V. J. GIANELLONI PAPERS
(Mss. 1939)
Inventory
Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections
Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library
Louisiana State University Libraries
Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University
Reformatted 2003
Revised 2011
GIANELLONI (V. J.) PAPERS
1916-1918
Mss. 1939
LSU Libraries Special Collections
CONTENTS OF INVENTORY
SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................... 3
BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE ...................................................................................... 4
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE ................................................................................................... 4
INDEX TERMS .............................................................................................................................. 5
CONTAINER LIST ........................................................................................................................ 6
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GIANELLONI (V. J.) PAPERS
1916-1918
Mss. 1939
LSU Libraries Special Collections
SUMMARY
Size.
175 items and 36 volumes
Geographic
locations.
Camp Funston, Texas; Fort Winfield Scott Training Camp, California;
France
Inclusive dates.
1916-1918
Bulk dates.
N/A
Language.
English, French
Summary.
Papers of Vivian J. Gianelloni, relating to his WWI training including
course material such as class papers, lectures, outlines for study,
examinations and text books. Also included are maps of France and
issues of the first volume of The Stars and Stripes.
Restrictions on
access.
If microfilm is available, photocopies must be made from microfilm.
Related
collections.
Sabin J. Gianelloni, Sr., Family Papers, Mss. 3458, 4279
Copyright.
Copyright of the original materials is retained by descendants of the
creators in accordance with U.S. copyright law.
Citation.
V. J. Gianelloni Papers, Mss. 1939, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi
Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La.
Stack locations.
79:55-56, 98:, OS:G; Map Cage
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GIANELLONI (V. J.) PAPERS
1916-1918
Mss. 1939
LSU Libraries Special Collections
BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE
Vivian J. Gianelloni (1892-1957), born on Longwood Plantation, near Baton Rouge, was a
Louisiana State University alumnus and a sugar technologist. During the First World War,
Gianelloni served in the Coast Artillery Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces. He trained
at Camp Funston, Texas, at Fort Winfield Scott Training Camp, California, and at the Heavy
Artillery School.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
Papers relate to Gianelloni's military training at Camp Funston, Fort Winfield Scott Training
Camp, and the Heavy Artillery School and chiefly consist of course material, class papers,
lecture notes, outlines of study, examinations, and text books. The collection includes a
manuscript "Officer's Register" volume, photographs of a United States Army parade, detailed
maps of France, and a set of the Y.M.C.A. game, Trench Checkers.
Printed items include issues of the first volume of The Stars and Stripes and a number of training
manuals, mostly published by the United States Army and the War Department (1916-1918).
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GIANELLONI (V. J.) PAPERS
1916-1918
Mss. 1939
LSU Libraries Special Collections
INDEX TERMS
Artillerymen--Training of--United States.
Artillery--United States.
Examinations (documents)
Maps.
Military education--United States.
Military training camps--United States.
Textbooks.
United States--History, Military--20th century.
World War, 1914-1918.
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GIANELLONI (V. J.) PAPERS
1916-1918
Mss. 1939
LSU Libraries Special Collections
CONTAINER LIST
Stack
Location
79:55
Box
1
Folder Contents
1
2
3
4
5
6-7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
Broadsheet letter from W.A. Appleton, Secretary, General Federation of
Trade Unions (Dec. 18, 1917); printed letter from Charles T. Main,
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (June 26, 1918); blank
laundry price list, French Laundry Company, San Francisco, Calif.
(undated)
Camp Funston, Leon Springs, Texas (Aug.-Sept. 1917)
Fort Winfield Scott Training Camp (Sept.-Nov. 1917)
Fort Winfield Scott Training Camp, Class Papers (Sept.-Nov. 1917)
War Department – Administration (Jan.-March 1918)
Organization and Training Center, Tractor Artillery No. 1, AEF
Automobile and Tractor Course Material (June-Sept. 1918)
Advance Ordnance Depot, No. 4, SOS, AEF, Ammunition Course
Material (June-July 1918)
Heavy Artillery School, AEF, Bulletins, 1917 (Feb.–Aug. 1918, undated)
Heavy Artillery School, AEF, Notes on Heavy Artillery Part V (Aug. 15,
1918)
Heavy Artillery School, AEF, Notes on Heavy Artillery adjustment and
Control of Fire Part VII (August 1918)
Heavy Artillery School, AEF, Adjustments on Fire, Lectures No. 2 – 8,
[1918]
Heavy Artillery School, AEF, Lectures on Adjustment of Fire by Captain
Barrett of the French Army. Supplement to Part VII (Sept. 1918)
Heavy Artillery School, AEF, Lectures by Captain Barrett of the French
Army (1918)
Heavy Artillery School, AEF, Miscellaneous examinations and notes
(1918)
Heavy Artillery School, AEF, Examinations (July–Sept. 1918)
Headquarters Army Artillery, First Army AEF, France (July–Nov. 1918)
Printed items: Programs for Casino de Paris, Folies-Bergère, and Folies
Marigny (1918)
Photographs of U.S. Army parade (undated)
YMCA Trench Checkers, checker board and checkers ca. 1918
Manuscript volume: Officer’s Register (ca. 1918)
Loose items removed from printed volumes
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GIANELLONI (V. J.) PAPERS
1916-1918
Stack
Location
79:56
Box
2
Mss. 1939
LSU Libraries Special Collections
Contents
Printed Volumes:
Andrews, Captain Lincoln C., U.S. Cavalry, Fundamentals of Military Service,
Prepared under the supervision of Major General Leonard Wood, U.S. Army.
(Philadelphia; J.B. Lippincott Company, 1916)
Guild, Captain George R. and Captain Frederick C. Test, U.S. Army, Pocket Field
Manual. (Menasha, Wisconsin; George Banta Publishing Company, 1917)
LSU University Bulletin, v.10, no.5, The Honor Roll, Alumni and ex-students of
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College now in
service, May 1918.
McKenney, H.J. Captain of Cavalry, U.S. Army, Exercises for Systematic Scout
Instruction. (Menasha, Wisconsin; George Banta Publishing Company. 1916)
Moss, Major James A, U.S. Army Infantry Drill Regulations United States Army
1911, Simplified edition with annotations, illustrations, and index. (Menasha,
Wisconsin; George Banta Publishing Company. 1916)
Moss, Major James A, U.S. Army Privates’ Manual, (Menasha, Wisconsin; George
Banta Publishing Company. 1916)
Moss, Major James A. U.S. Army, Army Paperwork, (Menasha, Wisconsin;
George Banta Publishing Company. 1916)
Parker, Captain Ralph M, U.S. Cavalry, An Officer’s Notes. Compiled by
Lieutenant C.C. Griffith, C.A.C. (New York, George U. Harvey, 1917)
Perkins, Captain K.S., Fifth Field Artillery, Field Artillery Firing Data and Notes.
(Menasha, Wisconsin; George Banta Publishing Company. 1917)
Picard, Jean A., Cortina French-English Military Manual. Foreword by MajorGeneral Leonard Wood, U.S. Army, (New York; The Cortina Academy of
Languages, 1917)
Platt, Captain W.P., Coast Artillery Corps, U.S. Army; Inspector-Instructor,
California Coast Artillery, Coast Artillery Material. (Kansas City, Missouri;
Franklin Hudson Publishing Company, 1917)
Schron, L., Tables de Logarithmes. (Paris, France; Gauthier-Villars et Cie,
Imprimeurs-Librairies Du Bureau Des Longitudes, De L’Ecole Polytechnique,
undated)
Smalley, Captain Howard R., U.S. Cavalry, The Army Field Note Book. (New
York, Military Publishing Company, 1917)
Van Vorst, B., To the Homeward-Bound Americans. (Paris: Imp. Lang, Blanchong
& cie., 1919)
U.S. Army Headquarters American Expeditionary Forces, Artillery Firing. (1918)
U.S. Army Department of Military Art, Small Problems for Infantry, Prepared by
Captain A.W. Bjornstad, 16th Infantry, Instructor. (Washington; Government
Printing Office, 1917)
U.S. Army, Notes on Infantry, Cavalry and Field Artillery. Lectures delivered to
class of provisional second Lieutenants Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. (Washington;
Government Printing Office, 1917)
U.S. Army, Training Manual in Topography, Map Reading and Reconnaissance.
Prepares by Major George R. Spalding, Corps of Engineers, Under the direction of
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GIANELLONI (V. J.) PAPERS
1916-1918
Stack
Location
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Box
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Mss. 1939
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Contents
the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army. (Washington; Government Printing Office,
1917)
U.S. Army, Army Service Schools, Lectures in Military Sanitation and
management of the Sanitary Service. (Washington; Government Printing Office,
1917)
War Department, Document #355, Engineer Field Manual, (Washington;
Government Printing Office, 1917)
War Department, Document #394, Infantry Drill Regulations United States Army
1911, Corrected to April 15, 1917, (Washington; Government Printing Office,
1917)
War Department, Document #436, Manual of Physical Training, (Washington;
Government Printing Office, 1917)
War Department, Document #442, Small Arms Firing Manual 1913, Corrected to
April 15, 1917, (Washington; Government Printing Office, 1917)
War Department, Document #442, Small Arms Firing Manual 1913, With text
corrections to Feb. 21, 1917, (New York; Military Publishing Company, 1917)
War Department, Document #454, Regulations for the Army of the United States
1913, Corrected to April 15, 1917, (Washington; Government Printing Office,
1917)
War Department, Document #467, Rules of Land Warfare, (Washington;
Government Printing Office, 1917)
War Department, Document #475, Field Service Regulations United States Army
1914, Corrected to April 15, 1917, (Washington; Government Printing Office,
1917)
War Department, Document #475, Field Service Regulations United States Army
1914, Text corrections to Feb. 4, 1916, (New York; Military Publishing Company,
1916)
War Department, Document #488, Combined Infantry and Cavalry Drill
Regulations for Automatic Machine Riffle Caliber .30 Model of 1909, Corrected to
April 15, 1917, (Washington; Government Printing Office, 1917)
War Department, Document #559, Coast Artillery Instruction Order 1917,
(Washington; Government Printing Office, 1917)
War Department, Document #560, A Manual for Courts-Martial, (Washington;
Government Printing Office, 1917)
War Department, Document #571, Tables of Organization United States Army,
(Washington; Government Printing Office, 1917)
War Department, Document #574, Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and
Privates of Infantry of the Army of the United States, (Washington; Government
Printing Office, 1917)
War Department, Document #699, Manual for Battery Commander, (Washington;
Government Printing Office, 1918)
War Department, Document #790, Provisional Range Tables for the 155 G.P.
Filloux Gun, Edited by the War Plans Division, April 1918.
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GIANELLONI (V. J.) PAPERS
1916-1918
Stack
Location
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OS:G
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Contents
A. Taride, editor, Nouvelle Carte de France, Belgique, Bords du Rhin, Suisse,
etc. Cartes Routieres pour Automobilistes, Cyclistes, etc., Paris, ca. 1918. 34x41
A. Taride, editor, Cartes Taride pour Cyclistes et Automobilistes. Lorraine,
Basse-Alsace, Vosges, No. 6bis. Paris, ca. 1918. 27x36.
A. Taride, editor, Carte Taride pour Cyclistes et Automobilistes. Lorraine, BasseAlsace, Vosges, No. 6bis. Paris, ca, 1918. 27x36
A. Taride, editor, Carte Routière pour Cyclistes et Automobilistes. Environs De
Paris, Section Nord – Est. Paris, ca. 1918. 28x36
Plan Directeur, Castillon-Sur-Dorogne, Compiled by superimposing a Lambert
Kilometric grid (Region Bordelaise) on the conseil General map, 23 Aout, 1875.
scale 1:40,000 and enlarging by photography to a scale of 1:20,000. (Printing
Plant 29th Engineers, U.S. Army, 1918) 42x36
The Literary Digest, Detailed map of the Battlefield of Picardy, France. The
Spring Drive, 1918. April 20, 1918. 12x8.5
The Literary Digest, The Battle in Flanders. April 27, 1918. 12x9
The Literary Digest, Relation of the Battle-Line to Paris, London, and the
Channel Ports. May 4, 1918. 12x8.75
The Stars and Stripes
Vol. 1 – No. 32, September 13, 1918.
Vol. 1 – No. 33, September 20, 1918.
Vol. 1 – No. 38, October 25, 1918.
Vol. 1 – No. 41, November 15, 1918.
Vol. 1 – No. 44, December 6, 1918.
Diagrams: Meteorological Data [1918]; Deviation Board (1918); Clock (1917)
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