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In Bukowina

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Description: Austrian soldiers and civilian youth.
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Belgian Refugees

Date: 1914
Description: Belgian refugees hanging up their clothes after the daily washing.
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Children in Bukowina

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Description: Children mingling in the town square.
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Belgian Refugees

Date: 1914
Description: Belgian refugee children posing together for the camera on the sidewalk.
Poster

Farm for Freedom

Date: 1917
Description: Poster text reads: "Farm for Freedom. Young Men of America, Between sixteen and twenty-one years, Earn a Badge of Honor. Join the United States Boy's Worki...
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Youth Machine Gun Training

Date: 07 1917
Description: Machine gun training on the grounds of Peekskill Military Academy in New York during World War I. The training was part of a state-sponsored military inst...
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Wagon Shelter for Belgian Refugee Family

Date: 1914
Description: A wagon is serving as an emergency shelter for a refugee family.
Poster

Boys And Girls! You Can Help Your Uncle Sam Win The War

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicts Uncles Sam holding a piece of paper labelled W.S.S. [War Savings Stamps]. A young woman is sitting on his lap, and a young man is looking at...
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Boys And Girls! You Can Help Your Uncle Sam Win The War

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with an illustration featuring Uncle Sam holding a piece of paper labelled W.S.S. [War Savings Stamps]. A young woman is sitting on his arm, and a y...
Poster

Fight World Famine

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a boy battling a kettle of vultures. The boy is holding a pitchfork in one hand and making a fist with the other. Poste...
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East Prussian Refugees

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Description: East Prussian refugees whose homes had been burned by Russian troops and who are living in railroad cars.
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Children in Bukowina

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Description: Children posing for a group portrait sitting outdoors on a beam supported by blocks of stone.
Poster

Lest We Perish

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a young woman whose headscarf has slipped down onto her shoulders, holding out her hands to the viewer. Poster text rea...
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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.
Poster

Farm to Win "Over There"

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a boy operating a plow, in silhouette. In the background, soldiers are operating an artillery piece among the rubble of...
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Weekly Food Baskets for Needy Children in Berlin

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Description: Instead of free meals, needy children receive a basket weekly with enough food to last for a week.
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American Military Attachés at the Austro-Hungarian Headquarters

Date: 1915
Description: U.S. Army officers — Captain McIntire and Major Ford. Military attachés from neutral countries, such as the United States, would have received permission t...
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Riverside High Boys Send Reading Materials

Date: 1918
Description: Several boys are posing with stacks of bound periodicals. An American flag is in the foreground. Caption reads: "Boys of Riverside High School, Milwaukee, ...
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Farm Family in Living Room

Date: 1900
Description: A farm family posing in their living room. Sitting from left to right is John Dietrich (1874-1947), Grace Bowman (1879-1964), and Mrs. Lizzie Macke Dietric...
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Horse-Drawn Wagon Bringing Supplies to the Front

Date: 1914
Description: View from side of street towards a boy sitting on top of a pile of supplies driving a horse-drawn wagon heading to the Front. A person is watching from the...

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