mums072 Welcome Home Enfield Service Men Dance Program Cards Collection, 1919 Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Linda Seidman. Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, MA

2002

Finding aid encoded using Perl scripts and edited in XMetal 2.0. Encoded by Eric Steven Cartier. 2002-11-25 Finding aid written in English. 2005-09-23 mu156 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02-5c.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst Welcome Home Enfield Service Men Dance Program Cards Collection, 1919 Finding Aid Manuscript Number 72 Compiled by Linda Seidman 1985 Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Collection Overview Enfield (Mass.) Welcome Home Enfield Service Men Dance Program Cards Collection 1919 MS 72 1 folder Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst Dance celebrating the return of fifty-one men from Enfield, Massachusetts who served in World War I. Collection includes two dance program cards that are both filled out, chiefly with initials. English. Biographical Note

Enfield was among the Western Massachusetts towns abolished in 1938 to allow the Swift River Valley to be flooded, thereby creating the Quabbin Reservoir to provide Boston with water.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Fifty-one men from Enfield, Massachusetts, served in World War I. A dance celebrating their return was held Monday evening, October 13, 1919. Two dance program cards from that event comprise the collection. Both are filled out, chiefly with initials. The back cover identifies W.H. Young as Floor Director, along with 5 aides.

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Cite as: Welcome Home Enfield Service Men Dance Program Cards Collection (MS 72). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Acquired from Donald Howe, 1960.

Collection processed by Linda Seidman, 2002.

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