The Snapshots in Time Collection
Gallery: LETTER 23
Letter 23, written from Vichy, France in 1918 by Pvt. Willis W. Wagener of the 1st Gas Regiment, recounting a day of unexpected reunions with hometown friends. In a French bookstore he goes looking for a map and finds an unlikely connection — an elderly gentleman who turns out to be a cousin of San Francisco merchant Raphael Weill.
WWI Censored Mail Envelope, Pvt. Willis W. Wagener, A.E.F., to Mrs. J.A. Wagener, Ceres, California
WWI Letter Home from Vichy, France — Pvt. Willis W. Wagener, October 1918
Handwritten WWI Letter from Pvt. Willis W. Wagener, Page Describing French Bookstore Encounter
