 – Robert McCarty, De Soto, KS: History of Medicine in Iowa by D. S. Fairchild 2017.28 – John Armstrong, Omaha, NE: The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution: Reminiscences and Letters of Catherine

Breshkovsky by Catherine Breshkovsky State and Revolution by V. I. Lenin Year One of the Russian Revolution by Victor Serge Politics and Public Health in Revolutionary Russia 1890-1918 by John F. Hutchinson The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin by Alex DeJonge Studies in Contemporary Jewry - The Jews and the European Crisis 1914-21 edited by Jonathan

Frankel November 1916 - The Red Wheel II by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn The Russian Revolutions of 1917 - The Origins of Modern Communism by Leonard Schapiro The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Russian Anti-War Movement 1914-1917 by Michael

Melancon Not Accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material or to benefit the Museum:

From Serf to Russian Soldier by Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter 2017.29 – David J. Parsons, Green Bay, WI: Illustrated Review - 152nd U. S. Infantry by Anonymous 2017.30 – Robert W. Darnell, Olathe, KS: From the service of Leopold Van Den Broeck, Belgian Army. Belgian Service Certificate 2017.31 – Yvonne Skouby, Columbia, MO: From the service of Irvin Leach.

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Postcards

• Romantic

• Illustrated 2017.32 – Nikki Lee, Elkins Park, PA: Military Protection - United States Guards 2017.33 – Bill White, Prairie Village, KS: From the service of Edward R. White Manufacturer’s plate from a water pump on the German U-boat, U 39. The U 39 was of the U

31 submarine type. It was laid down in 1913 and launched on September 26, 1914. The plate designated the manufacturer as Atlas-Werke, a share company, in Bremen, Germany. The boats’ captains in 1917 were Walter Forstmann and Heinrich Metzger. That year, along with a number of Allied ships, the U39 sank two American merchant ships, the Petrolite (June 10) and the Schuylkill (November 21).

Postcard Photograph of the USS Venetia in San Diego, California Extracts from the log of the USS Venetia:

• April 22, 1918

• May 11, 1918

• May 17, 1918

• May 18, 1918 Additional materials will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material or

to benefit the Museum. 2017.34 – Purchase – International Militaria Show of Shows: Russian Osetia regiment, Wild Division Cossack long coat (tcherkessa); Cossak leather belt with silver fittings; Hand-made Russian Anarchist flag with the standard skull and crossbones symbol and the

theme of Against All; Finnish 1917 Bolshevik flag; Imperial German U-boat (Unterseeboot: submarine) sailor’s cap; Serbian enlisted man’s cap; Tunic brown cotton, dated 1916; Czech-Slovak Grouping, 1918 for Petru Yaku bjans Kémir

• Document for the war cross award dated 1918

• Photograph of Petru

• Czech-Slovak service medal with red and white ribbon

• Czech-Slovak Victory Medal

• Czech-Slovak tunic button with raised Czech-Slovak; marked TW & W – Paris Imperial German East African Hat; with cloth Reich Cock on right side; enlisted man’s; size 57;

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U.S. Women’s Navy uniform

• White canvas cap with stenciled mark on Front: Woman’s Navy Recruiting Corps

• Pullover; trousers; black silk scarf Austrian Senior Warrant Officer, 11th Uhlan Regiment helmet for Senior Bugler; Austro-Hungarian regimental bugler’s shako 2017.35 – Robert Firnhaber, Leawood, KS: From the service of Ruth Gardner Schoonover, Army Nurse Corps, Base Hospital 61, AEF: Electric clothes iron which she took to France, US; made by Hotpoint – Edison Electric Appliance

Co.; with trivet; Victory medal, US; with France clasp; US War Department Certificate of Identity; French Work Permit Identity certificate; US Military Meal card for use in transit on return to the states, for 75 cents in New York City; US Red Cross postcard for safe arrival overseas. 2017.36 – Robert and Mary Tisdale, Lincoln, NE: German machine gun, model MG08/15 adapted for aircraft use with interrupter gear

mechanism (partial); serial number 1011; Spandau arsenal 1918 2017.37 – Donald Frye, Naperville, IL: From the service of Sergeant Roy B. Fry, 31st Infantry Regiment, Siberian Expeditionary Force: Steel helmet, U. S., M1917; painted with Siberian Expedition insignia; marked inside rim: Roy B.

Fry, Co. I, 31st Inf., 1919-21 Siberia-Manila; Documents for service of Roy B. Fry. 2017.38 – Chad Davis, Spokane Valley, WA: Flare pistol, French, M1917; marked Hobert, St. Etienne [Arsenal]; 35mm; for Aviation colored

flash signals; san-cast aluminum parts; U.S. Mark I based on this model. 2017.39 – Joseph Zyla, Clinton, NY: From the service of Sergeant S.S. Cohan, Chief Clerk Office of the Chief of Staff, AEF

Headquarters: Official memos, orders; Commendations, passes, promotions for Cohan; photographs; ration coupons; Service coat, US, M1917, GHQ shoulder sleeve insignia, sergeant’s rank insignia, collar disc

insignia; Victory medal Also included but not associated with Cohan: US nurse’s white cap; tag for Helen C. Peiffer;

handwritten on inside: Sara Jenkins to France 1918; pin attached for St. Luke’s and Children’s Medical Center School of Nursing;

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2017.40 – Robert Martsolf, Cincinnati, OH: Scrapbook Not Accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material or to benefit the Museum:

• Post-war materials loose inside scrapbook

• U.S. Official Pictures of the World War

• Collier’s Photographic History of the European War

• Naval Photograph Book

• Life o March 13, 1964 o March 20, 1964 o April 17, 1964

2017.41 – James McDuff, Shawnee, KS: US officers’ collar insignia: Infantry – 22nd Regiment, 22nd Machine Gun, 22nd Chaplain; 12th Regiment commissary, adjutant; 62nd Pioneer Regiment; 165the Disciplinary Barracks. 2017.42 – Bob Lang, Olathe, KS: Church Hymns for the Army of Occupation 2017.43 – Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN: Glass Lantern Slides 2017.44 – John and Molly Brennaman, Port Orange, FL: From the service of Homer John Blowers. Currency Coins Letter – Dated September 18, 1918 Letter written on Japanese rice paper Photographs 2017.45 – James B. Mills, Macomb, MI: From the service of William Elmer Green Souvenir – piece of wood Ruth Law Liberty Bond Flyer Tickets thrown from plane by Ruth Law Diary – 2 Photographs Knights of Columbus War Activities Daily Information Sheets

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Miscellaneous Ephemera Newspapers

• Macoupin County Enquirer: Volume 58, Number 46, November 13, 1918

• Great Falls Daily Tribune: November 11, 1918

Additional materials will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material or to benefit the Museum.

2017.46 – Margaret C. McBride, Akron, OH: From the service of John Wesley Coulter, Ambulance Corps, AEF.

Photo Album

2017.47 – Dawn Urquhart-Watson, Littleton, CO: Letters – Approximately 48

2017.48 – Paul Bouchard, Charlton City, MA: Letters – Approximately 11 Silk Postcard Inscribed Postcards

2017.49 – Mathew D. Smith, Macon, GA: Photographs

2017.50 – John T. Huffman, Shawnee, KS: Photographs

• Portraits were given to donor’s mother and aunt when they worked at the HarveyHouse in Kansas City from about 1918-1922

2017.51 – Mrs. Pierre Guignon, Kansas City, MO: From the service of Emile S. Guignon Jr., 165th Infantry, 42nd Division

Letters Inscribed Postcards Photographs Miscellaneous Ephemera Invitation to screening of The Fighting 69th

2017.52 – Victoria Sprague, Port Washington, NY: From the civilian service of J. Edgar Folk, YMCA

Letters Poems Diary

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Pamphlet: Y.M.C.A. Problems on the Battle Front by Charles H. Grasty Miscellaneous Ephemera 2017.53 – Los Angles Railroad Heritage Foundation, Los Angeles, CA: 2 Unpublished Articles by Ed. F. Browne Handwritten article 2017.54 – John L. Mayer, Farmington, MI: Leslie’s: January 25, 1919 La Vie Parisienne: July 26, 1919 Letters General Orders Number 97 Program: Tankers’ Garden Party 2017.55 – A.J. Powell, Lake Charles, LA: Imperial Russian cavalry sword and scabbard made for dragoons (heavy cavalry) which had a

provision for a bayonet carrier integrated with the scabbard. There are two metal rings with an end cap.

2017.56 – Joseph Lorrubio, Las Vegas, NV: Rifle, US, Model 1903; Rock Island Arsenal (RIA); serial number 94724; made in 1907, later

recalled and rechambered for .30 caliber M1906 cartridge; barrel marked SA (Springfield Arsenal) 8 – 17; with leather sling;

Rifle, US, Mark I; for Pedersen Device developed late in the war; serial number 1148480; made at Springfield Armory 1920; barrel marked SA 2 – 20; with sling;

Bayonet, US, M1905; marked RIA, 1906; also marked NTS-5-US; four war period notches cut into the wooden grip; with scabbard; Oiler case, US, for M1903 rifle; metal tube complete with cleaning pull, bore brush and oil pin;

Cartridge belt, US, M1910 web; marked Mills with last patent date May 1915; Model 1912 pistol belt; 2 M1911 magazine pouches; marked Mills, Jan’ 1918 and Russel, Oct. 1918; brass ammunition clips for M1903;

2017.57 – William Dick, Emporia, KS: From the service of 1st Lieutenant Henry James Dick, Distinguished Service Cross, 13th Engineers

Regiment (Railway), then 131st Infantry Regiment, 33rd Division, then 1st Division, AEF: Pistol, US, M1911; Colt Arsenal; serial no. 158966; holster, US dated 1917; steel helmet, US

M1917, with painted 1st Division insignia; trench knife, Mark I French production; pair of socks and gloves;

Distinguished Service Cross and citations; Documents, photographs; US compass; Pocket surgical kit; Pocket morphine dispensing kit;

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Medal from Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; Purple Heart medal; 13th Regiment publications; officer’s whistle; banner from Engineers, 1917-1919; 33rd Division Roll of Honor. 2017.58 – David Randall, Kansas City, MO: Imperial German Model 1889 Infantry officer’s sword with black-painted scabbard; Imperial German Model 1889 Infantry officer’s sword marked for Theodore Harfig on etched

blade, 1/17/1904 with bright metal scabbard; Imperial German civil servant or state official parade epee for gala dress with leather scabbard; Imperial German civil servant’s gala dress embroidered sword belt; Imperial German Model 1895 Garde-Cuirassier regiment gala tunic of red wool body, white

metal buttons and Garde litzen (collar) and cuffs; Imperial German riding trousers; European theatrical costume of a hussar’s tunic and pelize. 2017.59 – Purchase: Books

• Germany Ascendant - The Eastern Front 1915 by Prit Buttar

• Elusive Alliance - the German Occupation of Poland in World War I by Jesse Kauffman

• War Land on the Eastern Front - Culture, National Identity and German Occupation in World War I by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

2017.60 – David Johnson, West Fargo, ND: North Dakota Nurses Over There 1917-1919 by Grace E. F. Holmes 2017.61 – Vanassa Goodman, El Cajon, CA: Das 7 Garde Infanterie Regiment im Weltgriege 1914/1918 by Otto von Kries and Hans Otto

Werda 2017.62 – Greg Peck, La Quinta, CA: Memorial Address – Council Groves Kansas by Capt. W. L. Rucker 2017.63 – Purchase: 3 Passports – Printed in both German and Yiddish 2017.64 – The Family of Reva Standing Griffith, Brattleboro, VT: From the service of Arthur C. Standing, American Friends Service Committee One Man’s Story: A Conscientious Objector in World War I edited by Reva Standing Griffith Shell Art Letters Photo Albums (2) Passport

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Foreign Service Certificate Miscellaneous Orders Birthday Greetings card Card certifying that Arthur Standing was found to be exempt from combatant service

Additional materials will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used as reference material.

2017.65 – Bill Smyth, Mt. Pleasant, SC: From the service of 2nd Lt. George Hall Morris, Jr., Quartermaster Corps.

Scrapbook

2017.66 – Dennis E. Ciborowski, Morton Grove, IL: Photo Album – British

• Contains images related to service in Salonica

• Photos from Egypt, Italy, Malta and Macedonia

2017.67 – Norma Hoagland, Leavenworth, KS: From the service of Lt. Earle M. Peck, Company D, 342nd Machine Gun Battalion, 89th Division,

AEF.

Letters Postcards Miscellaneous Photo Postcards – Inspection of 89th Division in Trier, Germany

2017.68 – Janice Falke, Chesterfield, MO: From the service of Pvt. Harry William Ege, Company B, 130th Machine Gun Battalion, 35th

Division, AEF.

Photograph – USS Cambrai in Juneau Alaska Wounded in Action Certificate Roster – Company K, Second Missouri Infantry


• Civilian Photographs

2017.69 – Ronald and Patricia Welch, Topeka, KS: From the service of Ray Carr, AEF.

Photograph – USS President Grant Two loose photo album pages Miscellaneous photo postcards Recruitment Flyer for August military camp in Michigan for Grand Rapids Battalion

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Itinerary diary

2017.70 – Jeffrey Eustis, Palo Alto, CA: A Captive at Carlsruhe by Joseph Lee

• Signed

2017.71 – Rachel Riley, Alexandria, VA: Photo Album – Motor Transport Corps Photograph: Inter-Allied Railway Commission

2017.72 – Suzanne Strecker, Avon, CT: The Trooper

• July 1920

• November 1922

• February 1923700 French Terms for American Field Artillerymen

2017.73 – Gerald McCoy, Mulvane, KS: German film footage

2017.74 – Louis Werner, New York, NY: Lithograph by Lucien Hector Jonas

2017.75 – Jim Lucas, South Lake, TX: From the service of Floyd R. Lucas, AEF.

Photo Album

2017.76 – Mack Caruthers, Joplin, MO: From the service of Albert Ollar, United States Army Ambulance Service

Cigarette case, leather and metal; interior marked U.S.A.A.S. [United States Army Ambulance Service] Prov. Batt., Noel, 1918, France

3 shoulder sleeve insignia for USAAS; standing rooster on red background disc Identity disc for ALBERT OLLAR, 3450884 The USAAC Bulletin

• Volume 2, Number 2: February 1921Diary – Contains just itinerary and addresses

2017.77 – Monroe County Historical Society, Paris, Missouri: Book - The World War I Soldiers of Monroe County, Missouri edited by Jan Smiley Carter

2107.78 – Michael Wee and Stephanie Warmund, Kansas City, MO: French cuirrass (armor) and back plate (restored), Model 1831, WWI use;

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Gauntlets (pair), US, bearskin and leather; cold climate wear; Flight helmet, US; Model 1-A, made by Westinghouse, 1918; Specialist arm badge, British; for armorer; Poster, US; Hunger – America has Fought Starvation in Belgium; Newsprints (4), from Current News; American volunteer aviators, British tank, German POW’s,

French cavalry; Studio portrait, German made, of US 3rd Army soldier in Coblenz; sharpshooter badge in

evidence; Portrait photograph of US soldier by automobile; Photograph, Russian officers in field. 2017.79 – Transfer, Winterthur Museum: Pamphlets Books War Savings Certificate 2017.80 – Julie Kemper Foyer, Saint Loup de Fribois, France: French commemorative porcelain plates (3); all feature Alsace & Lorraine, 1918; scenes include:

• A French soldier (poilu) with women representing Alsace & Lorraine on his arms;

• A parade of French soldiers into Strasbourg, November 22, 1918;

• A French soldier (poilu) with children representing Alsace & Lorraine in traditional dress. 2017.81 – Willard G. Allanson, Isanti, MN: Memorial plaque, German; made of brass and cast material; 3-dimensional parts of the Imperial

Eagle, battle scenes and frame for a portrait photograph; dated 1914-15; soldier’s photograph in pre-war uniform; Frame marked: Mit Gott Für König und Vaterland;

2017.82 – Heidi S. Webb, Ormond Beach, FL: Certificate of Exemption from Military Service for John Moore issued by the British Embassy,

Washington 2017.83 – Linda Cahill, Enfield, CT: From the service of George J. Underiner, Company B, 303rd Ammunition Train, AEF. Silk Postcard Discharge Certificate Additional materials will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used for reference:

• Typed Enlistment Record 2017.84 – Steve Hollands, Takoma Park, MD: Inscribed postcard with envelope

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2017.85 – Suzanne Bartlett, Nevada City, CA: From the service of Private Richard Rutherford, 110th Infantry, 28th Division, AEF.

Diary


2017.86 – Nancy Steege, Palo Alto, CA: From the service of William Steege.

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2017.87 – Tasha Feist, Gladstone, MO: Photographs of Company M, 4th Missouri Infantry

• One image dated 1916 and notes it was taken “on the border”


2017.88 – Lea Whetstone Glaser, Marble Falls, TX: From the service of Fred George Whetstone, 111th Ammunition Train, 36th Division, AEF.

Panoramic Photograph – USS Princess Matoika / Arrival New York Aug 1, 1919 / 9TH INFY 2ND DIVISION

2017.89 – Ron Goodrich, Pleasant Hill, IA: From the service of Col. Lionel H. Dunlap, Air Service, AEF.

Photographs Postcard – Authorized to report to camp Promotion Certificate Officer’s Identity Card Certificate of Identity

2017.90 – Frank Madsen, Novato, CA: From the service of 1st Lt. Delmar H. Smith, Ambulance Company No. 26.

Camp Newspapers

• The Watch on the Rhine: Volume, Number 18 – June 27, 1919

• The Victorian: Volume 2, Number 3 – July 10, 1919o Published aboard the USS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria

Bound Personal Report cards that were to be mailed to The Chief Surgeon Souvenir Folder of images from the USS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria

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French map with routes marked 2017.91 – Laura J. Ketchum, Davidsonville, MD: 9 Posters produced by the Department of Labor 2017.92 – Kit Arnett, Baton Rouge, LA: Manuals (49 Total)

• Manual for the Battery Commander Field Artillery, 75mm. Gun

• Artillery in Offensive Operations

• Utilization and Role of Artillery Aviators in Trench Warfare

• Instructions on the Operation of the Information Service and of the Terrestrial Observation Service of Artillery

• Effect of Artillery Fire

• Lecture on High-Powered Heavy Artillery

• Care of Artillery Material - Accidents of Fire

• Notes on the Meteorologic Elements Affecting Artillery

• Use of Heavy Artillery

• Notes on Employment of Artillery in Trench Fighting

• Field Artillery Notes No. 1







• Notes on Gas as a Weapon in Modern Warfare

• Program of Training in Gas Defence for Divisional Anti-Gas Schools

• Notes on the Construction and Equipment of Trenches

• Specimens of British Trench Orders

• Report on the Perception of Subterranean Sounds and the Plotting of Subterranean Work by Sound

• Individual and Combined Military Sketching by Capt. Edwin T. Cole and Capt. Edwin R. Stuart

• Notes on Fire on Aeroplanes

• The Means of Communication Between Aeroplanes and the Ground

• Notes on Cooperation Between Aircraft and Artillery During Recent Operations on the Second Army Front

• Notes on Bayonet Training

• Method of Instructing Skirmishers and Small Groups of Skirmishers

• Instructions on the Offensive Conduct of Small Units

• Notes on the Use of Smoke

• Notes on Grenade Warfare

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• Instruction on the Pressure Gauge for Recuperator of the Schneider Materiels

• Venereal Diseases - Facts for Every Man

• Sanitary Regulations and Control of Communicable Diseases

• Notes on the German Army in the War

• Notes on Liaison in Modern Warfare

• Field Physical Training of the Soldier – 1917

• Instructions For the Training of Divisions For Offensive Actions

• Appointment of Provisional Second Lieutenants

• Notes on Recent Operations - July 1917

• Notes on Cover Against Shell Fire

• Notes on the Methods of Attack and Defense to Meet the Conditions of ModernWarfare

• Forward Intercommunication in Battle

• Camps, Billets, Cooking - American Edition 1917

• Description and Instructions on the use of Signal Rockets Mark I and Mark II

• Description and Instructions for the use of Hand Grenades

• Description and Instructions for the use of Very Pistol, Mark III and Signal Light, Mark II

• Table of Fundamental Allowances Quartermaster Supplies 1917Transportation of Troops and Materiel

2017.93 – Teresa Schultz, Mt. Hope, KS: From the service of John Mathew Schultz, U.S. Navy.

Photo Album

2017.94 – Dorothy A. Warner, Dyer, IN: From the service of Sgt. Edward Columbus Johnson, 800th Aero Squadron, Air Service, AEF.

Photo Album Promotion Certificate

2017.95 – Michael and Eva Brown, Guilford, CT: Glass Slides

2017.96 – Jay Maille, Pleasanton, CA: French Map Atlas

• Some maps marked SECRET

• Shows locations of objects in the field

2017.97 – John LaRoe, Kansas City, MO: From the service of Mac William Marsh, 83rd Company, 6th Marines, 2nd Division

Panoramic Photograph

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• 83rd Company, 6th Marines, 2nd Division Group Portrait – 2nd Division Marine Corps Service Certificate Permission to Visit Pass Identity Card – Paper Not on a Duty Status pass 2017.98 – Alice Houmann, West Bath, ME: Pamphlet – The President’s Flag Day Address United States Government Thrift Card – with stamps 2017.99 – Wesley W. Brumback, Oviedo, FL: Verdun by Henri Philippe Petain Songs - Company F, 8th Division Officers Reserve Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison,

Indianapolis 1917 by Anonymous Additional materials will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material or

to benefit the Museum.

• Division Summary of Operations in the World War: 5th Division

• Division Summary of Operations in the World War: 29th Division

• Division Summary of Operations in the World War: 91st Division 2017.100 – Laurel Soler, Glenview, IL: From the service of Pvt. 1st Cl. William C. Meiser, Company A, 108th Field Signal Battalion, 33rd

Division, AEF. Books

• 33rd Division Across No Man’s Land

• Illinois in the World War Volume 1: The History of the 33rd Division, AEF by Frederic Louis Huidekoper

• The Story of the Thirty-Third Division: “The Prairie Division” Telephone headset, U.S.; made by C Brandes, Inc., New York, NY Telephone headset, U.S.; made by Western Electric, Patent date July 23, 1918 Hate (souvenir) belt; leather belt with buttons, rank insignia; cap badges from a number of

countries attached Identity discs (2), U.S.: Chales Schmitz, 124th Field Artillery, 1378591; Robert H. Carnahan,

Headquarters Troop, 33rd Division, no number Photo Album Diary/Code Book Letters Photographs Inscribed Postcards Silk Postcard

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Miscellaneous Ephemera Additional materials will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material or


• Photocopy of Discharge Certificate

• Life Magazine

• The American Legion Magazine: October 1967

• The American Legion Magazine: September 1968 2017.101 – June Learner, La Grange Park, IL: From the service of Norman August Betzer, United States Navy War Service Certificate Letter of Reference Letter written by Betzer to sister Josephine Miscellaneous Photographs Programs

• USS Minnesota at Sea Independence Day 1919

• Happy Hour on Board the USS Minnesota, July 23, 1919 Menus

• USS Minnesota: Thanksgiving 1918

• USS Minnesota: Thanksgiving 1919

• USS Minnesota: Christmas 1919 Additional materials will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material or

to benefit the Museum. 2017.102 – Kathy Redden, Atascadero, CA: From the service of Ross Leisenring, 356th Aero Squadron, AEF. Promotion Certificate Discharge Certificate Veterans Bureau Correspondence regarding Compensation Letters 2017.103 – Charleen M. Vondermeulen, Ft. Thomas, KY: From the service of Frank A. Butts Photo postcards Our Navy – Man of War Lingo

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2017.104 – Patty Hasson, Woodstock, VT: From the service of Langford T. Alden, American Field Service (1916-1917) and French Foreign

Legion (1917-1918) Maps Additional materials will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material or


• 1910 Frosh Poster from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2017.105 – Joseph Duckworth, Maiden, NC: Photos Letters 2017.106 – Keith Grebe, Joplin, MO: From the service of Otto H. Grebe, 31st Regiment: Service coat, US, Siberian Expedition shoulder sleeve insignia; red hand-made discharge

chevron; ribbon bars: Allied Victory, Unofficial Allied End of War, National Match Marksmanship; marksman badge;

Photographs, documents. 2017.107 – Purchase: Tunic, Czech Corps (Russia); Winter hat, Czech Corps, (Russia); Mission Flag, British Jack; Ambulance Flag, French Ambulance in Russia 2017.108 – Transfer: Stretcher, U.S. Medical Department 2017.109 - Jean Sharf, Lancaster, PA: From the service of Ella May Minert, American Red Cross, Camp and Recreation Corps, with the

American Expeditionary Forces: Outdoor Uniform: Tunic, dark grey whipcord wool, with light grey lapel badges for the Bureau

of Information (which included the Camp and Recreation Corps); enameled Red Cross and US insignia on epaulets; Allied Victory medal ribbon and ARC Foreign Service badge on left breast; ARC buttons; label for Abercrombie and Fitch, New York; Shoulder sleeve insignia for ARC: white round patch with blue interior circle, Red Cross with the number 20 embroidered on the cross; one overseas service chevron on left sleeve;

Skirt of same material; Overseas cap of dark grey wool; Sam Browne belt;

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2017.110 – Trudy J. Schmidt, Metairie, LA: From the service of Olah Timothy Holden, US Army, Satsuma, LA: Shell art vases (pair), probably French made; made from 75mm shell casings; floral decoration;

one is marked Metz, the other Verdun. 2017.111 – Transfer: Photographs 2017.112 – Debbie Hackett, Leawood, KS: From the service of Willis Lee Thompson, US Navy: Souvenir apron, Portuguese; silk apron with embroidered decorations of flowers, US and

Portuguese flags and Porta Delgada Azores, 1918, USS [ship name not included]. 2017.113 – John Mowen, Louisburg, KS: Doll, “Liberty Boy” Doughboy, U. S.; composite material, painted; made by the Ideal Toy

Company, Brooklyn, New York, mark in diamond on back, [the Ideal Toy Company was founded in 1903]; the doll was a present to Helene Lucille Knipp (Mowen), born May, 5, 1910, Des Moines, Iowa.

2017.114 – Lynnly Busler Marcotte, Overland Park, KS: Child’s US service coat, cotton fabric; donor’s father wore the jacket. His father was a WWI

veteran. 2017.115 – Carol Corliss, East Hampton, CT: Shell art match box holder; aluminum; marked: Eng. F.H. Carroll, Co. D., 11th Engrs – France

1917-1919 – Argonne-St. Mihiel-Cambrai-Verdun-Somme-Arras. 2017.116 – Joe Meissner, Portland, OR: Lead WWI US soldiers and sailors, country of origin unknown; all show wear and paint loss;

donor relates that they belonged to his father in the 1920s. 2017.117 – Ken and Mary Werring, North Port, FL: Scrapbook compiled by Harold F. Werring

• Contains cigarette cards in back depicting divisional insignia 2017.118 – Nicholas Gillham, Pittsboro, NC: From the service of Walter J. “Pat” Enright, Signal Corps, AEF. German 5th Corps record from May 1, 1916 through October 1916 (in German) Photographs Miscellaneous Ephemera

• Passes

• Memos

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Letters Cartoons drawn by Enright German Propaganda Leaflet: To the American soldiers of German descent

2017.119 – Marth Arnold Sheerin, Indian River, MI: From the service of Dr. Alfred L. Arnold Jr., U.S.S. President Lincoln.

Roster for the USS President Lincoln Promotion Request Commendation Request due to loss of USS President Lincoln on May 31, 1918 Request for funds for USS President Lincoln Memorial Plaque Extracts from the remarks of Rear Admiral P. W. Foote at 35th Annual Reunion Typescript: A German Frankenstein by Courtney Ryley Cooper Pamphlet: 500 Facts of the “World War”


2017.120 – Peter A. Titta, Grand Rapids, MI: From the service of Battista Titta, Headquarters Company, 4th Division, 47th Infantry, AEF.

Bound transcription of diaries Diary – 2 Volumes

2017.121 – Barbara Milemore, Hampton Bays, NY: From the service of Edwin E. Jones, 60th Engineers, AEF.

Diary

2017.122 – Kay Ferguson McClain, Arlington, MA: Photographs

• Austrian

2017.123 – Julia Hird Zaborski, Corey Eagle, MN: From the service of Captain Harry Booth Hird, USS Jupiter, U.S. Navy.

Diary Group Photograph

• Admiral Benson pictured

2017.124 – Tom Scheffers, Inverness, IL: From the service of John Joseph Bellmore, USS Hale, U.S. Navy.

June 1918 Naval Route Chart

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Photographs from the USS Hale 2017.125 – Sally Groves, Leawood, KS: U.S. Service Star Flag Letters Inscribed Postcard Telegram Pamphlets

• Mother’s Day 1918

• Christmas Carols, Christmas 1917 2017.126 – Matthew E. Seward, Independence, MO: Aces and Kings Cartoons from the Des Moines Register: Book 6 by Jay N. Darling 2017.127 – Marina C. Sullivan, Marietta, GA: From the service of William Joseph Sullivan. Diary Photos The Heidelberg Catechism or a Summary of Christian Doctrine as Used by the reformed Church

in the United States Cartoon 2017.128 – Betsy Anderson, Annandale, VA: From the service of Private Guy E. Musser, Company K, 28th Infantry, 1st Division, AEF. Correspondence sent by Guy E. Musser Correspondence related to the death of Guy E. Musser on October 5, 1918 Correspondence from Graves Registration Service Certificate of Death Receipt for Contribution to First Division Monument Fund 2017.129 – Terrence Tingle, Palm Desert, CA: Irish Yankee - An Irish Immigrant's Journals of Service in the U. S. Irish Yankee - An Irish

Immigrant's Journals of Service in the U. S. Military, 1916-1919 by Thomas Joseph Kirk and transcribed by Terrence R. Tingle

2017.130 – Craig Lentz, Manchester, MA: Books

• A Complete History of the World War: Volume 1 compiled by W. D. Eaton and Sgt. Maj. Harry C. Read


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• Behind the German Lines: A Narrative of the Everyday Life of an American POW by Ralph E. Ellinwood

• Neath Verdun – August – October, 1914 by Maurice Genevoix, translated into English by H. Grahame Richards

2017.131 – Robert Bloch, Mission Hills, KS: Miniature stylized souvenir ceramic army cap, Imperial German; 1914; represents Bavarian

Landsturm (Landwehr, non-front line duty) service oilcloth cap: yellow metal Landwehr cross and Bavarian cockade on front, interior has painted wreath, Iron Cross 1914, Gott Mit Uns ribbon under the Imperial crown; 9 cm x 5 cm.

2017.132 – Jerome Duggan, Tampa, FL: From the service of Jerome D. Duggan 1 pair of U.S. officer’s leather high boots, lace at ankle, cap toe style 2017.133 – Linda Widau, Lake Waukomis, MO: From the service of Sgt. Arthur Hartry Bell, Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division, AEF. Photographs – 3 2017.134 – James Tomlinson, Edmonds, WA: Book – Give Soldiers Six Months Pay 2017.135 – Duane Kargel, Grand Forks, ND: British Midget Message Card 2017.136 – David Kushner, Chevy Chase, MD: Record Book beginning May 4, 1917 with information regarding advances in the war were

recorded 2017.137 – Marcia Rohrer, Shawnee, KS: Sheet Music

• When Taps are Softly Blowing (We Are Dreaming All of You)

• For a Girl Like You

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2017.138 – Clare G. Ryan, Asheville, NC: Given in memory of William Patrick Ryan.

Posters

• Good Bye Dad I’m Off to Fight for Old Glory (AM-B3-11)

• Remember! The Flag of Liberty

2017.139 – Patrick K. Ryan, Kansas City, MO: Given in memory of William Patrick Ryan.

Posters

• Ring it Again (AM-B3-13)

• Are You 100% American? (AM-B3-12)

2017.140 – David F. Doss, Allen Park, MI: Book: History and Roster: Masonic Club of the Third American Army and Rhode Island Overseas

Lodge Program: Third Army Carnival, April 23-27, 1919 in Coblenz, Germany Souvenir Handkerchief, probably German made; for 308th Engineers with battles itinerary; large

engineers insignia in center; silk-screened decoration on silk handkerchief

2017.141 – Paul Peck, Fox Point, WI: Panoramic Photograph from Camp Zachary Taylor

2017.142 – Sally Stallings, Fresno, CA: From the service of 2nd Lt. Laurence Stallings, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, United States Marine

Corps

Letters Telegram

Additional donated materials will be kept for reference.

2017.143 – Ann Saxerud, Prescott, AZ: From the service of Musician Alvin Saxerud, 119th Infantry Band, 30th Division:

Pre-war band uniform, U.S., in the style of North African Zouaves; jacket and trousers of maroon wool; tag for the Cincinnati Regalia Co., [doing business by the 1890s]; musician’s lyre collar insignia;

Panoramic photograph of the 119th Infantry Band; Saxerud is 9th from left, saxophonist; photo marked 4/6/19, Camp Jackson, SC, by Sergeant, Columbia SC

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2017.144 – Ernest M. Raub, Jefferson City, MO: From the service of Pvt. Edgar P. Arnold, Wagoner, HQ Co., 54th Field Artillery, Camp Travis, TX: Souvenir pennant, U.S., wool felt with appliqued artillery collar insignia AND Camp Travis. 2017.145 – James Williams, Homestead, FL: Paperweight, U.S.; glass with molded and painted profile of General Pershing; titled: General

John J. Pershing, 1917; copyright mark of Oct. 1918; some paint loss. 2017.146 – Jason Chassey, Albuquerque, NM: Given in honor of Mary “Bobbie” Chavez and Mike Chavez: Baseball, U.S., YMCA issue; Spalding made; official National League ball; inscribed: Champagne,

France, October 7th to 29th, 1918 – Capt. W. H. Ward, Capt. Chris Miller – US Army, other illegible; some damage on one seam;

The 36th Division was the only American division in the Champagne Region during the whole time inscribed on the baseball.

2017.147 – Paul Kaufmann, Kansas City, MO: Spiked helmet, Imperial German (Prussian), Jaeger zu Pferde [mounted dispatch rider]; war-

time enlisted man’s helmet; no chin strap or cockades; dated 1916, manufacturer: C. E. Hacrer.

2017.148 – Don Elon Irish, Las Vegas, NM: Quilt 2017.149 – Carol A. Farmer, Chester, VA: Maps related to World War I or the Paris Peace Conference

• See accession file for itemized inventory list 2017.150 – Barbara Boothby, Batavia, OH: From the service of Private James H. Wise, 5th Regular, U.S. Marines. Photographs Newspaper announcement regarding Croix de Guerre presentation ceremony in Bethel, Ohio,

November 11, 1919 2017.151 – Edward L. Proctor, Bloomington, IL: From the service of Walter H. Proctor, Army stenographer Photographs

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2015.152 – Deborah L. Warehall, St. Clair Shores, MI: From the service of John R. Filarski Photographs Diary 2017.153 – Virgil Carson, Kansas City, MO: From the service of Reuben Waldemar Larson, Landsman Machinist Mate Aviation, Naval

Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois Photograph Letters of Recommendation State of Iowa Adjutant General’s Department Military Service Record 2017.154 – David M. Hinkley, Lee’s Summit, MO: From the service of Edwin C. Hinkley, Service Company, 4th Engineer, AEF. Photo Album 2017.155 – Purchase: Bound editions of La Libre Belgique 2017.156 – John F. Grantonic, Poland, OH: From the service of John Grantonic (Grantovich), 28th Company, 3rd Infantry, AEF. Cartoon Drawings by John Grantonic Camp Newspaper: The Pontanezen Duckboard: Volume 1, Number 7: March 22, 1919 Additional donated material will be kept for reference. 2017.157 – Joseph Lorrubio, Las Vegas, NV: Pistol, US, M1911; serial number 76475; 1913 Springfield Armory; all matching parts; with

ordnance marks; excellent condition; Holster, US; made by Warren Leather Goods Co. (Worcester, MA); dated 1918; Bullets (4 boxes), US; for 30.06 cartridges. 2017.158 – Janet M. Long, Pat D. Long, Don C. Long and Ellen K. Long, St. Anthony, MN: From the service of Private Alonzo B. McPhaul, Battery F, 137th Field Artillery, 38th Division, AEF. Roster for Battery F, 137th Field Artillery U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Employment Service Job Reference Card Class Two Pass Silk, Embroidered Postcard

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2017.159 – Jeff Fehr, Chanute, KS and Nancy Strutzenberg, Ankeny, IA: From the service of Corporal Herman A. Fehr, 117th Ammunition Train, Truck Company 4, AEF Diary 2017.160 – Lee Smithson Burd, Kansas City, MO and Carol Smithson, Los Angeles, CA: From the service of 2nd Lieutenant Spurgeon Lee Smithson, 28th Infantry, 1st Division, AEF. Photographs Letters Notification Card for Selected as Candidate as Appointment to Officer Special Orders No. 83 Fort Sheridan, Officer of the Senior Instructor: Instructions for Orderlies 2017.161 – McNicoll Family, Lawrence, KS: Cap badge, Canadian, for Engineers; Collar “dog” insignia, Canadian, General Service Maple Leaf; Booklet, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, by Robert W. Service, inscribed 1918. 2017.162 – Tracy Dennis, Kansas City, MO: Imperial German pickelhaube (spiked helmet) for Prussian artillery; brass fixtures for non-

commissioned officer including chin scales; liner intact; no cockades; condition issues: front visor missing, front plate missing left side with orb, rear visor loose; hole in leather body on left side, left side slightly crushed (needs restoration work).

2017.163 – David Jerome, Maryville, MO: From the service of Clarence S. Mills, Co. K, 31st Regiment, American Expeditionary Forces

Siberia: Service coat, US, M 1917 enlisted; with Siberian shoulder sleeve insignia; Co. K, 31st Regiment

collar disc insignia; 2 overseas service chevrons, red discharge chevron; tag for Neustadter Bros., Portland, OR, Contract July 10, 1918, San Francisco Depot; Garment Workers’ Union tag inside pocket;

Great coat, US, enlisted; with Siberian shoulder sleeve insignia; red discharge chevron; Overseas caps (2); one with Co. K collar disc insignia; Photographs of Mills and Siberia; Souvenir frame, carved wood, probably Siberian-made; with eagle, flag, floral and US letters

decorations, also A.E.F.S, 1918-1919; has photograph of Mills in winter uniform in center;

Book, Service in Siberia, 1918-1920, by Ned Elvin Wick.

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2017.164 – Kenney Farmer, Independence, KS: In honor of WWII veteran W. Henry Leavell: Rifle, French, Lebel Model 1886; 8mm; serial number 57059, Marked MAP [Manufacture

Nationale de Armes] 1916; Rifle, French, Berthier Model 1907-15; 8mm; marked for St. Etienne Arsenal; serial number

2535; top barrel stock cut down at some time, either during the war or later. 2017.165 – Steve Nelson, Nashville, TN: From the service of Army Nurse Corps nurse, Mary E. Doty, Base Hospital 60: Great coat, US; dark blue wool; some staining and wear condition issues. 2017.166 – Donna Wilson Peterson, Middleton, WI: From the service of Paul Norton Wilson, AEF. Letter

• Dated October 30, 1917 written by Paul Norton Wilson to his mother Minnie Fordham Wilson

• Describes arrival in France and conversation with woman who has lost her brother, father and fiancée

• Conversation with British soldiers about finding comrades crucified on side of a building by Germans; for revenge, took captured German officer and blew him up

2017.167 – Purchase: US pilot’s French Roold Type flying helmet. The helmet is painted with the US air service wings

and the US roundel of red, blue and white circles. It has a cork shell covered with painted oil cloth and cloth lining. The ear flaps feature the classic thick round leather and brass insets ear covers (or bumpers). The ear covers protected the pilot swaying from side to side in the plane’s cockpit.

2017.168 – Robert Vaughn, Jr., Pleasant Hill, MO: German Photograph – in metal shop with lathes 2017.169 – Edward Devlin, Glasgow, Scotland: From the service of Private James McCabe, Company M, 167th Infantry, 42nd Division, AEF. Portrait Photograph Letter from American Red Cross to Mary Hughes in Glasgow, Scotland regarding the death of

James McCabe

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2017.170 – Rev. Dr. Robert F. Maltzahn, Gainesville, GA: From the service of Private Fredrick W. Maltzahn, 380th Machine Gun Company, 95th Division,

AEF. Class notebook from Camp Sherman, Oklahoma Portrait Photograph 2017.171 – Lori Batty Rohling, Aviston, IL: From the service of Samuel Batty, 126th Infantry, 32nd Division, AEF. Letters

• April 26, 1919

• June 11, 1919

• June 13, 1919 Additional materials will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used as reference material:

• Enlistment Record 2017.172 – Richard Lee Conway, Gladtone, MO: From the service of Bart F. Higgins, Airman, United States Navy. Certificate of Qualification – Aeronautics School, Enlisted Men’s Class Photo ID for Federation Aeronautique Internationale - Aero Club D’Italia Photo ID for Aero Club D’Italia – Brevetto Superiore Membership Card for Aero Club D’Italia, Dated 1918 2017.173 – Barbara K. Allison, Apollo, PA: Souvenir of Service, Certificate of Honor presented to Ralph Kerr Atchison in recognition of

service as a Four-Minute Man of the Committee on Public Information 2017.174 – Everett Lunsford, Atlanta, GA: Book: Roster and History: 306th Regiment of Engineers and 306th Engineer Train 2017.175 – Bay County Historical Society, Bay City, MI: Pamphlets

• A War-Food Message for the American Home issued by the National Wholesale Grocers’ Association of the United States

• War Gardening and Home Storage of Vegetables, Victory Edition 1919 – Published by National War Garden Commission

• War Vegetable Gardening and the Home Storage of Vegetables, 1918 – Published by National War Garden Commission

• Home Canning and Drying of Vegetables and Fruits, 1918 – Published by National War Garden Commission

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• The University of Chicago War Papers No. 1: The Threat of German World-Politics by Harry Pratt Judson, LL.D.

• The University of Chicago War Papers No. 2: Americans and the World-Crisis by Albion W. Small

• The University of Chicago War Papers No. 3: Democracy and the Basis for World-Order by Frederick D. Bramhall

• The University of Chicago War Papers No. 4: Sixteen Causes of War by Andrew C. McLaughlin

• The University of Chicago War Papers No. 5: The War and Industrial Readjustments by Harold Glenn Moulton

• The University of Chicago War Papers No. 6: England and America by Conyers Read

• The University of Chicago War Papers No. 7: Democracy and American Schools by Charles H. Judd

• “Equal Partners”: An Address delivered by Hon. W.G. McAdoo to Women Liberty Loan Workers

• War-Savings Societies: What They Are and How to Organize Them Book

• The Deck School Log of the Naval Auxiliary Reserve edited by William J. Bryne 2017.176 – Sigil Erez, Bellingham, WA: Book: In the Line of Fire: A Soldier’s Diary WWI 1914-1918 by Teofil Tobias Reiss 2017.177 – Randall Dean, St. Charles, MO: Books

• The Story of a North Sea Air Station by C.F. Snowden Gamble

• The Origins of Strategic Bombing: A Study of the Development of British Air Strategic Thought and Practice up to 1918 by Neville Jones

• Reconnaissance & Bomber Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War compiled by W. M. Lamberton 2017.178 – Nancy Nail, Raytown, MO: From the service of Pvt. Harry O. Nail, Headquarters Company, 118th Infantry, 30th Division, AEF. Honorable Discharge Certificate Honorable Discharge Certificate – Certified Copy The Soldiers’ French Phrase Book Letter written in French Roster Silk Postcard Photograph Postcard Inscribed Postcards Postcard booklet for Camp Pike, Little Rock, Arkansas

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2017.179 – Eliza Chin, Schaumburg, IL: Books

• Women’s Oversea Hospitals U.S.A. of the National American Woman SuffrageAssociation

• Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War by Kimberly Jensen

• The House the Good Neighbor by Esther Lovejoy

• Women Doctors of the World by Esther Pohl Lovejoy

• Ladies of Grecourt by Ruth Gaines

• In Their Own Words: American Women in World War I edited by Elizabeth Foxwell

• Women Doctors in War by Judith Bellafaire and Mercedes Herrera Graf

• Certain Samaritans by Esther Pohl Lovejoy

• A Woman Surgeon: The Life and Work of Rosalie Slaughter Morton by Frederick A.Stokes

2017.180 – Virginia H. Glover, New York, NY: Silk Postcard, Inscribed

2017.181 – Mary E. Landis, Shawnee, KS: From the service of 1st Lt. Forrest A. Talley 141st Infantry, 36th Division; 160th Infantry, 40th

Division, AEF.

Roster: Company E, 3rd Texas Infantry (Mexican Border Service) Photographs Miscellaneous Ephemera

• Passes

• Memos

• Officer Information

• Medical Affidavit’s from Port of Embarkation

2017.182 – Caroline Denjoy, Paris, France: In memory of the volunteer service of Beatrice Cochran, American Red Cross Ambulance

Service: Eight French commemorative medallions, 1 US Victory medal; prints and posters from

“L’Illustration.”

2017.183 – Margot B. Skinner, Palm Springs, CA: From the service of Harold F. Brown, US Navy, Submarine Service: White service (undress)

jumper (blouse), US, white cotton; Seaman Branch insignia mark on right sleeve for Gunner’s Mate 3rd class; stained condition.

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2017.184 – Joseph Lorrubio, Las Vegas, NV: From the Italian Army service of Tomasso Lorrubio: Austrian belt and buckle give to Lorrubio by an Austrian prisoner of war. 2017.185 – Carl Stephens Otto, Washington, MO: Austrian Honor badge for field cap; for the Italian Front – Isonzo Armee, 1915; brass; marked on

back for maker: Herrmann – Wien III – Haupstrauss 81; German aviator badge (Army pilot); marked for Steinhauer & Lück, Lüdenscheid; stamped

metal, hinged flat pin; French commemorative medallion for wounded soldier; marked: Honneur au Devouement

(honor to dedication); bronze. 2017.186 – David MacDonald, Merchantville, NJ: Glass Stereoscope Slides Additional materials will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material:

• Wooden Stereoscope Viewer 2017.187 – Carolyn Menosky, New Smyrna, FL: From the service of Irene Fryer, Red Cross nurse. Letter: Christmas 1918 at U.S. Embarkation Hospital #1 Hoboken, NJ 2017.188 – Gary Fleck, Wilmore, KY: From the service of Private Alexander V. Fleck, Headquarters Company, 320th Infantry;

Company E, 413th Telephone Battalion, Signal Corps; Headquarters Company, 416th Telephone Battalion, Signal Corps, AEF

Diary Ordre de Transport R.M.S. Carmania Troop Billet Card U.S.S. Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm Troop Billet Card 2017.189 – Carolyn McDemas, Costa Mesa, CA: From the service of Private Palmer Francis Schlegel, Camp Hospital #9, AEF. Letters Photographs From the service of Elmer Joseph Richards, U.S. Navy.

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Photographs Watercolor Drawing 2017.190 – John Fleeger, Shawnee, KS: From the service of John Wayne Fleeger, 66th Company, 5th Regiment, U.S. Marines. Certificates

• Served and Wounded

• 3 French certificates related to Belleau Wood

• Marine Discharge Certificate 2017.191 – Robert Stoddard, Lincoln, NE: From the service of Dean L. Robertson, 79th Company, 6th Regiment, 2nd Division, U.S. Marines. Letters 2017.192 – Chris Lyons, North Port, FL: Photograph – British soldier with bicycle Additional materials will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material or


• Scrapbook of newspaper clippings 2017.193 – Eric K. Johnson, Topeka, KS: From the service of 2nd Lt Erwin Keller, Field Artillery Section, AEF. Map case – marked for Keller I.D. Discs Battery Commanders Ruler Colgate Shaving Stick Tube Photo Album Misc. Ephemera Roster – Battery B, 55th Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps Promotion Certificate Additional materials will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material or

to benefit the Museum. 2017.194 – Michael McCarthy, Napa, CA: From the service of John R. Proctor, Headquarters Company, 165th Infantry, 42nd Division, AEF. Photographs Foreign Currency Pass

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Daily Activity Report for July 16-17, 1918 Maps Report of the Interrogation of German Prisoners (2 Reports) Memo regarding score of baseball game to Stars and Stripes General Orders Summary of Intelligence Reports related to 42nd Division Victory in a Few Hours transcript

2017.195 – Sarah Fitzgerald, Valley Lee, MD: From the service of Benjamin Franklin Barnes, AEF.

Diary Typescript regarding the 6th Division for service in Meuse-Argonne Offensive

2017.196 – Paul B. Mott, Jr., Lawrenceville, NJ: Letters Certificate for service as local worker with War Camp Community Service Christmas card Camp Newspaper: The Bugle Call, Volume I, Number 2- May 1918 Pamphlet: The Spirit of Missions, July 1917 (contains sock knitting pattern) Water Front Pass for Paul J. Ralph (2 copies) War Time Deserts – Food & Garden Conservation Committee Discharge Certificate for Edward Johnston Gordon


2017.197 – Kent Sunderland, Overland Park, KS: From the service of Paul Sunderland, Musician First Class, United States Navy.

Discharge Record (2 Copies) War Service Certificate United States Navy

Additional materials will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used as reference material:

• Civilian portrait of Paul Sunderland

2017.198 – Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Boston, MA: Photograph – Colonels at Neuf Chateau

2017.199 – Michael R. Johnson, Naperville, IL: From the service of Private Harry C. Carlson, 13th Field Artillery Band, 4th Division then 4th

Division Orchestra, AEF.

Photographs

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Diary Miscellaneous Ephemera Material Additional materials will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material or

to benefit the Museum. 2017.200 – Jennifer Percival, Pleasant Valley, NY: From the service of Thomas E. Baker, Ambulance driver. Diary Letter from Tom Baker to Fred dated May 12, 1918 Photograph Announcement for wedding in American Church of the Holy Trinity in Paris 2017.201 – Marcia Abbott, Custer City, PA: From the service of Sgt. Roy Stewart Say, Headquarters Co., 314th Field Artillery, 80th Division,

AEF. Silk Postcard Additional materials will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material or


• History and Rhymes of the Lost Battalion

• Photographs

• Tourist Postcards 2017.202 – Robert Vaughn Jr. – Pleasant Hill, MO: Colored postcard – SS California 2017.203 – Jerry Lipstreu, Corpus Christi, TX: From the service of 2nd Lt. Howard I. Lipstreau, Camp Jesup, Atlanta, GA Book: 1919 The Purple Cord: Motor Transport Corps, Camp Jesup, Atlanta, GA 2017.204 – Purchase: Helmet and Tunic – Garde Captain – Austrian Imperial & Royal 1st K.u.K. Arcierenleib Garde –

personal household guard of Emperor Franz Joseph, 2 Austria period 1906-1919 2017.205 – Mike Gunderson, Arlington Heights, IL: Rifle, Imperial Russian, Mosin-Nagant, M1891, dated 1902; serial number 36767; Rifle, German, GeW88; serial number 9527; Spandau Arsenal 1890; Rifle, French, Lebel Model 1886-93; serial number 51202; Tulle Arsenal; with cruciform bayonet

and scabbard; Rifle, Austro-Hungarian, Stutzen M95 (Mannlicher GeW); serial number 872; Budapest, 1909.

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2017.206 – Marlene Bailey, Chicago, IL: Shell art vase, made from British 18 pounder shell casing; etched decorations include: Souvenir

of Dunkirk, 1914-1919, a kangaroo and an Australian flag; [note Australian Air Units were stationed at Dunkirk].

2017.207 – Frank Jardon, Kansas City, MO: Revolver, US; Army Model 1917; Colt D.A., .45 caliber; marked with Colt patent dates. 2017.208 – James J. Hurne, Executor for the Francis E. Turner Family, Carthage, SD: Tobacco carrier, US; The Makings brand, made by Scoban Company, NY; canvas tobacco pouch

part stamped for distribution by the Knights of Columbus; metal lid contains cigarette rolling papers and matches marked for the Knights of Columbus; pouch contains remnants of tobacco;

Portable inkwell, British; Ransome’s Patent; folds into a metal carrier; rim of glass inkwell broken;

Small straight razor, in box brand name The Griffon. 2017.209 – Robert Bloch, Mission Hills, KS: Souvenir pillow cover, US; made of wool felt appliqued with USA, eagle, crossed cannon barrels,

105 (for 105th Field Artillery) and Camp Wadsworth (Spartanburg, SC). 2017.210 – Don Brown, Garnett, KS: Book: For Home and Country: Thrilling Stories of the Great War 2017.211 – William F. Bradley, Jr., Overland Park, KS: The War Illustrated

• vol 6, no 133: 03 March 1917

• vol 3, no 65: 13 November 1915 Additional materials will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material or


• The War Illustrated - vol 6, no 140: 21 April 1917 2017.212 – Dr. Sandy Woodside, Independence, MO: Sheet Music

• Good-Bye France: You’ll Never be Forgotton by the U.S.A. by Sgt. Irving Berlin

• Buy a Bond Buy a Bond for Liberty: Help Our Boys Across the Sea by Erle Threlkeld Additional materials will not be accessioned, but accepted to be used as educational material or

to benefit the Museum. 2017.213 – Roger Dodson, Kansas City, MO: Fragment from the Pantheon de la Guerre

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2017.214 – Matt Otto, Penn Valley, CA: From the service of Melville Jones, 116th Engineers, 41st Division, AEF.

Photo Album Journal/Diary Program: One Year in France Camp Newspaper: The Pick and Shovel: Volume 1, Number 13, Friday, December 13, 1918 Letters Pamphlet: Facts about the War: A Bulletin of Information published by the Paris Chamber of

Commerce, November 1918 – Number 88 Miscellaneous Ephemera

2017.215 - Zena Reels Ervin and Michael and Melissa Tozzi, Oakdale, CA: 33 Page Letter written home to family from Coblenz, Germany

2017.216 – Leslie Kennedy, Braselton, GA: From the service of Lt. William N. Stradtman, 147th Infantry, 37th Division, AEF.

Menu: Christmas Day 1918, Base Hospital #27 Diary/Journal


• Civilian Portrait of William N. Stradtman

2017.217 – John Cutler, Houston, TX: From the service of 2nd Lt. John Marvin Hewett, Quartermaster Corps, AEF.

Photographs Postcards Letters Telegrams


• Non-World War I materials

2017.218 – Fred Greguras, Menlo Park, CA: Original materials related to the research on the 1916 state mobilization camps when the

national guard of each state was called up for Mexican border service


• Non-original materials

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2017.219 – Amy Jensen, Riverside, MO: From the service of Alma Jensen, Army Nurse Corps

Overseas cap, American Legion, South Dakota; No. 28; medals and badges attached, left to right: US Victory Medal, badge for Mrs. Alma Burke Jensen, 21st Annual Convention of American Legion, South Dakota Dept. 1941, Huron; badge for 1939 convention, Chicago, IL; label on sweat band for the American Legion, Indianapolis

Photographs Card – American Red Cross Nursing Service Certificate – German Hospital of Chicago Certified Copy – Assigned to Active Service Special Orders and Memo related to discharge from active service Army Nurse Corps Service Record Grant Hospital Alumnae Association Correspondence

2017.220 – Purchase: Poster – Oeuvre du soldat belge

2017.221 – Tim Slattery, in honor of Roger and Jane Slattery, Santa Cruz, CA: Rifle, Italian; Vetterli-Vitali; made at Terni Arsenal, 1889; serial number K03349; Rifle, Swiss; Schmidt-Rubin; Model 1911; 7.5mm; serial number 290487; wood strip on top

stock replaced 2003.

2017.222 - Jane Patricia Millnamow Blackburn, Leawood, KS: From the childhood of the donor’s father, James Patrick Millnamow:

19 Toy soldiers, also called dime store figures (metal) and supporting items: The searchlight, anti-aircraft gunner and bicyclist are marked for the Manoli Company which

started business in 1924; The seated figure and kneeling nurse were made by Barclay Company, founded in 1924; no

markings are evident on the other figures or items.

2017.223 – Mary Ann Bassett, Thornton, CO: From the service of Albert Knox, US Army Quartermaster Corps:

Cook’s uniform, US, white cotton: jacket, undershirt, trousers, cap; made by Marcus Ruben, Chicago;

Notebook with hand-written entries on kitchen procedures and recipes.

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2017.224 – David Nolte, Olathe, KS: From the service of Ehme Henry Nolte:

Cook’s uniform, US, white cotton: jacket, trousers, cap, apron

From William Nolte: Fur coat, US, made by McKibbin, Driscoll & Dorsey, Saint Paul, MN.

2017.225 – Susanne Teel, Leawood, KS: Toy BB gun, Number 40 Military Style, made by the Daisy Manufacturing Company, Plymouth,

Michigan.

2017.226 – Susan Talbot-Stanaway, Zanesville, OH: World War 1 period tobacco flannel quilt in excellent condition; 78 x 81 inches; constructed of

numerous tobacco flannels in three sizes, tied with thin cotton string, with no batting, and backed with red cotton. There is a rectangular inner border of pine green wool; no identification of the maker.

2017.227 – Barbara Rand, Gaithersburg, MD: From the service of Corporal Myron Chapin, Battery E, 328th Field Artillery, 85th Division

5 Pen and Ink Drawings by Myron Chapin