Title: Carlyle H. Holt Collection, 1915-1917

ID: RG1/038

Extent: 2.27 Cubic Feet

1 box, 1 framed item

Predominant Dates: 1915

This collection is partially processed. The lantern slides are arranged in the order they were found in the wooden box (by number, up to 42; several numbers are missing), and the folder and wooden box are all housed together by size. The menu is in a frame.

Abstract

Carlyle Huntington Holt was an ambulance driver with the American Field Service (AFS) during World War I. The Carlyle H. Holt Collection includes forty lantern slides, the original wooden lantern slide box, an autographed menu from a January 1917 AFS gathering in Boston, and a French passport, all related to his time as an ambulance driver with AFS in 1915.

Creators

Holt, Carlyle H. (Carlyle Huntington) (b. ca. 1890)

Administrative/Biographical History

Carlyle Huntington Holt (b. ca. 1890) of Brookline, Massachusetts, attended Harvard University. For six months in 1915 he volunteered as an ambulance driver with Section Sanitaire [Etats-] Unis (SSU) 2 of the American Field Service, a volunteer ambulance and camion organization assisting the French Army. Holt also served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers after the U.S. entered the war in 1917.

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Ambulance drivers
American Field Service (American Ambulance Field Service)
American Field Service--SSU 2
Harvard University
Section Sanitaire [États-] Unis (SSU)
World War, 1914-1918

Forms of Material (links to similar genres)

Lantern slides

Languages of Materials

English
French

Administrative Information

Restrictions: This collection is open for research. Cotton gloves are required for the use of any photographic material. Permission to access the lantern slides must be obtained by the AFS Archives in advance.

Rights: Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be submitted in writing to the AFS Archives. In the event that this research becomes a source for publication, a credit line indicating the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs is required. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.

Acquisition Note: The Carlyle H. Holt Collection was donated to the Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs by Mrs. Carlyle Holt at an unknown date.

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], [Date]; Carlyle H. Holt Collection; Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs, New York, NY.