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Photograph

Forest Middleton in Navy Uniform

Date: 1918
Description: Full-length portrait of Forest Middleton in a World War I era Navy uniform.
Poster

GEE!! I Wish I Were A Man. I'd Join The Navy. Be a Man and Do It

Date: 1917
Description: United States Navy recruitment poster. Depicts a woman in a naval uniform.
Photograph

Oscar Rennebohm in Navy Uniform

Date: 1917
Description: Portrait of young Oscar Rennebohm in his World War I Navy uniform. Rennebohm interrupted his already successful career as the owner of the Badger Pharmacy ...
Poster

Clear-the-Way!!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a naval gunner crew preparing a deck gun. Above them is Miss Columbia in a gauzy dress, with an American flag behind he...
Poster

All Together!

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of sailors from several Allied nations posing standing together. Each sailor has his country's flag beneath him; the count...
Photograph

Hospital Ships at Anchor

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian Hospital Ships on the Danube River supporting the invasion of Serbia.
Poster

I Want You For The Navy

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a young women in a naval dress uniform with her hands in her pockets, looking at the viewer. Poster text reads: "I W...
Poster

India. Shove Off. Go Somewhere, See Something, Learn Something.

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of three sailors riding an elephant, while sailors and Indians stand nearby. In the background is a battleship. Poster tex...
Poster

Follow The Boys In Blue for Home and Country

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a line of men in civilian clothing heading toward a battleship. In front of them are sailors in naval uniforms, who are...
Photograph

Graduation at Annapolis

Date: 04 17 1917
Description: Parade of U.S. Naval Academy officers in full dress uniform prior to the graduation of the Annapolis midshipmen, showing Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan...
Photograph

Hospital Ship

Date: 1914
Description: Barge on the Danube River fitted out as an Austrian Hospital Ship to support troops in the invasion of Serbia.
Poster

These Men Have Come Across

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of four sailors operating a ship's cannon. Two of the sailors are shirtless and are loading a shell into the breech. Anoth...
Photograph

Labor Day Parade

Date: 09 02 1918
Description: Labor Day parade on the Capitol Square, at the State Street corner, featuring a float shaped like a boat and carrying a naval gun barrel. Gun barrel and fl...
Photograph

United States Naval Training Camp

Date: 1918
Description: A view of three soldiers standing between rows of tents in a pine cove at a United States Naval Training Camp.
Photograph

United States Naval Training Camp

Date: 1918
Description: A view of uniforms hanging on a clothesline and cabins in a wooded area at the United States Naval Training Camp.
Photograph

United States Navy Camp Wissahickon

Date: 1918
Description: Two rows of sailors hold flags during a semaphore drill at the United States Navy Camp Wissahickon.
Photograph

United States Naval Training Camp

Date: 1918
Description: A view of sailors seated around a boxing ring, watching a match at a United States Naval Training Camp.
Poster

Enlist in the Navy

Date: 1917
Description: Recruitment poster for the United States Navy. Depicts Uncle Sam in a soldier's uniform pointing a gun at the German Kaiser, who is dressed in a crown and ...
Poster

South America. Come Along

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of two sailors enjoying themselves in a colorful (and apparently South American) village. One sailor is riding a llama, an...
Poster

The Navy and the Road to France

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of sailors smiling and waving their caps from the back of a truck marked U.S. Navy. Poster text reads: "THE NAVY AND THE ROAD...

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