This week I finished up the spreadsheet for the Bouman Collection and started in on scanning the Cahill Collection.<\/p>\n
This collection is a small packet of photos and one letter by Edward Cahill, a WWI soldier. Most of the photos are of Cahill and his wife post-war, but there are three photos of a young Franklin D. Roosevelt with soldiers at the beginning of the war. I\u2019m not sure if Cahill is in these photos or not, it\u2019s hard to tell. The letter was written when Cahill was at Walter Reed hospital, and when I read it I learned that he was one of the first American soldiers wounded in the war. The letter is to his sister, describing his experiences in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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