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Call Number: SC0773
Creator:
Musser, Edgar Hale
Title: Edgar Hale Musser papers
Dates: 1918-1962
Bulk Dates: 1918
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet
Summary: Papers pertain to his service with the Stanford Red Cross ambulance unit in Italy during World War I and include a transcript
of his diary, photograph album, letters to parents, postcards collected while in Europe, Red Cross discharge letter, and Red
Cross instruction booklet. The diary transcript also includes a photo of the villa he lived in taken during a visit to Italy
in 1962. The album includes images of fellow Stanford volunteers Frank Thomas, Edward Harper, and Stirling Pillsbury.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Edgar Hale Musser Papers (SC0773). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Edgar Hale Musser earned his a.b. in geology at Stanford University in June 1920; while still an undergraduate he joined the
Stanford Italian Ambulance Unit, serving from May to December 1918.
Papers pertain to his service with the Stanford Red Cross ambulance unit in Italy during World War I and include a transcript
of his diary, photograph album, letters to parents, postcards collected while in Europe, Red Cross discharge letter, and Red
Cross instruction booklet. The diary transcript also includes a photo of the villa he lived in taken during a visit to Italy
in 1962. The album includes images of fellow Stanford volunteers Frank Thomas, Edward Harper, and Stirling Pillsbury.
Harper, Edward.
Musser, Edgar Hale
Pillsbury, Stirling Gainer.
Thomas, Frank Newton.
Diaries.
Photoprints.
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1914-1918--War work--Red Cross.