Elrie Robinson scrapbook, 1917-1921, 1924.

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Elrie Robinson scrapbook, 1917-1921, 1924.

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Robinson's scrapbook contains correspondence, clippings, photographic prints, photographic postcards, maps, and newspapers documenting his failed attempt to enlist in the U.S. Army at the beginning of World War I; his service with the American Red Cross in Europe; his travels in Great Britain, France, Russia, Poland, Gibraltar, Malta, and Turkey; and atrocities during the Russian Revolution.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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American Red Cross

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Robinson, Elrie

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Publisher and job printer of St. Francisville, Louisiana. From the guide to the Elrie Robinson papers, 1934-1946, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Elrie Robinson was born in Alvarado, Tex., on May 17, 1883 and arrived in New Orleans in 1906. He first married May E. Leake, editor and publisher of the St. Francisville True Democrat, which she and W.W. Leake had founded in 1893. Robinson joined her in publishing the newspaper in 1908 and became ...