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Biographical File 1904-1937

box 1, folder 1

Address book 1922

box 1, folder 2

Letters of appointment as major in the U.S. Army 1918-1937

box 1, folder 3

Lists of awards and commissions 1920-1937

box 1, folder 4

Passport and visas 1904-1919

box 1, folder 5

Clippings relating to World War I and European politics 1918

 

Correspondence 1916-1929

box 1, folder 6

Godson, W. F. H. 1927

box 1, folder 7

Riaño y Gayangos, Juan 1916-1917

box 1, folder 8

University of Pennsylvania (Edward W. Mumford, Josiah H. Penniman) 1928-1929

 

Declassified U.S. Government Publications 1917

box 1, folder 9-12

Army War College 1917

box 1, folder 13

U.S. State Department 1917

box 1, folder 14

Leaflets from Germany, Poland, and Switzerland 1918-1920

 

Photographs 1867-1941

box 1, folder 15

4 prints depicting Ernest Schelling in military uniform 1920

box 1, folder 16

4 prints depicting Ernest Schelling and Allied military attachés in Berne, Switzerland 1920

box 1, folder 17

1 print depicting Ernest Schelling and Allied military attachés in Berne, Switzerland 1920

box 1, folder 18

1 print depicting Ernest Schelling and Ignace (Ignacy) Paderewski at ceremony when Schelling was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal 1923

box 1, folder 19

1 print depicting Ernest Schelling 1930

box 1, folder 20

6 prints depicting Ernest Schelling and Ignace Paderewski 1935

box 2, folder 1

7 reproductions depicting Ignace Paderewski and his family 1867-1875

box 2, folder 2

1 print and 2 reproductions depicting Ignace Paderewski 1890-1905

box 2, folder 3

11 prints depicting Ignace Paderewski and his family 1890-1905

box 2, folder 4

1 print depicting an artist's sketch of Ignace Paderewski 1891

box 2, folder 5

1 print and 1 reproduction depicting Ignace Paderewski 1900

box 2, folder 6

3 prints and 1 reproduction depicting Ignace Paderewski 1920

box 2, folder 7

1 print depicting a sculpture of Ignace Paderewski 1923

box 2, folder 8

1 print depicting a portrait of Ignace Paderewski 1930

box 2, folder 9

2 prints depicting Ignace Paderewski 1935

box 2, folder 10

6 prints depicting Ignace Paderewski 1935-1940

box 2, folder 11

3 prints depicting Ignace Paderewski and Eleanor Roosevelt 1941

box 2, folder 12

1 print depicting Alfred Paderewski 1899

box 2, folder 13

1 signed print depicting Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt 1936

box 2, folder 14

30 prints of U.S. Army Signal Corps photographs depicting American soliders during World War I 1918

box 2, folder 15

29 prints of U.S. Army Signal Corps photographs depicting American soldiers during World War I 1918

box 2, folder 16

2 prints of U.S. Army Signal Corps photographs depicting women volunteers in France 1918

box 2, folder 17

12 prints of U.S. Army Signal Corps photographs depicting Allied military airplanes 1918

box 2, folder 18

3 prints depicting Lieutenant Fletcher 1918

box 2, folder 19

34 prints depicting soldiers of the Swiss army 1918

box 2, folder 20

1 print depicting a collection of weapons and armor belonging to Ernest Schelling 1930

box 3, folder 1

Proclamations issued by the German military in occupied Belgium 1914-1915

box 3, folder 2

Programs relating to concert recitals by Ignace Paderewski 1915-1942

box 3, folder 3-6

Translation by Ernest Schelling of official history of the German army in World War I, Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918, volume II 1926

box 3, folder 7

Helen "Peggy" Schelling correspondence file 1940-1994

box 3, folder 8

Lucie (Lucy) Schelling correspondence file 1924

 

Oversize Materials 1914-1936

box 4, folder 1

Blueprints and description of German trenches 1915

 

Certificates 1919-1936

box 4, folder 2

Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur 1919

box 4, folder 2

Order Odrodzenia Polski, Polonia Restituta 1925

box 4, folder 2

Ordre du Saint-Sépulcre Orthodoxe 1929

box 4, folder 2

Distinguished Service Medal 1934

box 4, folder 2

Credentials as delegate to International Theater Congress 1936

box 4, folder 3

Letter of appointment from the U.S. Army 1918

box 4, folder 4

Maps of France, Germany, and the United States 1917-1918

box 4, folder 5

Photograph depicting Ernest Schelling at a military ceremony 1921

box 4, folder 6

Print of President Taft 1913

Scope and Contents note

Includes an inscription by Taft: "For Mr. Ernest Schelling with grateful appreciation of the wonderful music drawn from the piano he gave us at the White House February 7th 1913."
box 4, folder 7

Print of portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (German philosopher) undated

box 4, folder 8

Poster insert from German newspaper 1917

box 4, folder 9

Proclamations issued by the German army in Belgium and France 1914-1916

 

Serial issues 1914-1919

box 4, folder 10

Basler Nachrichten 1917 December 19

box 4, folder 10

Berliner Ilustrirte Zeitung 1917 November 25

box 4, folder 10

Der Bund 1918 November 1 - December 19

box 4, folder 10

L'Écho de Grèce 1918 May 23

box 4, folder 10

La Feuille 1918 January 21 - April 30

box 4, folder 10

Frankfurter Zeitung 1914 September 15

box 4, folder 10

Gazette de Laussanne 1914 December 13

box 4, folder 10

Illustrirte Zeitung 1917 December 13

box 4, folder 10

Impartial Suisse 1918 December 21 - 1919 January 4

box 4, folder 11

Der Kommunist 1919 April

box 4, folder 11

Lustigen Blätter, No. 37 1914

box 4, folder 11

Nachrichtenblatt für Balten 1919 March 26 - April 3

box 4, folder 11

La Nation 1918 February 24 - March 9

box 4, folder 11

Neue Zeitung 1919 February 22

box 4, folder 11

Neue Zürcher Zeitung 1917 December 16

box 4, folder 11

Neuer Freier Aargauer 1917 December 28

box 4, folder 11

Schweizer Illustrierte Zeitung 1918 March 30

box 4, folder 11

Stimmen aus dem Osten 1919 March 19-26

box 4, folder 12

La Suisse 1918 November 9

box 4, folder 12

Über Land und Meer, No. 49 1914

box 4, folder 12

Der Welt Spiegel 1914 September 13

box 4, folder 12

Die wirtschaftliche Demobilmachung 1919 February 8-9

box 4, folder 12

Die Woche 1914 September 12

 

Memorabilia 1918-1934

box 5

Framed display of medals awarded to Ernest Schelling 1919-1934

Scope and Contents note

Includes the Ordre National de la Légion d'honneur; the Order Odrodzenia Polski, Polonia Restituta; the Ordre du Saint-Sépulcre Orthodoxe; and the Distinguished Service Medal.

Access

Box 5 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 6

U.S. Army cap worn by Ernest Schelling 1918

Access

Box 6 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 6

U.S. Army jacket worn by Ernest Schelling 1918

Access

Box 6 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 6

U.S. Army patches 1918-1920

Access

Box 6 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 6

U.S. Army pins and insignia 1918-1920

Access

Box 6 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 6

Légion d'Honneur (Legion of Honor) medal and case 1918

Access

Box 6 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 6

Order of Polonia Restituta case undated

Access

Box 6 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 6

Pair of stirrups and medals 1918

Access

Box 6 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 5

Medals and pins

Access

Box 5 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
 

Printed Matter 1911-1928

box 7, folder 1

Brochures relating to Ignace Paderewski 1916-1928

 

Monographs 1911-1928

box 7, folder 2

Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army 1911

box 7, folder 3

Regulations of the Army of the United States 1917

box 7, folder 4

Géographie des principales puissances du monde 1918

box 7, folder 5

Gore, James Howard, American Legionnaires of France 1920

box 7, folder 6

To Ignace Paderewski, Artist, Patriot, Humanitarian 1928

 

Pamphlets relating to American and German military policy 1917

box 7, folder 7

General 1917

box 7, folder 8

Army War College 1917

 

Incremental Materials 1899-1991

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, printed matter, newspaper clippings, ephemera, address books, notebooks, passports, and photographs largely relating to Schelling's time as an assistant military attaché in Switzerland after World War I and his friendship with Ignace Paderewski, arranged alphabetically by subject or physical form. See "Key to military file" (Box 8, folder 1) for more information about the organization of the materials.
box 8, folder 1

Key to military file undated

Scope and Contents note

Handwritten and typed notes provided by a relative of Schelling's, detailing the organization of Schelling's papers. There is an item-level index indicating which items were found together under Schelling's original organizational scheme and then a cross-reference indicating which descriptive headings the items were put under. These latter headings are what were used as the folder titles for the Military file of the Incremental Materials, and any additional notes were added as Scope and Content notes, in quotation marks.
 

Military file 1912-1963

box 8, folder 2

Accident 1919-1920

box 8, folder 3

Agents 1918-1919, undated

box 8, folder 4

Biographical material 1917-1939

Scope and Contents note

Includes military identity cards, diplomatic passes and passports, certificates, travel documents, and summaries of Schelling's military activities/rankings and decorations.
box 8, folder 5-6

Bolshevism 1918-1919, undated

box 8, folder 7

Codes undated

 

Correspondence

box 8, folder 8-9

Official 1914-1934

Scope and Contents note

From folders labeled "Major Schelling - Official," "Major Schelling - Official - Personal," and "Poland." Largely consists of correspondence and orders directly relating to Schelling's military duties.
box 9, folder 1

Official (continued) 1914-1934

box 9, folder 2-3

Unofficial 1912-1935

Scope and Contents note

From folder labeled "Military - Unofficial letters to Major Schelling." Largely consists of correspondence received by Schelling during his military career or from military colleagues unrelated to his duties or of a more personal nature.
box 9, folder 4-5

General information on intelligence 1917-1924, 1954

box 9, folder 6

Inventions 1914, 1918

box 10, folder 1-2

Lists 1919, undated

Scope and Contents note

"Lists of officials - Berne; official address book; M.A. ball - June 26, 1919."
box 10, folder 3

Maps undated

box 10, folder 4

Military Intelligence Reserve 1920-1939

box 10, folder 5

Military Intelligence resumé 1923 undated

Scope and Contents note

"Report of military attaché's office."
box 10, folder 6

Military Order of the World War 1926-1938

box 10, folder 7

Miscellaneous 1916-1923, 1938, 1963

box 10, folder 8

Photographs of friends and colleagues 1919-1920, undated

Scope and Contents note

Original folder included handwritten notation: "See article, Musical Courier, April 14, 1921."
box 10, folder 9

Reports re Austria 1918

Scope and Contents note

"1 by Major Schelling."
box 10, folder 10

Reports re Bulgaria and Turkey 1918

Scope and Contents note

"1 by Major Schelling."
box 10, folder 11

Reports re France 1914, 1918

box 10, folder 12

Reports re Germany 1918-1920

Scope and Contents note

"(?) several by Major Schelling."
box 11, folder 1

Reports re Germany (continued) 1918-1920

box 11, folder 2

Reports re grippe 1918

box 11, folder 3

Reports re Poland, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, Lithuania 1918, undated

box 11, folder 4

Reports re prisoners 1914-1919

box 11, folder 5

Reports re Russia 1917-1918

box 11, folder 6

Reports re Switzerland 1917-1919

Scope and Contents note

"At least 6 by Major Schelling."
box 11, folder 7

Reports re United States 1917-1921

box 11, folder 8

Reserve Officers Association 1920-1938

Scope and Contents note

"Includes 61st Cavalry Division."
 

Personal file 1899-1991

box 11, folder 9-10

Address books and notebooks undated

 

Paderewski, Ignace (Ignacy) 1899-1965

 

Correspondence

box 12, folder 1-4

Between the Schellings (Ernest, Lucie, Helen) and Paderewski/Paderewska 1899-1941

Scope and Contents note

Letters, notes, cables, telegrams, and postcards. With two exceptions, the postcards (1902-1904) are addressed to Madame [Helena] Paderewska from Ernest Schelling. The other two are addressed to Madame Jaszowska, Paderewska's aunt.
 

Between Ernest Schelling and others re Paderewski

box 12, folder 5

General 1899-1939

box 12, folder 6

Re "Memoirs" (Mary Lawton book) 1929, 1938-1940

box 12, folder 7

Re newspaper articles 1915-1934

Scope and Contents note

The majority of the material relates to a Saturday Evening Post article, 7 April 1934, which disparaged Paderewski.
box 12, folder 8

Re Paderewski week (17-23 January 1937) and proposed Paderewski Fund 1936-1940

box 12, folder 9

Re Paso Robles ranch 1921, undated

box 12, folder 10

Strakacz, Sylwin 1931-1939

box 12, folder 11

Between Helen "Peggy" Schelling and others re Paderewski 1940-1965

box 12, folder 12

Between Lucie (Lucy) Schelling and others re Paderewski 1920-1934

Scope and Contents note

Includes RSVPs (acceptances and regrets) to 20 February 1921 reception for Paderewski at the Colony Club.
box 13, folder 1

Funeral 1941, 1946, undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes handwritten notes regarding annoucement of funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in 1941, invitation to a fifth anniversary mass in 1946, and a list of friends.
box 13, folder 2

Miscellaneous 1901-1942, undated

Scope and Contents note

Notes, receipts, press release, and summaries of information relating to Paderewski, Schelling, and other topics.
box 13, folder 3

Photographs 1930s, undated

Scope and Contents note

Largely photographs of Paderewski and Schelling, but some group shots of Paderewski in domestic setting with others are included as well. See also: Boxes 1-2.
box 13, folder 4

Tributes (by Schelling) 1915-1940, undated

box 13, folder 5

Photographs of Schelling (4 prints) undated

Scope and Contents note

See also: Boxes 1-2.
box 13, folder 6

Schelling, Helen "Peggy," 1939-1991

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, notes, printed matter, press release, and program relating to Schelling and his legacy, the military, and Paderewski, received or collected by Schelling's second wife, Helen.
box 13, folder 7-8

Schelling, Lucie (Lucy) 1914-1938

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, notes, and passports of Schelling's first wife, Lucie, as well as materials relating to her death and funeral.
box 13, folder 9

Miscellaneous 1930, 1960, undated

Scope and Contents note

Consists of a cartoon, undated; a typescript draft of a concert program, undated; a zeppelin ticket, 1930; and a flyer for a piano recital by Claudette Sorel, 1960.
 

Printed matter 1919-1949

box 13, folder 10-11

Aubert, Maître, Bolshevism's Terrible Record: An Indictment, issued under the auspices of the Entente Internationale contre le IIIe Internationale 1924

box 13, folder 10-11

Flynn, John T., The Road Ahead: America's Creeping Revolution 1949

box 13, folder 10-11

Herzig & McLean, Inc., General Pershing's Story of the American Army in France 1919

Scope and Contents note

Reprints General Pershing's 20 November 1918 report to the Secretary of War, as well as some World War I poetry.
box 13, folder 10-11

Novik, Dmitri, Théodore Aubert et Son Oeuvre: Le Mouvement International Contre le Bolchévisme, édition des Amis de l'Entente Internationale contre la IIIe Internationale 1932

box 13, folder 10-11

Otto Ulbrich Co., Catalogue of United States Martial Short Arms 1939

box 13, folder 12

Tributes 1940, 1956

Scope and Contents note

Related to Schelling's support of music and his fellow musicians, particularly through the Musicians Emergency Fund.
 

Declassified U.S. Government Records 1918, 1920, undated

Scope and Contents note

Formerly security-classified records of the U.S. government, released in full or in part. Arranged chronologically by date of release by Hoover, thereunder chronologically by date of creation.
box 13, folder 13

2016 January release of records 1918, 1920, undated

Scope and Contents note

Consists of documents relating to Schelling's work as an assistant military attaché in Berne, Switzerland after World War I:
"Synposis of Cables Between the American Minister, Berne, Switzerland, and the State Department, with Reference to McN.," undated.
Memorandum re the Czech delegation in Switzerland, undated.
Letter from Schelling to Colonel Van Deman, Chielf Intelligence Section, War College, Washington D.C., 2 March 1918.
"The Situation in Germany: An Interview with a German Officer in the Würtemberg Infantry (Engineer Corps), a Mining Engineer," 25 May 1920.
Collection Contents
Biographical File
Correspondence
Declassified U.S. Government Publications
Photographs
Oversize Materials
Certificates
Serial issues
Memorabilia
Printed Matter
Monographs
Pamphlets relating to American and German military policy
Incremental Materials
Military file
Personal file
Declassified U.S. Government Records
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