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November 1, 1918.jpg
Frank wrote this letter on November 1, 1918. He wrote the letter to his mother and sister while he was serving in France during World War I.
He starts out the letter by again wondering why his mother and sister hadn’t written. He had gotten…

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Frank Eisenberg causally references the war when he tells Art that he picked up an old schoolmate from Talmud Torah, Sammie Kantor. Said, Sammie was recently discharged, had a lispe and planned to attend Miller Vocational. Said Sammie told him a guy…

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A photo of a postcard depicting a French soldier with the phrase "oh les aura!"

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These photographs contain images of as-yet unidentified friends and family members of Frank's.

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As you can see by the heading, we are on the first lap of our journey home. We left _____ on Friday, March 28, and after a three day trip across country in the famous French box cars we arrived here yesterday. This port is supposed to be the best in…

to mother and sister from frank 8:21:17 1.jpg
Dear mother and sister,

Just had my picture taken again sitting on our oil stove. I hope it comes out good. Am enclosing a couple of pictures. never even remember their having been taken.
I heard from Hilda Francis, Oscar Rose, and Dave Mandel…

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Successful engineer, Clark Russ, has just arrived back in town and just tonight found in his luggage a letter from Mary, lost a decade or more ago, dated August 1922. In the letter Mary had agreed to marry him before he left on his overseas…

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"The Private and the Cook," by Frank Eisenberg has a Private praising a meal that the Cook served. In the end the Private criticizes the Cook's coffee at which the cook falls over dead. The moral of the story is don't expect strong coffee and to be…

November 7, 1918 - Part 2.jpg
Frank wrote this letter on November 7th, 1918 to his mother and sister. He wrote the letter while he was serving in France during World War I.
Again Frank mentions the fact that he still has not received a letter from them and he doesn’t understand…

November 15, 1918 - Part 1.jpg
Frank wrote this letter on November 15th, 1918 to his mother and sister. He wrote the letter while he was serving in France during World War I.
Frank begins this letter by saying that the war is over – something that he had been anticipating for a…
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