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Diary of Thomas C. Key (Musician, 357th Infantry Band, American Expeditionary Forces)
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P648
Overview
This World War I diary of Thomas Clarke Key documents his military service from 1917 to 1919 as a musician in the 357th Infantry Band of the American Expeditionary Forces, including his tour of duty from 1918 to 1919 in France and Germany. Included are Key's notes of his subsequent civilian employment in Kansas from June 1919 to 1949, and notes of his Key family history.
Dates:
1917-1919, with additions to 1949
Grant-Bradbury family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 965
Overview
The Grant-Bradbury Family Papers are those of Mary Amelia Grant, a professor of classical languages at the University of Kansas at Lawrence from 1921 to 1960. The collection contains many of the donor's personal papers, but is largely comprised of correspondence, diaries, legal documents, and photographs which document the lives of her parents and maternal grandparents of Topeka, Kansas, her father's Grant family ancestors of Livingston County, Michigan, and her mother's Bradbury ancestors of...
Dates:
1716 - 1987
Hayden family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1159
Overview
Willard Hayden served with the United States Army Medical Corps in France during World War I. This collection contains Mr. Hayden's correspondence to his family and photographs taken in Europe during his service. The collection also contains documents and extensive photographs relating to his daughter Pauline Nunemaker's ancestors, genealogy, and family history.
Dates:
1833 - 2002
Henry John Weltmer papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 23
Scope and Contents
The collection contains records, papers and photographs of Weltmer's military and business careers, along with family papers and memorabilia. Over the years, Weltmer kept copies of war correspondence and journals of the 137th Infantry and later the 130th Field Artillery activities. These records are a part of the collection. For additional photographs from the Henry J. Weltmer collection, see RH Ms-P23.
Dates:
1905 - 1956
Letters of Forrest W. Bassett (Company A, 6th Field Battalion, U.S. Signal Corps), while in training at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 612
Overview
This collection consists of eighty-one letters and two postcards written from July 1917 to May 1918 by U.S. Army Signal Corpsman Forrest W. Bassett of Beloit, Wisconsin, while stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Most of Bassett's letters are to Ava Marie Shaw of Beloit, to whom he writes of his affection and of his drills and training for World War I military service as a radio operator.
Dates:
1917 - 1918
Letters to Grace Hasson (Mrs. Henry) Pitcher, chiefly World War I letters from her brother James Hasson (Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, 51st Infantry, 6th Division, Company M)
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P691
Overview
This collection of sixteen letters is comprised chiefly of those written by World War I soldier James Hasson to his sister Grace. A native of Kansas, Hasson writes from France of his combat experiences with Company M of the U.S. Army's 51st Infantry, recounting German air raids, his hospitalization from machine gun wounds, his engagement in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, and his company's bewilderment at cessation of enemy gunfire on Armistice Day.
Dates:
1917-1919, 1927
World War I letters from David Lupher, U.S. Army, 137th Infantry
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P693
Overview
A collection of nineteen letters written from World War I soldier David Lupher (U.S. Army, 137th Infantry Regiment) to his family members. Lupher, a resident of Lawrence (Douglas County), Kansas, writes chiefly to his sister Dora, describing his training at Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, and his later combat duty in France.
Dates:
1917 - 1919
World War I letters of Pfc. Walter F. Bopp
Collection
Call Number: MS P642
Overview
Walter F. Bopp was born October 19, 1892 in Dallas, Texas to Swiss emigrants Jacob and Mary Bopp. During World War I, he served in its American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) as Private First Class (Pfc.) in Company F of the U. S. Army's 359th Infantry. The collection's twenty-five letters relate to Private Bopp's military service in France. Eleven letters from Private Bopp, dating from 1918 to 1919, are to his parents, his sister Annie, and his fiancée, Lura Budrow, all of Dallas. His letters are...
Dates:
1918 - 1921
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- United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces 2
- United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 137th 2
- Bassett, Ave Marie Shaw, 1903-1992 1
- Bassett, Forrest W., 1897-1985 1
- Bateman family 1
- Bohrnstedt, Jennifer Cain 1
- Bopp, Walter F., 1892-1986 1
- Bradbury family. 1
- Bradbury, Mary Brown, 1823-1898 1
- Bradbury, Timothy, 1781-1839 1
- Bradbury, William H., 1829-1900 1
- Broat family 1
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- Galbraith family 1
- Grant family. 1
- Grant, Elisha Wilcox, 1823-1904 1
- Grant, Emerson Warren, 1848- 1
- Grant, Jennie Bradbury, 1854-1930 1
- Grant, Mary A. (Mary Amelia), 1890-1987 1
- Griffith,, Kate , 1854-1902 1
- Hall, Frederick Lee, 1916-1970 1
- Hanna family 1
- Hasson family. 1
- Hasson, James (James Edward), 1891?-1940 1
- Hayden family 1
- Hayden, Willard, 1893-1987 1
- Hiawatha Daily World (Newspaper) 1
- Kansas Democrat (Newspaper) 1
- Kansas. Militia 1
- Key family. 1
- Key, Thomas C. (Thomas Clarke), 1896-1959 1
- Lupher family. 1
- Lupher, David, 1896- 1
- Lupher, LaDora, 1893- 1
- McFarland family 1
- Nunemaker, Pauline 1
- Peyrot, Marco 1
- Pitcher, Grace Hasson, 1878?- 1
- United States. Army. Division, 35th 1
- United States. Army. Field Signal Battalion, 6th. Company A 1
- United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 129th (1862-1865) 1
- United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 357th 1
- Venable family. 1
- Weltmer family 1
- Weltmer, Henry John, 1887-1956 1 ∧ less
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