From the Mark Samuels Lasner collection
The Century, May 1916
New York: The Century company, 1916. Mark Samuels Lasner collection.
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Special Collections holds materials that document military service and relief efforts. To learn more about each of the collections listed below, click on the links to each collection to access the finding aid. To obtain further assistance with using archival material, contact Special Collections by email, phone, or in person.
- MSS 0097, Item 0056, Stanley H. Osborn, A Diary of the American Red Cross Sanitary Commission to SerbiaThe journal of Dr. Stanley Hart Osborn describes his work with the Red Cross in Serbia and Montenegro during World War I. The journal is a carbon copy of a typescript of the daily journal kept by Osborn from May 1915 to January 1916, and relates his experiences as a member of a neutral organization during the war. The journal also features over 300 photographs taken by Osborn, corresponding to events in the diary.
- MSS 0572, Frederic A. Blank papersThe papers of centenarian, World War I veteran, and retired wall covering entrepreneur Frederic Blank, spanning close to 150 years, illustrate the varied life of a twentieth-century businessman and provide important sample books of iconic mid-twentieth-century American wall coverings.