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Marinette County Insane Asylum

Date: 1917
Description: View down unpaved road toward the front of the asylum. Caption reads: "Marinette County Insane Asylum, Marinette, Wis."
Photograph

Children Dressed as Nurses

Date: 1917
Description: Outdoor portrait of three girls dressed as Red Cross nurses and a boy with a bandage on his head. One girl holds a U.S. flag.
Photograph

National Confederate Reunion

Date: 1917
Description: Three Confederate veterans sitting in a tent at the National Confederate Reunion.
Photograph

"Fit to Fight" Production Still

Date: 1917
Description: The actor Paul Kelly (playing Hank Simpson) sits next to director Edward H. Griffith in front of a cameraman and his Debrie motion picture camera in a prod...
Photograph

Mary Miles Minter scene still for "Annie for Spite."

Date: 1917
Description: Annie Johnson (played by Mary Miles Minter) is an orphan working in a shop. She has just hit her finger with a hammer while trying to repair a shoe in a sc...
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 ...
Poster

If you can't go across with a gun, come across with your part of the Red Cross war fund

Date: 1917
Description: Poster depicts wounded man in a sling gesturing to a red cross sign. Woman with a scarf on her head and small boy also shown. Broken wagon wheel, gun with ...
Poster

Warning! Consider The Possible Consequences If You Are Careless In Your Work

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration depicting an elevated view of a downed plane tail up and floating in the sea with survivors standing on top of it. A seaplane i...
Poster

Verdun, Road to Y.M.C.A. Canteen

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a road with a view through an archway towards a town, with rubble in the foreground on the left. There are pedestrians and a...

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