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Series I. Border War & World War I, 1916-1920, inclusive

Discharge papers, 1917, 1919, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Contains Sharman's discharge papers as Private First Class, Company K, 71st New York Infantry, National Guard (5 August 1917), and as Corporal, Headquarters Company, 106th Regiment Field Artillery, United States Army (31 March 1919).

Ephemera, 1917, 1919, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Contains a partial newspaper clipping dated 25 September 1917 on the departure of the First Regiment for Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina; a 1919 postcard with the pre-printed message "Hello- Just Got Back Am Feeling Great Will Write Soon Again"; and an official menu for the "Welcome Home Dinner Tendered by the City of New York . . . on Tuesday, March 25, 1919 to the Gallant 27th Division, American Expeditionary Forces."

Publication | 71st Regiment Farewell Benefit Performance, Hippodrome, Sunday Evening, September 23rd [1917]

Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Publication | The War Book of the One Hundred and Sixth Regiment Field Artillery, United States Army, 1917-1919, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Publication | Official Commendations of the 27th American Division, Belgium and France [publication], 1918, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Publication | Why Soldiers Go Wild: Those "Mayme" Letters of Effie Jane Smith, 1918, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Publication | Headquarters, 52nd Field Artillery Brigade, American Expeditionary Forces. Belletin [Bulletin] No. 1, 1919 January 2

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Periodical | Wadsworth Gas Attack and the Rio Grande Rattler

Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Contains five issues:

Vol. 1, no. 3 (1917 December 8)
Vol. 1, no. 10 (1918 January 26)
Vol. 1, no. 11 (1918 February 2)
Vol. 1, no. 12 (1918 February 9)
Vol. 1, no. 13 (1918 February 16)

The New-York Historical Library holds some duplicate and additional issues of this periodical under call number D570.3.A1 27th Oversize.

Periodical | Gas Attack of the New York Division 27th Div. U.S.A.

Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Contains eight issues:

Vol. 1, no. 14 (1918 February 23)
Vol. 1, no. 16 (1918 March 9)
Vol. 1, no. 17 (1918 March 16)
Vol. 1, no. 18 (1918 March 23)
Vol. 1, no. 19 (1918 March 30)
Vol. 1, no. 20 (1918 April 6)
Vol. 1, no. 21 (1918 April 13)
Vol. 1, no. 22 (1918 April 20)

The New-York Historical Library holds some duplicate and additional issues of this periodical under call number D570.3.A1 27th Oversize.

Periodical | The Hatchet, Published on the High Seas

Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Contains ten issues:

Vol. 3, no. 1 (1918 May 9)
Vol. 3, no. 2 (1918 May 10)
Vol. 3, no. 3 (1918 May 11)
Vol. 3, no. 4 (1918 May 12)
Vol. 3, no. 5 (1918 May 13)
Vol. 3, no. 6 (1918 May 14)
Vol. 3, no. 7 (1918 May 15)
Vol. 3, no. 8 (1918 May 16)
Vol. 3, no. 9 (1918 May 17)
Vol. 3, final issue (1918 May 18? undated)

Periodical | The Home Sector, A Weekly for the New Civilian

Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Contains four issues:

Vol. 2, no. 8 (1920 February 21)
Vol. 2, no. 9 (1920 February 28)
Vol. 2, no. 15 (1920 April 10)
Vol. 2, no. 16 (1920 April 17)

The New-York Historical Society Library holds earlier issues of this periodical under call number D501 .H6 Oversize.

Photographs (2 prints), [1916-1919], inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Scope and Contents

Contains a photograph of William Sharman in uniform, and one of enlisted men pointing to a recruitment poster reading "Rally 'Round the Flag with Co. K, 71st N.Y. Inf. N.G." [National Guard]. Sharman appears to be the man standing left in the second photograph.

Photographs (4 prints), 1916, 1919, inclusive

oversize: medium, Folder: 1 (of 1) (Material Type: Graphic Materials)

Scope and Contents

1. [panorama] McAllen Tex. 1916 | Photo by Murff [showing "First Field Artillery, N.Y."; "71st Inf., N.Y."; "12th Inf., N.Y."
2. [panorama] McAllen Texas | July 6, 1916 | Co. K. 71st Inf. New York
3. [panorama] Camp 71st N.Y. Inf. N.G.U.S. McAllen Texas Sept. 1st 1916
4. Living Insignia | of the | Twenty-Seventh Division | "New York's Own" | Breakers of the Hindenburg Line. | Formed of 10,000 Officers and Enlisted Men | Major-General John R. O'Ryan, Commanding. [Copyright Mole and Thomas, 915 Medinah Bldg., Chicago, Ill., March 18-'19.]

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