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Food for the Boys in France

Date: 1918
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.
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Women at War

Date: 05 25 1917
Description: A World War I female factory worker dressed in a uniform repairing her own machinery.
Poster

Sow the Seeds of Victory!

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster promoting individuals to garden and can vegetables for the war effort. Produced by the National War Garden Commission.
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Field Battery Telephone

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian field artillery battery telephone operator.
Poster

Is Your Name on the Honor Roll?

Date: 1918
Description: Banner poster, with text that reads: "Is YOUR Name on the Honor Roll? Fourth Liberty Loan."
Poster

"V"

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a blue "V," outlined in white, on a red background, with a blue and white border.
Poster

Mit ihm

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Description: Two hands grasping in foreground. Image of in background Von Hindenburg. Text reads "Mit ihm."
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Soldiers in WWI

Date: 1918
Description: African American soldiers during World War I playing trombone music.
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Transporting Austrian Aircraft

Date: 1914
Description: Wagons transporting an Austrian aircraft through the mud during World War I.
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New Army Recruits

Date: 09 13 1917
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...
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Philip La Follette in the Army

Date: 1918
Description: Philip La Follette (right), doing paperwork while in the Army during the First World War, 1918. He was a Second Lieutenant infantry instructor in Oklahoma.
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Austrian Field Artillery and Crew

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers preparing a field gun for firing.
Poster

The World Cannot Live Half Slave, Half Free

Date: 1918
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...
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Treasure and Trinket Fund

Date: 01 1918
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...
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Ortelsburg Ruins

Date: 
Description: Damaged church.
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Polish Legion Soldiers at Rest

Date: 
Description: Polish Legion soldiers.
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Lookout

Date: 
Description: Airplane in sight.
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Portrait of C. L. (Neal) Harrington

Date: 1918
Description: Cornelius L. (Neal) Harrington in a formal World War I portrait.
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Rotax Portable X-Ray Apparatus

Date: 1914
Description: Advertisement of a 1914 portable X-Ray machine and its parts.
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Downed German Plane

Date: 10 04 1918
Description: German plane shot down between Montfaucon and Cierges, France.

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