World War, 1914-1918
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Also known as World War I or The Great War
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Bertha Kate Gaddis diaries
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2022-047
Dates:
1906-1937, 1945-1946
Julius L. Born correspondence
Collection — Box Communal Collections 3, Placement: 21
Identifier: MSA 58
Scope and Contents
Typed versions of thirteen letters that Lieutenant Julius L. Born wrote home to his parents while stationed in France during World War I.
Dates:
circa 1914 - 1918
Charles R. Brouse collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSA 391
Content Description
Materials created by or about Charles R. Brouse, including an extensive journal of his experience serving in Europe during World War I. Also includes photographs, news clippings, and the Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicator of October 12, 1918.
Dates:
1917 - 1942
Berwyn E. Brown photographs
Collection — Box Communal Collections 56, Placement: 04
Identifier: MSP 230
Abstract
Photographs documenting Purdue University campus and buildings, and the military training of Berwyn E. Brown as part of the Indiana National Guard's artillery unit Battery B.
Dates:
1935
College of Agriculture Extension reports
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 59
Abstract
Annual reports compiled by the Indiana Agricultural Agents and Home Demonstration Agents and beginning in the 1960s, the Cooperative Extension Agents
Dates:
1913 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1969; Other: Date acquired: 01/10/2010
Drew Young collection of World War posters
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20190314
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1917 - 1918
James Byron Manson World War I diary
Unprocessed — Box Communal Accessions 50
Identifier: 2022-075
Dates:
circa 1918 - 1919
Maxwell E. McDowell diary
Collection — Box Communal Collections 31, Placement: 07
Identifier: MSF 256
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one folder which contains a typescript of correspondence written by Maxwell Erwin McDowell in France during World War I.
Dates:
1917
Glennard Miller photo album
Collection — Box Communal Collections 56, Placement: 08
Identifier: MSA 348
Scope and Contents
The Glennard Miller scrapbook contains 24 pages of photographs affixed to black paper documenting student life at Purdue in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Images include campus scenes, student activities, sporting events, military band, and steam engine lab, as well as photographs documenting the incident of Harry Weinshank being run off campus by his classmates for repeatedly impersonating a military officer.
Dates:
1914 - 1921
Robert Pancoast and Janet Cassady collection of World War I panoramic photographs
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 264
Scope and Contents
Two panoramic photographs of World War I maintenance training groups at Purdue, photographed by O.L. Foster. One is identified as "Training Detachment Co. A" and the other is "Training Detachment - Third Encampment, close column of companies."
Dates:
October 4, 1918
Purdue University training detachment photograph
Unprocessed — Box 1
Identifier: 20181024
Dates:
December 4, 1918
Purdue World War I announcements and publications collection
Collection — Box Communal Collections 53, Placement: 01
Identifier: MSP 251
Scope and Contents
The Purdue World War I announcements and publications collection contains several publications regarding the assistance Purdue provided to the United States during its involvement in World War I. Other publications within the collection relate to life at Purdue during this period.
Dates:
1917 - 1919
Samuel M. Saltmarsh papers, addition 01
Unprocessed — Box Communal Accessions 39
Identifier: 2022-009
Dates:
1889 - 1927
Tippecanoe County Extension Homemakers records
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20190808.1
Dates:
1913 - 2019
World War I flyers collection
Collection — Box Communal Collections 1: Series UA 176, Series 3, Placement: 03
Identifier: MSP 253
Scope and Contents
The World War I flyers collection contains an assortment of World War I flyers and advertisements encouraging citizens to buy government bonds and help support the military during the War.
Dates:
1918
World War I training unit panoramic photograph
Unprocessed — Box 01
Identifier: 20180925
Dates:
1914 - 1918