Selections.4

The following images are remnants of war from the Jaeger, Groton, and Ryan collections from the University of Tulsa's department of Special Collections.  They are remnants of World War I, and many of them were thoroughly dist-covered and deteriorated.  The photo backdrop and foreground had to be repeatedly swept clean of the detritus that fell from each object.  The various series include uniform garments, photographs, a few - sadly empty - mystery chests, medals, correspondence, and other army ephemera.  The photos mostly revealed fairly jolly-looking images of soldiers and civilians, but the damage done to the garments is only marginally indicative of how devastating this war was to those involved.

Medic arm band, featured being warn by Walter Jaeger in many of the disintegrating photographs from his collection.

Blood-stained long-johns, one of two.  I don't know what melee these wounds were obtained from, but I do know that the wearer of the garments fought in the battle of Verdun and obtained a medal for his efforts there.

This is a bloody undershirt with surprisingly scant amounts of blood from 1919 or thereabouts.

One of many satchels found among the collections.  This one was, like many of them, has an elaborate system of straps for attachment to the body, and multiple pouches of various sizes for carrying utensils.

Jaeger is the one on the lower left.

It is dubious as to what is going on in this picture.  This is one from a series on Walter Jaeger's stint with the American Red Cross in the Balkans.

Through a porthole.  I don't know enough about ship engineering (and nothing was written on the back of the photograph) to know whether or not this vessel was friend or foe.