Library Research Guides: HIST W203 World War I Global War: Lilly Library

Manuscript and Printed Items Digitized by the Lilly Library

Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton's War Charities in France: Mrs. Wharton's General Report from 1914-1918 and Report of the New York Committee from November 1st, 1916 to December 31st, 1917. [New York : s.n., 1918?]
Valentine Edgar Sieveking Pilot's Flying Log Book,1916/1917.Sieveking mss, LMC 2208
Lance Sieveking Photograph Album 8 - August 1916. Sieveking mss, LMC 2208.
Ernest Hemingway to his family, July 21, 1918. Hemingway mss III, LMC 1487.

Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, Propaganda Posters, Maps, and Sheet Music

Each of the printed items listed below is held in the Lilly Library's collections. These links will take you to digital versions from other databases and websites. You can find the Lilly's catalog records for these materials by searching for them in IUCAT.

Hilaire Belloc. Land and Water Map of the War & and How to Use It. London: Land & Water, 1915.
Map of Europe mounted on linen. To be used in conjunction with weekly issues of British magazine Land & Water. Digitized version from the National Library of Australia
Edward Laska. Over Here or Over There. New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1918.
Sheet music from the De Vincent Collection of the Lilly Library. Links to the IN Harmony database.
Siegfried Sassoon. To any dead officer: (who left school for the army in 1914). Cambridge: R.I. Severs, 1917.
War poetry. Digitized version from The First World War Poetry Digital Archive.
In Ruhleben Camp. Berlin: T.A. Barton for the Education Committee of the Englanderlager fur Zivigefangene, 1915.
Issue No. 9, October 1915, from a periodical produced in an internment camp for British civilians on the outskirts of Berlin. Digitized version from the Internet Archive.
The Stars & Stripes. Paris, France: American Expeditionary Forces, 1918-1919.
For solider-contributed content, look for poetry and letters to the editor (often found on p.4). Digitized version from the Library of Congress. Explore issues of the newspaper in the "Collection Items" tab.
Gertrude Atherton. Life in the War Zone. [New York city, System printing co.] c1916.
Digitized version from Cornell University through Hathi Trust.
Max Eastman, ed. The Masses. New York: The Masses Pub. Co., 1911- .
Radical monthly magazine, published from 1911-1917. Editors were accused of sedition for discouraging men from signing up for the draft based on the August 1917 issue. Digitized versions from the Tamiment Library at New York University.
Scott Nearing. The Great Madness: a Victory for the American Plutocracy. New York: The Rand School of Social Science, c1917.
Digitized version from the University of Minnesota through Hathi Trust.
Scott Nearing. The Germs of War: a Study in Preparedness. Saint Louis: The National Rip-Saw Publishing Company, 1916.
Digitized version from Harvard University through Hathi Trust.
Emma Goldman. Preparedness: the Road to Universal Slaughter. New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, [1917?].
Digitized version from the University of Michigan through Hathi Trust.
J. Paul Verrees. Can vegetables, fruit and the Kaiser too write for free book to National Garden Commission, Washington DC. [Washington, DC]: National War Garden Commission, 1918.
Propaganda poster. Digitized version from the Library of Congress.
Sow the Seeds of Victory! James Montgomery Flagg, c1918.
Propaganda poster. Digitized version from the Library of Congress.

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Manuscript and Printed Items Digitized by the Lilly Library

Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, Propaganda Posters, Maps, and Sheet Music

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