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Box 2

 Container

Contains 27 Results:

Letters, Nov, 1918

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
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: Nov, 1918

Letters, Jan, 1919

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 14
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, 1919

Letters, n. d.

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 15
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: n. d.

Gilleo, Avery (in Model-T) (2), c1919

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 16
Identifier: Series II
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: c1919

World War I soldiers, 1919

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 17
Identifier: Series II
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: 1919

Avery C. Gilleo, in uniform, c. 1919

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 18
Identifier: Series II
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: c. 1919

Avery Gilleo (2 poses, in uniform, attached to wood), c. 1919

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 19
Identifier: Series II
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: c. 1919