Box 1
Container
Contains 6 Results:
Letters, Aug, 1915
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Series I
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection is made up of 278 letters written by Avery Gilleo to his fiancée Eleanore Alten, daughter of Grand Rapids, Michigan artist Mathias Alten. The letters were written while Gilleo was at Camp Grayling, on border patrol in El Paso, Texas, training in Waco, Texas, awaiting overseas deployment from New Jersey, and in France while fighting. The collection provides a glimpse at courtship by mail and the popular culture of the early 1900s. Issues like women's suffrage, temperance,...
Dates:
Aug, 1915
Letters, Jun-Dec, 1916
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: Series I
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection is made up of 278 letters written by Avery Gilleo to his fiancée Eleanore Alten, daughter of Grand Rapids, Michigan artist Mathias Alten. The letters were written while Gilleo was at Camp Grayling, on border patrol in El Paso, Texas, training in Waco, Texas, awaiting overseas deployment from New Jersey, and in France while fighting. The collection provides a glimpse at courtship by mail and the popular culture of the early 1900s. Issues like women's suffrage, temperance,...
Dates:
Jun-Dec, 1916
Letters, Jan-Apr, 1917
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: Series I
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection is made up of 278 letters written by Avery Gilleo to his fiancée Eleanore Alten, daughter of Grand Rapids, Michigan artist Mathias Alten. The letters were written while Gilleo was at Camp Grayling, on border patrol in El Paso, Texas, training in Waco, Texas, awaiting overseas deployment from New Jersey, and in France while fighting. The collection provides a glimpse at courtship by mail and the popular culture of the early 1900s. Issues like women's suffrage, temperance,...
Dates:
Jan-Apr, 1917
Letters, Aug, 1917
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: Series I
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection is made up of 278 letters written by Avery Gilleo to his fiancée Eleanore Alten, daughter of Grand Rapids, Michigan artist Mathias Alten. The letters were written while Gilleo was at Camp Grayling, on border patrol in El Paso, Texas, training in Waco, Texas, awaiting overseas deployment from New Jersey, and in France while fighting. The collection provides a glimpse at courtship by mail and the popular culture of the early 1900s. Issues like women's suffrage, temperance,...
Dates:
Aug, 1917
Letters, Sep, 1917
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: Series I
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection is made up of 278 letters written by Avery Gilleo to his fiancée Eleanore Alten, daughter of Grand Rapids, Michigan artist Mathias Alten. The letters were written while Gilleo was at Camp Grayling, on border patrol in El Paso, Texas, training in Waco, Texas, awaiting overseas deployment from New Jersey, and in France while fighting. The collection provides a glimpse at courtship by mail and the popular culture of the early 1900s. Issues like women's suffrage, temperance,...
Dates:
Sep, 1917
Letters, Oct, 1917
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: Series I
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection is made up of 278 letters written by Avery Gilleo to his fiancée Eleanore Alten, daughter of Grand Rapids, Michigan artist Mathias Alten. The letters were written while Gilleo was at Camp Grayling, on border patrol in El Paso, Texas, training in Waco, Texas, awaiting overseas deployment from New Jersey, and in France while fighting. The collection provides a glimpse at courtship by mail and the popular culture of the early 1900s. Issues like women's suffrage, temperance,...
Dates:
Oct, 1917