Box 3
Container
Contains 4 Results:
Letters, Dec, 1918
File — Box: 3, 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:
Dec, 1918
Portable letter writing kit, c1919
File — Box: 3
Identifier: Series III
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
2 wooden cutout with applied photo of Gilleo in uniform, c1919
File — Box: 3
Identifier: Series III
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
WWI Certificate of appointment to Second Lieutenant (Mich.) [Added to the Collection 3/30/2001], August 5, 1917
File — Box: 3
Identifier: Series III
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:
August 5, 1917