A Guide to Postcard Albums, Portraits and other World War I Miscellany 1915-1923 World War I, Miscellany, 1915-1923 10875-g

A Guide to Postcard Albums, Portraits and other World War I Miscellany 1915-1923

A Collection in
The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 10875-g

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

10875-g

Title

Postcard Albums, Portraits and other World War I Miscellany 1915-1923

Physical Characteristics

7 items

Language

English

Abstract

The collection contains a postcard album, ca. 1920-1921, of scenes from a battlefield tour from Rheims to Soissons; a military Christmas card; a printed copy of the address of Major General James G. Harbord at the dedication of Belleau Wood; a program for an entertainment in Atlanta under the auspices of the Atlanta War Camp Community Service; a flier for a pictorial history of the war; and "The Army and Navy Needle Book."

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Postcard albums, portraits and other World War I miscellany, 1915-1947, in the Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection, accession #10947-g,-h,-i, Special Collections Dept, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This material was given to the Library on May 15, 1991, by Matthew Bruccoli of Columbia, South Carolina.

Scope and Content Information

This addition to the Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection consists of seven items, ca. 1915-1923, and include the following: a postcard album (ca. 1920-1921) with scenes of Westminister Abbey, The Cenataph, Paris, and Rheims, after the war, apparently collected while on one of Cook's Automobile Tours in Paris and Environs and through the Battlefields of France and Belgium; a typed letter from M.H. Lazarus Company to A.C. Seabrook, December 14, 1915, concerning business, prepared on an advertising flyer for the "Southern Commercial Congress"; a military Christmas Card from Rex E.E., December 3, 1918, with Christmas wishes and a note of his arrival home; a printed "Address of Major General James G. Harbord, U.S. Army Dedication of Belleau Wood" (July 22, 1923); a program, [1918] March 17, for an event at the Atlanta Auditorium prepared by the Atlanta War Camp Community Service; an advertisement flyer for the book, U.S. Official Pictures of the World War ; and "The Army and Navy Needle Book."