PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::viu01610::A Guide to a World War I Postcard Album)//EN" "viu01610.xml" A Guide to a World War I Postcard Album 1914-1918World War I, Postcard Album, 1914-1918 10875-adSpecial Collections Staff Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library © 2001 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word 2000, created by Sue Cuthbertson, 8/15/2001 Description is in English Feb 18, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::viu01610::A Guide to a World War I Postcard Album)//EN" "viu01610.xml" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to a World War I Postcard Album 1914-1918 A Collection in The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection The Special Collections Department 10875-ad

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 2001 Special Collections Department Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Descriptive Summary Special Collections, University of Virginia Library World War I Postcard Album 1914-1918 10875-ad 1 volume English The album contains about 60 colored postcards in a series by Henri Gervese entitled "Nos Marins" which humorously depict the life of a French sailor. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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World War I Postcard Album, 1914-1918, in the Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection, Accession #10875-ad, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

 Acquisition Information

This album was given to the University of Virginia Library by Dexter Whitehead, Crozet, Virginia, on December 20, 1994.

 Scope and Content Information

This addition to the Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection consists of one album of about sixty French colored postcards, ca. 1914-1918, by French caricaturist Henri Gervese (1880-1959), entitled "Nos Marins" [Our Sailors]. The postcards portray the life of the French sailor in a humorous manner and include scenes of drilling, preparing for inspection, getting along with officers, physical and mental training, mail call, reporting for duty, chow time, class distinctions, entertainment, kitchen duty, seasickness, weapons deployment, laundry day, and other related events. Most of the inscriptions on the cards are in French but a few have English as well