Scope and Content From the Collection: The Arthur Mansback papers consists of letters, postcards, telegrams, photographs, training materials, and printed ephemera created and collected by Private Arthur E. Mansback during his tour with Battery A, 143rd Field Artillery of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during the second half of 1918. The letters begin aboard the transport ship in August of 1918, and end with Mansback's return to the United States (San Francisco) in January of 1919. In these letters, all addressed to...