One of our ongoing projects in Archives and Special Collections is to digitize more materials from our collection, to make these artifacts more widely accessible, as well as to preserve them. (See our article in Columns: Newsletter of the E.H. Little Library on our digitization efforts.)
Archives and Special Collections has just continued this ongoing effort by building a new digital exhibit presenting World War I postcards collected in France by John Frederick Nash ’11. This new exhibit includes a digital collection of all twenty postcards in a booklet that Nash came to own while abroad in France, La Guerre Européenne 1914-1915: Aprés le Passage Des Allemands – Les Ruines (The European War 1914-1915: The Ruins after the Passage of the Germans), which illustrates the devastation of France and Belgium in the early months of the Great War.
John Frederick Nash graduated from Davidson College in 1911. He also attended the North Carolina Medical College and studied in New York. He began practicing medicine in St. Paul, North Carolina in 1916. From April 1918, during World War I, he served active duty in Medical Corps first at Camp Greenleaf in Chicamauga Park, Georgia, and subsequently at Camp Upton in New York before being transfered to Camp Souge, France where he served after the end of the war in November 1918 until 1919 as a lieutenant in Evacuation Ambulance Company 80. After his return to Camp Upton in February 1919, Nash was relieved of active duty on March 13, 1919.
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