My name is Irene Lule. I work at the Alexander Architectural Archives as a graduate research assistant. I was fortunate to spend my summer interning with the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress. By the end of my internship, I had encoded 10 finding aids documenting the experiences of World War I veterans.
To learn more about my experience at the Veterans History Project and the veterans I worked with, read my two blogs for the Library of Congress about soldier homecomings and WWI-era postcards. As Junior Fellows, we presented our projects to Library of Congress staff and the public. Check out the picture of me in the blue dress below on Display Day! Photo by: Shawn Miller for the Library of Congress. Tomorrow marks the 79th anniversary of Veterans Day.
Enacted in , the holiday also marks Armistice Day in other countries. As time marks away the years, the visual representation of these memorials are not lost. Erected in , the current Darrell K. Paul Philippe Cret, a prominent architect hired by the UT administrators to create a master plan for the University and design the Main Building, has an interesting connection to World War I.
A noted architect, Cret was born and raised in France. The following paragraphs will discuss some of these materials from the Littlefield Fountain and Chateau-Thierry Memorial. One of these is the Littlefield Fountain, which was constructed following a donation from Major George W. He reorganized the location of the Confederate statues away from the fountain and along the mall where they remained until August There are several features of the fountain that are very obviously about World War I.
Alongside the side of Columbia, there is a soldier and sailor on her sides. The sailor, located on the right side of Columbia, on the Littlefield Fountain. The photograph below depicts an eagle with a map of the region designed by Cret nestled under from a scrapbook in the Cret collection. Another angle of the eagle.
