Call Number:

C0008

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

1 box

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); R. Ridgely Lytle World War I Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1915-1916 (inclusive)

Creator:

Lytle, R. Ridgely, 1891-1980

Form:

Correspondence -- 20th century, Memorabilia -- 20th century., photographs -- 20th century, and Postcards -- 20th entury.

Abstract:

Consists of World War I memorabilia, letters, photographs, and documents collected by R. Ridgely Lytle (Princeton Class of 1913) when he was a delegate in the province of Luxembourg for the Commission for Relief in Belgium and, later, a member of the American ambulance drivers in France.

R. Ridgely Lytle was an Episcopal clergyman, pyschologist, and one of the founders of the American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry.

The collection consists of World War I memorabilia, letters, photographs, and documents collected by Lytle (Princeton Class of 1913) when he was a delegate in the province of Luxembourg for the Commission for Relief in Belgium and, later, a member of the American ambulance drivers in France. Included is a catalog of an exhibition of these and other materials held at Princeton University Library in 1916.