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Photograph depicts a JNF Tour group, including Rosa Stern, Rabbi S. T. Ferustein, Ben Dayson (far left) and Esther Dayson (second from the left) in front of the Eiffel Tower.

Photograph depicts four unknown soldiers posing for the camera.

Letter from Private Edward Joseph Seidelman, dated February 18, 1917. Sent from "Somewhere in France" to Rachel Seidelman of Vancouver. Private Seidelman mentions that he has changed battalions, and is now part of the 46th Battalion. Private Seidelman also talks about purchasing "The Dayfield Body Shield" for use in battle and gives a description of this item.

Letter from Private Edward Joseph Seidelman, dated February 27, 1917. Sent from "Somewhere in France" to Rachel Seidelman of Vancouver. Envelope has stickers reading "Opened by Censor". The letter is written in pencil and in two places on page 4, words have been erased by censors. In the letter, Private Seidelman mentions hearing news that "the Huns" (the Austro-Hungarian Empire) "are out of Baxaume and are pressed further by the British", and makes a guess that "the Huns" will be in "disastrous retreat" soon.

Letter from Private Edward Joseph Seidelman, dated March 24, 1917. (Assumed sent from France) to Rachel Seidelman of Vancouver. Private Seidelman notes the newspapers stating that the Russian Emperor "succumbed to popular unrest in Russia".

Letter from Private Edward Joseph Seidelman, dated March 11, 1917. Sent from "Somewhere in France" to Rachel Seidelman of Vancouver. The envelope has a sticker reading "OPENED BY CENSOR". Page "5" of letter is on the back of Page 1. Page 4 is missing, although it is most likely that Page "5" was incorrectly written and was supposed to have been written as Page 4.

Letter from Private Edward Joseph Seidelman, dated March 4, 1917. Sent from "Somewhere in France" to Rachel Seidelman of Vancouver. The envelope has a sticker reading "OPENED BY CENSOR". The envelope also has a stamp on it with the words "Passed Field Censor" (this stamp seems to be on other envelopes as well, however those ones are not very legible).

Letter from Private Edward Joseph Seidelman, dated April 17, 1917. Sent from "Somewhere in France" to Rachel Seidelman of Vancouver. The Field Post Office stamp on the envelope is dated October 19, 1917, suggesting that the letter may possibly have been sent later in the Fall of 1917.

Postcard from Private Edward Joseph Seidelman, dated April 18, 1917. (Assumed sent from France) to Rachel Seidelman of Vancouver. There are sentences already printed on the back of the postcard and some of these sentences have been crossed out. It looks as if this type of postcard was created by the military for soldiers to quickly communicate their current situation to loved ones when there was not a lot of time to write letters of their own.

Letter from Private Edward Joseph Seidelman, dated April 21, 1917. Sent from "Somewhere in France" to Rachel Seidelman of Vancouver.