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Introductory Materials
4 items
Polar Bear Association Reunion Programs
6 items
Printed Material
7 items
Miscellaneous
[Bentley Library material]
22 items
[Loaned Material]
17 items
Newspaper clippings
6 items
Photocopies of other clippings
41 items
Post-cards of Russia
33 items
Polar Bear Photographs
Portraits of McKenzie, Draftees Marching, and Miscellaneous
7 items
Reunion group photos and Miscellaneous
7 items
Souvenir Folders: Life in the U.S. Army, Camp Mills, and New York City, Night Views
Diary of experiences in Russia, 1918-1919
1 items, 127 page
Walter I. McKenzie Polar Bear Expedition papers, 1918-1945
19 folders — 1 oversize folder
The Walter McKenzie Collection consists largely of materials created as a result of the Japanese War Crimes Trials. The collection has been arranged into eight series: Biographical/Personal; Correspondence; Articles, Speeches, etc.; International Military Tribunal for the Far East, International Prosecution Section; University of Michigan; World War I (Polar Bear Expedition); Miscellaneous; and Photographs. The Walter McKenzie Collection covers many aspects of McKenzie's life in addition to the Polar Bear expedition. The bulk of the collection consists largely of materials created as a result of the Japanese War Crimes Trials. The collection has been arranged into eight series: Biographical/Personal; Correspondence; Articles, Speeches, etc.; International Military Tribunal for the Far East, International Prosecution Section; University of Michigan; World War I (Polar Bear Expedition); Miscellaneous; and Photographs. Only the Polar Bear material and some biographical material has been digitized and can be viewed here. Researchers must visit the library to view the rest of McKenzie's collection. The Polar Bear materials consist of a diary, June 1918-July 1919, describing his voyage to Russia, his stay in a Red Cross Hospital there, routine work at headquarters, life in Archangel, a supply trip up the Dvina River in a gunboat in June 1919, and the voyage home. Also included are correspondence, June 1918-July 1919, describing life at Camp Custer, the voyage to Russia, life in Archangel, civilian conditions there, his ambition to go to the front, and his boat trip up the river. Other materials include ca. 30 picture postcards of Archangel, Murmansk, and countryside scenes, an issue of The Call, an English-language Bolshevik newspaper published in Moscow, a copy of the constitution of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, an issue of The Mess Kit and one of the Daily Communique, both published in France for American soldiers, consisting of poems, and miscellaneous programs, clippings, and rosters.
Group photos, 339th Infantry, Camp Devens July 14, 1919 and Reunion photos, 1921-1945, 1919-1945
6 items
April-May, 1919
20 items