Columbia University in World War I Collection, 1914-1970

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Series VII: Wartime Work, 1914-1928

This series contains material on various topics, groups, and organizations related to the war effort. Folder "Division of Intelligence and Publicity" contains a small amount of correspondence and some items such as press releases informing the Columbia community about various military programs. The folder of "General Assemblies" contains material on the General Assemblies held for the faculty and/or the university community to discuss current wartime issues. The folder also contains President Nicholas Murray Butler's, as well as other professor's, addresses to the General Assembly of the Faculty on May 7, 1918. The Ninth Coast Artillery Corps correspondence is mostly in relation to the formation of a New York Guard Columbia Unit, which was the result of efforts by the Columbia University Club. Information on the Citizen's Preparedness Parade and the May 10, 1916 meeting with speaker Major-General Leonard Wood is within the folder "Preparedness." See also the oversized folder "Collections Oversize-World War I Collection-Newspaper Clippings" for the Louvain Library Supplement of the Columbia Spectator from April 5, 1922.



Box 15 Folder 30 Certificates, 1918-1920


Box 15 Folder 31 Columbia House--Center for Americanization, 1919


Box 15 Folder 32 Columbia-Presbyterian Unit, 1917-1919


Box 15 Folder 33 Columbia University Post No. 400, American Legion, 1923-1927



Box 16 Folder 1 General Assemblies, 1915-1918


Box 16 Folder 2 Intelligence and Publicity, Division of, 1917, undated, 1917, undated


Box 16 Folder 3 Letter to the American Ambassador to Petrograd, 1917


Box 16 Folder 4 Liberty Loan, 1917-1918


Box 16 Folder 5 Louvain Library Reconstruction Campaign, 1914-1929


Box 16 Folder 6 New York State Military Census, 1917


Box 16 Folder 7 Ninth Coast Artillery Corps--Columbia Unit, 1918


Box 16 Folder 8 Preparedness, 1916


Service Lists


Box 16 Folder 9 Alumni Who Won Distinction in the War, 1920, undated, 1920, undated


Box 16 Folder 10 Committee on Mobilization--Men Who Served by 1916, 1916, 1916, 1916


Box 16 Folder 11 Company "I", undated


Box 16 Folder 12 General, undated


Box 16 Folder 13 Non-Columbia Rosters, 1915-1919


Box 16 Folder 14 School of Architecture, 1918


Box 16 Folder 15 University Farm Bureau, undated