WWI - WWII Photo Album + Ephemeral-Programs-Menu-Painted Patch-Poems-38 Photos++
Up for sale is a really terrific collection of a family's military history from WWI thru WWII preserved in an album.
The front of the album has 2 military army lapel or hat pins. One is "US" and the other is the crossed rifles. They have screw backs.
There is a 1918 draft card for Pvt John Klucznick.
36 Infantry Special Privilege Card for Pvt Klucznick in Company I
An antique New Year's Day postcard
A Polish postcard that translates "Our whole country is flooded with blood and with crosses, but from the sacrificial blood, a white eagle will fly away." (Obviously Pvt Klucznick was Polish and likely had family suffering in Poland).
A Postcard with the popular WWI song lyrics "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" and an image with troops, horses and canons.
A Polish Merry Christmas postcard with a WWI soldier in uniform--the postcard has been hand colored in places.
A 1932 Political cartoon about President Hoover's VP Curtis having the Marines drive out the vets from DC with the words "1932 Republican slogan" "A Bayonet in Every Veteran."
A Postcard of a sailor with a broken off periscope from a dreaded WWI German U-Boat that reads "My next souvenir will be a periscope for U."
A Postcard photo of a 48 star flag labeled "Old Glory."
A very rare souvenir program titled "New York's Godspeed to her Sons from Thursday, August 30, 1917. It lists all the major figures and military big wigs that will be in the parade sending off troops to war. It includes New York Governor Charles S. Whitman (1915-1918) and New York City Mayor John Purroy Mitchel (1914-1917) who died shortly after in 1918 as a soldier himself in the last months of the war.
There's a metal cross pendant that is corroded but might possibly be able to be clean if removed from the album.
There's a rare 1940 Thanksgiving menu from Battery C, 5th Field Artillery Battalion, Madison Barracks, New York. It lists everyone in the battalion. It's quite a menu that even includes cigarettes.
There's a 1932 political cartoon of the American Red Cross "Nothing doing for B.E.F." Anyone know what B.E.F. stands for?
There's two newspaper clippings. One shows 5 orphans after the veterans billets were destroyed by fire when the U.S. army drove the bonus marchers out of the capitol." And the other's headline is "Police Bar Vets At New York City Hall"
There's a really terrific all hand painted and hand crafted leather patch from the 14th Infantry Regiment known as "the Golden Dragons". With the slogan "The Right of The Line." It's a painted gold dragon.
There are 2 poems: "Song of an Ex-Service Man" by Nick Kenny and another titled "The Regular Army Man"
There's a clipping for an Armistice Day anniversary 1918-1931 and George E. Phair's poem "Unknown Soldier.
There are also 38 photos. Nearly all feature soldiers. 2 are tintypes (one has damage); 2 feature Camp Upton in Long Island, NY; One is labeled St. Paul, Minn.; 1 is the 41st Infantry in Fort Snelling, MN; and 2 are marked Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis
The last photo that is labeled is one of my favorites--it measures 7.5" X 5.5" and is in the last of my photos posted here--the one out of the album on the table (it is in the album with corner holders). The photo is a shirtless soldier sitting on what looks like wreckage and inscribed on the front "To A Swell Dad, Love Ed". The backside is written "taken on Tinian in the Marianas" Island. It's dated July 29, 1944. This is just 5 days after the start of the very bloody Battle of Tinian. It has to be a rare casual photo from those dark days. The photo has wear, no doubt it had to be carried around before it could be mailed home.
This is a terrific collection, one where if items were sold individually would no doubt go for much more than my opening price for this historic collection.
*Please note that my shipping time is up to 5 business days as I have multiple jobs and can only ship one day a week. If you happen to purchase after I return from the post office on shipping day it will be a full week wait until I am able to ship again. But most people will have a much shorter wait and some will have very fast shipping. No one will have to wait more than 5 business days. Thank you for understanding.