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[American Soldier Ballads, cover]

Description: Photograph of the cover of "American Soldier Ballads" by F.B. Camp, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is dark yellow in color with the title at the top in red lettering.Under the title is an illustration of soldiers sitting or standing around a fire. This edition of Patriotic Toasts was published in 1917 by Forbes and Company in Chicago. Each page has a lithographic decorative blue border surrounding the printed text, and the dense cardboard cover contains a stoic depiction of Uncle Sa… more
Date: October 14, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["There Are No Islands, Any More": Lines Written in Passion and in Deep Concern for England, France and My Own Country]

Description: Photographs of ""There Are No Islands, Any More": Lines Written in Passion and in Deep Concern for England, France and My Own Country" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, held by UNT Special Collections. The pale blue/green cover has the title in navy blue inside of a curved frame design. Image 2, title page of the book, with the page on the left containing a list of other books by Millay. At 10 pages long, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s There Are No Islands, Any More is a book containing only one poem. Wri… more
Date: October 12, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[World War One Small Box Gas Mask]

Description: World War One-era "small box respirator" gas mask, consisting of a canvas or cloth face piece, with inset glass or resin eye lenses, and straps that wrap around the back of the head. The front of the mask has a valve located behind a cloth-covered tube that goes over the mouth and attaches to a small yellow metal box containing activated charcoal (made of peach pits or the pits from other stone fruits). The wearer would have breathed only through the mouth, inhaling air scrubbed clean by the ch… more
Date: [1914..1918]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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