Exhibit -- Civilians and German and Austro-Hungarian POW's Interned in the U. S. During World War I (Part 1)
This page provides links to the content of the following exhibit:
First World War:
Civilians and German and Austro-Hungarian POW's Interned in the U. S. During World War I, Part 1 [Author: Ed Dubin]
This is the postal history story of the approximately 5500 Germans, Austro-Hungarians, and United States
citizens confined for various periods of time in military prisons, civilian jails or immigration stations in the United States
during WWI. In the presentation the postal history elements of delivery routes, usage, rates and censorship and various
types of official stationary are covered. (The current exhibit here is only part 1, more pages will be added soon.)
Electronic Content
There are three sets of files, each file representing
the exhibit pages of
this exhibit.
The first set currently available is a PDF file.
For more information about PDF files, please
review the MPHS description page for PDF files.
The second set contains the same exhibit pages,
made available
for direct viewing on the Military Postal History Society
website. Each web page has a table of
contents to point to the various exhibit
images. To view the exhibit, simply click on the HTML link below.
The third set contains the same exhibit content,
but stored as web page files that you
can download to your computer/phone/tablet.
This type of content is called
"website-in-a-box". Once you have downloaded the ZIP
file, you
can view the exhibit offline on your computer, tablet,
or phone without any special software.
Please review
the MPHS web page describing
the use of ZIP archives.