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Freidenker (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)University of Cincinnati--Archives and Rare Books LibraryMilwaukee, Wisconsin, German-language newspaper covering the years of World War ...Home front; Battlefront & experiences of armed forces; Nationalism & immigrantsNewspapersSouthwest
George Dales Vallen Senior Papers, 1916-2013The University of Akron, University Libraries, Archival ServicesPapers document George's life and military service from December 1916 through April 13, 1919, including letters sent to his family and diaries kept ...Battlefront & experiences of armed forces; Home front; Ohio military units; Postwar experiencesDiaries & journals; Correspondence; Photographs & postcards; Books & publicationsNortheast
Goodyear Honor Roll FilesThe University of Akron, University Libraries, Archival ServicesDuring the First World War, Goodyear sent letters to deployed employees and their families asking for photographs of the soldiers in order to make an ...Battlefront & experiences of armed forces; Home frontCorrespondence; Photographs & postcardsNortheast
Gorrell Family PapersOhio History ConnectionA majority of the materials are letters sent during WWI by various members of this Cleveland family, illustrating the experiences of the soldiers and ...Home front; Battlefront & experiences of armed forces; Music, literature, art & propaganda; Women; Postwar experiencesCorrespondence; Photographs & postcards; Scrapbooks; Books & publicationsCentral
Gramm-Bernstein Motor Truck Company (Lima, Ohio)Bowling Green State University--Center for Archival CollectionsPhotographs, with photocopies of supporting newspaper articles, related to the Liberty truck produced by the Gramm-Bernstein Motor Truck Company ...Home front; Technology & innovations; Manufacturing & industryPhotographs & postcards; NewspapersNorthwest
Gray and Hoover LettersNorth Canton Heritage SocietyExchange of approximately 40 letters between soldier Gray and his mentor, the president of the Hoover Company (maker of vacuum cleaners) from Gray's ...Home front; Battlefront & experiences of armed forces; Ohio military units; Manufacturing & industry; Notable OhioansCorrespondence; Photographs & postcardsNortheast
Harry H. Hamilton WWI Letters Ohio History ConnectionApproximately 70 letters, mostly written by Hamilton to his father, brother and sister, often covering the same period and events, but written to ...Home front; Battlefront & experiences of armed forcesCorrespondenceCentral
Harvey Dressler CollectionWright State University--Special Collections and Archives Harvey Dressler was a civil engineer in the Dayton area owning the firm of Cellarius and Dressler Engineering. The Harvey Dressler Collection consists ...Home front; Manufacturing & industryPhotographs & postcards; Maps; Books & publications; CorrespondenceSouthwest
Henry Ellsworth PapersBowling Green State University--Center for Archival CollectionsCorrespondence, membership lists for the Ladies and Men's Red Circle Class, a diary (1917), poems, philosophical and historical writings of a Wood ...Home frontDiaries & journals; Correspondence; Art, music, poetry & essaysNorthwest
Herbert White PapersWard M. Canaday Center for Special Collections, University of ToledoHerbert White of Youngstown, Ohio, entered the United States Army in 1917 and served in France as a Wagoner in Co. B. Ammunition Train. He took part ...Home front; Battlefront & experiences of armed forcesCorrespondence; Photographs & postcards; MapsNorthwest
Honor Roll of Ohio (Stark County Edition)Alliance Historical SocietyThis 609-page reference work includes photographs and brief biographies of soldiers from Stark County who served in ...Home front; Ohio military units; Mobilization, conscription, draft & trainingBooks & publicationsNortheast
Hoover Historical Center CollectionWalsh University--Hoover Historical CenterRelevant items include a WWI Army uniform and issues of the Newsy News (later renamed the Hoover News). The Newsy News was an internal publication ...Battlefront & experiences of armed forces; Home frontNewspapers; Uniforms & equipmentNortheast
Jacob Godfrey Schmidlapp PapersUniversity of Cincinnati--Archives and Rare Books LibraryThis collection contains speeches, letters, and other materials relating to Schmidlapp's personal, business, and philanthropic interests. The ...Home front; Anti-German sentiment; Nationalism & immigrantsCorrespondenceSouthwest
Jeffrey Family Collection of World War I Glass SlidesThe Ohio State University Rare Books and Manuscripts LibraryThe collection includes selections from several different sets, created during the war for the purposes of documentation, education and propaganda. ...Battlefront & experiences of armed forces; Casualities; Education; Health, disease, medicine & rehabilitation; Home frontArtifacts & objects; Photographs & postcardsCentral
Junior James Montgomery CollectionOhio History ConnectionManuscript/image material includes “Billets and Bullets” booklet, “The 37th Bit” (account of war experience), currency, a military discharge, ...Home front; Battlefront & experiences of armed forcesBooks & publications; Photographs & postcards; Military records; Artifacts & objectsCentral
Karl H. Kugel LettersSandusky LibraryTranscribed copies of letters written to family members in Sandusky, Ohio, by Karl H. Kugel while in military service during World War I. (Originals ...Home front; Battlefront & experiences of armed forcesCorrespondenceNorthwest
Letters Concerning the Name ChangeNorth Canton Heritage SocietyLetters, mainly to the Hoover Company, either encouraging the name change from New Berlin to North Canton or congratulating them after the ...Home front; Politics & civil liberties; Anti-German sentimentCorrespondenceNortheast
Liberty Cook BookPublic Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton CountyRecipes published by Cincinnati's Woman's City Club, gathered by members of the Household Arts Departments at the University of Cincinnati and public ...Home front; Agriculture & food; WomenBooks & publicationsSouthwest
Madness!: A Call to Arms for Cincinnati in World War IPublic Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Scrapbook containing black and white photographs and miscellaneous papers from 1917-1919, mounted on blank pages. ...Causes of WWI; Home front; Music, literature, art & propagandaPhotographs & postcards; ScrapbooksSouthwest
Mary Miller Hayes Photograph CollectionRutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & MuseumCollection focusing on Mary Miller Hayes, her siblings, parents, first and second husbands, travels with Col. Webb C. Hayes, as well as her ...Home front; Health, disease, medicine & rehabilitation; Women; Commemoration & memoryPhotographs & postcardsNorthwest
Middletown NewspapersMiddletown Historical Society35mm microfilm of the Middletown Journal and Middletown Signal-News during the war ...Home front; Battlefront & experiences of armed forces; Manufacturing & industry; Mobilization, conscription, draft & trainingNewspapersSouthwest
Name Change PamphletNorth Canton Heritage SocietyPamphlet distributed by the Hoover Company to townspeople to encourage the changing of the town's name from New Berlin to North ...Home front; Politics & civil liberties; Anti-German sentimentBooks & publicationsNortheast
National Women’s Liberty Loan Committee PamphletsMac-A Cheek Foundation for the Humanities at Piatt CastlesItems include literature from the National Women’s Liberty Loan Committee including sample speeches from men and women, a 1918 Treasury Department ...Home front; Music, literature, art & propaganda; Economics & finance; Women; Anti-German sentimentBooks & publicationsNorthwest
New Berlin PhotographsNorth Canton Heritage SocietyIndividual photographs, including a 1917 send-off to local soldiers, a Liberty Bond banner hung over the Hoover Co. building, cars loaded with ...Home front; Ohio military unitsPhotographs & postcardsNortheast
Newspaper CollectionPublic Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton CountyEnglish and German-language newspapers published in Cincinnati, including the Enquirer, Post, Times-Star, Commercial Tribune, Freie Presse, ...Causes of WWI; Outcomes of WWI; Home front; Battlefront & experiences of armed forces; Music, literature, art & propagandaNewspapersSouthwest