World War One (WWI) Historical Documents, Photographs, Etc.

1918-04 Letter to Soldiers of The United States from King George V - Thanking them and bidding them God speed on their mission in the great battle for human freedom.
1918 Letter from King George V to British POW's On Their Release - welcoming home our gallant Officers and Men from the cruelties of their captivity.
1912-1918 Photographs of King George V
- 1912 Portrait
- 1918 King George surrounded by British and French Military Officers
1917-09-20 The World War One Draft - Reporting of the First Draft Lottery
1917-1918 Extracts of a World War I Soldiers' Diary

Unit Histories

1917-1919 346th Infantry, Company C

Rosters

87th Division, 346th Infantry

Documents in the Archives In the Queue For Uploading

Note: The Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives has substantial materials on WWI - including information and photographs of Camp Pike, Camp Grant, Camp Dix, Camp Dodge and others. We have just begun to add our inventory to this website. Thank you for your patience.

1915-08 Current History Magazine, Vol. II, No. 5, New York Times, The European War: One Year of War with article by Arnold Bennett, Pierre Loti, Sven Hedin, M. Maeterlinck, and Fredrich Curtius. Paginated 817-1020. Many war related articles. Photographs and Illustrations included: H. M. Queen Sophia of Greece, His Holiness Benedict XV, General Carlo Caneve, H. I. M. Francis Joseph I, Thomas A. Edison, Judson Maxim, Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice, J. P. Morgan, H. R. H. Prince George, Admiral Sir Henry B. Jackson, Count Zeppelin, General Brich van Falkenhagn, Take Jonesco, Demetrius Gounaris, General Louis Botha and Dr. Anton Meyer-Gerhard.
1916-05 Current History Magazine, Vol. IV, No. 2, New York Times, War related Issue. Paginated 207-398. Articles included: German Submarines, Verdun: The World's Greatest Battle, Full Meaning of Our Position in the Lusitania Case, Status of a Merchant Ship, Women and the European War. Rotogravure Illustrations Included: City of Verdun, Near the Front at Verdun, Typical Regimental Aid Post, Modern Military Accoutrements, Soldiers in Trench Outfit, General Kuropatkin, Dr. Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, David Lloyd George, Lord Robert Cecil, General Charles Townhend.
1917 Bulletin of Information for Persons Registered 1917, War Department, Office Provost Marshall General, Washington Government Printing Office
1917-06-22 Notice of Enrollment Under Military Law, State of New York for Harry Aaron Berger
1919 Booklet: To The Homeward Bound Americans by B. Van Vorst. Printed in France, provides an excellent recap of the the activities of the Allied Expeditionary Force (A. E. F.) and their activities in France.
1919-01 The Century, Volume 97, No. 3: The Roots of the War -- Second Installment; To Light a Cigarette; Zionism and the World Peace; "Intelligence", "For the Duration of the War," And a Long Way Off He Saw Fairyland.
1919-08 Ministry of Food, Purchaser's Shopping Card - Ration card from UK for Butter, Sugar and Spare for 13 Week period commencing 13 Oct 1919 through 5 Jan 1920
1919 Unit History: 346th Infantry Historical Notes 1917-1919 American Expeditionary Forces of the 173rd Brigade, 87th Division. Training at Camp Pike, Arkansas. Includes rosters for all men.
1919 Unit History: 351st Infantry. 88th Division. Trained at Camp Dodge, Iowa. Includes rosters of all men.
1919 Unit History: 88 Division In The World War of 1914-1918. Organization and Training at Camp Dodge, Iowa. Biography of Major-General William Weigel. Arrival in France - Training and Life in the Trenches. After the Armistice. Rosters.
1916 Collier's Photographic History of the European War, by P.F. Collier & Son. Large, coffee-table format (16½" x 12") containing 144 pages. This spectacular account of the Great War includes sketches and drawings made on the battle fields and photographs by the official photographers accompanying each army. Pages 5 through 15 showcase the war's most important individuals. These include great leaders of many countries involved in the war: Czar of Russia Nicholas II; England's King George V; President Raymond Poincare of France; German Emperor and King of Prussia Wilhelm II; Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary Franz Josef I, and many more. These first pages also include several of the war's great military leaders: Supreme Commander of the French Army General Joffre; Commander in Chief of the British Home Fleet Admiral Jellico; German Field Marshal Von Hindenberg; Bavarian General Prince Leopold; and many more. The remainder of the book's pages contain some of the most compelling and riveting photographs of World War I to ever have been taken. Throngs of villagers fleeing the horrors of war, pulling everything they own in horse-drawn carts through the streets; many young soldiers laying dead in the fields or trenches, their final supreme act of allegiance to their homeland forever preserved on film; the weaponry of various countries; troop formations, units, and battalions from various countries in a variety of locations during the war; great ships such as the Sydney (Australian), the Emden (Germany), the Bulwark (England), and many, many more, including a full-page photo of the great British Cunard liner Lusitania, which sunk after being torpedoed by a German submarine and took 1150 non-combatant lives (114 of them American), an act which outraged American citizens and eventually helped to draw the United States into the war. There are trench warfare photos; submarine photos; zeppelin and aeroplane photos; photos of the total destruction of once-thriving cities and towns caught in the path of war's relentless march; actual battle photos; photos of survivors of sunken ships, afloat in the sea just before rescue; a photo of the execution of accused spies; young foot soldiers who were killed as they became entangled in barbed wire and died standing upright, supported by the wire that had entrapped them; medics and nurses tending the wounded; photos from the battles at Gallipoli, Verdun, etc.; troops laying underground mines in tunnels beneath the enemy lines; Russian troops marching through wintry landscapes; etc. Each photograph is a stark documentation of what war really means - graphic scenes which, these days, seem all too real.
1917-05-12 The Great War: The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict. The Intervention of the United States, Part 143 of Vol. IX, 32 pages. Edited by H.W. WILSON, author of 'With the Flag to Pretoria', 'Japan's Fight for Freedom', etc. The Magazine of The Great War. This was a weekly magazine in 272 volumes. "A standard history of the World-Wide Conflict, including eye-witnesses' stories of striking incidents throughout the field of operations". The first volume was published in August 1914, and others as the war unfolded, through to its conclusion. "The 272 parts of The Great War will remain the unrivalled record of the most stupendous event in the history of humanity. Produced in the years of storm and stress, and often under distracting conditions, it will lack the poise and perspective of the cloistered historian's work, to be written a generation hence far removed from the passions and miseries of the events recorded; but it will at no time, near or distant, stand in fear of any rival as a vivid and fascinating pictorial record of the world-wide conflict". This is history written as it was happening, complete with hundreds of maps, and thousands of photographs. It includes the land, sea and air conflicts, and not from just a British persepective. Much of it is from the German perspective, and much is about the conflicts of all of the other European allies, and of course, the part played by the Americans, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders, etc.
There are 32 pages full of brilliant photographs and articles of the period during World War One. All the names mentioned have photographs and articles. Here is just a selection:
- PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON - Two Full page profile portrait photos
- Long article on 'The Intervention of the United States of America' by EDWARD WRIGHT with many photos PRESIDENT WILSON addressing Congress
- SIR CECIL SPRING-RICE - BRITISH Ambassador to the UNITED STATES
- Photos of Prominent GERMANS whose sinister activities contributed to the GERMAN-AMERICAN rupture;- CAPTAIN VON PAPEN - Former Military Attache in the U.S.A.; DR. HELFFERICH, GERMAN Vice-Chancellor & Minister of Finance;
- COUNT BERNSTORFF, GERMAN Ambassador to the UNITED STATES; HERR WOLFF, head of the WOLFF Propaganda Agency Replica of BARTHOLDI's 'LIBERTY' Statue on a SEINE Island in PARIS. Was presented by UNITED STATES to FRANCE in 1889. AMERICAN ambulance in the foreground.
- BARTHOLDI's 'STATUE of LIBERTY' in NEW YORK HARBOUR. Presented to AMERICA by FRANCE in 1886.
- The AMERICAN LINE liner s.s. ST LOUIS
- NEW YORK police guarding piers where interned GERMAN liners were moored.
- NEW YORK police guarding the GERMAN Steamer s.s. HAMBURG
- Enrolling U.S. Marine Recruits in NEW YORK
- Men of the NEW YORK Home Defence League setting off for duty on STATEN ISLAND
- Squad of recruits for the Special Guard for the great NEW YORK Aqueduct
- Gun Turrett of an AMERICAN battleship.
- UNITED STATES fleet arriving off NEW YORK with the Statue of Liberty in the background
- Looking down on the fighting-top of the AMERICAN battleship KENTUCKY
- Cleaning arms in the NEW YORK Armoury
- Enrolling Special NEW YORK policemen in the Armoury of the 69th NEW YORK
- Regiment
- 2 photos of recruits on physical training at the STEVENS INSTITUTE of HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY
- 2 photos of AMERICAN forces on the MEXICAN border. [trouble engineered by GERMAN agents] - Artillery manoeuvres at FOX BLISS, TEXAS; UNITED STATES
- National Guard rushing up ammunition on June 30th, 1915
- 2 photos of artillery practice by the NEW YORK National Guard at FORT TOTTEN, protecting NEW YORK HARBOUR - Battery practice with an observation officer perched high to see over the smoke; Unloading a projectile from a gun
- The observation tower at FORT TOTTEN, looking over NEW YORK HARBOUR
- Leaders of AMERICAN opinion when the UNITED STATES declared War on GERMANY - 1/4 page portrait photos = HON. ROBERT LANSING [Secretary of State];
- HON. NEWTON D. BAKER [Secretary of War]; GENERAL LEONARD WOOD [Commander-in-Chief of the Army]; JAMES W. GERARD [Ex-Ambassador to Germany]; HON. JOSEPHUS DANIELS [Secretary of the Navy]; COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT [President of the U.S.A. 1901-1908]; DR. WALTER H. PAGE [Ambassador to Great Britain]; ADMIRAL HENRY T. MAYO [Commanding the Atlantic Fleet]
- Powerful AMERICAN mortar in action on coastal defences - full page
- Gun crews at battle practice at FORT TOTTEN, WILLETT's POINT, opposite FORT SCHUYLER at the entrance to LONG ISLAND SOUND.
- DR. CHARLES W. ELIOT [Ex-President of HARVARD UNIVERSITY. A leader of U.S. pro-Ally movement]
- DR. CHARLES PARSONS [Chief Chemist to the War Department]
- CHARLES M. SCHWAB [President of the Carnegie Steel Co. and the United States Steel Corporation]
- HERR ZIMMERMANN [German Foreign Secretary who plotted to make Mexico attack the U.S.]
- Gunners of the E. Battery, 5th U.S. Field Artillery with a 4.7 in. gun on the MEXICAN border
- Naval gunners on a U.S. battleship
- U.S. Submarines L2 and L9 in dock at NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
- The U.S. Submarine Octupus partly submerged
- Flotilla of U.S. Navy submarines
- Armed U.S. Submarine Chaser
- U.S. U Boat chaser Lynx - 2 photos
- AMERICAN Army six feet diameter searchlight
- PRESIDENT WILSON reviewing the State Troops of NEW JERSEY
- Machine gun practice of the UNITED STATES Army
- Cadets training in use of the 10 in. Disappearing Gun of the UNITED STATES Army
- UNITED STATES Infantry with an Anti-Aircraft gun
- Group photo of the full U.S. Council of National Defence and Advisory Committee
- 3 photos of Republican leaders = SENATOR ROOT; SENATOR LODGE; W.H. TAFT [ex President 1909-1913]
- Group photo of PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON and his Cabinet
- Photos of prominent AMERICAN citizens = JOSEPH H. CHOATE [U.S. Ambassador to GREAT BRITAIN 1899-1905]; COLONEL HOUSE; WILLIAM G. McADOO [Secretary of U.S. Treasury]; G.W. GOETHALS; ADMIRAL SIMS [Special Envoy];
- REAR-ADMIRAL GRANT; [Commander of the Submarine Division]; ADMIRAL GLEAVES [Commander of the Destroyer Division]; BRIG. GENERAL CLARENCE EDWARDS [Commander North-East Department of the NEW ENGLAND States]; ADMIRAL FLETCHER [Commander of the Second Atlantic Squadron]
- Scene on a U.S. Battleship Looking down on the Dreadnought NEVADA
- The Dreadnought UTAH at full speed
- The armoured Cruiser BROOKLYN
- U.S. Battleships in line formation
- 1/2 page map showing the communications between AMERICA and EUROPE, with steamer routes, distances and cable lines. It shows the whole of the North Atlantic and part of the South Atlantic, taking in part of SOUTH AMERICA and AFRICA. Includes AMERICAN and EUROPEAN Railway lines. Printed and Published by the AMALGAMATED PRESS at 7d. net