Scrapbook, 1917-1919

File — Box: 2, Folder: 18

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

From the Collection:

Travel scrapbooks kept by Edwin S. Gillette from Cuba, 1905, Jamaica, 1906, and Europe and Egypt, 1922; and a scrapbook kept by Flora Spence Gillette commemorating her trips around the United States and abroad with dried flowers, leaves, and other vegetation. World War I letters and memorabilia from Paul Gillette when he served with the Medical Department of the Quartermaster Corps, American Expeditionary Force, to his family, 1917-1918, including letters from the U.S. Army Medical Officers Training Camp, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., the Young Men's Christian Association of the United States National War Work Council, the YMCA of the City of New York Army Branch, and Evacuation Hospital #6. Also, portrait of Edwin S. Gillette by Professor I. P. Church.

Dates

1917-1919

Creator

From the Collection: Gillette family. (Family)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

1.1 cubic feet.

Additional Description

Abstract

Postcards, clippings, telegrams, one page of photographs. The letters contained in this scrapbook are from Sergeant Paul Gillette to his father, Edwin S., and his brothers, Edwin S. ("Red") and Douglas and to Art Dean (Arthur Hobson Dean, (C.U.'19.) Several letters and telegrams were sent from Fort Slocum, N.Y., Camp Greenleaf of Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, but the majority were sent from France before November 18, 1918, probably at Souilly, Meuse, while Gillette was with the Quartermaster Corps, Medical Department, American Expeditionary Force, Evacuation Hospital No.#6. The rest of the letters were sent from Coblenz (on the Rhine River) Germany, while Gillette was with the Quartermaster Corps., Army of the Occupation, Third Army, Evacuation Hospital #27.