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Buildings and Marching Field

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of buildings and soldiers marching in a field. Automobiles are parked on the lower right.
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Camp Grant

Date: 1918
Description: Soldiers of Company I, Baraboo, Wisconsin, pose with their rifles at Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois. There are tents behind them and a wooded area in t...
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Frenchman Machine Gun Crew

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Three men standing behind a machine gun. Captioned: "A Hotchkiss machine gun, operated by a 48-year old crew of Frenchman. These men were mobilized."
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Soldier Standing at Machine Gun Post

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Soldier standing in a field next to a machine gun. Caption reads: "A 37 m.m. gun used largely against Machine gun implacements. It is accurate and quick fi...
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French Soldier Burial

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View across field towards a group of French soldiers. Caption reads: "The funeral procession of a dead French soldier. Whenever possible, a military burial...
Poster

Good Bye, Dad, I'm Off To Fight For Old Glory, You Buy U.S. Gov't Bonds

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a young man in uniform shaking hands with an older man. Behind them is a painting of an aerial view of farms and fields...
Poster

Emprunt de la Défense Nationale - eux aussi! Font leur devoir

Date: 1915
Description: Poster with an illustration of a wounded soldier pointing back to a line of civilians standing in front of a cashier's window. At the top of the poster is ...
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Purchasing Wagons

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Description: Military supply administration purchasing civilian wagons at the Tempelhof field. The accepted wagons are being stamped for identification.
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Readying the Horses

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Description: Mustering horses for service at the Tempelhof field.
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Mustering Horses

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Description: Mustering horses for service at the Tempelhof field.
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Requisitioned Animals

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Description: Slightly elevated view of soldiers on a road with requisitioned animals. The oxen are first used as draft animals and when meat supplies run low are slaugh...
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Bavarians in Vosges

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Description: Elevated view of people gathered on a road. There are railroad tracks alongside the road on the left. Our Bavarians in the Vosges. The welcome sutler wagon...
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Bavarians in Vosges

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Description: Elevated view of people gathered on a road. There are railroad tracks alongside the road on the left. Our Bavarians in the Vosges. The welcome sutler wagon...
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Bavarians in Vosges

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Description: Our Bavarians in the Vosges. Supply column on the road.
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Bavarians in Vosges

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Description: Our Bavarians in the Vosges. Supply column on the road.
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Bavarian Supply Column

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Description: Our Bavarians in the Vosges. Supply column on the road.
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Training Recruits

Date: 1914
Description: Wounded German officer training recruits who are still in civilian clothing.
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Volunteer Unit

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Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
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Volunteer Unit

Date: 1914
Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
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First Aid Dogs

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Description: Dog being trained to assist in rendering first aid.

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