World War I scrapbook
- Title
- World War I scrapbook
- Description
- A World War I scrapbook (1917-1919) contains letters, photographs, sketches, typescripts, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous printed material relating to Dorothy Repiton Knox's acquaintances and the war in general. Subjects discussed include Chickamauga Park, Camp Greene, the aviation school at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Ga., Fort Riley, Kan., life at home, the air war, medical training at the University of Pennsylvania and the effect of the war on the university's student body, Evacuation Hospital No. 7 of the A.E.F., Red Cross volunteers at the Southern Railway Station in Charlotte, N.C., and activities of the 30th Division of U.S. troops. Photographs and other material in the scrapbook reflect the activities of Miss Knox, Philip Woolcott, Don R. Harris, Vincent E. D. Bragg, William Carey Dowd, Jr., George A. Somarindyck, Howard L. Mingos, Earl E. Pease, and Forrest L. Marsh. Date approximated.
- Date
- 1917-1919
- Original Format
- scrapbooks
- Extent
- 28cm x 35cm
- Local Identifier
- 0180-s8-b17
- Contributor(s)
- Subject(s)
- Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park (Ga. and Tenn.)
- Fort Riley (Kan.)--History
- Soldiers--United States
- Students--Pennsylvania
- University of Pennsylvania--Students
- Flight schools--Georgia--Atlanta
- Railroad stations--North Carolina--Charlotte
- Red Cross and Red Crescent--North Carolina--Charlotte
- World War, 1914-1918--War work
- Spatial
- Location of Original
- East Carolina Manuscript Collection
- Rights
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Military History: World War I
- Location of Original
- Dorothy Repiton Knox Papers from the East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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