Service Flags at Springfield College, ca. 1917

Item Information

Title:
Service Flags at Springfield College, ca. 1917
Description:
A page containing from a document containing a photograph of service flags hanging in front of Woods Hall on the campus of Springfield College (then the International YMCA College), ca. 1917. There are two flags. One is a white rectangle with a bunch of triangles in it. The other is a white box with 102 written in stars. The meaning of the flags is not identified. It is also not known from what document the page comes from. The page is from a bound volume of materials on War Work done by Springfield College during World War I. The volume was disbound for preservation and access concerns. The training of war work secretaries and physical education directors were important contributions to the war effort by Springfield College. The YMCA provided canteen services at the invitation of the US government and raised more than 150 million dollars (equivalent to 2.7 billion dollars in 2014) in order to comply with the request. This kind of work was not new to the YMCA which provided similar services during the Spanish American War. This item was original bound in a book titled “War-Work Courses in Great War, 1917-1918 Incomplete.” This volume was unbound and its contents foldered in the original order, which is chronological. The binding string was cut and the glue was removed with a razor blade. The edges are intact and the placement of stitches are visible. Each page or booklet was individually lifted out of the binding and placed in their own folder or a folder with like materials. Oversized materials were removed and placed in the oversized materials collection.
Date:
[1917?]
Format:
Photographs
Location:
Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):
Springfield College Armed Forces Collection
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918
Young Men's Christian Association of North America
International Young Men's Christian Association College
Springfield College
Woods Hall
Springfield College--Buildings
Triangles
YMCA
Springfield (Mass.)
Flags
Banners
Social & civic facilities
Places:
Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > Springfield
Link to Item:
http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16122coll16/id/1337
Terms of Use:
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Publisher:
Springfield College
Language:
English
Identifier:
rg104-04-a-04-10-001
SC22790