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The company promoted its fountain pens to customers on the home front as "suitable gifts" for military service members.
Courtesy Andrew Carroll
Letters from World War I
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My Fellow Soldiers
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- Staying Neutral
- A. Piatt Andrew to his parents August 18, 1916
- Marion Doane, RN to her mother and sister
- Belgian student Joseph Gregoire to President Woodrow Wilson
- Belgian student Alexandre Lobet to President Woodrow Wilson
- Belgian student Paul Mage to President Woodrow Wilson
- Belgian student Rene Moureaux to President Woodrow Wilson
- Brigadier General John J. Pershing, to family friend Anne Boswell, November 3, 1915
- Brigadier General John J. Pershing, to family friend Anne Boswell, October 5, 1915
- Mobilizing
- Private Silas Bradshaw, to Lieutenant Graster, June 22, 1918
- Mae Dees to her husband Private Eliga Dees
- Sergeant Edwin G. Frick to his mother
- Stewart C. Lockhart (AEF Medical Unit 60) to Mrs. Nellie Bailey
- Lieutenant John H. Purnell to Lieutenant T. Montgomery Gregory
- Alfred Robinson (16th Infantry Regiment), to his father, August 19, 1917
- Chief Nurse Julia Stimson, to her family, May 4-6, 1917
- Mr. Charles Edgar Thornton, to his father Private James Edgar Thornton, February 19, 1918
- Private James Edgar Thornton, to his son Charles Edgar, February 15, 1918
- Private David Willey to Lieutenant Simmons
- Front Line
- Betty Boadway to her husband Lieutenant Walter Boadway, September 10, 1918
- Betty Boadway to her husband Lieutenant Walter Boadway, September 27, 1918
- Lieutenant Walter Boadway to his wife Betty, October 20, 1918
- Lieutenant Walter Boadway, to his wife Betty, August 10, 1918
- Sergeant Clyde Eoff, to his sister Josephine Eoff, October 26, 1918
- Private Dwight Fee to his parents
- Lucille Fee to her husband Private Dwight Fee
- Maurice Hess to his father
- Conrad Hoffmann Jr. to his wife Louise
- Louise Hoffmann to her husband Conrad
- Ship's Cook Third Class Hugh Alexander Leslie to his parents
- Miss Anna V.S. Mitchell (Red Cross), to her sister Caroline Phelps Stokes, April 1, 1918
- Chaplain Arthur W. Moulton to Mrs. R. Goldklang
- Colonel George S. Patton to his father
- Clarine Payne to her uncle Private James Edgar Thornton
- Audrey Jane Radcliffe (stenographer with the US Army) to her father
- Private Dean Robertson, to his family, June 11, 1918
- Private Dean Robertson, to his family, June 21, 1918
- Alice Stevanus to her son US Army Cook Harry Stevanus
- Verna Stevanus to her mother-in-law Alice
- Chief Nurse Julia Stimson, to her parents , October 13-18, 1918
- Chief Nurse Julia Stimson, to her family , July 25, 1917
- Chief Nurse Julia Stimson, to her family , November 25, 1917
- Sarah Thornton to her husband Private James Edgar Thornton
- Private Raeburn Van Buren, to his mother September 15, 1918
- Private Raeburn Van Buren, to his mother August 28, 1918
- Private Raeburn Van Buren, to his grandparents, October 8, 1918
- Yeoman First Class Charles Edmund Worth to his mother
- Establishing Peace
- Madame J. Armand to Mrs. Saunders (mother of Corporal Carl Saunders)
- Lieutenant Adolf Berle to his father
- Mr. W.C. Campbell to Mrs. Justice Frick (mother of Sergeant Edwin G. Frick)
- Irene Donnelly to Private Charles Eggeling
- Sergeant Clyde Eoff, to his sister Josephine Eoff, April 28, 1919
- Sergeant Clyde Eoff, to his sister Josephine Eoff, May 30, 1919
- Dwight Fee to his son Private William Fee
- Private Morris E. Kramer to his father
- Conrad Hoffmann Jr. to his wife Louise
- Brigadier General John J. Pershing, to family friend Anne Boswell, October 5, 1915
- Alfred Robinson (16th Infantry Regiment), to his mother, November 14, 1918
- Nurse Louise Schroeder to Ann
- Captain Harry S. Truman to his fiancée Bess Wallace
- Letter Writing Culture
- Publication "To the American Soldier in France"
- Print advertisement by the Parker Pen Company
- Print advertisement by the Parker Pen Company Fountain Pens
- Mabie Todd Swan “Military” pen
- Colonel B. Taylor Writing kit
- "Just a Baby's Letter Found in No Man's Land"
- "Three Wonderful Letters from Home"
- Wartime epistolary novel
- Postcards
- YMCA postcard for the mission in Italy for American soldiers
- French postcard from World War I, December 11, 1918
- American Red Cross postcard, March 16, 1919
- YMCA postcard, December 28, 1918
- French postcard from World War I, October 21, 1918
- French postcard from World War I, November 22, 1918
- YMCA postcard, October 14, 1918
- American Red Cross postcard, January 5, 1919
- American postcard, February 13, 1919
- American Expeditionary Forces form postcard, November 12, 1918
- Liberty Bonds promotional postcard, September 28, 1918
- German Postcard, March 6, 1919
- French postcard, April 17, 1918
- French postcard to Col. Wm. Neill
- American Red Cross postcard from Ray Moore
- American Red Cross postcard, April 7, 1919
- Unused American postcard
- American postcard, July 4, 1918
- American postcard, December 3, 1917
- Jewish Welfare Board Third Army AEF postcard, February 25, 1919
- Staying Neutral
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