Scope and Content Note
The papers of Carl Conrad Loth mostly document aspects of his military career during World War I and World War II. This includes his service in the American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps, the Aviation Section of the United States Army Signal Corps, and later, the United States Army Air Forces. This is mostly documented through scrapbooks that include photographs, postcards, clippings, maps, and other ephemera. Many items that were detached from the pages of the scrapbooks can be found within the Photograph, Miscellany, and Biographical file folders. Notably, the collection includes all eight issues of Soixante Trois, a 1917 newsletter published in France by Section 63 of the American Volunteer Red Cross Motor-Ambulance Corps, considered to be one of the first newspapers published in the trenches. Most issues feature news from the front, personality profiles, poetry, cartoons, and advertisements. The correspondence mostly includes outgoing letters from Loth to his wife Mary Ellis while he ran an American officer’s club in England during World War II in 1944. Other materials within the collection include biographical materials, certificates, photographs, clippings, and other printed matter. There is little documentation of Loth's life outside of his service during World War I and World War II.