World War I

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D047828

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  • Global conflict primarily fought on European continent, that occurred between 1914 and 1918.

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    World War I

    World War I

      Equivalent terms

      World War I

      • UF 1st World War
      • UF First World War
      • UF Great War
      • UF World War, 1914-1918

      Associated terms

      World War I

        15 Archival description results for World War I

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        US AA014 · Collection · 1916-1943

        This collection consists of nearly 200 photographs of World War I soldiers, evacuation hospitals, field hospitals and areas of France taken by the U.S. Signal Corps., and maps and documents used by Col. Lyle in the course of his command. (The photographs have been integrated into the Mount Sinai Photograph Collection.)

        Lyle, Henry H. M.
        US AA107.INT012 · File · 1985-10-31
        Part of Collection of Mount Sinai Hospital-related oral histories

        This is a recording of the oral history of Bella Trachtenberg conducted by Albert S. Lyons on October 31st, 1985. Some of the significant topics represented in this oral history include: working as a stenographer; stories from life in France while working in the laboratory at Base Hospital No. 3 AEF during World War I; her experiences with and opinion of the men of the Board of Trustees and Medical Board; recalling controversies and tensions between surgeons, as well as the first and second woman externs, Isabel Beck (finished training in 1924) and Gertrude Felshin (class of 1925), and the first woman intern Rose Speigel; and George Baehr’s work with the Consultation Serivces and early animal kidney transplants, including her own role in Baehr’s kidney transplants as an anesthesiologist.

        The recording begins in mid-sentence without context.

        Trachtenberg, Bella
        Roosevelt Hospital records
        US AA105 · Collection · 1866-2013

        Please review the notes under the individual series below. For additional information on that series, go to https://libguides.mssm.edu/catalog and enter the OCLC # provided to read the catalog record for that series.

        Roosevelt Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
        World War I Correspondence
        US AA088.S003.SS001.B004.F033 · File · 1919-01 - 1919-12
        Part of Mount Sinai Beth Israel records

        This folder includes the correspondence of Louis J. Frank with Beth Israel Hospital medical staff serving in World War I. Correspondence is mainly sent from France and Germany.

        Topics include discussion on daily life of those serving, travel throughout Europe, practicing medicine during and after battle, and reactions to Armistice.

        One major thread of correspondence includes a request from Dr. Joseph Horowitz, who, stationed in Germany with little to do after the Armistice, asks Louis J. Frank to coordinate with Congressman Isaac Siegel to help him return to work at Beth Israel Hospital.

        World War I Correspondence
        US AA088.S003.SS001.B004.F031 · File · 1917-1919 (bulk 1917)
        Part of Mount Sinai Beth Israel records

        This folder includes the correspondence of Louis J. Frank with Beth Israel Hospital medical staff serving in World War I. Correspondence is mainly sent from "somewhere in France," but also from Germany and Fort Benjamin, Indiana in the U.S.

        Topics include the staffing of Beth Israel, future needs of military patients, the status of the Beth Israel Hospital building (future Dazian Pavilion), and the daily life of those serving. At least one letter makes reference to the Mount Sinai Hospital Unit.

        World War I Correspondence
        US AA088.S003.SS001.B004.F032 · File · 1918 - 1919-01-11
        Part of Mount Sinai Beth Israel records

        This folder includes the correspondence of Louis J. Frank with Beth Israel Hospital medical staff serving in World War I. Correspondence is mainly sent from "somewhere in France," but also from Germany and Fort Benjamin, Indiana in the U.S.

        Topics include discussion on daily life for those serving in the war, Russia's role in the war, the status of the new Beth Israel hospital building (future Dazian Pavilion), medical staff shortages at Beth Israel and in the United States, the Influenza Epidemic of 1918, discussions of wartime surgery, discussions of x-ray training for military doctors, the status of various Beth Israel doctors at home and abroad, and global and local politics, particularly related to Congressman Isaac Siegel. Two postcards were also sent from Leo B. Meyer from Chartreuse de Vauclaire, a monastery turned military hospital in France. Letters also make various references to the Mount Sinai Hospital unit.