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World War I scrapbook: anti-German sentiment in GermantownEntry/Object ID
2013.13.1.6a-dDescription
Clippings and memorabilia from World War I scrapbook compiled by Dr. Naaman H. Keyser, page 6
Page 6 contents include four newspaper clippings, and two stamps and a stamp "Passed As Censored."
The first [top, 6a] clipping is titled "General Sherman" [ has a quote of his, in full: "I confess without shame that I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. Even sucess, the most brilliant, is over dead and mangled bodies, the anguish and lamentation of distant families appealing to me for missing sons, husbands and fathers. It is only the shrieks and groans for the wounded and lacerated that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell."
A second clipping, titled "A Slam at Germantown" [left, 6b] and includes the following statement: Here's to second the motion, Mr. Editor. May Germantown henceforth be known only as 'Lusitania' for that is what Germantown deserves, and to any who doubt it, I will refer them to the cemetery connected with Market Square Church. Anyone who inspects that place with its hundreds of soldiers of the Civil War and can then say a kind word for Germantown ought to go and join the forces of the much-hated Kaiser. Germantown is a disgrace to Philadelphia, and no name is too mean to apply to." By Elmer T. St. George, October 18, 1918.
A third clipping, titled Germantown Defended" [right, 6c] responds to the above article by Elmer T. St. George. In it, "A Mother" comments: "Sir- I cannot as a third generation living in dear conservative Germantown let Mr. Elmer T. St. George's excoration of our town go unnoticed, and- a question comes to mind- what was E. T. St. George's standing if he lived here." Written November 9, 1918.
A fourth clipping titled "Object to Statue Covering" [lower left, 6d] dated July, 1917, discusses the decision to hide the recently-constructed Pastorius Monument in Vernon Park in a large wooden "box," apparently as a result of anti- German fervor present during the war.
Pages are 7.5 x 10".Photograph Details
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