Armed Forces--Military life
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Camp de Mailly watercolor sketchbook
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151034394142]
Identifier: MS-1025
Abstract
This watercolor sketchbook was created by a French soldier at Camp de Mailly during the summer of 1915. The sketchbook shows scenes of military camp life and the surrounding landscape.
Dates:
1915 June-1915 August
Found in:
Special Collections
Harry T. Hyndman scrapbook
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151033487012]
Identifier: MS-0752
Abstract
Henry Harry Tuck Hyndman (1876-1942) came from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and served a brief service as an artillery soldier in the Spanish-American War in Puerto Rico 1898. This item is a bulging and dynamic album kept by Hyndman. The 80-page scrapbook includes programs, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, broadsides, souvenir medals, letters, and other manuscript items. An army-issued hardtack biscuit with manuscript annotations is included, glued to one of the pages. The scrapbook spans 1893...
Dates:
1893-1908
Found in:
Special Collections