Photograph of the cover of "Yanks," held by UNT Special Collections. The pale brown book is worn around the edges and contains the title inside a rectangle, all imprinted in gold.

Photograph of the cover of "Days of Destiny: War Poems at Home and Abroad" by R. Gorell Barnes, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is worn grey in cover with the title in a white box at the top, with the D's red and the box framed by a red line.

Photographs of "Songs & Sonnets for England in War Time" a collection of lyrics by various authors inspired by the great war, held by UNT Special Collections. Published in the fall of 1914, just a month after Britain joined World War I, Songs and Sonnets for England in War Time reprints poems from a variety of newspapers and magazines. These are meant to inspire the nation and its individual subjects to victory and greatness in time of war. The volume’s cover is made of a grey wrapper that is not attached to the spine but folded over thick cardstock. Printed in red, the cover portrays Justica Britannia enthroned with a drawn sword raised in one hand and the scales of justice in the other, representing Britain's justness and might. The title page features an epigraph by Sir Walter Scott, and both the unattributed introduction and the publisher’s note by John Lane stress that patriotism can be inspired by verse for those called to serve and for those on the home front. Reinforcing this patriotic bent, the back cover and the inside front cover proclaim that the book’s profits will be donated to the Prince of Wales’ National Relief Fund, a …

Photographs of "Poems" by G.K. Chesterton, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is red with the front framed by a decorative gold design and the title and author at the top, followed by another design, all stamped in gold. Image 2, frontispiece containing a black and white photo of a man with a mustached holding a book and pen, titled G.K. Chesterton under it. Image 3, poem titled "The Wife of Flanders" on the right page numbered 27.

Photograph of the cover of "Vision of War" by Lincoln Colcord, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is red with the title at the top. Above it is a banner with sun rays graphic. Towards the bottom of the cover is a black imprinted teepee.

Photographs of "Echoes of France" by Amy Robbins Ware, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is dark blue with a rubricated title and illustration enclosed in a black-stamped frame. Image 2, inscription on inside of cover written in pencil. On the left page is a stamped design. This image in Echoes from France by Amy Robbins Ware, an American nurse in France during WWI, demonstrates the kind of tensions generated by the coexistence of photographs and text. Image 3, pages 40 and 41. The page on the left has a black and white photo of a woman in a dress and gas mask, the page on the right a poem titled "J'attends, C'est la Guerre." Although the book contains no photographs of abject gore, it does feature this photo of a woman with a gas mask as a haunting reminder of such horror and an effacement of the familiar, such that the woman now wears the large dark eyes and proboscis reminiscent of insect life. The text at the bottom works against the tone of estrangement by way of the domesticating rhetoric of “little tin derby” in the place of “helmet.” The diminutive qualifier is not supported by the …

Photograph of the cover of "Valour and Vision: Poems of the War" by Jacqueline T. Trotter, held by UNT Special Collections. The book cover is dark red with a white label containing the title at the top. The first letter of some of the words is red.

Photographs of artillery shell casings from World War I, held by UNT Special Collections. The first image shows the brown rusted bullets from the bottom, one is closed and the other one hollow. Image 2, bullet laying down. The bullet is long and thin.

Photograph of a gas mask time card from World War I, held by UNT Special Collections. A small card is folded in two and propped open with a blank table on it. In front of it is a worn, brown square envelope with a couple of holes on the front of it. The card that accompanies the mask is meant to be used to keep track of the amount of time the mask is worn, so that the wearer will know when to replace the charcoal for optimal air purification. These items were issued to Alvin Mansfield Owsley, who served during World War I in the 36th Infantry Division of the Texas Army National Guard.

Photograph of 4th Liberty Loan "Honor Roll" poster from World War I, held by UNT Special Collections. The poster has an illustration of a red framed flag at the top with four blue stripes down the middle. The words "Help our town win this flag" are in dark blue at the top. Under the flag is the title "4th Liberty Loan" in red. The bottom half of the poster has four columns of numbered lines numbering 1-100.

Photograph of the cover of "Aurelia & Other Poems" by Robert Nichols, held by UNT Special Collections. The book is brown with a white label on the front with the title printed on it.

Photograph of the cover of "The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke" by Rupert Brooke, held by UNT Special Collections. The simple black book has the title in a white box at the top, framed by an orange line. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was the son of a Rugby schoolmaster and attended school at Rugby and later at King’s College of Cambridge University. After completing his education, Brooke continued writing poetry and became one of the founders of the first anthology of Georgian Poetry. Now little studied, it was a dominant poetic movement of the time until it was supplanted by Imagism and the High Modernism of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and W. B. Yeats. While not as experimental as the Modernists, the Georgian poets did look to free poetry from the ornate language of Victorian verse and employ in its place plain and concrete language. Along with the Georgian poets, Brooke also interacted with members of the influential Bloomsbury Group, which included such prominent writers as Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster. When war broke out, Brooke enlisted but never saw combat, instead dying of illness in March 1915 on his way to Gallipoli. Despite this, Brooke became a touchstone …

Photographs of Red Cross knitting needles and packaging from World War I, held by UNT Special Collections. The first image is of a small brown envelope propped up longways, with 3 needles laying in front of it. The front of the package has an illustration of a soldier in uniform with other soldiers behind him. On the black part of the illustration are the words "Back Them Up" and "Puritan Flour," under it a description. Image 2, front of needle packaging containing the soldier illustration with the packaging information. Image 3, back of brown packaging with a poem about knitting. Image 4, Inside of needle packaging filled with text, with two sections: Don'ts for the Knitters of Socks, New Red Cross Directions for Sock. Two needles lay in front of it. Image 5, inside of needle packaging extended out, the two section are filled with text. The first section of "Don'ts" has seven points. Image 6, outside of needle packaging extending out two three panels, where the poem and front are seen. The bottom panel has two sections of text: Mitt and Wristlet.

Letter from Haskell E. Dishman to his Mother, November 8th, 1918 from somewhere in France. Dishman writes to his mother that he is mobile again after being bed-ridden for two weeks.

Letter from Mrs. A. F. Smith to Dr. J. E. Stover, December 2, 1918, in regards to a picture of her son, and wanting the picture returned.

Letter from Lt. Mack B. Hodges to his parents, July 2, 1919, letting his parents know that he is fine and doing well and that he will write them more letters.

Envelope addressed to Joel D. Wrotan in Greenville, MS, labeled "Conditions in Vicksburg 1941," from the State Historical Collection at North Texas State Teachers College in Denton, Texas.

Letter from Haskell E. Dishman to his Mother, November 8, 1919, written from somewhere in France. In his letter, Dishman tells his mother that he is getting around after two weeks in bed.

A letter from an unidentified army wife, self-described as "World War Wife" to a Adjutant of the Army where her husband is stationed, circa 1918. In the letter she is requesting the money that her husband is making while in the army to afford clothing and food for her family.

A telegraph from The Western Union Telegraph Company containing information about Haskell E. Dishman's family, residents of Denton, Texas, cira 1918.

Letter from Sam T. Williams to his Mother, Ida Williams and family, November 6, 1918. Envelope addressed to Mrs. Ida Williams, 1919-01-06.

Letter from Chaplain J. E. Doherty to Miss Shafford, October 13, 1918. In the letter, Doherty is inquiring about their friend in the war and their well-being. Writteno on the envelope reads "Letter, 1918, With U.S. Flag On it, Concerning the well-being of a friend of Miss Shafford in World War".

Photograph of two soilders standing next to a shack with the words, "When do we go home? 1924" written on it. At the bottom of the photograph is written, "We all felt this way."