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Newsreel: Documents Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic from New York City to Paris, and his return to the United States by way of Belgium and England. Includes shots of his return to New York City and the parade and other activities held in recognition of his flight. Intertitles are used to explain scenes.

Bohdan Kazymyra with Hetmanych Danylo Skoropadsky and André Kishka.

Item component is a description of the experiences of James Stuart Wood as expressed in his daily journal during World War One, in particular in Egypt during 1915, France and Belgium in 1916 and 1917. Included are the battles of the Somme, Ancrea, Vimy Ridge, and his travel back to Canada. Also included a brief description of controversy that rose as chief of the Saskatoon Public Library concerning the acquisition of German books. Component appears on pages 40 to 47.

Article supplemented by a photograph of James Stuart Wood as a young man in England; an excerpt from the diary showing a handdrawn map of the Suez Canel defence areas; and a handdrawn map of a trench configuation where he was stationed in France.

Item component is a description of how a series of prints that depict destruction on the Western Front during World War One (Canadian War Memorial Prints), that were purchased by Saskatchewan's Department of Public Works for a proposed Provincial War Museum came to be in the possesion of the Provincial Archives. Component appears on pages 14 to 17.

Article includes a list of the prints in the holdings of the Provincial Archives; and is supplmeented by reproductions of five of these prints ("Berthonval Farm"; "St. Jacques, Ypres", "Evening at Ypres", "Entering Ypres at Dawn"; and "La Grand Place, Arras").

Article is supplemented by photographs that depict: Gladys Crim, some colleagues and convalescent soldiers - Crim is shown holding bagpipes; unidentified nurse working on the ankle area of an unidentified solder; rows of soldiers laid out on stretchers with one nurse; from the funeral service for nurse Margaret Lowe, soldiers standing at attention with a small group holding a flag-draped coffin; an unidentified soldier (missing one leg) with a crutch under one arm and holding a fish in the opposite hand; and, "Queen Mary Tea Room at Woodcote Park Convalescent Hospital" with armed forces personnel at tables and at left someone at the piano.

Article is supplemented by drawings showing: the surrender of three German soldiers (captioned "Merci Komrad"); a single grave marker ("To an unknown British soldier killed in action at Ypres 29 April 1915") that was drawn by Corporal R. Gordon-Cumming; a man and woman (from behind) accompanied by two poems; German soldier as a "proposed design for the stained glass window of the future" accompanied by a poem by Corporal R. Gordon Cumming; a figure holding on to a post through which a shell has passed through (caption "The Last Post"); and a soldier smoking a cigarette whose smoke transforms into the image of a nurse (accompanied by note from C. R. Alexander).

Article includes coloured drawings (paintings?) showing: trees stripped of foliage and bomb bursts in air (captioned "Land marks of Ypres"); and a damaged building that has a path leading from foreground to background with an orange / red sky.

Item is an image showing a group of eighteen military men.

Item is a group photograph showing officers and N.C.O's for the 8th Canadian Field Ambulance.

Collection consists of microfilmed issues for The Maple Leaf from April 24, May 5, 9, 14, 18, 21 and 29, 1945.

Travelogue: Records the travels, through Europe, of a group which leaves by ship from Montreal, Quebec, to attend the 22nd Convention of Rotary International in Vienna, Austria. Includes scenes of: the group's departure from Montreal aboard the S.S. Duchess of York and activities aboard ship; the ports of Cherbourg, France and Antwerp, Belgium; Brussels, Belgium; Vienna and rural Austria; rural Switzerland and France; Paris, as seen from the Eiffel Tower; the trenches and cemetary at Vimy Ridge; Canterbury Cathedral; and the changing of the guard at St. James Palace in London. Intertitles are used to explain different scenes.

Art Film: Contains scenes in the Belgiam Sculpture Gardens and explains sculpture and its aesthetics. By: ML