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Ames and Leslie collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1991.61

Scope and Contents

Box 1:

The Winnipeg Citizen, The Winipeg strike, 1919.

Foi et Vie, Revue De Quinzaine. 1916.

Law and Labor.

Index for the Literary Digest. Liberty Map of the Western Front of the Great World War. Funk and Wagnalls. 1918.

The British-American Adventures Toward Liberty by Ralph W Page. Britain, Mother of Colonies by Poultney Bigelow. booklet. 1918.

German White Books. Belgium government documents.

Daily Mail. newspaper. London. 

Arbitrations and Diplomatic Settlements of the United States. booklet. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Millions for Tribute not one cent for defense, a reply to Henry Ford. booklet. 

The Outlook. magazine. Sept 14 1914.

The World's Work. magazine. Oct 1914.

Why England and Germany Went to War. from NY Times. Aug 23-24 1914.

The American Review of Reviews. magazine. Edited by Albert Shaw. Nov 1914.

The Living Age, the World in Review. magazine. Nov 1929, Nov 1930.

1922 Memorial Day in France, What French Children Think about the United States of America.

Correspondence concerning The Cross of the Legion of Honor etc.

Memorial Service for the officers and men of the United States Army and Navy who have fallen in the War. Westminster Abbey, 4 April 1919. program booklet.

England's White Papers. Complete Correspondence that led up to her declaration of war against Germany.

Reparation for the Damages of the War. brochure.

Red Cross Magazine. Jan 1918 (no cover), Jan 1919, Aug 1919 (2), Sept 1918, Dec 1918

Correspondence

The Empire: its Cities, Palaces, and Buildings. Houses of Parliament. photo magazine.

Mexico articles, brochures, etc. 1914.

Franco-American Committee for the Protection of the Children of the Frontier. brochure etc.

Through the Outlooking Glass with Theodore Roosevelt. by Stunsky from NY Evening Post.

National Defense, a speech by Major General Leonard Wood, US Army. 1916.

Nip and Tuck Debate, a quarters worth of war by mail. 1916.

The World's Work. magazine. July 1915.

De l'histoire religieuse. 

The British Blockade, what it means, how it works. by w Stanhope Sprigg.

Truth About Germany, Facts About The War. pro-German publication.

West Publishing correspondence.

West Publishing newspaper articles.

American-Russian Chamber of Commerce.

Republican National Committee.

National Assoc for Constitutional Government.

German Prisoners in Great Britain book

St Paul Pioneer Press April 3 1917

American Fund for French Wounded donation cards and Alice with ambulance photo.

American Fund for French Wounded bulletins, 1918.

From La Fayette to Pershing booklet. ca. 1917

Why the United States is at War with Germany flyer. 1917.

Exhibition of Water Color Paintings by M Charles Duvent of the Battle Fields of France and the American War Relief Work booklet. 1917.

Letter from Colonel Roosevelt to Felix Frankfurter, Counsel for President Wilson's Mediation Commission in the Moonet Case flyer. 1917

The Zeebrugge Affair booklet. British naval operations at Zeebrugge and Ostend.

Belgian photo souvenir booklet. ca. 1917. 

The Pan-German Programme. The Petition of the Six Associations and the Manifesto of the intellectuals. translation from German. 1918.

The Daily Telegraph War Map No 8 by Alexander Gross.Italian and Austro-German fighting areas. 1916.

Saint Paul Institute, Fourth Annual Northwestern Art Exhibition, War lithographs by Joseph Pennell, War Posters- French and English. Saint Paul Auditorium, March 2-10 1918. booklet, correspondence, Reports of voting contest.

How Roosevelt Kept Peace by William Hard. booklet. 1916.

Les Etats Unis D'Amerique Aux Soldats De La France flyer

Brochures. Causes Underlying the Social Unrest, Roberts, 1919; Bolshevism, An analysis of a worls movement after personal experiences in Russia during the Revolution, Emery, 1919; Russia The American Problem, Root.





Box 2:

Artifact, WW1-era document bag.

White Papers: The World Tomorrow, A Journal looking toward a Christian World; Upton Sinclair's, A Monthly Magazine for a clean peace and the Internation, 1918; The Review, A Weekly journal of political and general discussion.

Government White Papers. London. 1916.

Sleeve devices and rank insignia of our soldiers. newspaper article.

Various magazines: The Crimes of Germany, London; Germany's Just Cause, NY

Victory magazine. 1919.

Unknown book pages.

National Service, with the International Military Digest magazine. Sept 1919.

The Living Church magazine. Jan, Feb 1919.

Why England, Germany, Russia and Belgium Went To War. newspaper. NY Times white papers. 1914; Case of the United States Against Germany, NY.





Filed in WW1 newspaper collection:

New York Times

Daily Mail. London.  Oct 26 1914. Oct 27 1914. Nov 16 1914.

The Times Weekly Edition. newspaper. London. Oct 2 1914.

The Illustrated London News. April 3 1915.

The Graphic. magazine. Nov 7, 1914.

The Trinidad Guardian

Le Petit Parisien

Le Petit Journal

Le Journal

L'Echo De Paris

Le Matin

Le Journal

Berliner Lageblatt

Kolnische Zeitung

Il Papagallo

Le Perroquet

L'Homme Enchaine

L'Eveil

La Patrie

La Victoire

L'Inforation

Le Rappel

La Bataille

L' Evenment

L'Humanite

Le Figaro

L'Action Francaise

Paris Midi

Le Radical

L'Eclair

L'Auto

Dates

  • 1914-1919
  • Event: Donated by Mary Leslie and Charles Ames on 31 July 1991. Accession 1991.61

Conditions Governing Use

MMVM may, or may not, hold copyrights to materials in this collection. Donors who own copyrights to their donated materials, i.e., photos taken by their grandfather, typically donate their copyrights to MMVM as indicated on the Donation Gift Form. We recognize it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to copy or publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.

Biographical / Historical

Miss Alice Ames, nurse, St Paul. sister Margaret, brother Theodore.

Charles W. Ames, West Publishing, St Paul.

Extent

6 Linear Feet (One flat file folder. Two white standard banker's boxes. Foreign newspapers and two scrapbooks filed separately.)

Language of Materials

English

Status
In Progress
Author
Daniel Ewer, Archivist
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Minnesota Military & Veterans Museum Repository

Contact:
Minnesota Military and Veterans Museum
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15000 Highway 115
Little Falls MN 56345 United States