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Inez Tarbell Collection of Walter P. Lanagan World War I Correspondence
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Title: Inez Tarbell Collection of Walter P. Lanagan World War I Correspondence
Dates: 1918-1920
Collection number: MS121
Collector:
Inez Tarbell
Collector:
Walter P. Lanagan
Collection Size:
1 archival document boxe (.25 linear foot)
Repository:
Loyola Marymount University. Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90045-2659
Abstract: This collection consists of Walter P. Lanagan's correspondence with persons he met in France during World War I, while serving
at the American Red Cross Hospital at Nantes, France.
Physical location: Section H, Aisle 67, Row B, Bay 1, Shelf 6
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
French
Collection is open to research under the terms of use of the Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount
University.
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executors.
[Identification of item], Box and Folder number, Inez Tarbell Collection of Walter P. Lanagan World War I Correspondence,
MS121, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University.
Gift of Inez Tarbell. Accession number: 2014.3
This collection contains nine letters, ten postcards, two photographs, and a menu for a banquet at the U.S.A. Base Hospital
38 held at the Hotel de Bretagne, Nantes, on 29 March 1919.
Andrée Laheux, an "Odette," and Edouard Choupay sent the correspondence and postcards to a Walter Lanagan. Most of the correspondence
comes from Andrée Laheux, of Nantes, France. This is probably the same Walter P. Lanagan stationed at the American Red Cross
Hospital at Nantes, France, in World War I. See W.M.L. Coplin,
American Red Cross Base Hospital No. 38 in the World War: United States Army Base Hospital No. 38, Organized Under the Auspices
of the Jefferson Medical College and Hospital, Stationed at Nantes, France, 1918-1919
(Philadelphia: E.A. Wright Co., 1923), p. 238. Also see Walter P. Lanagan's photograph between pages 156-157. An on-line
search reveals a Walter P. Lanagan who was born perhaps in Philadelphia, in 1898 and was still living there in 1940.
The authors of the letters principally lament Lanagan's absence and his failure to respond to their letters.
Because of the fragility of the letters, photocopies have been substituted for the originals, except for the letter from Edouard
Choupay of 5 June 1919 (Folder 1). A photocopy has also been substituted for the menu for the banquet for U.S.A. Base Hospital
38, in folder 3.
There is no original order for this collection, which was arranged by format: letters in folder 1 and postcards in folder
2.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Lanagan, Walter P.
Lanagan, Walter P. -- Correspondence
World War, 1914-1918 -- Correspondence