[Taps: Famous Poems of the World War]

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Photographs of "Taps" by Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Grantland Rice, held by UNT Special Collections. The second image is of pages 110 an 111, the page on the left is a drawing of a figure laying on grass and the page on the right is a poem titled "No Man's Land." Image 3, pages 200 and 201 with the page on the left containing parts of a poem and the page on the right containing a drawing of two soldiers sitting down with skull faces. Image 1, cover of the book. It is dirty yellow in color with title in … continued below

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4 photographs : col. ill. ; 3817 x 2766 px. 3838 x 2717 px. 2719 x 2222 px. 3238 x 1371 px.

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Sylve, Joshua November 3, 2016.

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Photographs of "Taps" by Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Grantland Rice, held by UNT Special Collections. The second image is of pages 110 an 111, the page on the left is a drawing of a figure laying on grass and the page on the right is a poem titled "No Man's Land." Image 3, pages 200 and 201 with the page on the left containing parts of a poem and the page on the right containing a drawing of two soldiers sitting down with skull faces. Image 1, cover of the book. It is dirty yellow in color with title in bold at the top with black lettering, the subtitle and names in smaller letters. Expanding vertically on the left side of the cover is a sketch of a soldier playing a trumpet. Image 4, side view of book's spine that contains the title and author, small white stars along it vertically.

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4 photographs : col. ill. ; 3817 x 2766 px. 3838 x 2717 px. 2719 x 2222 px. 3238 x 1371 px.

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This image was taken for use in the digital version of UNT Special Collections' Spring 2017 exhibit "The Lost Generation: World War I Poetry Selected from the Donald Thomas War Poetry Collection."

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  • Preferred Citation: University Photography Collection (U0458), University of North Texas Special Collections

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University Photography Collection

Drawn from the UNT Archives, these photographs depict images of University of North Texas football, UNT alumni and alumni events, and images of the changing and growing University of North Texas campus.

World War One Collection

Materials focusing on the World War I era from 1914 to 1918. In addition to materials that were actually created during the time period, the collection may include modern studies and commemorative works about the era.

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  • November 3, 2016
  • September 23, 2016

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  • June 17, 2020, 1:52 p.m.

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Sylve, Joshua. [Taps: Famous Poems of the World War], photograph, November 3, 2016; Garden City, N.Y. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703743/: accessed May 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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