List of County Food Administrators

Newspaper clippings

Papers collected by Mrs. J.H. Anderson

Papers collected by Mrs. Daisy Crump Whitehead

Papers collected by Mrs. L.D. Swindell

Papers of James Sprunt, member of New Hanover County Council of Defense

Papers collected by Mrs. J.E. Ashcraft

Papers collected by W. Brodie Jones

Kept by the Council to enable them to send sympathy letters on the death of a soldier.

These are the original records or copies for this organization. The numbers in parentheses are apparently file numbers which were given the records when they were created

Speakers, team leaders, publicity committee, soldier speakers, and telegrams, Albemarle - North Wilkesboro, April-May, 1918

Contains his war record; letters written by him in 1918; an instruction manual; a contour map.

Contains letters, orders, and copies of documents; French citations; tributes paid to Bluethenthal; passport and folder; flight book; newspaper clippings; his commission as a French aviator.

Contains an identification card of Pvt. C.R. Hughes, Co. A, 105th Infantry; a Prussian election ballot; French memorial certificate; unidentified address book; autobiography of Pvt. Fred V. Owens; document bestowing Portuguese rank of "Cavalier" on the colors of the 120th Infantry; Militia orders and other military papers of Thomas R. Darden, 1903, 1908, 1917-1925; soldiers Bible; General Orders; certificate to American Legion Auxillary, Raleigh 1929; military training manuals; field map; bank draft; tax return, 1921.

Collection contains "A Year in the Life of a Balloon Observer on the American Front" (66 pages); pictures; letter in reference to Higgs' commission; report of operations with comments of Higgs; Higgs' service record; Liberty Loan cartoon booklet; receipt for original diary; letter from Mattio Higgs (sister) relative to additional material.

Contains roster and sketch of Companies E and F of the 323rd Inf.; American and English training and equipment manuals; blueprint plan of Fort Kronprinz; panoramic view of 8lst Div. location as seen from the Gernan position; Meuse-Argonne terrain a magazine THE MESS KIT; report of operations of the 324th Infantry; intelligence reports; secret field orders; information bulletins; reconnaissance memorandum and reports made by the 323rd Infantry; photograph of a cathedral; a bone fragment.

Collector of World War Records (Vol.). Personal letters and papers written while at Harvard University and as a Lieutenant in the 103rd Infantry, October 1, 1916 - November 10, 1917.

The personal papers of two ladies from Asheville, N.C. Elizabeth Earl Jones was an American Red Cross Nurse in London during the war, and her sister May P. Jones was a Y.M.C.A worker with the 318th Machine Gun Battalion in France.

Contains orders; telegrams; newspaper clippings; poems; a map.

Contains typewritten copies of letters, 14 June 1918 - 17 February .1919; a diary written by McCullers during his military service, 17 December 1917 - 31 March 1919.

Contains miscellaneous papers collected by General McIver, who for a time commanded the 81st of "Wildcat" Division during World War 1. Included are his memoirs of the training of the Division at Camp Jackson, S.C.; battle maps; orders; citations; 13 photos of Company B, 321st Infantry; snapshots; commercial postcards; material relating to the regiments and brigades: 321st Inf., 322nd Inf., 317th Machine Gun Battalion, 1st Inf. Brigade, and 161st Inf. Brigade; reunion program, "North Carolina at West Point Before the Civil War"; newspaper clippings; 16 other photos, larger in size, with a few notations, came with this material, are deposited with the Hall of History.

Contains typewritten copies of letters written while in France, 13 August 1918 - 28 March 1919

Contains military papers and miscellaneous documents: orders, letters, reports, press releases, recommendations for awards, printers proof of the history of the 119th Infantry, and a volume, THE THIRTIETH DIVISION IN THE WORLD WAR. Box #37 Contains the rosters of the 119th Infantry; The demobilization camp; Members of the "Old Hickory Association" (30th Division).

Contains a typewritten copy of the diary of Willard Newton, 18 May 1918 - 21 April 1919.

Contains; photographs, copies of letters written home, newspaper clippings, souvenir handkerchiefs, and other memorials to Rountree who was wounded in the Battle of Cantignay and later died. This scrapbook was made and deposited by his Aunt, Mrs. Lucy Rountree Cobb, Kinston, NC. U.S. Memorial Certificates (3), U.S. Citation, and a French Memorial Certificate (died of wounds 6-14-18) [located in Map Case with Private Collections].

Contains a typewritten copy of Warren's diary, January, 1918 - December, 1918; letters to his parents, 1917-1919; military history of Charles Warren; travel identity card, 1919; directory of Coblenz, Germany; note from Warren to Robert B. House about his material; 3 photographs; history of the 3rd Division; three letters of Thomas L. Warren, 325th Bakery Company, 1918-1919.

Letters written to his parents from training camps in the U.S., 1917, and from France in 1918.

French Memorial Certificate, 1918 (Died of wounds July 2, 19l8) [located in Map Case with Private Collections].[MISSING as of January 2001 inventory].

Distinguished Service Cross, a French Memorial Certificate, and a U.S. Memorial Certificate (Killed September 29, 1918). [located in Map Case with Private Collections].

U.S. Memorial Certificate, 1918 (Died of wounds February 27, 1918). [located in Map Case with Private Collections].

[located in Map Case with Private Collections].

Items related to his service with Co. D, 7th Engineers, including: panoramic photo of Co. D, 7th Engineers at Ft. Leavenworth, KS, 1917; circa 1918 Christmas card; unit stencil; booklet, "To The Homeward Bound Americans"; copy of General Order #37, "Awards of the Distinguished Service Cross"; 1919 calendar with 5th Division unit list on back; pre-printed message from King George V to American service members; promotion certificates for Corporal through First Sergeant; June 13, 1919 issue of "The Fifth Division Diamond" newspaper; French and German maps of the Verdun area; form from the American Flag House and Betsy Ross Memorial Association which is signed by Walker giving address as Baltimore, MD; and, letter to Walker regarding his award of the Distinguished Service Cross.

History, minutes of annual reunions, personnel and staff, etc. Account book of Base Hospital #65. "Mission Accomplished! Experiences in World War One" by Ione Branch Bain. l9 pages typed. (SEE ALSO III. Military Organizations, page 21, box 60, Base Hospital Number Sixty Five). Annual Reunion Base Hospital 65, September 10-11, 1966. Minutes of Call Meeting, June 8, 1967.

U.S. Navy service records, veterans information, etc., 1917-1939, including discharge from US Naval Reserve Force (1921), discharge from the Band, 3rd Infantry Regiment, NC National Guard (1917), documents related to his service in Raleigh as a US Navy recruiter (circa 1918), war service certificate, and a bound reprint of his 12 FEB-12 MAR 1919 diary on board troop transport USS AMERICA.

Photographs.

Photograph, circa 1918, of Raymond Daniel Hewitt of Catawba County while in service with the Medical Department, Camp Greenlief, Georgia; group photograph, circa 1918-1919, taken at Camp Pullman, France, including Corp. Isaac F. Cook of Alexander, NC; partial Christmas dinner menu for Co. K, 35th Infantry, Schofield Barricks, Hawaii, 1929; Army and Navy pocket edition of American Bible Society tract, "The Gospel According to Saint John"; and dog tag of Private Daniel H. Seagle, Co. C, 35th Engineers, US Army.

Typed reminiscence entitled "Reminiscences of World War I" by Hamilton C. Horton, Sr.

"Notice Of Call To Appear For Physical Examination," dated July 31, 1917, to Adams from the Harnett County Draft Board.

Honorable discharge, U. S. Marine Corps dated 18 July 1919; card authorizing wear of French Fourragere; one original and two scanned images of Dunn (one in full uniform); "War Service Certificate" and "Citation A L'Ordre De L'Armee" (located in Map Case); a poem, "Seventy Seventh," 27 letters and 3 picture postcards from Dunn to his mother in Kinston, NC, written from the USA, France, and Germany between [November], 1917 and June 5, 1919; 49 picture postcards (6 with comments by Dunn); two copyprint photos of Dunn: Occupation Duty, 1919; another circa 1917-18. Quantico, Company 77, 6th MG BN, USMC.

Photograph of Banner T. Greenwood (Surry County, NC) as a member of 113th Machine Gun Battalion, 30th Division, US Army, AEF.

Honorable discharge from the US Army dated March 24, 1919. Graham served with the 9th Ordnance Guard Company, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois.

Photo of Eason; member of the 3rd Division, US Army, AEF.

"Certificate in Lieu of Lost of Destroyed Discharge" for Cole (Rockingham, Richmond County, NC), Company H, 324th Infantry, 81st Division, US Army, AEF. Section Two, Rockingham Post-Dispatch, May 27, 1954, with photograph and names of 124 selectees/draftees from Richmond County, NC, 1918.

Promotion certificate to corporal dated August 11, 1917 for Broughton as member fo 1st Company, NC Coast Artillery.

Personal and military correspondence, photographs, military bulletins and pamphlets, and maps of Fort Sill Military Reserve, Oklahoma.

Military records, correspondence, photographs, post cards, newspaper clippings, and song book, 1916-1924; served in Co. D, 120th Infantry, 30th Division.

Letters, 1917-1918, written by Lt. Green, 120th Infantry, 30th Division, from France and hospitals in England home to his family in Raleigh and from Lt. Alf. R. Harvey and George F. Beaulieu to Miss Daisy Green; and an undated clipping from an unidentified newspaper entitled "Sir Douglas Haig is Proud of Yanks."

Diary, May 26 - July 30, 1918, kept by Private Hudson of Sampson County while serving in Company M, 168th Infantry, 42nd Division; pocket Bible; and Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry of the Army of the United States, 1917; began service with 81st Division.

Letters and postcards, 1918-1919, written by Private Lewis (Co. C, 322nd Infantry, 81st Division) of Halifax County from France to family and friends; induction notice (May 20, 1918); astrological reading (February 5, 1913) prepared by Roxroy Studios for Miss Cora Amerson of Black Creek; Mother's Day card, May 1925, to Mrs. W. G. Lewis; business card for the American Bar and Restaurant in Vichy; undated unidentified newspaper clipping titled "Letter to His Mother"; and misc. envelopes.

Commissions of Newell to the Medical Corps; medical bulletins and reports; high school newsletters; issues of Yank - The Army Weekly for September 21, 28, and October 5, 1945; an album containing 162 photographs; "France Our Ally" booklet. Major Newell served in the 105th Sanitary Train, 30th Division, US Army, AEF.

Scrapbook of photographs pertaining to the World War I navy dirigible service at Hampton Roads, Virginia, of Quartermaster Joseph Kyle Richardson of Johnston County; and World War II V-mail letters, post card, and Christmas card to Richardson.

Letters, 1917-1919, postcards, veterans papers, 1937-1940, pay book, discharge, panoramic photographs, shoulder patch, overseas cap, and homefront service star of Leland Brown, Northampton County, in Company F, 306th Engineers, 81st Division.

Letters, postcards, and scanned image of Private Percy Vere Strother (Cary, Wake Co., NC), Battery "E," 76th Field Artillery, 3rd Division, US Army, AEF, World War I. SEE: Military Collection, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Materials (Various Dates), Box #6, Macon S. Smith Collection.

Honorable Discharge and Enlistment Record as a Private, US Army.

Five photographs of PFC Thomas Newton Bryson (Macon County, NC), Company G, 119th Infantry, 30th Division, US Army. Images at Camp Jackson, SC; with future wife Ethel Leona Evans (Macon County, NC); in St. Quentin, France recuperating from wounds; and one photograph of Private James Elbert Bryson (Macon Co., NC), a stateside Cook, US Army.

Letter dated March 1, 1919 from Corporal John W. Hendricks (Davie Co., NC), Company L, 56th Pioneer Infantry, US Army, AEF.

Photograph dated February 16, 1935 of Dr. Thel Hooks.

Photograph of LT William B. Duncan (US Army, AEF) from General Pershing; seventeen-page letter book written by LT Duncan in Luxembourg on December 8, 1918; money form Germany and Luxembourg.

Group photograph of Pvt. Carl R. Gaines (Chatham Co., NC), Battery C, 58th Field Artillery, US Army; Pvt. Allen W. Andrews (Chatham Co., NC), Battery F, 58th Field Artillery, US Army; Pvt. John Miller Robinson, Battery F, 58th Field Artillery; and, Pvt. Leonard Thomas.

Items related to the service of PFC William France Odom (Wayne Co., NC), US Army, AEF, Base Hospital #214, including: Honorable Discharge (in leatherette case) dated July 11, 1919; two photographs of Odom with fellow soldiers; and, "Special Orders No. 139, AEF, France, HQ, Hospital Center, Savenay, May 21, 1919, Extract," ordering Odom to assist in escorting "mental patients" to the Untied States.

DRILL REGULATIONS AND SERVICE MANUAL FOR SANITARY TROOPS, UNITED STATES ARMY, originally published 1914, corrected to April 15, 1917, published by War Department, No. 438, Office of the Surgeon General.

Materials related to the life and military service of Capt. (Dr.) Dewitt Duncan Clark (Clarkton, Bladen Co., NC), 317th Ambulance Company, 305th Sanitary Train, 80th Division (later with 318th Infantry), US Army, AEF, including: draft registration card; Medical College of Virginia commencement booklet (June 3-6, 1917); five letters written by Clark October -December 1918 to his father Dr. George Lennon Clark and his sister Mrs. Frank A. Harrington (Maggie Clark); booklet, "Destruction," by Elinor Glyn, published by Duckworth and Company, London, 1918; booklet, "The Prince of Peace," by William Jennings Bryan, published by The Reilly and Britton Company, Chicago, 1909; prescription pad; newspaper clipping, "Medical Auxiliary Pays Tribute to Dr. D. D. Clark," dated Mar. 27, 1975, paper unknown.

"Recruit's Handy Book," United States Navy, 1913, that belonged to Seaman Earl Byron Adams.

Photograph of Sergeant John Vernon Pickett (Durham Co., NC), Battery A, 317th Field Artillery, 81st Division, US Army, AEF; photograph, "Part of Battery A, 317th FA, Camp Jackson, SC," circa November 1917, with Sergeant Pickett standing second from viewer's right, back row.

Photograph (BandW, 11"X14") of members of 317th Ambulance Company, 305th Sanitary train, 80th Division, siging in a bombed French Church (Wagoner Jake Goodman Mayo of Fremont, Wayne Co., NC, stands viewer's far left)[See Map Case, Military Collection (Oversized Materials), Stack Level 2]; panoramic photograph of 317th Ambulance Company taken in Marigne, France, May 1919 [identified NC soldiers now buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Fremont, NC: Wagoner Paul B. Smith (row #2, 8th from viewe's left], PVT Thaddeus C. Hill [row #1, 11th from viewer's right], man thought to be CPL John Burt Exum [row #3, 11th from viewer's left], and Wagoner Jake Goodman Mayo [row #3, 4th from viewer's right] )[See Map Case, Military Collection (Oversized Materials), Stack Level 2]; items related to the US Army service of Paul Bennett Smith, including orders, draft registration card, identification disk, YMCA cash receipt, insurance policy, Honorable Discharge, and French and Dutch money.

Contents of a USS LOUISIANA scrapbook, including photographs and miscellaneous items, and a color copy photograph of McNeill in uniform.

Collage of materials associated with the service of Corporal Weeks (originally from Walterboro, SC, later of Carteret Co., NC) including a narrative related to his bravery at the Battle of Bellicourt, France, September 30, 1918, and photographs of his Distinguished Service Cross and British Military Medal.

New Testament issued to Simmons as member of the 114th Machine Gun Battalion, 30th Division, AEF.

Booklet, "Farewell Banquet and Ball, Given By The Enlisted Personnel, Camp Supply Office, Camp Greene, Selwyn Hotel, Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, February 15, 1919."

Photograph of PVT Andrew R. Parker, Company A, 324th Infantry, 81st DIV, AEF, WWI.

Photograph (circa 1920) of World War I veterans, seventy-six men and one female. Photo taken by "Wm. A. Roberts Film Co., Greensboro, NC."

Photograph of Green.

Photographs of: members of Company A, 306th Engineers at Camp Jackson showing Sgt. Jordan on back row; soldiers and civilians at St. Cloud, France, with Sgt. Jordan on front row; YMCA dance with Sgt. Jordan on second row; "Mt. Vernon, VA"; and, "Versailles, The Palace;" seven page history of the 306th Engineers; two reunion pamphlets (1920 and 1952); unit history, Roster and History, 306th Engineers.

Photograph (wearing gas mask) and Discharge (in leatherette case) for Sgt. Eugene E. McDonald (Linden, Cumberland Co., NC), 119th Infantry, 30th Division, US Army, AEF, dated August 16, 1919.

Photographs: "Chateau Mormont, where lived Marshal Joffre and staff during the Battle of the Marne in Sept., 1914" (showing General Andrew Moses, Commander, 156th Field Artillery Brigade, and his staff: Capt. W. G. Burgess, Brigade Intelligence Officer, 1LT W. B. Jones, Aide-de-Camp, of Raleigh, NC, and Sgt. Hammel, of California, Chauffeur, seated in staff car); "81st Division Ready To Pass In Review, 1. The King of Belgium, 2. General Pershing, 3. The Queen of the Belgians, 4. Major General Allen, 8th Corps commander, Chatillon-sur-Seine, France, march 19, 1919."

Photographs of members of the 15th Machine gun battalion, 5th Divison, US Army, AEF; the Statue of Liberty; and, the ship, SS AGAMEMNON.

Photo, "Company Clerk Nicholson (#1), Private Elgie David Black [Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., NC](#2), and Private Morgan (#3), all members of the United States Marine Corps on board the USS NEW HAMPSHIRE, " circa 1917.

Photographs of North Carolinians PVT Arthur P. Gupton, PVT Ernest G. Cooper, PVT Lewis M. Grady, PVT John W. Frost, PVT Sidney L. Hale, Buzz Collins, and Boyd Westmoreland; photo of unkown lady; photo of USS MATSONIA; six photos of PVT Joseph Johnnie Dement (Franklin Co., NC), Company A, 322nd Infantry, 81st Division; two letters and two greeting cards written by PVT Joseph J. Dement.

United Daughters of the Confederacy Cross of Military Service certificate and explanation sheet; Honorable Discharge; US Veterans Bureau letter [JAN 1925]; Secretary of the Treasury letter [no date]; large oval photograph of Jackson [See Map Case, Military Collection (Oversized Materials)[Stack Level 2]).

Photograph of PVT Walter Scott Greene (Wing, Mitchell Co., NC), US Army, AEF, WWI.

Photo of PVT Ellis B. Hatcher, 6th Company, Provisional Labor Battalion, US Army, AEF; postcard from PVT Hatcher dated April 1919 to his mother Sallie Hatcher, Chinquapin, NC.

Diary of Corporal Luther E. Williams, Essex, Halifax Co., NC), 4th Company, 306th Supply Train, 81st Division, US Army, AEF.

Photograph of Leonard as a member of Company E, 1st Regiment, NC National Guard, at Camp Glenn, NC, September, 1916; letter from Southford Martin, Private Secretary to the Governor of NC, to Mr. J. Paul Leonard, April 4, 1917, regarding a commission for Owen W. Leonard; "Notice of Settlement of Claim" from the General Accounting Office, Washington, DC, dated January 7, 1953, to Lydia L. Wolversheim, daughter of Owen W. Leonard; and, Veteran Affairs letter dated January 14, 1964, to Mrs. Lydia L. Wolversheim containing a statement related to her father's permanent disability as of 1928.

Presidential Memorial Certificate and Walk of Honor Certificate on the Liberty Memorial inscribed to "PVT Claude Petteway, 365th INF REG 92nd DIV."

"Account Book, Diary, and Log" (copyright 1913) and photo circa 1916 of Seaman 2c Dewey H. Pope (son of Mr. W. H. Pope, Itasca, Texas) of served aboard the USS RALEIGH, US Navy, 18 NOV 1916 - circa DEC 1918. Pope served in the US Navy 1942 - 1945.

Four letters dated July 28, August 12, December 17, 1918, and one undated from Booe (Davie County, NC) as a member of Headquarters Company, 321st Infantry, 81st Division.

Honorable Discharge for Paul Ernest Brauer (324th Infantry, 81st Division) dated June 25, 1919; demobilization letter dated June 20, 1919 and signed by Colonel G. W. Moses (324th Infantry Commander), Camp Jackson, SC; instructions for the care of the discharge; and, instructions relative to applying for adjusted compensation.

Honorable Discharge for PVT Luther A. Denning (Wayne Co., NC), Company C, 323rd Infantry, 81 st Division, US Army; Draft Registration Certificate for Denning dated June 5, 1917; and, marriage certificate for Denning and Kiver Batten dated May 30, 1924 (Johnston Co., NC).

Honorable Discharge dated July 7, 1919 of Joseph Dughi (306th Engineers, US Army).

Medical Discharge for PVT Vernon L. Everett, United States Marine Corps, dated June 10, 1918; delayed birth certificate for Everett; Final Statement of Settlement for Medical Discharge dated May 31, 1918; and, certificate honoring the military service of Vernon L. Everett.

Photograph, New Testament, and newspaper clipping of a poem, Lyrics of Life".

Eight postcards including a photograph of PVT Burton C. Hicks (Francisco, Stokes Co., NC), 30th Division, US Army, AEF (killed in action at the Battle of Bellicourt); group photo thought to be part of Company M, 120th Infantry, 30th Division, taken in France on Sunday, June 8, 1919; an unknown troop transport painted with dazzle pattern camouflage; "French Infantry Advancing on the Double Quick"; "U.S. Battleship MICHIGAN and U.S.S. MARTHA WASHINGTON, December 25, 1918, at Norfolk, VA; View of soliders on deck of unknown ship; "Resting by the Wayside (troops resting with rifles stacked); and, "Life in the U.A. Army Cantonment…Cheerful Workers (troops carrying firewood).

Photograph of PFC Reddick N. Freeman, Company #5, 305th Supply train, 81st Division, US Army, AEF.

Honorable Discharge from the United States Army, dated June 19, 1919, for Bugler George L. Morton (Onslow Co., NC), and a June 13, 1919 letter form the US Employment Service.

Draft certification card dated 1918 for J. C. Seymour from the City of Columbia, SC; draft registration card dated June 5, 1917 for Seymour from Richlands County, SC; pass dated December 13, 1917 from Headquarters, 81st Division, to leave Camp Jackson; draft certification letter dated December 13, 1917 showing Seymour as a registrant of the 8th Ward, Columbia, SC; promotion certificate dated March 4, 1918, for temporary appointment to the rank of Corporal.

Photographs of unidentified friends of Thompson.

Photograph of Poole in uniform with unidentified soldier.

Book (); program for the Inter-Allied Games, Paris, June 26, 1919; order of battle schematic; bank statement for Lt. Henry Lewis Graves from a Paris bank; training charts related to German aircraft and camera settings by altitude; photographs of the officers of the 278th Squadron, US Air Service; large number of photographs and negatives of France and aircraft.

Wartime letters and documents related to the Liberty Loan Bonds Campaignfor Hyde County, NC; North Carolina Historical Commission (1920-1921); State Normal College, Greensboro, NC (1917-1920); North Carolina college for Women, Greensboro, NC (1920-1923).

Items associated with the Company E, 321st Infantry, 81st Division, US Army, AEF service of Albert E. Cobb (Greene Co., NC), including photographs of Cobb, photographs of his company and France (see Photographs, Box 7), postcards, newspaper ("The Wildcat," May 10, 1919), and a map tracing the movements of the 81st Division.

Officer personnel data cards from Camp Greene, NC.

Framed Honorable discharge, US Army.

Two photographs of Mack Eudy (Cabarrus Co., NC), one as a civilian circa 1918 and the other as a Private First Class. Eudy served in Company D, 53rd Pioneer Infantry, US Army, AEF. Also included is an embroidered card with the words "Souvenir De France 1919" on the front sent by Eudy to Alida Barrier.

Items pertaining to the US Army service of Lt. Col. Gaston W. Rogers, MD, including: certificates of promotion, award, course examinations, course completion, appointment, and medical practice; map ("Order of Battle on the Western Front, 11 A.M., November 11, 1918," by J.C. Nichols, G-3, US Army, 1919)[NOTE: located in Oversized Materials, Map Collection]; honorable discharge dated October 4, 1919; miscellaneous documents and personal items related to his service in the First World War; miscellaneous documents related to his medical practice, dated 1926-1941; newspaper photo of the NC State College Class of 1903; French postcards; items related to the School of Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill (1917), Chapel Hill Rotary, Alpha Omega Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order or The Order of the Lion's head, with roster circa 1905, and newsletter, The Rose and Magnolia, 1918, medical school attendance at Birmingham Medical College (1908-1911) Health Department annual report (1943) for Orange, Person, and Chatham Counties, NC, diplomas issued to Gaston from North Carolina School of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts for Bachelors of Engineering in Electric Engineering (1903) and Civil Engineering (1905), statement of military service (1937).

Twenty-one photos, including shots of Wiesbaden, Germany, Woodrow Wilson, Marshal Foch, General Hunter Liggett, etc.; 22 letters, telegrams, etc., to and from Thomas W. Williams, including "Thomas Wayne Williams in WWI, and "Timeline for Wayne Williams in WWI-1918, by Roy Parker; 32 miscellaneous documents related to military service, including his "Individual Pay Record Book," letter from Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, authorizing Williams' enrollment in the Naval Reserve, promotion certificate to "Corporal," flag-embroidered postcard, "Souvenir of the Great War," papers related to his efforts tosecure a clerk's position with the Army's Gas Defense Service; 12 issues of Amaroc, dated 12 JUN 1919 - 27 AUG 1919, a newspaper for occupation troops in Coblenz, Germany; documents and handwritten notes related to Ornance Supply School; and, booklets, (Coblenz, 1919), , and various post-World War I items, including the 32nd degree Masonic certificate for Ernest Powell Williams, issued at Wilimgton, NC, 1920. .

Documents and photographs associated with the service of Corporal Earlie Wright Smith (Harnett Co., NC), Headquarters Company, 317th Field Artillery, 81st Division, US Army, AEF, including: postcards to and from Smith; souvenir postcards of France; photographs of Smith in uniform; newspaper clipping; booklet, (Army and Navy edition); Artillery Log Book with Smith's handwritten notes on measurements and signals for firing, identification and drawings of various power lines, French and American circuit boxes and directions for their use, and a travel log; personal journal of Smith dated from 19 FEB - 3 MAR 1919; and, five Trench and Camp newspapers, printed by The State newspaper, Camp Jackson, SC, dated between NOV and JUN 1918.

Items related to the service of Corporal Roy V. Martin including: 29 letters dated between 1917 and 1919; postage stamps; a "fourteen hour" pass dated 2 APR 1919 at Camp Jackson, SC; small diary, circa 1918; postcards; undated newspaper clipping with photo, "service Flag Celebration at Efird Mill, listing Efird Mill employees in service; photograph of "Gussie" Cloninger, circa 1918; NC National Guard discharges for 1922 and 1923; newspaper ("Textiles Review", December 1, 1949) with photographs and story of Company A. 115th Machine Gun Battalion, 30th Division; Photograph of PVT (Musician) Russell W. McGinnis, Company B, 1st North Carolina Infantry, NC National Guard, Camp Glenn, NC, circa 1916 (McGinnis later served with the 105th Engineers, 30th Division); and, miscellaneous items dating from circa 1917 - 1924.

Items related to related to the service of 1LT James W. Jenkins (Military Aeronautics), Signal Corps, US Army including: orders dating from 20 JUL 1918-10 MAR 1919; commissions dated 9 JUL and 9 AUG 1918; identity card with photograph; US Army landing Card for Casual Officers serving aboard the vessel OYMPIC 2810, dated 24 OCT 1918; Re-embarkation Card; Officer's Record Book covering training from 14 NOV 1917 - 17 NOV 1918; miscellaneous papers related to finance, medical, post clearance, verification of service, insurance, USS PLATTSBURG, St. Aignan Casual Company, mileage vouchers, , two booklets entitled various documents related to rules and regulations governing Flying Cadets, instructional notes on navigation, martial law, "Lewis Gun," "Vickers Gun," "Marlin Gun,"aligning aeroplanes, miscellaneous worksheets, handwritten notebooks containing notes on various military and aviation subjects, Salisbury Public School Report, 1906-07, 4th Grade, for Jenkins, , and five photographs.

Camp photograph book, "Views of Camp Jackson, Columbia, SC, 1918, Bat. D, 9th Reg. F.A.R.D.;" panoramic photograph of unknown unit, circa 1930, with name "W. V. O'Daniel" on back; letter dated August 19, 1918 from the Cumberland County draft board ordering Piercon Rose Pope, Godwin, NC, to report for induction; "Diary of My Camp Career," dated August 26-November 4, 1918; souvenir folder of Camp Jackson; medical memorandum from Camp Jackson dated November 5, 1918; dental record of PVT Pierce Pope dated November 21-29, 1918; Thanksgiving program, "Thanksgiving Dinner: Battery D, 9th Regiment, F.A.R.D., Camp Jackson, SC," dated November 28, 1918; letter dated December 4, 1918 from US Treasury Department regarding government life insurance; eight letters from Piercon Rose Pope written between December 29, 1918 and January 19, 1919; and, Camp Jackson library information and "General Orders for Sentinels."

Items related to the military service of Thomas P. Shinn, including a watercolor painting of Shinn; paperback book, , by James A. Moss, et al, published by George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, Wisconsin, 1917; hardback book, , by Clarence Walton Johnson, published by R. L. Bryan Company, Columbia, SC, 1919; Shinn's diary, Sep.7, 1917 - Nov. 28, 1918 (CD version, also); newspaper, "The Wildcat," (May 10, 1919); color poster of 81st "Wildcat" Division insignias, printed by Base Printing Plant, 29th Engineers, US Army, 1919; eleven postcards from "Jack" in France to Mattie Kimminger; postcard photo of Sergeants Shinn and Hugus; and, a leatherette envelope containing Shinn's discharge papers.

Items related to the military service of John Burt Exum, Jr., including: souvenir postcards; souvenir "US Eagle" embroidered handkerchief; five photos of Exum; honorable discharge; draft registration card; letters and postcards to his mother' newspaper clippings; miscellaneous papers; "Certificate de Capacite"; Form 1028 "Notice"; guide booklet, "The Dauphine Leave Area: A Historical and Geographical Sketch," published by American YMCA; document, "Grenoble and Its Environs: Address of Secretary Don P. Halsey, of Lynchburg, VA, to the Permissionaires Visiting the Dauphine Leave Area, at the Y Theater, Grenoble, France, 1918-1919"; newspaper, "The Dauphine Doughboy," Feb. 15, 1919, (vol. 1, #5); document, "Mother O' Mine," by Rudyard Kipling; telegram informing Mrs. Exum of safe arrival back to the USA of her son.

Book, , by C. Walton Johnson, published by The R. L. Bryan Company; musical score to "Forty Homies and Eight Chevos," by SGT Bob Cohn; five photographs of Grenoble, France; two souvenir postcard booklets of France, 1914-1919; two postcards (a church; words to song "The Wildcats Went Over the Top"); songbook; three issues of division newspaper, "The Wildcat," dated May 10, 1919, May 17, 1919, and May 29, 1919 (Farewell Edition); pocket atlas (, published by American Expeditionary Forces, Young Men's Christian Association; two souvenir maps ("Environs de Verdun" and "France: Belgique, Bords du Rhin, Suisse, etc.," edited by A. Taride.

Letters, postcards, and telegram (Feb. 25, 1918 - -Oct. 21, 1918); photograph of a South Carolina Army graduation; photograph of Graham in uniform; items related to Graham's pre- and post-World War I life including newspaper clippings he wrote, school records, photographs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) correspondence, stock certificate for Sandhill Hatchery, and handwritten notes concerning 18th and 19th century taxes paid and business accounts of Murdock and Elizabeth McKenzie.

Book, [The War 1914/1918 in Word and Picture], by Band, published by Deutiches Berlangshaus Bong and Co., Berlin, 1916.

Materials related to PVT Harvey Lee Teague (Wallburg, Davidson Co., NC), Co. C, 56th Pioneer Infantry including personal correspondence, newspaper clipping, and photograph.

Materials related to the service of 2LT Wesley Grimes Byerly, Sr. (Advance, Davie Co., NC): , published by P. F. Collier and Son, 1916; , 1913: Corrected to March 15, 1918 (), Government Printing Office, 1918; "The Wildcat Bulletin," (81st Division), Feb. 10, 1927; photograph of 322nd Infantry, 81st Division, Fort Bragg, NC, June 5-19, 1927; , Government Printing Office, 1918; , Government Printing Office, 1917; A , by Frank R. Keefer, 2nd Edition, W. B. Saunders Company, 1918; "The Work of the War Department of the United States," Government Printing Office, 1924; "Official List of Officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps of the Army of the United States," Supplemental to Volume V, Sep. 1, 1919 - Dec. 31, 1919, Government Printing Office, 1920; "The Story of the Thirty-Third Division," reprinted from the "Chicago Daily News," covering various dates 1918-1919; Bayonet Training: Infantry Replacement Troops, Camp Grant, Illinois; photograph of Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois, Camp Exchange Department of Pictures View No. 4, 1918; three copies of "Infantry Journal," published by the United States Infantry Association, Washington, DC, August 1919-May 1919.

Items related to the pre-war and war service of George Travis Skinner (Kinston, Wayne Co., NC)(North Carolina State Guard; North Carolina National Guard; Company B, 105th Military Police Battalion), including honorable discharge dated April 7, 1919; Individual Pay Record Book; letters and postcards written between may 1918 and January 27, 1919; newspaper clippings; miscellaneous post-war papers and documents; forty-six US Army Signal Corps Photographs of various military activities during World War I; photograph of the 2nd Infantry Band, North Carolina National Guard at Camp Glenn, Morehead City, NC, dated July 20-27, 1911 (George T. Skinner 4th from left, seated with trombone); photograph of Camp Glenn with dates July 13-23, 1908 and July 8-15, 1909 (George T. Skinner 4th from left on back row, holding trombone); photograph of National Guard Band from Kinston, NC, at Chickamauga, GA, dated July 13-23, 1908 (George T. Skinner 5th from left, middle row, holding trombone); photograph of American Legion Band at the Grand Theater, Kinston, NC, circa 1919; three photographs of Skinner, one with "Gussie," and another with Sapper W. J. Baker (Birmingham, England), Motor Air Section, British Expeditionary Force, in France, 1918.

"Company K, 110th Infantry, 28th Division," [US Army, AEF][PVT Charles E. Lowder, Albemarle, Stanly Co., NC) identified as #133]; bound volume of "Stars and Stripes" (8 FEB 1918 - 13 JUN 1919); two prints ("President Woodrow Wilson," copyright 1918 by E. G. Renesch, Chicago) and "An Old Chateau," by Julien CeLof, 1934 reprint by Brown E. Bigelow). [Panoramic and two prints located in the Map Case, Military Collection (Oversized),Stacks Level 2].

Administration biography and photographs of N.C. Food Administration staff; activities; afternoon papers; agricultural equipment; ammonia; bags; bakeries; beam; beef; price questionnaire returns; Belgium relief; bibliography, food conservation; bills; binder twine.