Chess for the Wounded Postal Chess Recorder

This postal chess recorder was given by the director of Chess for the Wounded, Herbert Holland, to H.H. Krueger, and contains notation of each of the injured veteran’s games. Herbert Holland, who had previously worked to send chess sets to American prisoners of war, became the director of Chess for the Wounded following a move to Chicago. There, the group organized visits to hospitalized veterans by volunteers as well as the distribution of postal chess recorders. Through these artifacts, players could keep track of multiple games against multiple opponents at once, recording their moves on cards which could be removed from the recorder after the game.