Roy Gilbert Conley Papers
name: label: Creator
content: Conley, Roy Gilbert
topic: label: Topic
content: World War, 1914-1918
label: Topic
content: Soldiers -- World War, 1914-1918
label: Topic
content: World War, 1914-1918 -- trenches
label: Topic
content: Seamen -- 1910-1920
label: Topic
content: World War, 1914-1918 -- Artillery
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated to the Archives Center by Ms. Barbara Murray, Mr. Conley's grand niece.
creator: label: Creator
content: Conley, Roy Gilbert
setName: label: See more items in
content: Roy Gilbert Conley Papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The collection documents the life of Seaman 2nd class Roy Conley, particularly his experiences during World War 1.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Roy Gilbert Conley was born in 1899.  He lived most of his life in Detroit, Michigan. Conley served in the U.S. Navy from January, 1918 until September, 1919. After basic training at Camp Decatur in Great Lakes, Illinois, he was assigned to a dirigible unit in Paimboeuf, France. He served again during World War II in Port Huron, Michigan as a member of the Coast Guard Reserve. Mr. Conley died in 1963.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1914-1960.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0851
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into three series.

Series 1: Personal Papers, 1918-1945

Series 2: World War I, 1918-1919

Series 3: Post World War I, 1919, undated
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Frank R. Jenkins (volunteer), April 30, 2004; supervised by Vanessa Broussard Simmons, archivist.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 1900-1950
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks -- 1900-1950
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The collection consists primarily of photographs documenting Conley's experiences as a seaman in World War I. War images include battlefields, trenches, weaponry, and damage to villages and cities. Other photographs are of family members and pictures that Conley took later in life as he traveled throughout Europe and the United States as a tourist.  Personal papers consist of identification information and a few military documents.  There is also a scrapbook containing photographs collected during World War I, photographs of family members and images of the United States and Europe.

Series 1, Personal Papers, 1918-1945, includes documents relating to Conley's World War I and World War II service and family photographs. There is a Naval Aviator's logbook which he used as a scrapbook and which contains photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings and other items accrued in France in World War I. A scrapbook containing photographs collected during World War I, photographs of family members, images of the United States and Europe and personal papers is also included among the materials.

Series 2, World War I, 1918-1919, consists of  photographs of World War  I battle scenes, including German bodies, a gas attack, tank warfare, artillery pieces and wrecked airplanes. Also included are photographs of the damage done to countryside and towns by aerial and artillery bombardment.

Series 3, Post World War I, 1919, undated, contains sightseeing and other photographs Conley collected after World War I. Scenes of Paris and other European locations, New York and Kentucky are included.