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Soldiers in WWI

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

Hospital in Ruins of Church

Date: 1918
Description: View of a hospital for U.S. wounded set up in the ruins of a church in Neuville, France.
Photograph

World War I Soldier

Date: 
Description: Gus Sharlow, a Native American Indian World War I soldier from Hayward, Wisconsin.
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Eating at the Front

Date: 1918
Description: Infantry men receiving food in outpost, Front Line on Piave Front, Italy.
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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

Yours not to do and die — yours but to go and Buy Victory Bonds 1918

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicting soldiers carrying rifles and bayonets leaning forward like they're running to battle. Text reads: "Yours not to do and die — yours but to ...
Photograph

Sunday Military Church Service in South Tyrol

Date: 1914
Description: Sunday mass for Austrian soldiers, members of a "Tiroler Standschützen" unit, in South Tyrol during World War I.
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Soldiers Loading Ammunition

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are loading ammunition onto a wagon for transport to the front in Serbia during World War I.
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Slaughtering on Serbian Farmstead

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers slaughtering on a Serbian farm during World War I.
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Soldiers Crossing a Floating Bridge over the Save River

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian cavalrymen crossing a floating bridge over the Save River during World War I.
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Different Nationalities Around the Campfire

Date: 1914
Description: Slovenian and Croatian civilians and Austrian soldiers are sitting around a campfire during World War I.
Photograph

Training Horses on a Serbian Farmstead

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian Soldiers are training horses on a Serbian farm during World War I.
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Polish Legion Soldiers at Rest

Date: 
Description: Polish Legion soldiers.
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...
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.
Print

Delegation of War Widow

Date: 1916
Description: Delegation of war-widow, war-orphans, and maimed war-heroes at the White House, Washington, D.C., appealing to President Wilson for an "embargo on all war ...
Poster

Your War Savings Pledge

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicts Uncle Sam with his arms around a soldier and a man in a suit. The man in the suit is holding a piece of paper labelled W.S.S. for War-saving...
Poster

"Victory is a Question of Stamina"

Date: 1917
Description: World War I United States Food Administration poster showing two soldiers in full gear running through snow with bayonets drawn. Text reads, "Victory is a ...

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