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Arras

Date: 1920
Description: Poster with an illustration depicting the war-damaged town of Arras, with ruins of large buildings. Text reads: "Arras. Edité par la Compagnie du Chemin de...
Poster

C.F. Childs and Company Liberty Bonds

Date: 1923
Description: Poster with illustrations of stamps promoting liberty bonds. A letterhead-style box in the middle gives the dates of the start of the war, the armistice, a...
Photograph

Sharpshooters of the Polish Legion

Date: 1914
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...
Poster

Food is Ammunition — Don't waste it

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with an illustration of soldiers silhouetted against a colorful sky riding on horseback and carrying an American flag. In the foreground is a basket...
Poster

Fight or Buy Bonds

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of Miss Columbia wearing a gauzy dress holding an American flag. Behind her American soldiers are charging. Poster text re...
Poster

Must Children Die and Mothers Plead in Vain?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a mother with two young children, reaching out her arm. Poster text reads: "Must Children Die And Mothers Plead In Vain...
Photograph

Corsage Pinned to Soldier

Date: 1915
Description: Woman pinning corsage on the lapel of a wounded Austrian soldier.
Photograph

Wounded Austrian Soldiers in Vienna

Date: 1915
Description: Wounded Austrian soldiers lounge on the ground in the "Wiener Rotunde."
Poster

Fond du Lac County. April 8th, 1918. Roll Of Honor

Date: 1918
Description: Honor roll poster for service members from Fond du Lac county. Includes an American flag. In addition to the list of names, poster text reads: "Fond du Lac...
Poster

Save Clothes For Belgian Children

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a young boy and girl standing and leaning on each other. They are both wearing ragged clothing, and the girl is barefoo...
Poster

Charity Bazaar for the Benefit of War Sufferers

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a house burning in the background and a silhouette of a person with two children at their side in the foreground. Text ...
Poster

Spring Fantasie

Date: 1918
Description: Handmade poster featuring a drawing of a person wearing a large flower on top of their head, and a dress made of grass. The person is blowing through the s...
Poster

Join American Red Cross Poster

Date: 1917
Description: World War I poster depicting a young nurse extending out her right hand. In the background, wolves are approaching the front porch of a house, and howling ...
Photograph

Sandbags for the Trenches

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are preparing sandbags for the building bunkers and trenches in Serbia.
Photograph

Austrian Soldiers Shoot at an Airplane

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers shooting at an airplane somewhere in Galicia.
Photograph

Hotel Lavarone

Date: 1915
Description: View of the Hotel Lavarone in the town of Lavarone, South Tyrol.
Photograph

Fortifying an Embarkment

Date: 1915
Description: Soldiers fortifying an embankment on the southwest battlefront in South Tyrol.
Photograph

View of Trient (Trento) in September 1915

Date: 09 1915
Description: Scenic view of Trient from above.
Photograph

World War I Navy Recruits

Date: 04 1917
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...
Photograph

World War I Flying Boat

Date: 05 1917
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...

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