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Photograph

Alfred Lawson and Group with Lawson M.T.2

Date: 1917
Description: Alfred Lawson and two men pose with a Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2), which is parked outside a hangar. Lawson is wearing a leather flight suit and partia...
Photograph

Alfred Lawson and Group in Tractor Biplane

Date: 1917
Description: Alfred Lawson is seated in the rear compartment of a Lawson Tractor Biplane, which is parked in a field. A man in a suit is seated in the front compartment...
Photograph

Lawson Tractor Biplane with Crew

Date: 1917
Description: Rear view of a Lawson Tractor Biplane, which is parked in a field. The flight crew stands and sits to the right of the plane. Alfred Lawson is in the cente...
Photograph

Alfred Lawson in Tractor Biplane

Date: 1917
Description: Alfred Lawson is seated in the rear compartment of a Lawson Tractor Biplane. The front compartment passenger is barely visible. A farm is in the distance.
Book or Pamphlet

It's a Lawson, Page Three

Date: 1917
Description: Third page of a four-page pamphlet advertising the Lawson Aircraft Corporation. Includes an image of the Lawson Military Tractor Biplane (M.T. One) flying,...
Book or Pamphlet

The Roots of the Oak, Page Two

Date: 1917
Description: Second page of a four-page pamphlet advertising the Lawson Aircraft Corporation. Includes a biography of Alfred Lawson and a photograph of him.
Historical Object

Fargo Ancestors

Date: 1917
Description: An album page with mounted copies of six photographic portraits of three generations of the Fargo family. They include Robert Fargo (1766(?)-1849), his son...
Historical Object

Album Page

Date: 1917
Description: An album page, decorated with hand-painted sweet pea flowers, includes six mounted photographic prints. Enoch B. Fargo (1821-1892), is at top left, and his...
Photograph

"Hashimura Togo"

Date: 1917
Description: Hashimura Togo (Sessue Hayakawa) is leaning towards Corinne Reynolds (Florence Vidor) who is sitting, in a scene from the 1917 film "Hashimura Togo." She i...
Photograph

Cowboys of Manchuria and Siberia

Date: 1917
Description: Five men posing with horses. Caption reads: "Cowboys of Manchuria & Siberia."
Poster

Kosciuszko, Pulawski, walczyli o wolnosc w Ameryce

Date: 1917
Description: Poster in Polish with an illustration of Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish military leader who fought with the Americans during the Revolutionary War. This...
Poster

Blood or Bread

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a man holding up a wounded soldier, with an artillery cannon in the background. Text reads: "Blood or Bread. Others are giv...
Poster

War Rages in France

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of refugees moving along a ruined street; one woman is wearing a nun's habit. Text reads: "They cannot fight & raise food at th...
Poster

Sir — don't waste

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a man eating at a table in a restaurant and smoking a cigar. Food is still on the plates in front of him. Male waiters in th...
Poster

Teamwork Wins

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of several men working in a shipyard. In the background is an American flag. The text at the bottom reads: "United States Ship...
Poster

Are You Working with Schwab?

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of Charles Schwab overseeing men who are working in a shipyard. Text reads: "Charles M. Schwab, Director General of the Emerg...
Poster

Make Every Minute Count for Pershing

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a man riveting a ship in a shipyard. Text at bottom reads: "United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation."
Poster

Join the Air Service and Serve in France. Do It Now

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of an airplane with French markings flying in the sky. Two soldiers are in the foreground, one with binoculars, are looking off...
Poster

Over There!

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a mechanic standing and waving to a silhouette of an airplane taking off; in the background several more silhouetted airplan...
Poster

Transport Americain. American Field Service

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a French ambulance driving at night. The driver is wearing a helmet, and the man standing on the side of the truck is l...

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