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Photograph

William "Billy" Mitchell in Flight Gear

Date: 1916
Description: General William "Billy" Mitchell posing next to an airplane wearing flight gear.
Photograph

The Kaiser, Hindenburg, and Ludendorff planning "The Final Drive"

Date: 1916
Description: Kaiser Wilhelm II with Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, commanders on the World War I western front, planning military strategy.
Print

Delegation of War Widow

Date: 1916
Description: Delegation of war-widow, war-orphans, and maimed war-heroes at the White House, Washington, D.C., appealing to President Wilson for an "embargo on all war ...
Book or Pamphlet

Moline Plow Co. Catalog

Date: 1916
Description: Front and back cover of a Moline Plow Co. catalog, featuring a color illustration on the front of a Monitor Drill. On the back is a color illustration of t...
Photograph

Allied Soldiers

Date: 1916
Description: Allied soldiers gathered near an entrance to an unknown establishment. A sign in French above the entrance is not legible, but there is an image of a crick...
Photograph

Governor Emmanuel L. Philipp

Date: 1916
Description: Governor Emmanuel Philipp (Wisconsin's 23rd governor) stands on the left near a man (side view), in military dress and holding gloves in his left hand. In ...
Photograph

U.S. Military Academy Sole Survivors

Date: 1916
Description: Handwritten caption reads: "Sole Survivors, Class of 1866. U.S. Military Academy. Fiftieth Anniversary of Graduation." Twelve men are lined up in two rows ...
Photograph

1st Wisconsin Infantry Camp

Date: 1916
Description: Camp of the 1st Wisconsin Infantry at Leon Springs, Texas. Soldiers are standing near tents, with some men sitting astride horses.
Poster

Still the Greatest Mother in the World

Date: 1916
Description: Poster depicting four people. The woman is monumental, with a billowing dress and a Red Cross hat. She is holding a boy with a crutch in her left arm. Her ...
Poster

Moo-che-we-in-es. Pale face, my skin is dark but my heart is white. For I also gave to Canadian Patriotic Fund

Date: 1916
Description: Poster depicts First Nations man holding a dollar bill and two coins in one hand and a letter in the other hand written in his language. A paper with the t...
Poster

Le Cardinal Mercier Protège la Belgique

Date: 1916
Description: Poster depicting Cardinal Mercier carrying a staff surrounded by suffering people. Text reads: "Le Cardinal Mercier Protège la Belgique." A stamp on the p...
Poster

2me Emprunt de la Defense Nationale

Date: 1916
Description: Men and women bringing money to the feet of La Marseillaise and Marianne. A cherub or child on the left has a helmet and sword. A little girl is emptying a...
Poster

He did his duty. Will YOU do YOURS?

Date: 1916
Description: Poster with an illustration of a portrait of Lord Roberts of Kandahar with a British flag draped around it, and a wreath at the top. In front of the portra...
Photograph

Lake Garda

Date: 1916
Description: 1916 "summer guests" on the Gardasee (Lake Garda).
Photograph

Visit of the Czar of Bulgaria

Date: 1916
Description: The visit of the Czar of Bulgaria to the Austrian headquarters, after the celebratory mass in the chapel of location of the headquarters on February 13 (19...
Photograph

Jerome Francis Franklin, Sr. and Family

Date: 1916
Description: The extended Franklin family posing in front of a store (possibly the family owned Drug Store or Hardware Store) with messages wishing Perry Small Franklin...
Photograph

Publicity Still from "King Lear"

Date: 1916
Description: Still of actors portraying soldiers in a battle. Caption reads: "King Lear performance (for motion picture?)"

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