This postcard depicts the writing and reading room of the Y.M.C.A. canteen Elisabeth Gilman managed in Paris. In her article "The Enlisted Men in Paris," Gilman describes a library of a few hundred volumes that was greatly appreciated by visiting…
In her article "The Enlisted Men in Paris," Elisabeth Gilman says of this canteen: "From three to six in the afternoon and from eight to eleven in the evening men come for a cup of chocolate and a sandwich. For the boys are as hungry over here as at…
Soldier Malcolm W. Vaughan writes to Elisabeth Gilman from the front, asking her to notify his mother if he should die. He also asks that Gilman forward his "love diary" to a friend in the United States once she is confident that it won't be…