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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
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Soldiers in WWI
1918
African American soldiers during World War I playing trombone music.
African American Soldiers
June 1918
Gravel screening and separating plant of the 310th Engineers in operation on a road near Camp Custer. All of the soldiers at work on this road construction drill are African Americans.
Black Soldiers' Chow Line
1918
Chow line for members of the 15th Regiment (Colored) of the New York National Guard.
Zincographic Equipment
1918
Army engineers at Camp Curtiss, demonstrating zincographic equipment. Zincography was a form of printing for large maps using zinc plates.
Celebrating the Armistice
November 14, 1918
Members of the 134th Infantry quartette and band entertain the stevedores on the dock at Marseille, France, three days after the end of the war. Men standing near a sign that reads "Champions SOS".
African American Troops Return Home
February 10, 1919
Members of the 15th Regiment (Colored) of the New York National Guard arrive home as heroes. They earned the distinction of being the only regiment to never have a man captured or lose a foot of gr...
