Title: Carlyle H. Holt Collection, 1915-1917
Arrangement
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.
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.
