World War I Era Scrapbook

George Nicholas Barclay c.1918
George Nicholas Barclay c.1918
Mathias Alonzo Van Horne c.1913

Many of the stories and images in this web site are drawn from a scrapbook kept by my grandfather, George Nicolas Barclay and great uncle, Dr. Mathias Alonzo Van Horne between 1910 and 1930. The articles represent those events that most impacted African Americans before and after the Great War. Below is a collection of a few of those articles.

— Keith W. Stokes

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