Subject: World War, 1914-1918 -- Sources - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)
Abstract:: Collection includes two letters; "Diary of the War" an English translation of news items from "Dresdner Nachtrichten" and "Dresdener Anzeiger"; and articles and half-tone images about World War I from U.S. and foreign periodicals.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: .25 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:: The collection contains the correspondence of John Morrison Michener (1894-1986), Quaker high school chemistry teacher from Wichita, Kansas, who served as a medic in France during WWI. His letters provide detailed descriptions of his training in Camp Funston, Kansas, and his service in field hospitals in France and in a hospital in Bitburg, Germany, after the end of the War.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Extent:: 0.5 linear ft. (6 linear in.)
Abstract:: Includes miscellaneous correspondence; two oversize scrapbooks (ca. 1914-1919) which contain correspondence (some with her relative, Kate Kelsey); articles and half-tone images from U.S. and foreign periodicals about World War I; small posters; sheet music; and material about Woodrow Wilson's 1916 presidential campaign and the Women's March for Woodrow Wilson in Washington D.C., ca. 1917; also small amounts of secondary material relating to the American Friends Service Committee, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Arbitration and Peace Society of Pennsylvania, the American Union Against Militarism, the U.S. Democratic Party and the American Friends Reconstruction Unit.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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