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The minds and nerves of soldiers : memory turns back to experiences of 1917-1918-1919: manuscript

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Description: This is a typed manuscript copy, in two volumes, of Hanes' book which was published in 1941 by the Login Press in Pasadena, California. In it, Hanes records his personal and professional experiences serving as a medical officer during World War I. His personal war narrative includes: the transition from civilian to military life, and from his practice as a private physician to a United States Army neuropsychiatrist; his voyage by boat, foot, and train from the US to his final destination at a military hospital in Vichy, France; military life both on US and French bases, and an account of his experience living in wartime France; his reflections upon the causes and consequences of the war, and feelings about Armistice Day celebrations.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1940.
Call number: mssHM 74827
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World War I photograph album: "Photographic History of the A.E.F. in France, 1917-1919."

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An album of 36 photographs (5 x 7 inches) with detailed, typed captions pasted below. Views show American soldiers in France during World War I; battle scenes; war dead; one view of King George V decorating an American soldier; bombed buildings; French villagers with soldiers; women in military service; a parade of soldiers in New York. The album compiler is unidentified and the photographs are uncredited, though appear to have been made by a professional photojournalist or military photographer, based on proximity to battle action. Album has typed title: "Photographic History of the A.E.F. in France, 1917-1919" on the first page.

photCL 555

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1917 March-1919 January

Manuscripts

The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay (Henry E. Huntington's sister Caroline married Edmund Burke Holladay), and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. There is a series about Henry E. Huntington and his family that includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and physical objects. There is material related to the Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and the Pacific Electric Railway Company as well as other businesses in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley, California. This material includes business records, account books, annual reports, correspondence, maps, tracts, balance sheets, and others. There is also material related to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens including auction catalogs, invoices, receipts, and bills for art and rare books, and information regarding a lawsuit about Huntington's estate tax after his death, and the passing of Proposition 15, in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. There is also material related to Collis P. Huntington and his business interests and Arabella Huntington. The largest series contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning approximately 1790 to 1950. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.

mssHEH

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1917 December-1919 May

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mssHEH

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Dance Notes: Turning Mind (1966). 1 item

Manuscripts

Binders: These binders were created by Forrest Coggan himself. They contain photographs, manuscripts, blue prints and designs, letters, etc. The binders has four sub-series: Forrest Designs, Photos-Career, Words-Career, and Correspondence. These binders cover Forrest's childhood, his experience in the US Army, his dance career, and his work as a designer, etc. (1923-2006). The binders have an index. The Correspondence series contains letters between Forrest and his family (chiefly his mother Blanche Coggan), other dancers, ex-students, authors, professors, and dance departments at universities in the United States.

mssCoggan

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1918 August-1919

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Much of the collection consists of correspondence from the offices of the Yellow Aster Mining and Milling Co. in Los Angeles, California to its mining facility in Randsburg, California. The correspondence (including telegrams) often discusses billing expenses, supplies, and the operations of the mine. Individuals frequently represented in the correspondence include Albert Ancker (Vice President of Yellow Aster), Arthur Asher (President of Yellow Aster), H.L. Bennett, Rose La Monte Burcham, J.H. Farrell, Mr. Manby, George W. Paymal (Superintendent of the Yellow Aster), George W. Schilling, and Mr. Woodling.

mssHM 64149-64257

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1917-1918 July

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mssHM 64149-64257

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