Detail View: World War I and World War II: Personal Narratives: Paul Pommer correspondence, 1918-01, World War I

Identifier: 
exwsPmr4_pg13_itm3_pc01
Title: 
Paul Pommer correspondence, 1918-01, World War I
Creator: 
Pommer, Paul
Description: 
Postcard from musketeer Paul Pommer, addressed to the family of Gust. (Gustav) Pommer in Frankfurt, Germany. Undated, but Pommer was stationed in Wetteren in January of 1918. The postcard shows a photograph of the city square and railway station in Wetteren, Belgium. Pommer writes, "Here is a view of Wetteren for you all, you see I'm not allowed to send any stuff. This image has the train station."
Description: 
Photo Postcard; Wetteren; Statieplein: Place de la Stallion; 5.5x3.5" (14x9 cm)
Date: 
1918-01
Location: 
Wetteren (Belgium)
Time Period: 
Nineteen tens
Subject: 
Pommer, Paul--Correspondence
Subject: 
Soldiers--Germany--Correspondence
Subject: 
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, German
Subject: 
Personal correspondence
Subject-AAT: 
Correspondence artifacts
Subject-AAT: 
Picture postcards
Publisher: 
Western Michigan University
Source: 
Paul Pommer, World War I German soldier's scrapbook. World War I German Soldiers Album Collection. Western Michigan University Special Collections: http://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/s/i92l44
Provenance: 
Purchased by WMU Special Collections in February 2015 from F.A. Bernett Books of Boston, who obtained them from the family of Paul Pommer, Germany.
Language: 
ger
Collection: 
World War I and World War II: Personal Narratives
Rights Statement: 
https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/
Rights Status: 
No Known Copyright
Access Rights: 
Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University Library and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by Special Collections at Zhang Legacy Collections Center, Western Michigan University.
File Format: 
image/jp2
Digitization Date: 
2019