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[4th Liberty Loan Honor Roll poster, World War I]

Description: Photograph of 4th Liberty Loan "Honor Roll" poster from World War I, held by UNT Special Collections. The poster has an illustration of a red framed flag at the top with four blue stripes down the middle. The words "Help our town win this flag" are in dark blue at the top. Under the flag is the title "4th Liberty Loan" in red. The bottom half of the poster has four columns of numbered lines numbering 1-100.
Date: December 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Any Soldier to His Son, cover]

Description: Photograph of the cover of "Any Soldier to His Son" by George Willis, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is grey, with the spine being darker. The title is in a silver frame on the top right, the lettering also in silver. In 1919, a collection of poems titled Any Soldier to His Son, authored by George Willis, was published by George Allen & Unwin LTD out of London. Although there is not much readily available biographical information on Willis, it is known that he was a soldier in the B… more
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Backgrounds, cover]

Description: Photograph of the cover of "Backgrounds" by Grace Mary Golden, held by UNT Special Collections. The pale grey paper book contains the title and author at the top, the publishing info at the bottom. Most of the page is covered by an illustration of a woman watching a soldier rowing at sea with a dog next to her. All the wording and illustrations are in black.
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Cease Firing: Fifty Poems of the New Peace]

Description: Photographs of "Cease Firing: Fifty Poems of the New Peace," held by UNT Special Collections. The first image is the cover of "Cease Firing," blue/green color with the title imprinted in gold at the top in between three lines of gold. The second image is of the title page and frontispiece. The frontispiece is a black and white illustration with the words piece at the top made up of small birds. Image 3, poem titled "Peace Shall Live" expanding over two pages. At the very top of the left page it… more
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Chicago Poems]

Description: Photographs of "Chicago Poems" by Carl Sandburg, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is dark green with the title and author in gold lettering at the top and the front framed by a gold line. Image 2, open book with the page on the right titled "Killers" and the left page blank. Image 3, pages 86 and 87. Page 87 contains a poem titled "Among the Red Guns."
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke, cover]

Description: Photograph of the cover of "The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke" by Rupert Brooke, held by UNT Special Collections. The simple black book has the title in a white box at the top, framed by an orange line. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was the son of a Rugby schoolmaster and attended school at Rugby and later at King’s College of Cambridge University. After completing his education, Brooke continued writing poetry and became one of the founders of the first anthology of Georgian Poetry. Now little … more
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Easter at Ypres 1915: And Other Poems, frontispiece/title page]

Description: Photograph of the frontispiece/title page of "Easter at Ypres 1915" by W.S.S. Lyon, held by UNT Special Collections. The title page has the title at the top and publishing information at the bottom. The page on the left contains a black and white photo of the side profile of a young man in uniform.
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Fort Sam Houston Bulletin 136]

Description: US Army Southern Department Headquarters bulletin reprinting a War Department bulletin that outlines regulations for soldiers' private property, followed by amendments to orders on troops' accommodations, and communications from the Army Adjutant General's office regarding the stoppage of pay for absent soldiers, applications for Army commissions by employees of government offices, and a prohibition on the voluntary induction of soldiers registered before September 12.
Date: October 23, 1918
Creator: United States. War Department.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Forward, March!, cover]

Description: Photograph of the cover of "Forward, March!" by Angela Morgan, held by UNT Special Collections. The dark red cover has the title at the top left corner, followed by a graphic of a hand holding a torch and the author. This all encased by a line, and all in gold lettering/lines.
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Friends]

Description: Photographs of "Friends" by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is brownish paper, the title at the top, author in the middle and publishing info at the bottom all in black ink lettering. Image 2, the page on the left contains a list of books by the same author: Battle, Thoroughfarers, Borderlands, Fires, Daily Bread, Akra the Slave, and Stonefolds. The page on the right is "To the Memore of Rupert Brooke." Image 3, open book with page on the left blank, and the pa… more
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[From an Outpost and Other Poems, cover]

Description: Photograph of the cover of "From an Outpost and Other Poems" by Leslie Coulson, held by UNT Special Collections. The white paper cover has a thin orange line that frames the title, followed by a photo of a young man and the author under the picture all in orange tint.
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[From the Front]

Description: Photographs of "From the Front" trench poetry edited by C.E. Andrews, held by UNT Special Collections. It is bound in an uniform green cloth binding, and the front cover bears the title “From the Front,” the full name of the editor in all caps, and a logo of two swords crossed, a hat in the middle, and olive leaves wreath circling the swords, all of which was stamped with gold metallic color.. Image 2, page 198 and 199. The page on the right is titled "Good-By." Image 3, page 200 and 201. Image… more
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[How It Happened: And Other Poems, cover]

Description: Photograph of "How It Happened: And Other Poems" by Edwin H. Underhill, held by UNT Special Collections. The brown cover has the title and author printed in gold lettering in the middle of the front. A light blue arrow with a T in the middle of it is above that. At the bottom are two lines crossed over each other, most of the cover faded.
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Images of Desire]

Description: Photographs of "Images of Desire" by Richard Aldington, held by UNT Special Collections. The first image is of the title page. Image 2, two poems on pages 28 and 29. The left page is titled "A Soldiers Song" and the page on the right titled "Absence."
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[In Flanders Fields]

Description: Photographs of "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is dark blue with the title on the front in gold lettering inside gold oval. Image 2, frontispiece containing a photo of a soldier in uniform titled "John McCrae." Image 3, facsimile inscription. with the page on the right written in black ink handwriting. Image 3, book opened up to "In Flanders Fields" on the right page.
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Hector Suyker to Emma Riecke - December 23, 1918]

Description: Letter from Hector Suyker to Emma Riecke discussing two rumors about a train leaving Christmas morning and his hopes to be home before new year. There was a storm that almost blew the tents down and his pitched in buy his lieutenant a Christmas present. He tells Emma he has been thinking over and that she may need to go visit him.
Date: December 23, 1918
Creator: Suyker, Hector
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Naked Warriors, cover]

Description: Photograph of "Naked Warriors" by Herbert Read, held by UNT Special Collections. In 1917, poet and literary critic Herbert Read co-founded the avant-garde quarterly journal Arts and Letters, which in 1919 published Read’s book Naked Warriors. (The volume’s first section “Kneeshaw Goes to War” originally appeared in Arts and Letters, as noted in the contents.) This sixty-page volume of poetry and prose explores the arc of the British soldier’s combat experience in World War I. Read, who served i… more
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[October and Other Poems]

Description: Photographs of "October and Other Poems" by Robert Bridges, held by UNT Special Collections. The book has an old white cover, framed by a black line and the title printed at the top in black. Image 2, "The West Front" and "To the United States of America." Page 32 contains the title of the first one at the top, and page 33 has the other one at the top followed by the date April 1917.
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Officer and Men at Camp MacArthur]

Description: Postcard of a colorized photograph of eight men, including an officer (far right), sitting on the ground in front of a forest with other men and trees in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Officer Demonstrating Squad Movement by Use of Stones." There is also a handwritten note at the top of the image that reads "903 Speight St. Waco Tex." There is a handwritten letter on the back of the postcard.
Date: January 23, 1918
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[The Other Side: Poems, cover]

Description: Photograph of the cover of "The Other Side: And Other Poems" by Gilbert Frankau, held by UNT Special Collections. The worn orange cover contains the title in a white box on the top left.
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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