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Exhibit Opening Friday, Sept. 5th, 5:30-7:30
Soldiers' Memorial & Museum
Chestnut St. & 13th St. - Downtown St. Louis
Need Directions?
This exhibit was created by Professor Warren Rosenblum and the following students in history at Webster University:
Alisha Clark
Eric Fey
Angie Fletcher
Gabrijela Matic
Angie Monahan
Matt Schoonover
Lilo Whitener
With special assistance from:
Ralph Wiechert, Director, Soldiers' Memorial & Museum
& Myron Freedman, U.S. Museum of National Expansion,
the Arch
Thanks also to the following people & institutions:
Jill Silverstein
George Graham
Levine's Hats on Washington Ave.
The Missouri Historical Society
The Becker Library at Washington University
The exhibit was made possible by support from:
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Section 1. Recruitment and Training
Training camp photos --
Camp Funston, KS
Recruitment Poster from St. Louis
Training camp letters from Dreier
Springfield Rifle
Section 2. Combat and its Aftermath
Letters of Dreier and William Preetorius
The Journal of Mrs. Anna Preetorius
Misc. photos
French "Chau-Chau" machine gun
Gas Mask, grenade, trench periscope
Section 3. Medicine and Hygiene
Themes:
Photos from Base Hospital #21 out of St. Louis
Letters, diary entries re. Life in the Hospitals &
among the Wounded
Photo, ID, & Journal of Emma Ammons, a nurse from
St. Louis
Medical Hygiene pamphlets
medical kit
Section 4. Sacrifice
Private
Roy Brem (Killed at Argonne,Sept 28th, 1918)
Section 5. Downtime
The
Diary of Private Roger Renkle, A Marine from St. Louis
Links to Sites on World
War I
Trenches:
An Internet History of the War
Images
of the Great War in France (may not work...)
Missouri
in the Great War
Articles
by Lieutenant Darst (St. Louis), 1919
Sites on Exhibits & Exhibiting
Soldiers' Memorial - St.
Louis: Info & Materials
Elsie Janis I
"Sweetheart of the Doughboys"
Elsie Janis II
Postcard of Camp Funston from the Soldiers' Memorial and Museum.
Camp Funston included a "detention camp" for newly enlisted men nearby.
One draftee called it a "tent city of soldiers."
(Source: Freidel, Over There)
Directions to Soldiers Memorial
Coming from the west on Highway 40/64. Get off at the 14th St. exit. Turn left (north) and proceed four or five blocks. One block past Market St. is Chestnut. Turn right and you're there. If there is no parking in front of the Memorial, then cruise around to the other side, and there are certain to be spaces there.
Coming from the southwest on Highway 44. Get off at the 18th St. exit. Turn right on Lafayette and go east to 14th St. Turn left on 14th St. and follow it north for approximately 5 minutes. One block past Market St. is Chestnut. Turn right and you're there. Street parking should be easy to find.