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Soldiers Crossing the Floating Bridge over the Save River

Date: 1914
Description: Soldiers crossing the floating war bridge over the Save River during World War I.
Poster

Keep 'Em Smiling Help War Camp Community Service

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring three smiling men: a soldier, an officer, and a sailor. The officer is in the middle with his arms around the other two, and the War Camp ...
Photograph

War Volunteer Unit in Training

Date: 1914
Description: Officers training a Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in Schmargendorf near Berlin.
Poster

Pour Le Suprême Effort. Emprunt National. Société Générale

Date: 1918
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 ...
Photograph

Volunteer Unit

Date: 
Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
Photograph

Austrian Soldiers on a Railroad Car

Date: 
Description: Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina during the war.
Photograph

Volunteer Unit

Date: 1914
Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
Poster

Back The Boys, Do it Now

Date: 1918
Description: Poster promoting a war fund drive in Marathon County, bordered by American flags and logos for the "Marathon County War Fund, Back the Boys," featuring an ...
Photograph

Soldiers Repairing Railroad Tracks

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers repairing railroad tracks in Serbia during World War I.
Photograph

Volunteer Unit

Date: 
Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
Photograph

World War I Soldier

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Description: Gus Sharlow, a Native American Indian World War I soldier from Hayward, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Back Our Girls Over There

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring a woman in a navy blue uniform working at a switchboard that has the symbol of the Y.W.C.A abpve it. Outside the window behind...
Poster

The Spirit of War Camp Community Service

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of an older woman sitting at a table holding a pen and paper and surrounded by soldiers and sailors. The table is covered ...
Photograph

Soldiers in WWI

Date: 1918
Description: African American soldiers during World War I playing trombone music.
Poster

Pour le triomphe souscrivez à l'emprunt national

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with an illustration of troops of World War I soldiers marching through the Arc de Triomphe. Soldiers from previous wars are marching down on a clou...
Poster

Workers Lend Your Strength to the Red Triangle

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring an illustration of an older man in a YMCA uniform next to a mason lifting a stone, the symbol of a triangle with YMCA, and a s...
Photograph

Eduard Frankl Astride a Camel

Date: 
Description: Mr. Frankl as a war photographer with the Turkish Army.
Photograph

Clearing Trenches

Date: 06 1917
Description: British troops clear German trenches that were destroyed in battle in the Messine Ridge, Flanders.
Photograph

Firing Line

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Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
Photograph

Released Austrian POW's

Date: 01 28
Description: This is how our soldiers looked when released after suffering 11 months of deprivations as prisoners of war. Photograph taken on January 28th (1916) in Cet...

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