Louis & Jodi Atkin Family Collection, 1885-1996 | MGHL Dowd Modern Graphic History Library

By Andrea Degener, Washington University Special Collections Staff

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Collection Overview

Title: Louis & Jodi Atkin Family Collection, 1885-1996

ID: MGHL/mghl00031

Extent: 39.0 Linear Feet

Arrangement:

Items are arranged by material type.

The contents of the collection are arranged as follows:

Series 1: Books and Pamphlets

Series 2: Newspapers

Series 3: Sheet Music

Series 4: Periodicals

Series 5: Ephemera

Series 6: Correspondence

Series 7: Regalia

Series 8: Magnetic Media

Series 9: Personal Papers

Series 10: Photographic Materials

Series 11: Framed Works

Date Acquired: 10/14/2013. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: Posters -- 20th century., Propaganda World War 1914 1918, World War, 1914-1918.

Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Polish

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Louis and Jodi Atkin Family Collection contains World War I posters and memorabilia. The collection includes over 400 recruitment and propaganda posters produced from 1915 – 1918 by the major countries engaged in the war: America, Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Czechoslovakia and Germany. In addition to posters, the collection also includes books, newspapers, photographs, and military clothing.

Subject/Index Terms

Posters -- 20th century.
Propaganda World War 1914 1918
World War, 1914-1918.

Administrative Information

Repository: MGHL Dowd Modern Graphic History Library

Accruals: There are no accruals.

Access Restrictions: There are some access restrictions.

Use Restrictions:

Some restrictions, please contact the Modern Graphic History Library Curator at (314) 935-7741 or spec@wumail.wustl.edu.

Users of the collections who wish to use items from this collection, in whole or in part, in any form of publication (as defined in the form) must sign and submit to the Washington University Department of Special Collections a hard copy of the Notifcation of Intent to Publish Modern Graphic History Library Materials from.

All publication not covered by fair use restricted to those who have permission of the copyright holder.

Acquisition Method: The collection was donated to the Modern Graphic History Library by the Louis & Jody Atkin Family in June 2013.

Preferred Citation: Louis & Jodi Atkin Family Collection, Washington University Libraries, Department of Spceical Collections

Processing Information: The collection was processed by Loren Wright in January 2016.

Finding Aid Revision History:

The finding aid was entered into Archon by Andrea Degener in February 2016.

Finding aid updated by Andrea Degener in April 2018.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Books and Pamphlets],
[Series 2: Newspapers],
[Series 3: Sheet Music],
[Series 4: Periodicals],
[Series 5: Ephemera],
[Series 6: Correspondence],
[Series 7: Regalia],
[Series 8: Magnetic Media],
[Series 9: Personal Papers],
[Series 10: Photographic Materials],
[All]

Series 3: Sheet Music

Box 22

Folder 1

Item 1: La Marseillaise by Rouget de Lisle; arranged by M. Greenwald, 1887
Item 2: Break the News to Mother by Chas K. Harris, 1897
Item 3: Alagazam by Abe Holzmann, 1902: fragile
Item 4: Blue Bell by Edward Madden; music by Tehodore F. Morse, 1904
Item 5: Good-Bye, Little Girl, Good-Bye by Will D. Cobb; music by Gus Edwards, 1904
Item 6: Heaven's Artillery by Harry J. Lincoln, 1904
Item 7: "Cob-Webs" and other songs by Gerrit Smith, 1906
Item 8: The Good Old U.S.A. by Jack Drislane; music by Theodore Morse, 1906
Item 9: He Lives in a Little White House by Arthur Longbrake; music by Arthur Hauk, 1906

Folder 2

Item 1: In the Harbor of Home Sweet Home by C.M. Denison; music by A.J. Holmes, 1906
Item 2: National Patrol by Edwin F. Kendall, 1906
Item 3: The Man in the Silvery Moon by Seymour Brown; music by Nat D. Ayer, 1910
Item 4: No One Cares for Me by Tell Taylor, 1910
Item 5: Yankee Notions by Benjamin Richmond, 1911
Item 6: The Song They Sing as They March Along by Jack Judge and Harry Williams, 1912
Item 7: When It's Apple Blossom Time in Normandie by Mellor Gifford and Trevor, 1912
Item 8: That International Rag by Irving Berlin, 1913
Item 9: He Was a Soldier from the U.S.A. by Fred Lawton; music by Howard Kocian, 1914
Item 10: America I Love You by Edgar Leslie; music by Archie Gotter, 1915
Item 11: The Bravest Heart of All by Arthur J. Lamb; music by Henri Clique, 1915

Folder 3

Item 1: I'll Return Mother Darling to You by Casper Nathan; music by E. Clinton Keithley, 1915
Item 2: National Emblem March by E. E. Bagley, 1915
Item 3: Peggy by Thos. H. Ince; music by Victor Schertzinger, 1915
Item 4: The Red Cross Girl by H. A. Langslow; music by Alfred Valentine, 1915
Item 5: We'll Never Let Our Old Flag Fall by Albert E. MacNutt; music by M. F. Kelly, 1915
Item 6: You Can't Forget Your Mother When the Heart Turns Home by Arthur E. Bucknam; music by Jacob Henry Ellis, 1915
Item 7: Making of a Girl by Harold Atteridge; music by Sigmund Romberg and George Gershwin, 1916
Item 8: After the War is Over Will There Be Any "Home Sweet Home?" by E. J. Pourmon; music by Joseph Woodruff, 1917
Item 9: America Here's My Boy by Andrew B. Sterling; music by Arthur Lange, 1917
Item 10: Any Place in the U.S.A. is a Good Place to Be by James Wells; music by Walter J. Pond, 1917

Folder 4

Item 1: The Battle Song of Liberty by Jack Yellen; music adapted by George L. Cobb, 1917
Item 2: Bring Back My Daddy to Me by William Tracey and Howard Johnson; music by George W. Meyer, 1917
Item 3: God Bring You Safely to Our Arms Again by Kate Gibson; music by Vincent Shaw, 1917
Item 4: Good-Bye Broadway, Hello France by C. Francis Resner and Benny Davis; music by Bill Baskette, 1917
Item 5: He Sleeps Beneath the Soil of France by Tell Taylor, 1917
Item 6: I May Be Gone for a Long, Long Time by Lew Brown; music by Albert von Tilzer, 1917
Item 7: I'm Going to Be a Soldier and Fight for the U.S.A. by Haller and Stafford, 1917
Item 8: Joan of Arc THey Are Calling You by Alfred Bryan & Willie Weston; music by Jack Wells, 1917
Item 9: Just Put Us on Your List Dear Uncle Sam by Caroline Louise Summer, 1917
Item 10: Liberty Bell (It's Time to Ring Again) by Joe Goodwin; music by Halsey K. Mohr, 1917
Item 11: Long Boy by William Herschell; music by Barclay Walker, 1917

Folder 5

Item 1: The Most Beautiful Flag in the World by Charles H. Newman; music by Jack Glogau, 1917
Item 2: The National Anthems of the Allies, 1917
Item 3: Over There by George M. Cohan, 1917
Item 4: Say a Prayer for the Boys "Out There" by Bernie Grossman; music by Alex Marr, 1917
Item 5: Smiles by J. Will Callahan; music by Lee S. Roberts, 1917
Item 6: So Long, Mother by Raymond Egan and Gus Kahn; music by Egbert Van Alstyne, 1917

Folder 6

Item 1: Someday They're Coming Home Again words and music by Harry Hilbert, 1917
Item 2: That's a Mother's Liberty Loan by Mayo and Tally and Clarence Gaskill, 1917
Item 3: Then I'll Come Back to You words and music by John W. Bratton, 1917
Item 4: There's a Service Flag Flying at Our House by Thomas Hoier and Bernie Grossman; music by Al. W. Brown, 1917
Item 5: We Are Coming by Beecher Winckler, 1917: fragile
Item 6: We're Going Over by Andrew B. Sterling, Bernie Grossman, and Arthur Lange, 1917
Item 7: What Kind of an American Are You? by Lew Brown and Chas McCarron; music by Albert von Tilzer, 1917
Item 8: When the Boys Come Home by John Hay; music by Oley Speaks, 1917
Item 9: When the "Yanks" Come Marching Home by William Jerome; music by Seymour Furth, 1917
Item 10: All Aboard for Home Sweet Home by Addison Burkhart; music by Al. Piantadosi and Jack Glogau, 1918
Item 11: The Call by Mary Earl, 1918

Folder 7

Item 1: Cheer Up, Mother by Egbert van Alstyne, 1918
Item 2: Come Across (Yankee Boy, Come Across) by Alfred Bryan; music by Fred Fisher, 1918: fragile
Item 3: Come on Papa words and music by Edgar Leslie and Harry Ruby, 1918: fragile
Item 4: Dear Old Pal of Mine by Harold Robe; music by Gitz Rice, 1918: fragile
Item 5: Dreaming of Home Sweet Home by Ballard MacDonald; music by James F. Hanley, 1918
Item 6: Everybody Ought to Know How to Do the Tickle toe by Otto Harbach; music by Louis A. Hirsch, 1918
Item 7: The Girl Behind the Gun by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse; music by Ivan Caryll, 1918
Item 8: Girls of France by Alfred Bryan, Edgar Leslie, and Hary Ruby, 1918
Item 9: Good-bye Alexander, Good-bye Honey-boy by Creamer and Layton, 1918
Item 10: Good-Bye France (You'll Never Be Forgotten by the U.S.A.) by Sergeant Irving Berlin, 1918

Folder 8

Item 1: I May Stay Away a Little Longer by Gorge L. Boyden, 1918
Item 2: If I'm Not at the Roll Call (Kiss Mother Goodbye for Me) by Lew Brown; music by Albert von Tilzer, 1918
Item 3: I'm Glad I Can Make You Cry words and music by Chas. R. McCarron and Carey Morgan, 1918
Item 4: Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight (for Her Daddy Over There) by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young; music by M.K. Jerome, 1918
Item 5: Let's Keep the Glow in Old Glory and the Free in Freedom too by Wilbur D. Nesbit; music by Robert Speroy, 1918
Item 6: The Little Good for Nothing's Good for Something After All by Lou Klein; music by Harry von Tilzer, 1918
Item 7: Madelon (I'll Be True to the Whole Regiment) by Louis Bousquet; English version by Alfred Bryan; music by Camille Robert, 1918
Item 8: Oh! Frenchy by Sam Ehrlich; music by Con Conrad, 1918
Item 9: Send Back Dear Daddy to Me by Alexander Sullivan and Harry Tenney; music by Irving Maslof, 1918

Folder 9

Item 1: Someone is Waiting Somewhere for a Letter from No Man's Land by Lou Thayer; music by Jacques Cole, 1918
Item 2: There's a Red-Haired Girl on Broadway words and music by Ervine J. Stenson, 1918
Item 3: Three Wonderful Letters from Home by Joe Goodwin and Ballard MacDonald; music by James F. Hanley, 1918
Item 4: Till We Meet Again by Raymond B. Egan; music by Richard A. Whiting, 1918
Item 5: Two Little Eyes are Watching for a Daddy Fary Away words and music by H.C. Weasner, 1918
Item 6: Wee, Wee, Marie (Will You Do Zis for Me) by Alfred Bryan and Joe McCarthy; music by Fred Fisher, 1918
Item 7: We're All Going Calling on the Kaiser by Jack Caddigan; music by James A. Brennan, 1918

Folder 10

Item 1: When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band to France by Alfred Bryan, Cliff Hess, and Edgar Leslie, 1918
Item 2: When a Blue Service Star Turns to Gold by Casper Nathan; music by Theodore Morse, 1918
Item 3: When the Fleet Comes Sailing Home by Carl M. Legg; music by T. Jay Flanagan, 1918
Item 4: When We Meet in the Sweet Bye and Bye words and music by Stanley Murphy, 1918
Item 5: Your Lips Are No Man's Land but Mine by Arthur Guy Empey; music by Chas. R. McCarron and Carey Morgan, 1918
Item 6: And He'd Say Oo-La-La-Wee-Wee by Harr Ruby and George Jessell, 1919
Item 7: Comrades by Ballard MacDonald; music by Robert King, 1919
Item 8: How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree) by Joe Young and Sam M. lewis; music by Walter Donaldson, 1919
Item 9: I Was Coming Thru the Clover (When I Tipped Your Milk Pail Over) by Richard Howard, 1919
Item 10: My Baby's Arms by Joseph McCarthy; music by Harry Tierney, 1919: missing pages

Folder 11

Item 1: Old Fashioned Garden by Cole Porter, 1919
Item 2: Thtop Your Thuttering Jummy by Lew Brown; music by Albert von Tilzer, 1919
Item 3: Wait Till You Get Them Up in the Air Boys words and music by Hal Blake Cowles; arranged by Ralph Bruns, 1919
Item 4: You Can't Drive my Dreams Away by Lieut. Gitz Rice, 1919
Item 5: The Little Grey mother Who Waits All Alone by Bernard Grossman; music by Harry de Costa, 1920
Item 6: There's Only One Pal After All by Harold G. Frost; music by F. Henri Klickmann, 1920
Item 7: Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo by Al Dubin, Irving Mills, Jimmie McHugh, and Irwin Dash, 1924: fragile
Item 8: I Didn't Raise my Boy to be a Soldier by Alfred Bryan; music by Al. Piantadosi, 1925
Item 9: Tipperary Guards by E.T. Paull, 1925
Item 10: Young American March by Morris Weston, 1925

Folder 12

Item 1: It All Depends on You by B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson, 1926
Item 2: Do Something by Edward Laska, 1927
Item 3: Farewell My Loved Ones by Gladys G. Dennis; music by Harry H. Williams, 1927
Item 4: (Good-Bye and Luck Be With You) Laddie Boy by Will D. Cobb; music by Gus Edwards, 1927
Item 5: I Don't Want to Get Well by Harry Pease and Howard Johnson; music by Harry Jentes, 1927
Item 6: Let's All Be Americans Now by Irving Berlin, Edgar Leslie, and Geo. W. Meyer, 1927
Item 7: Someday by Wm. LeBaron; music by Victor Herbert, 1927
Item 8: Where Do We Go from Here? by Howard Johnson and Percy Wenrich, 1927
Item 9: I'll Do the Same as My Daddy words and music by James L. Dempsey; arranged by Harry J. Lincoln, 1928

Folder 13

Item 1: K-K-K-Katy by Geoffrey O'Hara, 1928
Item 2: Little Mother by Erno Rapee and Lew Pollack, 1928
Item 3: Oh, Moon of the Summer Night (Tell Mother Her Boy's All Right) by Allan J. Flynn, 1928
Item 4: Oh! What a Time for the Girlies When the Boys Come Marching Home by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young; music by Harry Ruby, 1928
Item 5: A Precious Little Thing Called Love by Lou Davis and J. Fred Coots, 1928
Item 6: The Rose of No Man's Land by Jack Caddigan; music by James A. Brennan, 1928
Item 7: There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder by Al Jolson, Billy Rose and Dave Dreyer, 1928
Item 8: They Were all Out of Step but Jim by Irving Berlin, 1928
Item 9: It Happened in Monterey by Billy Rose; music by Mabel Wayne, 1930

Folder 14

Item 1: As the Lusitania Went Down by Arthur J. Lamb and F. Henri Klickmann, 1915