Scrapbook, 1916-1957.

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Scrapbook, 1916-1957.

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Scrapbook documenting social activities during World War I, and subsequent decades in Columbia, S.C. Includes containing report cards, playbills, and photographs from Chicora College for Women in Columbia, invitations to officers' dances; photographs of American soldiers in uniform; "Wildcat" insignia badges from the 81st Division; greeting cards and postcards from American soldiers stationed overseas during World War I; memorial page "In memory of two friends who were killed in France." Items associated with Bruton's work as a reporter for the Columbia Record newspaper, including a letter, 17 Aug. 1918, to the newspaper editors from the Intelligence Office at Camp Jackson citing censorship violations, and an undated newspaper article in which Bollin describes an airplane flight over Columbia, with photograph of Bollin photo of Bollin beside an open bi-plane, with pilot Lt. E.P. Gaines of the Carolina Aircraft Corporation; and newspaper clippings regarding the service of American troops in the Great War, social functions in the Columbia area, and news of Mary's wedding on 21 Apr. 1920. Later items include copy of a newsletter, Off Stage Noise (Vol. I : No. 2 ; undated [1933?]), published by Town Theatre (Columbia, S.C.); ephemera collected during a visit to New York during Sept. 1933, include the following publications: Forty-Eighth Street Theatre program, This Week in New York, Gotham Life - the official Metropolitan Guide, and souvenir program for a screening of the MGM film, Dinner at 8, at the Astor Theatre.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Bollin, Mary Neal Bruton.

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Resident of South Carolina; daughter of John Calvin and Elizabeth Bruton and wife of John Hodge Bollin, Jr. From the description of Scrapbook, 1916-1957. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 702662002 ...

United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces

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Historical Note American Expeditionary Force The American Expeditionary Force (AEF) was the U.S. military force in Europe during World War I. Although a division commanded by General John J. Pershing was sent to France in June 1917, most of the AEF was manned as a result of passage of the Selective Service Act (40 Stat. 76) by the U.S. Congress on 18 May 1917, creating the Selective Service System. The Act gave the president the p...

Chicora College for Women

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United States. Army. Infantry Division, 81st

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The U.S. Army 81st Infantry Division (the "Wildcats") were constituted, 5 Aug. 1917, as Headquarters, 81st Division; organized, 25 Aug. 1917, at Camp Jackson, South Carolina. Demobilized, 11 June 1919, at Hoboken, New Jersey. Reconstituted, 24 June 1921, in the Organized Reserves as Headquarters, 81st Division. Organized, 23 Sept. 1921, at Knoxville, Tennessee. Redesignated, 13 Feb. 1942, as Division Headquarters, 81st Division. Ordered into active military service, 15 June 1942, and reorganized...