LibGuides: WWI: Minnesota in the Great War: Images & Artifacts

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Photograph Collections

Guybert Marion Phillips WWI Photograph Album
Views of Paris, Reims, and the French countryside taken by Minnesotan Guybert Marion Phillips while serving in the French ambulance unit S.S.U. 568 during World War I. Album includes images taken in Scotland and London in April of 1919 following the end of the war.
MNHS call number: Digital Finding Aid

Minnesota War Records Commission, Collected Materials, 1909-1936
Photographs are interspersed throughout this collection. Some are included in the various letter collections and include shots of life on the front. Other shots are organized to capture the work of various divisions abroad.
MNHS call number: Digital Finding Aid

World War I Soldiers’ Photographs, 1918-1939, 1947
Collection of photographs of WWI soldiers and nurses. Most individuals are from Minnesota, but soldiers from Nebraska, Wisconsin (specifically, Superior), North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Missouri are also included. Photographs are from the collections of the Ramsey County War Records Commission, the War Records Commission, the Minnesota American Legion Auxiliary, and the Minnesota Motor Corps. Digitized images are available with in the finding aid, linked below.
MNHS call number: Digital Finding Aid