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Young Men's Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.) - Rennes, France (Mss 312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 312. Guest book of the American YMCA kept at Rennes, France, February-August 1919. Includes soldiers' names, military units, home towns and remarks. Also includes a 1918 postcard showing typical YMCA "hut."

Smith, Rhonda L. (Sc 1666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1666. Paper titled "Death on the Rails" written by Rhonda L. Smith for a history class at Western Kentucky University. Relays the World War I story of how members of the 113th Engineer Battalion and the 138th Field Artillery, which included many Kentuckians, were killed in a rail accident in France.

Ua3/1/3 Scrapbook - General Subjects 1916-1918, Wku President's Office - Cherry

WKU Archives Records

Scrapbook created in the president's office of clippings related to World War I, Henry Cherry's bid for governor and United States politics during the war. Page number correspond to original scrapbook and may not match pdf file.

• . . . Tells How He'd March to Mexico, p. 17
• A Perfect Picture of German Work, p. 34
• A Veritable Flashlight, p. 19
• Abercrombie, John. Speech, Congressional Record, June 2, 1916, p. 12
• Addresses Made at Flag Raising, 1917 p.9
• All Kentucky is in Food Crusade, p. 13
• America at War in Self Defense, Declares Lane, p. 11
• America Now at Point …