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Collection contains letters describing officer William C. Hensyl's time in France from late summer 1918 to late summer 1919. One letter contains a booklet from a hotel in southern France. Letters are addressed to his sister, Annie, as well as to her husband and son.

Scrapbook created by William Henry Holloway while he served in the Army as part of the 36th Company, Coast Artillery from 1902-1904. Holloway participated in the United States military involvement in the Philippine insurrection where he served for one year. The scrapbook is comprised of mostly postcards and stock pictures of people and general scenes of the Philippines along with some original photographs of the United States Army while serving in the Philippines. Many of the photographs and postcards are loose within the book. Some of the photographs show under dressed natives. There are also pictures of men preparing for a cock fight with their chickens and one showing boys with caught dogs that they intended to eat. Included in the scrapbook is also a World War I Soldier's Record. In it Holloway records all of his war experience with the 36th (Philippine insurrection) and the 8th Regiment (which was absorbed into the 52nd Artillery Corps at the end of World War I). He lists bases, cities, major battles, and movements. He also lists his entire military experience in the front of the book, consisting of one year in the Philippines, 16 months in the World War in France. All total, Holloway indicates that he was a soldier for 19 years. 6 months was service in the Army Infantry and 18 1/2 years were served in the Coast Artillery Corps. Included with the scrapbook is a World War I service ribbon, a carte de viste of Holloway, two poems written by Holloway, and a Book of Popular Songs

The William M. Whittle papers consist of the military papers of Whittle, VMI Class of 1917. Whittle served in World War I with the United States Army, 314th Machine Gun Battalion and was sent to France in May 1918. The papers include:

• A notebook containing war service chronology, notes concerning machine gun procedures, and names of officers in his unit
• Military orders
• Other documents and printed material
• One photo of Whittle in his Army uniform, circa 1918

The W. Jett Lauck collection consists of his professional, business and personal papers as an economist, statistician and government consultant on immigration, banking, railroads, coal, and unemployment problems as well as other facets of labor in the United States. Included are correspondence, scrapbooks of news clippings reflecting his activities, labor reports and studies, drafts of congressional bills, legal briefs, and other material concerning labor problems in the United States from its formative World War I years until 1949. They begin with his association with the progressive labor codes of the Taft-Walsh Labor Relations Commission and continue with the Railway Labor Act of 1926; the fight to gain recognition of labor's right to collective bargaining "through representatives of their own choosing" under the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933; the incorporation of its principles in the National Labor Relations Act; and further activity in defense of this act.

Framed photographs from the World War I era. Includes three framed group portraits and nine framed panoramic (Cirkut) photographs. The panoramic photographs include formal and candid group portraits as well as scenic views.