World War I Pamphlets, Flyers, and Brochures, 1914-1921 | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Collection Overview

Title: World War I Pamphlets, Flyers, and Brochures, 1914-1921

ID: 01/02/MSS00108

Extent: 1.1 Cubic Feet

Arrangement:

This collection consists of three sections:

1. Pamphlets (Box 1; Box 2)

2. Flyers, brochures, and miscellaneous publications (Box 3)

3. Oversized materials (Box 4)

Date Acquired: 00/00/2009

Languages: English, French, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish;Castilian, Italian, Greek,Modern(1453-), Yiddish

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection is comprised of pamphlets, leaflets, flyers and other documents relating to the First World War. Box 1 consists of various pamphlet publications ranging from political opinion pieces to informational reports surrounding World War I. Box 2 is a continuation of the pamphlet series of Box 1. Box 3 contains flyers, leaflets, brochures, and other miscellaneous documents produced during, and pertaining to World War I. Box 4 contains miscellaneous oversized materials.

Administrative Information

Repository: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Access Restrictions: Open to researchers.

Use Restrictions:

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This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgement, fulfillment of the order would damage materials or involve violation of copyright law.

Acquisition Source: Library backlog

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Pamphlets],
[Series 2: Flyers, brochures, and miscellaneous publications],
[Series 3: Oversize materials],
[All]

Series 1: Pamphlets

Box 1

Folder 1: Démonstration jardin d’enfants “unit”: début de l’éducation des enfants de quatre a six ans. American Red Cross Paris, Croix-Rouge Américaine, 1918: 12 Pages
Folder 2: Mèzes Françaises… Lisez ceci!: Votre enfant en profitera! American Red Cross Lyon, Imprimeries Réunies, undated: Eight Pages
Folder 3: Some economic and political aspects of general training under the German military system Bonn, Moritz J. Germanistic Society Quarterly, 1916: 12 Pages
Folder 4: After the War. Bridgman, Helen Bartlett. Brooklyn, N.Y., Standard Union, 1915: 16 Pages
Folder 5: Our National Defenses: Remarks of Hon. Frank Buchanan of Illinois. Buchanan, Frank. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1917: 10 Pages
Folder 6: The Road to Durable Peace. Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1918: Four Pages
Folder 7: The Case of Northern Epirus. Cassavetes, N.J. The Current History Magazine New York Times, undated: Four Pages
Folder 8: The German Efficiency Myth. Chapple, Bennett. Chapple Publishing Company Ltd., 1917: 16 Pages
Folder 9: Report of the committee on alleged German outrages: appointed by his Britannic majesty’s government and presided over by The Right Hon. Viscount Bryce, O.M., &c., &c. Committee on Alleged German Outrages. London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., 1915: 61 Pages
Folder 10: Report of the Committee Franco-American for the Protection of the Children of the Frontier: Including Pictures of Some of the Children Committee Franco-American for the Protection of the Children of the Frontier. New York, L. Middleditch Co., undated: 15 Pages
Folder 11: “Be Just Before You’re Generous” Davidson, Chas. Stewart. American Defense Society, 1918: Eight Pages
Folder 12: Covenant of the League of Nations Democratic National Committee. New York City, Allied Printing Trades Council, undated: 32 Pages
Folder 13: Standards recommended for permanent industrial housing developments Department of Labor, Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1918: 15 Pages
Folder 14: After the War, What?: A Plea for A League of Peace Fisher, Irving. New York, The Church Peace Union, 1914: 24 Pages
Folder 15: Erklärung Haeckel, Ernst. Jena, Hofbuchdruckerei, 1914: Four Pages
Folder 16: The War of the Nations Hayes, Carlton. Columbia University, 1914: 23 Pages
Folder 17: The Commission for Relief in Belgium. Honnold, W.L.. Engineering and Mining Journal, 1917: 12 Pages
Folder 18: Protestation de Divers Savants Lillois: Relative aux actes de l’authorité militaire allemande pendant l’occupation de lille Institut de France Académie des Sciences, Paris, Gauthier-villars et cie, imprimeurs-libraires, 1918: Six Pages
Folder 19: L’Institution Royale de Messines près d’ypres pour les filles d’officiers et de soldats belges: morts ou devenus invalides au service de la patrie Institution Royale de Messines. Bruxelles, Jos.-L. Van Melle; Paris-Nancy, Berger-Levrault, undated: 42 Pages
Folder 20: [Germany and the War] “An Interim Religion” Jacks, L.P.. Boston, American rights league of Massachusetts for upholding the duty of the republic in international relations, 1916: 21 Pages
Folder 21: The War and World Opinion Johnson, William H.. Granville, Ohio, Published by the author, 1916: 32 Pages
Folder 22: Neighbor Hans. Joubert, Wilfred A. Liberty Loan Committee Second Federal Reserve District, undated: 24 Pages
Folder 23: Training for World Service. Kies, W.S. National City Bank of New York, 1917: 20 Pages
Folder 24: League of Free Nations Association Statement of Principles League of Free Nations Association. New York City, 1918: Eight Pages
Folder 25: United States Senate Fundamental Peace Ideas including The Westphalian Peace Treaty (1648) and The League of Nations (1919) in connection with International Psychology and Revolutions. MacDonald, Arthur. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1919: 16 Pages

Box 2

Folder 1: The impassable chasm: The Valedictory Message of The Honorable Wayne Mac Veagh former Attorney General of the United States. MacVeagh, Wayne. Ithaca, N.Y., 1915: 13 Pages
Folder 2: America’s Duty in Armenia Main, John Hanson Thomas. American Committee for the Independence of Armenia, undated: Eight Pages
Folder 3: L’ouevre d’une École américaine de Rééducation des Mutilés (acquired from T.?) McMurtrie, Douglas C. Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1919: 14 Pages
Folder 4: Mon Soldat 15: Sous le haut patronage de M. le Président de la République et de M. le Ministre de la Guerre (Gift of F. Moutterson) Paris, Frankel-Legendre, 1918: 40 Pages
Folder 5: Administrative Efficiency and the War: Need for Competent Personnel and Business-like Methods in the Government National Civil Service Reform League. New York, Washington, 1918: 15 Pages
Folder 6: National German America Alliance of the United States of America: Incorporated by Act of Congress Philidelphia, Pa., 1915: Eight Pages
Folder 7: National Security League: Report of the Committee on Patriotism Through Education, 1917: Eight Pages
Folder 8: Who Wants War? O’Leary, Jeremiah. New York City, American Truth Society, 1916: 20 Pages
Folder 9: The War and the Schools: Special regulations for the school year 1916-1917 Ontario Department of Education. Toronto, A.T. Wilgress, 1916: 12 Pages
Folder 10: The Peace Conference– and After: Introduction by Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K.G. London, Macmillan & Company, Ltd., 1918: 80 Pages
Folder 11: The causation of the European war and the breakdown of the old statecraft, Perris, H.S., 1916: Eight Pages
Folder 12: The Virginia ideal in contrast with the Prussian theory of the state: Address of Harrington Putnam, LLD at the commencement of Washington and Lee University. Putnam, Harrington. Brooklyn Eagle Press, 1917: 16 Pages
Folder 13: The War and Education. Riley, Woodbridge, 1919: Eight Pages
Folder 14: National Citizens Union. Robinson, Bird M. Washington D.C., 1917: 15 Pages
Folder 15: L’idéalisme Américain Roz, Firmin. Paris, Imprimerie Levé, 1917: 12 Pages
Folder 16: The War of the European Cultures. Schapiro, J. Salwyn, 1915: 12 Pages
Folder 17: Report of Dr. Louis Livingston Seaman President of The British War Relief Association, Inc. of New York and member of the Advisory Board of The American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps, Inc. (Section Sanitaire Americaine No.7) of France… Seaman, Louis Livingston. British War Relief Association, 1916: 16 Pages
Folder 18: German Land Hunger. Smith, Munroe. New York, Academy of Political Science, 1917: 22 Pages
Folder 19: Some pages from the bloody album of the Karageorgevitch: Documents on the crimes committed by the Serbians in Montenegro. Rome, Committee of Montenegrin Refugees, 1920: 62 Pages
Folder 20: Statutes of Incorporation of the International Intermediary Institute: The Hague International Intermediary Institute, undated: 16 Pages
Folder 21: Germans in America: Read before the Indianapolis literary club, October 4, 1915. Fourth edition. Swift, Lucius B. Indianapolis, Kautz Stationery Co, 1916: 31 Pages
Folder 22: League to Enforce Peace American Branch: Independence Hall Conference held in the City of Philadelphia, Bunker Hill Day, together with the speeches made at a public banquet in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel the preceding evening. Taft, William Howard. New York City, League to Enforce Peace, 1915: 65 Pages
Folder 23: The British Reconstruction Programs. Tead, Ordway. New York City, Research Bureau of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1918: 76 Pages
Folder 24: Booklet of Information, U.S. Boys’ Working Reserve. U.S. Employment Service, U.S. Department of Labor, undated: 16 Pages, Two Copies
Folder 25: Work in France of the American-British-French-Belgian Permanent Blind Relief War Fund described in French official reports, undated: 16 Pages

Series 2: Flyers, brochures, and miscellaneous publications

Box 3

Folder 1: Americans, Help Save Russia!: The way is plain, the means are at hand. Last Corrected Proof, New York City, Anti-Bolshevik Committee, 1919

Four Pages

Folder 2: Brief Business Statement for the use of American Red Cross Christmas roll call chairmen and their assistants: For chapters and branches in the Atlantic Division. New York City, American Red Cross Atlantic Division, 1918

Eight Pages

Folder 3: Civilians of Brussels Victims to German Artillery Fire. London, W. Speaight & Sons, undated

One Page, Two Copies

Folder 4: The Crisis in Italy: American aid is urgently needed To Strengthen Our Southern Ally Against the German and Austrian Campaign of Frightfulness, undated

Four Pages

Folder 5: Editorial by Colonel Roosevelt: The War Savings Campaign. Roosevelt, Theodore. Allied Printer Trade Council, undated

One Page

Folder 6: “The Facts!”: made over into “Northcliffe War News” Hamburg-Hunland, 1917

One Page

Folder 7: Facts on Disarmament [publisher’s advertisement] New York City, E.P. Dutton & Company, undated

Four Pages, Four Copies

Folder 8: The Fatherless Children of France: Branch of The American Society for the Relief of French War Orphans. New York City, American Society for the Relief of French War Orphans, undated

Eight Pages

Folder 9: Feuille de Tickets de Pain [sheet of bread tickets] Ministere de l’agriculture et du ravitaillement, 1919

One Page

Folder 10: German University League Bulletins

Three Items

Item 1: Germany’s Future: Bulletin No. 4 Lamprecht, Karl. New York City, Deutscher Akademiker Bund, undated: One Page
Item 2: Thrift and Foresight (Correspondence of the Associated Press): Bulletin No. 5. New York City, Deutscher Akademiker Bund, undated: One Page
Item 3: [Executive office statement]: Bulletin No. 7 New York City, Deutscher Akademiker Bund, 1917: One Page

Folder 11: “He showed great Bitterness against the United States” Barton, Bruce. New York, N.Y., Liberty Loan Committee, undated

One Page

Folder 12: Hughes Campaign Service Bulletin No. VI.: Why “Americanism”? – David Jayne Hill; A Minority President – Joseph H. Choate; Suffrage and Watchful Waiting Mr. Gompers Answered. N.Y., McConnell Press, Inc., 1916

12 Pages

Folder 13: [Let’s help the war-disabled to become good tradesmen] McMurtrie, Douglas C., Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men, undated

Eight Items, Five Pages

Item 1: Aidons les mutilés de la guerre à devenir de bons ouvriers de métier, French, undated
Item 2: Wie wir friegsbeschädigte Soldaten zu brauchbaren und tüchtigen handwerfern machen fönnen, German, undated
Item 3: Hvorledes vanføre soldater kan bli dygtige og kyndige arbeidere, Norwegian, undated
Item 4: Hagamos de los soldados estropeados obreros hábiles y capaces, Spanish, undated
Item 5: Invaliders och krymplingars utbildning till skickliga yrkesmän, Sweden, undated
Item 6: Per trasformare i soldati mutilate in esperti ed abili lavoratori, Italian, undated
Item 7: Άπό Άναπήρους Στρατιώτας Είς Έμπειροτέχνους Έργάτας, Greek, undated
Item 8: ַרבּײטער פעהיגע און פערװאַנרעלטאיןגעשיקטע םאָלראַטען פערקריפּעלטע, Yiddish, undated

Folder 14: Ligue des pays neutres: League of Neutral States, A statement from the Dutch section Walch, Gérard. London, Hayman, Christy and Lilly, 1916

Two Pages

Folder 15: To make and keep our men “Fit it Fight” Is the purpose of the War-Camp Community Recreation Fund. Washington D.C., War-Camp Community Recreation Fund, undated

Four Pages

Folder 16: Making boy power count. U.S. Boys’ Working Reserve. Washington D.C., U.S. Employment Service Department of Labor, 1918

Eight Pages, Two Copies

Folder 17: The Measure of Victory: a reflection of the liberal point of view with respect to the war for the consideration of The New Republic, 1918

Two Pages

Folder 18: [Memorandum on the Official White Book] Ahlborn, Emil, 1917

Two Pages

Folder 19: The ministry of healing: Britain’s care of the wounded. London, Petty & Sons (Reading), Ltd., undated

24 Pages

Folder 20: Notice to Publishers, Creel, George. Washington D.C., Committee on Public Information, 1918

One Page

Folder 21: Patriotic Economy, Moss, Everett. Boston, 1917

Four Pages

Folder 22: Plan to end wars: World-Embracing Project to Secure, Maintain and Guarantee Universal Peace, Otis, Harrison Gray. Los Angeles, Press of the Los Angeles Times, 1915

Eight Pages

Folder 23: Plan to end wars: World-embracing Comprehensive Project to Secure, Maintain and Guarantee Universal Peace. Fourth Edition, with Preface and Notes. Otis, Harrison Gray. Los Angeles, Press of the Los Angeles Times, 1915

Eight Pages

Folder 24: “The Public Orator delivered the following speeches in presenting for the Degree of Doctor of Law, honoris causa, His Excellency W.H. Page, Ambassador of the United States of America; and Lieutenant-General the Right Honourable J.C. Smits, K.C., LL.B., Honorary Fellow of Christ’s College, Representative of the Union of South Africa at the Imperial Conference, lately General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, East Africa.” In Latin., 1917

One Page

Folder 25: Réunion international de La Haye (7-10 avril 1915)., 1915

One Page

Folder 26: Sehr geehrter Herr? Berlin, Deutscher Überseedienst, 1914

One Page

Folder 27: The Senate Reservations from the European Standpoint. New York City, The League of Free Nations Association, 1919

Four Pages

Folder 28: The story of a sea fight told in official statements. London, Great Britain, Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd., undated

Acquired from W.E. Bazley 25/9/17. Four Pages

Folder 29: War on the Wounded! London, Great Britain, Sir Joseph Causton & Sons, Ltd, undated

Two Copies

Folder 30: What an American saw of German horrors: as practiced upon the thousands of helpless allied prisoners now in Prussian concentration camps. National Allied Relief Committee, Inc., undated

Four Pages

Folder 31: Why Should There Be An Amnesty? New York City, National Civil Liberties Bureau, undated

Four Pages

Folder 32: World Peace Foundation Statement. World Peace Foundation, Boston, 1914

One Page

Folder 33: Laws of New York. Authority Hugo, Francis M. New York, Office of the Secretary of State, 1917

Two Items

Item 1: Laws of New York, Chap. 205, 1917: One Page
Item 2: Laws of New York, Chap. 813, 1917: Two Copies, 20 Pages

Series 3: Oversize materials

Box 4

Folder 1: Oversized Materials

11 Items

Item 1: The Belgian Deportations: Facsimiles of Clandestine Leaflets in French and Flemish by means of which the Belgian population encourages itself to passive resistance in occupied Belgium., 1916: 2 Leaves
Item 2: Correspondence respecting the transit traffic across Holland of materials susceptible of employment as military supplies: Miscellaneous No. 17 London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office; London, Harrison and Sons, 1917: 12 Pages
Item 3: Declaration of the University and the Polytechnic Academy of Graz against the Peace of Might Schüßler, Rudolf; Puntschart, Paul. University and Polytechnic Academy of Graz, undated: One Page
Item 4: Educational Bulletin #8. Rennecke, Walter R., Seattle, Washington, undated: One Page
Item 5: A Few Short Notes of the Turkish Cruelties Perpetrated Against the Greeks of the Pontus (Turkish coast of the Black Sea) during the Months of June, July, and August 1921. Athens, 1921: 4 Leaves
Item 6: Letter from C.E. Polygenis, Rector of the University of Athens, 1920: One Page
Item 7: Outraged Poland: Trapped between two armies, her women and young girls have suffered untold shame and agony. Paderewska, Helena, 1918: One Broadside
Item 8: A Parable; The Interpretation; Accompanying submission letter. Chater, John Andrew, Ithaca, N.Y., 1915: 2 Leaves
Item 9: Réponse des gouvernements allies à la note américaine du 19 décembre 1916, Paris, 1917: One Page
Item 10: Réponse de l’université de liège: au Manifeste de l’Allemagne Intellectuelle au Monde Civilisé Gravis, A., Liège, Vaillant-Carmanne, 1918: One Poster

Item 11: The tragedy of Baffra in Ponton: By an eye-witness who escaped the massacre of Baffra and was rescued with 100 others on a sailing ship to Medea in Thrace. Translated from the Turkish text written in Greek characters. Dilmitoglou, John. Athens, 1921

4 Leaves

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