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CRIS Radio World War 1 Archives
CRIS Radio World War 1 Archives
Read about the CRIS Radio project CRIS Radio, the IDEAL Group, and the Connecticut State Library (CSL) are working together on a collaborative pilot project to improve access to archival records and historical documents for individuals who are blind or unable to read due to other disabilities. World War I Archives Newspaper Articles from World War I Diaries of Connecticut Servicemen Military…
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Memorial Window Dedicated to Fallen Hartford Soldier
Memorial Window Dedicated to Fallen Hartford Soldier
After soldiers of the Great War returned home in early 1919, the United States government, state governments, and local institutions began commemorating the valiant efforts the men and women took to protect the nation. Throughout the nation, memorials such as statues, plaques, buildings, and signs were built to remember these brave men and women. One of these memorials was discovered by chance…
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Women at War
General view of a section of the Colt’s automatic firearms plant in Hartford, where many American women took the places of men who had joined the services, April 1918. Image source: Imperial War Museum. Finding-Aid: http://ctstatelibrary.org/RG103.html archived at Connecticut State Library.
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New Haven’s Home Front Manufacturing Workers making Browning machine guns at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company at New Haven (Connecticut), 6 April 1918.
Women at War
General view of a section of the Colt’s automatic firearms plant in Hartford, where many American women took the places of men who had joined the services, April 1918. Finding Aid: http://ctstatelibrary.org/RG103.html archived at Connecticut State Library.
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New Haven’s Home Front Manufacturing Workers making Browning machine guns at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company at New Haven (Connecticut), 6 April 1918. Source Imperial War Museum:
Friday Find - Loomis Chaffee School Archives
Friday Find – Loomis Chaffee School Archives
Loomis School Boys, 1917 The Loomis School opened in 1914. Twenty-five boarding boys, 12 “day fellows,” five local girls in the Loomis Girls’ Division, and eight students in a part-time cooking class made up the school population. Four decades earlier, five Loomis siblings had founded the vision for the school and recorded their thoughts in an 1874 Charter and numerous personal writings.…
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Exciting news!
Wow! It has been a really busy summer and we have lots of exciting news to share. We have been working hard to get our collections ready to share with you. There has been a lot of scanning – but that is the easy part! Once we have the digital images we have to create metadata – information about the image like the title and keywords – to make the images searchable. This step can take a while but…
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Australian soldier with a captured MG 08 , August 1918.
Fighter Plane
1918
"French two-seater fighting plane— note machine mounted to fire through propeller— This was an innovation in aerial warfare at that time."
This photograph, along with the accompanying, comes from the collection of Paul Jean Gaston Darrot. Darrot served in the French infantry, artillery and communications section of the engineers during World War I. Darrot was born in Paris, but he did not resettle there after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1919 and died in Southbury, Connecticut, on February 14, 1958. Darrot donated the photographs and glass plates he made in WWI to the Yale University library, where they remain today.
Photography on the Front
1918, near Soissons
“Work of an auto plane bomb near Soissons. This photo was taken on a rainy day and was the only one of a roll of 12 which came out. A nine-month’s supply of films had to be carried in the infantry pack and many a reel was water-soaked in spite of precautions. The best safe-guard was to stuff them into the extra pair of shoes which were tallowed at every opportunity. For nearly three years I did not wear socks, these being luxuries for the wounded."
This photograph, along with the accompanying, comes from the collection of Paul Jean Gaston Darrot. Darrot served in the French infantry, artillery and communications section of the engineers during World War I. Darrot was born in Paris, but he did not resettle there after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1919 and died in Southbury, Connecticut, on February 14, 1958. Darrot donated the photographs and glass plates he made in WWI to the Yale University library, where they remain today.
Aviators
Earl Gould and Allan Ames (Star Football Player, Yale Team, 1916) find themselves aboard a government yacht. These young men work together assembling kites for the aviators target practice, concentrating to hold the frames steady despite the rocking of the boat. Earl and Allan belong to a training program for aviation service at the Aerial Coast Patrol Service, organized by Yale University, at Huntington, Long Island. Their unit awaits orders to go to France.
The World War I Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
Red Cross Parade
1917 Women of the American Red Cross parade down Hartford’s Main Street. Their white shoes step along the trolley tracks, their veils catch the breeze, and their eyes survey the onlookers clustered around the State Bank and Trust Co., who smile at the women from under the brims of straw hats. Waving handkerchiefs and a single French flag flutter from windows high above the street. PG034, Dudley Photograph Collection of Hartford during World War I, 1917-1919, Box 1
French Artillery
1918
A French soldier turns to face the camera and smiles, halfway through the business of buttoning his coat. He stands amid thick brambles beside a piece of heavy artillery. This 155mm canon sports paddles on its wheels to keep it from sinking into the viscous mud of the French battlefields.
This photograph, along with a description of the gun, comes from the collection of Paul Jean Gaston Darrot. Darrot served in the French infantry, artillery and communications section of the engineers during World War I. Darrot was born in Paris, but he did not resettle there after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1919 and died in Southbury, Connecticut, on February 14, 1958. Darrot donated the photographs and glass plates he made in WWI to the Yale University library, where they remain today.
Stretcher Bearers
1918, The Oise Sector, France.
Four brancardiers or stretcher bearers approach a tangled mesh of barbed wire. Gas masks obstruct their faces. Coils of wire swath the tall grass like cobwebs, and a human form lies half-hidden on the earth below. One of the brancardiers kneels, recognizing a patrol man who had been hit during the night while on a scouting party. They prepare to bring him back.
This photograph, along with a description of its subjects, comes from the collection of Paul Jean Gaston Darrot. Darrot served in the French infantry, artillery and communications section of the engineers during World War I. Darrot was born in Paris, but he did not resettle there after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1919 and died in Southbury, Connecticut, on February 14, 1958. Darrot donated the photographs and glass plates he made in WWI to the Yale University library, where they remain today.
Red Cross Parade
1917 Women of the American Red Cross parade down Hartford’s Main Street. Their white shoes step along the trolley tracks, their veils catch the breeze, and their eyes survey the onlookers clustered around the State Bank and Trust Co., who smile at the women from under the brims of straw hats. Waving handkerchiefs and a single French flag flutter from windows high above the street. PG034, Dudley Photograph Collection of Hartford during World War I, 1917-1919, Box 1
Dedication of the Wethersfield War Memorial
May 31 1927 Families assemble in Standish Park, some of them clustering in the shade of nearby trees. On this hot, dry day, the town Wethersfield inaugurates a memorial honoring its men and women lost in the Great War. Seven-year old Cynthia Warner approaches the monument in her mary-janes and reaches for the star-spangled bunting covering it. Mr. Woodhouse’s father stands to help her, and they unveil the monument together. E. R. Woodhouse regards the bronze plate and the thirty-ton rock on which it is set— the state’s largest granite boulder. “I think this is going to stay here forever,” he says. Dedication of Wethersfield War Memorial, Connecticut State Library Archives, RG 012, Box 131, #315.21 E.R. Woodhouse as quoted in “Honors Are Bestowed on Hero Dead: Principal Address Made By Capt. Kenneth F. Cramer in Long Series of Impressive Exercises,” The Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT), May 31, 1927, p. 16.
