Handwritten and Illustrated Notebook entitled, "Horace Pippin's Autobiography, First World War", (illustrated)
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Pippin, Horace (1888-1946)
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content: Horace Pippin notebooks and letters
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content: Horace Pippin notebooks and letters / Series 1: Horace Pippin Notebooks and Letters
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (62 numbered pages, pages 37-40 have been cut out)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1920s
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pippin recounts his World War I experiences in detail from the time he left the United States on November 17th, 1917 with the 15th N.Y. Infantry for France. Pippin writes of life in the trenches and dug-outs, night forays and traveling through enemy territory, details of days and nights of battles and getting shelled, gassed, and machine gun fire by the Germans, and his perceptions of fighting alongside French and Algerian soldiers. He also recounts the details of getting shot in the shoulder and right arm, lying in the trench too weak to get up, having a French soldier get shot and fall upon him dead and not being able to move out from under the dead man, getting some bread and water from the dead body, and finally being rescued and moved around in the field until being loaded onto an ambulance and taken to one hospital and being transferred to another one. 

Illustrated with six pencil and crayon drawings of marching and battle scenes.