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"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 ...
Print

A Host of Good Wishes

Date: 1917
Description: A patriotic holiday card with the Statue of Liberty at the top with a wreath of holly behind her. She is standing on a red and blue bordered box that has t...
Photograph

Scene still of Fannie Ward in a mine

Date: 1917
Description: Betty Sherwin, played by Fannie Ward with her rock pick in hand, searches her inherited mine for gold in a scene still for the silent comedy "Betty to the ...
Photograph

Kathlyn Williams and Wallace Reid, forest scene still

Date: 1917
Description: In the forest, Stella Benton (played by Kathlyn Williams in a striped skirt and white blouse) talks to Jack Fyfe (played by Wallace Reid in outdoors clothe...
Photograph

Caterpillar Holt G-9 Tank

Date: 1917
Description: Prototype of a G-9 Caterpillar tank during a demonstration for members of the United States Army at the Los Angeles River. Two men stand on the left.
Photograph

Company "K" Fourth Wisconsin Infantry

Date: 1917
Description: Panoramic group portrait of Company "K" Fourth Wisconsin Infantry. In the background is a rock formation, one of several in the area, with trees. The soldi...
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...
Poster

Columbia Calls

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of Columbia, personification of the United States, standing on a globe and holding an American flag and a sword. A small p...
Poster

Knights of Columbus Three Million War Fund

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a priest holding a crucifix and looking skyward. The priest is surrounded by kneeling soldiers and sailors, and has his...
Photograph

Machine-gunners in Trench

Date: 1917
Description: Two soldiers wearing combat uniforms and holding machine guns are in a trench with barbed wire in the background. The men are in a combat zone in France.
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

All Slackers to the Front!

Date: 1917
Description: Hand-drawn poster. At the bottom is a soldier with a pack and a rifle on his back, carrying a US flag, embracing a woman. At the top is a general with the ...
Poster

L'emprunt des "dernieres cartouches." Francais, encore un effort!

Date: 1917
Description: Poster depicts a man and a girl in a trench handing a box of cartridges and a grenade up to an armed soldier on the front line. Text reads: "L'emprunt des ...
Poster

Vous aussi faites votre devoir

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration depicting a woman standing and holding a baby and a rifle. She is looking at a man plowing a field. A town is in the background...

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