Scope and Contents The collection contains military orders, reports, and correspondence covering the years 1911-1918 and a 1913 map of Verdun, France, as well as material on the United States’ “Punitive Expedition” to Mexico in 1916 as well as Col. Atkinson’s service in World War I in France (Wing Commander, United States Army Aviation Corps, First Pursuit Group.) There are several military photographs of soldiers and airplanes taken at the North Island Aviation School in San Diego, Ca. in 1915; Columbus, N....

Scope and Contents This collection contains news clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, broadsides, and pamphlets. Half of the material concerns William Bismarck Bowling and his interest in Alabama politics, mainly Alabama's prohibition campaign of 1909 and the ratification of the 1901 State Constitution. The other half of the collection concerns George R. Bowling, Sr.'s time as a...

Scope and Contents This accession includes correspondence between members of the Cooper-Culbertson family from 1917-1938, with the majority of the letters dating from 1917-1918. Most of these letters were written by Mattie Cooper to Lou Culbertson. One of these letters includes a bank note. Two greeting cards and a partial letter from a family member named Maude are also included in this accession. Common topics discussed in these letters are sickness, property, various family members, farming, and the...

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Collection contains two "Soldier's Diaries" published by the YMCA and written by R.L. Green. Green's Diaries detail his activities, with little blurbs about the significant events of the day. The diaries also contain "Survival guides" for soldiers; sections on how to read French, how to find base camp in the dark, and how to identify officers by badges appear in the front section of the little books. Green's diaries reflect the day-to-day operations of war in brief notes.

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This collection contains photocopies of articles, correspondence, records, and photographs pertaining to Jewish Airmen who served in the United States conflicts occurring from 1914 through 1975. A few photographs appear to be originals. There is one book, Heinz Joachim Nowarra's "The Jew with the Blue Max, along with photocopies of a couple of drawings of the men themselves.

Scope and Contents This collection documents the lives of the Rickenbacker family, particularly Eddie Vernon Rickenbacker. It contains scrapbooks and newspaper clippings, photographs, sound recordings, 16 mm motion pictures, correspondence, diaries, legal documents (original and copies), condolence letters upon Eddie's death, maps, declassified reports to Army Air Force in World War II, other various reports of travels, affidavits taken by movie studio regarding loss of Eddie at sea, publications by and...

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This collection contains correspondence (some original letters and some photocopies), clippings, and military records from Wren's service in World War I.