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Orleans Fair Grounds and in City Park, respectively, document the military presence in the city. Additional items from THNOC’s collections, including Liberty Loan posters for war bonds, a victory garden scrapbook, and patriotic sheet music from the city’s various publishers and composers, illustrate the roles played by New Orleans civilians during American involvement.
Many New Orleanians also served abroad, and items from a variety of sources highlight these efforts. Letters home from France allude to the D excitement, sufferings, danger, and uncertainty of life in a war zone. Uniform pieces and military papers from the Rudolph Weinmann Collection and a book of cartoons from Roy Aymond, cartoonist for the New Orleans States, elucidate the varied facets of life in the American Expeditionary Force, the combined US armed forces sent to fight in France. The daily violence and tragedy of the war did not evade New Orleans, and the suffering caused by the war’s destruction is evident in condolence letters from commanding officers and Tulane University colleagues following the death of pilot Alvin Callender.
In a letter to Callender’s grieving mother, Tulane University professor William Woodward expressed his condolences and, in the process, conveyed the impact of the war at home: “All of us, his friends in the School of Architecture, were grieved at the sudden news and expressions of pride and esteem were heard on all sides. The school promptly posted a golden star after his name on the long list of men, former students of the school, who are or were before death in the service of our or [our] allied Countries.” —ERIC SEIFERTH
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W AE-F-Memoirs in CARTOON
D.	The Victory Arch, Macarty Square,
Ninth Ward
March 4,1920; glass-plate negative
by John Tibule Mendes
gift ofWaldemar S. Nelson, 2003.0182.247
E Guide thru New Orleans and A.E.F. Memoirs in Cartoon
by Roy Aymond
New Orleans: Industrial Life, 1922 91-307-RL
F Postcard featuring Belgian soldier, sent by Louis Lemoine to Clarisse Claiborne
April 20, 1917; hand-colored photo postcard by Etablissements photographiques de Boulogne-sur-Seine
bequest of Clarisse Claiborne Grima, 81-99-!.. 12
G Alfred Crima Jr.
1918; gelatin silver print
bequest of Clarisse Claiborne Grima, 81-99-L 8
H Rudolph John Weinmann
1917 or 1918; photoprint
gift of Ambassador John Giffen Weinmann,
2009.0298.5
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