Visual Materials
Primarily photographs from a number of collections that detail life at home and in the military during World War I.
Collections
Ambulances in line along road;
Guyor Wilner
Osgood visual
materials series, Scrapbook.
James D. Bruce Photograph Series
Physician and army officer during World War I, later faculty member in the University of Michigan Medical School and University administrator. Portraits, family photos, and photos relating to Bruce's World War I service.
Fort Custer Photograph Collection
Photographs showing activities during World War I, including classroom views, field ceremonies, and various military personnel; also photo of the Community House, 1919.
Renville Wheat Photograph Series
Resident of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Photographs of Wheat, Florence Mack, and other Ann Arbor High School (Mich.) students (ca. 1910s); photo of Wheat and three friends in World War I uniform; group photos of Ann Arbor High School student organizations; photographs of Whitmore Lake (Mich.); and photograph of the 200 block of Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, ca. 1880s.
Charles Bruce Vibbert Photograph Series
Professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan. Photos (most unidentified) of World War I aviators.
Theodore Wesley Koch Photograph Series
Librarian at the Library of Congress, University of Michigan and Northwestern University, and bibliophile. Portraits, photos of Koch with various groups; also collected photos of library buildings (including interiors), and photos documenting efforts of professional organizations to provide library services to immigrant groups and to soldiers serving in World War I.
Finding Aid available online.
Frederick A. Coller Photograph Series
Professor of surgery in the medical school of the University of Michigan, surgeon in British and French military hospitals during World War I. Portrait, photos of World War I hospitals, and views of Britain and France; also group photos of University of Michigan surgery staff.
Allen F. Sherzer Visual Materials Collection
Professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan, First Lieutenant 301st Field Artillery during World War I. Visual and other materials of Allen Sherzer and members of the Sherzer family; include photograph, 1880s, of the Delta Upsilon fraternity that included William H. Sherzer; scrapbook of clippings, postcards, and French and German language posters (originally folded, now in oversize folder), and negatives, 1917-1918 taken during his World War I service with the 301st Field Artillery, at Fort Niagara, N.Y., Camp Devens, Mass., and in France; photograph, 1940s, of University of Michigan reunion group; and film, ca. 1928-1930, of University of Michigan student activities and Ann Arbor scenes.
Finding Aid available online.
Wounded soldiers aboard transport train car;
Theodore Wesley Koch papers, box
12,
Folder: World War 1914-1918, Miscellaneous.
Harold A. Furlong Visual Material Series
Pontiac, Michigan, physician, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient in 1919, medical director of the Selective Service of Michigan, and director of the Michigan Council of Defense, 1940-1942. Family and career-related photos, photos of Furlong as a student at Michigan Agricultural College, photos of a 1911 William Howard Taft visit to Pontiac, photos of John J. Pershing presenting the Medal of Honor to Furlong, and film made for Armed Forces Day, 1959.
William K. Pommerening Photograph Series
Member of Co. E, 126th Infantry (Michigan National Guard) in World War I; 1916 graduate of the University of Michigan College of Engineering. Group portraits of members of the 126th Infantry; group portraits of reunions of the University of Michigan Engineering Class of 1916; group photo of University of Michigan Outing Club (1937).
Andrew Babicki Photograph Series
Resident of Dearborn, Mich., collector of documents relating to Michigan's role in World War I. Photographs and post cards of Camp Custer, Mich., group photos of members of 32nd Division in the Army of Occupation in Germany, 1919; 160th Depot Brigade, Camp Custer; 107th Supply Battalion; 330th Field Artillery; and survivors of the troop ship Tuscania; portraits of members of 339th and 340th Infantry; photos of 126th and 128th Infantry in scrapbook of Ernest Kaser; postcard of military parade in Flint, Mich.; 330th Field Artillery pennant.
Finding Aid available online.
Louis H. Fead Photograph Series
Associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Portraits; photographs of Fead as part of Masonic and University of Michigan Law School alumni groupings; photo of Fead with Alexander Groesbeck; and photos of Fead in uniform during World War I.
Finding Aid available online.
Edward M. Martinek Scrapbook
Student at the University of Michigan, 1914-1916; sergeant in the U.S. 42nd Division during World War I; graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, 1921. Scrapbook with snapshots of student and military activities.
Crawford Family Photograph Series
Pontiac, Michigan family. Portrait of World War I soldier Harry Crawford; and collection of commercial postcards of views of France and war-related scenes.
Finding Aid available online.
Harry H. Bandholtz Visual Materials Series
Career army officer, brigadier general and chief of the Philippine Constabulary, 1907-1913. Portraits; photos of Philippine life, ca. 1901-1913, including photos depicting activities of the Philippine Constabulary in its campaigns against different insurgent groups; photos of France during World War I and Hungary from period of 1918-1919 revolution; also sketchbook of drawings by members of the class of 1890, U.S. Military Academy; and drawing executed and signed by Geronimo, 1893, while in custody of the army.
119th Field Artillery Photographs
Group photographs of the officers and men of the 119th Field Artillery Regiment stationed at Camp MacArthur, Waco, Texas; also photograph of the officers of the 32nd Division of which the 119th was a part.
YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit Metropolitan Offices Photograph Series
Photographs of various YMCA groups and buildings in the Detroit area; photographs of young men engaged in various physical education and leisure time activities.
Finding Aid available online.
German Grave in Old Trench; Guyor Wilner
Osgood visual
materials series, Scrapbook.
G. W. Osgood Visual Materials Series
Volunteer for the American Field Service, ambulance service to the French Army during World War I, later served with U.S. Army Ambulance Service. Drawings of various buildings in France; photographs of French and American soldiers, ambulance service, trench warfare, and war damage in France, and various scenes of French cities and the countryside; and photos of a "re-visit" to France in 1957.
Aeroplane Division Photograph Album (Fisher Body Corporation)
Photos of airplanes, factory interiors and exteriors, stages of airplane production, and workers.
Anonymous South Haven, Michigan Photograph Album
Unidentified family, presumably residents of South Haven, Michigan. Family snapshots; photographs taken aboard Great Lakes ships; photographs of World War I soldiers; and views of South Haven, Michigan.
Curtis W. MacPhail Photograph Series
Western Michigan banker. Photographs relating to the career of his son, baseball executive Larry MacPhail, including photos of MacPhail with baseball players, photos of his home, photo of Ebbetts Field, and photo of army band during World War I.
Albert J. Engel Visual Material Series
Prosecuting attorney for Missaukee County, Michigan, Republican state senator, and U.S. Congressman from the 9th Michigan District from 1935 to 1951. Portraits; informal photographs of Engel campaigning and on inspection tours following World War II as part of his work with army appropriations congressional committees; postcards and postcard booklets accumulated during World War I (largely French views); and film of 1945 appropriations committee inspection tour.
Finding Aid available online.
Bruce R. McIntyre Photograph Collection
Photographer of Battle Creek, Mich. Photo of warplanes and pilots at the opening of the U.S. War Exposition in Jackson, Mich.
R. J. Woodard Photograph Collection
Group photo of the fourth training detachment at the University of Michigan.
The Happy Side of the Soldier's Life - Student
Aviators at the ground school at Princeton, NJ
singing "Over There" over here;
Theodore
Wesley Koch papers, box
12, Folder:
World War 1914-1918, Miscellaneous.
Wilber M. Brucker Visual Material Series
Prosecuting attorney of Saginaw County, Michigan, attorney general of Michigan, 1929-1931, governor, 1931-1932, general counsel to the Department of Defense during the Army-McCarthy Hearing, 1954-1955, and Secretary of the Army, 1955-1961. Portraits of Brucker and his wife Clara H. Brucker; photos detailing his student and military life, political career, and Knights Templar activities.
Finding Aid available online.
Victor F. Lemmer Photograph Series
Ironwood, Michigan business man and local historian. Photos relating to lumbering activity near Ironwood, Michigan, and to iron exploration and mining; photos of Ironwood businesses, buildings, and social organizations; photos of nearby recreation areas; and photographs of soldiers from Ironwood who served in the World Wars I and II.
Finding Aid available online.
Harry T. Winsemius Photograph Collection
Photograph of University of Michigan Band on parade in Saginaw, Michigan, on behalf of a Liberty Bond drive; also view of Huron River east of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Liberty Bond Poster Collection
Kenneth A. Easlick Photograph Series
Professor of dentistry at the University of Michigan. Photos taken during his World War I service with the United States Army Ambulance Corps, Section 591.
Finding Aid available online.
Ned Stevenson Photograph Collection
Photographs of World War I soldiers, including photos of the hanging of two American soldiers in In-Sur-Tille, France, in March, 1919.
William Smith Bradley Photograph Series
Officer in Co. D, 110th New York Volunteers during the Civil War; later a resident of South Haven, Michigan. Portraits and views of South Haven, Michigan; also, world War I camp photos.
Louis C. Walker
Collection, Oversized Red
Cross Posters
Barkman Family Photograph Series
Family of East Tawas, Iosco County, Michigan. Photographs of lumbering in the Tawas City, Michigan area; gypsum mining at Alabaster, Michigan; views of Camp Custer, Michigan, and group portraits of troops there; and a print of a photographic gallery railroad car.
Durand William Springer Photograph Collection
Ann Arbor, Michigan resident; educational director of the YMCA at Camp Custer, Michigan during World War I, and principal at Ann Arbor High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Album of photographs taken at Camp Custer, showing classroom scenes and other aspects of camp life, panoramic views of grounds and structures, and portraits and photographs of soldiers; also portraits of members of the Springer and Lazelle families.
William E. Barrett Photograph Collection
Soldier in the United States Army during the Mexican Punitive Expedition of 1916-1917 and then in World War I; later Los Angeles fireman. Photographs, tintypes, and postcards of the Barrett family, artillery training. Military service at the Mexican border, in France, and in Germany, and of fire engines; also postcards of Michigan cities.
Latson Family Photograph Series
Ann Arbor, Michigan family. Photos of nurses and soldiers in World War I.
Charles Horton Cooley Photograph Series
Professor of sociology at University of Michigan. Portraits of Cooley and his parents (including prints by E. G. Williams & Bro., H. B. Hall & Sons, and Thomas Nast, Jr.); also photographs of Cooley with colleagues and photographs of family activities.
Finding Aid available online.
James Frederick Lawton Photograph Series
Insurance executive, poet and composer, and University of Michigan alumnus. Photos relating to University of Michigan student and alumni activities and acquaintances; photos of a World War I liberty loan rally; posters of Michigan Union Opera musicals; and collected photo 1880s? of Detroit, Michigan street view showing the old Capital Union School.
Finding Aid available online.
Arthur Armstrong Palmer Photograph Series
Captain in U. S. Army. Album and loose photos depicting military camp life during World War I; family picnic photos (1890s); photos of A. E. Palmer Furniture Manufacturing Company in Adrian and Reading, Michigan; and miscellaneous photographs.
Frank G. Millard Photograph Series
Republican attorney general of Michigan, 1951-1954, general counsel of the Department of the Army. Photos relating to Millard's career in Michigan politics and at the Department of the Army; also to his military service in France during World War I and in California during World War II, his education in Corunna, Michigan and at the University of Michigan, and to his personal interests, especially Masonic; and photos of Millard's father, merchant Frank A. Millard, and his wife, Dorothy McCorkell Millard and her family, who owned a machine shop in Flint, Michigan.
Finding Aid available online.
World War I, German Prisoners of War in the
camp's YMCA Devotional Room, Handforth,
England; Harold S. Gray papers, box 12,
WW1 Prison Camp, Daily Life (2)
Harold Studley Gray Visual Materials Series
Conscientious objector during World Wars I and II and founder of the farming cooperative Saline Valley Farms. Depictions of activities at Saline Valley Farms; photos of Michigan residences and of his work as teacher in China, 1922-1926; and photos of a World War I prisoner of war camp.
Finding Aid available online.
Wystan Stevens Photograph Series
Ann Arbor, Michigan, local historian. Photos of Ann Arbor, Michigan, buildings and homes, businesses, organizations, and local events.
Published Resources
Atkins Engraving Company, Souvenir, Camp Custer, Michigan (Atkins Engraving Co: Battle Creek, Mich, 1918)
University of Michigan, American Posters of the Great War (University of Michigan, Museum of Art: Ann Arbor, 1973)
Souvenir of Camp Custer, Mich (1918)