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| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | This photograph from the album of aviation pioneer Jesse Brabazon is described by him as the "first simulated bombing in history, using an aeroplane versus... |
| Date: | 06 1917 |
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| Description: | British troops clear German trenches that were destroyed in battle in the Messine Ridge, Flanders. |
| Date: | 04 04 1917 |
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| Description: | Speech of Robert M. La Follette in the Senate of Wisconsin regarding the war with Germany. |
| Date: | 11 11 1918 |
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| Description: | View of cars and people on the 200-300 blocks of Broadway looking east. |
| Date: | 09 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition grounds at Grant Park. |
| Date: | 09 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition at Grant Park taken from a window the International Harvester building on Michigan Avenue. A large sign... |
| Date: | 09 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition at Grant Park taken from a window the International Harvester building on Michigan Avenue. A large crow... |
| Date: | 09 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition at Grant Park taken from a window the International Harvester building on Michigan Avenue. A large crow... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The short turn army escort wagon was produced by International Harvester for the U.S. Army from 1917 to 1918 and was developed primarily along the lines of... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard of a girl seated on stones, with a boy resting his head on her lap. Burned-out buildings along a street can be seen behind them. The image... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three boys and a woman standing near several signs advertising a war garden. The signs read (from top to bottom): "Every Boy Can Feed a Soldier," "Register... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of children and women standing in what is probably a "war garden" in an urban area. Several commercial buildings are in the background, one painted... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Street scene from the film "The Birth of a Nation" featuring a battle between soldiers on foot and members of the Ku Klux Klan on horseback. The men on hor... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | United States Navy recruitment poster. Depicts a woman in a naval uniform. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | United States government bonds poster in the Third Liberty Loan series. Depicts a German soldier holding a firearm is standing above a crouching woman crad... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | United States government bonds poster in the Fourth Liberty Loan "B" series. Depicts in silhouette a German soldier running and dragging a girl against a b... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | United States government bonds poster in the Fourth Liberty Loan "B" series. "Buy Liberty Bonds. Fourth Liberty Loan." Depicts enemy aircraft bombing New Y... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Propaganda poster encouraging American involvement in World War I by depicting the Prussian army as enslaving Europe. Includes a map of Europe with the lan... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | French poster advertising loans for the war effort, sponsored by the Société Générale, a large French bank. Depicts a French soldier strangling the German ... |
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