Date: | 07 1917 |
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Description: | A factory worker painting the United States insignia on a bi-plane wing. |
Date: | 08 1917 |
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Description: | A visiting French officer instructs novice American pilots at Camp Mineola on the conditions that they can expect to find at the front. |
Date: | 08 1917 |
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Description: | A training ascension of a captive observation balloon. During their training, soldiers learned how to correctly estimate the effectiveness of artillery on ... |
Date: | 05 1917 |
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Description: | A ground school conducted by Princeton University for students who wished to enlist in the Army Air Service. During World War I most American aviators were... |
Date: | 09 1917 |
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Description: | Khaki-covered Bibles being made by the American Bible Society for American fighters during World War I. The goal was one million testaments. All the worker... |
Date: | 09 1917 |
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Description: | South Carolina convicts building a road at Camp Wadsworth near Spartenberg in preparation for the camp's use as a National Guard training camp. The prisone... |
Date: | 08 1917 |
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Description: | World War I recruits scramble over an obstacle during their training, while others watch in the background. |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Volunteers signing up at the Red Cross office in New York to do hospital or other volunteer work. The woman in the white smock and dark hat is Mrs. Belmont... |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Red Cross volunteers preparing bandages at a Red Cross office in New York City. The woman standing on the right, who is supervising the work, is Mrs. Belmo... |
Date: | 04 1917 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Navy recruits at Newport, boarding a train destined for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The printed caption indicates that they had had only eight... |
Date: | 05 23 1917 |
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Description: | Unnaturalized Germans registering as enemy aliens at the New York Federal Building. Registration was necessary for them to be able to travel within the va... |
Date: | 01 1918 |
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Description: | Mrs. William Bartlett of the Aviation Committee of the National Special Aid Society, examines metal objects donated by members to be sold to benefit Americ... |
Date: | 05 1917 |
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Description: | This press photograph illustrates what was then the most recent development in the Curtiss Flying boats at the Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station at Newpo... |
Date: | 09 13 1917 |
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Description: | New army recruits still in their civilian clothes arriving at an unidentified World War I training camp. Many barracks, some still under construction, are... |
Date: | 07 30 1917 |
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Description: | For these World War I recruits seen at an unidentified training camp on Long Island, the enemy was not the Germans, but ferocious "Jersey mosquitos" and th... |
Date: | 05 25 1917 |
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Description: | A World War I female factory worker dressed in a uniform repairing her own machinery. |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | A convention of Russian immigrants at Beethoven Hall in New York City. The newspaper caption for this photograph describes the Bolshevik communist faction... |
Date: | 04 12 1916 |
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Description: | American soldiers unpacking supplies at the Casas Grande, Mexico, the field headquarters of the military force sent to capture Pancho Villa. The supplies w... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | An unidentified East Coast warehouse full of food and supplies ready for shipment to the U.S. soldiers in France during World War I. |
Date: | 08 01 1917 |
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Description: | National Guard troops unloading their supplies from New York Central railroad cars into a transport wagon to be taken to camp. |
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