World War I Scrapbook - Richard M. Green, 1918 - 1919

File — Box: 3, Object: 1

Identifier: MS073-03-01

Staff Only

Content Description

From the Collection:

This collection consists of six series: Correspondence, Literary Productions, Printed Material, Financial Documents, Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion, and Green Family. The correspondence series holds letters only to and from Esther Green. Included three folders (Box 73 Folders 1-3) with letters from Robert Rutledge, a youth for whom she helped secure a DuPont scholarship to the University of Virginia. While in college he updated her on his progress. Correspondence to and from other family members is located in the Green Family series. Approximately half of the collection concerns the Green Family. Several folders (Box 73.2 Folders 5-9) deal with an estate for which Richard Green was the executor. The Green Family series also contains genealogical information relating to the Muir, Magyar, and Green families and a few pieces relating to family businesses, Green and Bro. Furniture Co., and the Green Mansion House Hotel.

Dates

1918 - 1919

Extent

From the Collection: 1.84 Cubic Feet (4 boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General

Richard M. Green registered in June of 1917. By December of 1917 he had been inducted into the Army. He was assigned to the Advance Ordinance Depot and was stationed at Waterliet Arsenal in Waterliet, NY. Between February 17, 1918 and March 10, 1918 he is sent to and arrives in France. The scrapbook contains letters and postcards to his mother, father, sister, and other family members, mementoes from his duty in France 1918-1919, and various military documents. Letters written from France have either a handwritten signature of a stamp indicating the letter was cleared by censors.