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Poster

Sow the Seeds of Victory!

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster promoting individuals to garden and can vegetables for the war effort. Produced by the National War Garden Commission.
Poster

Titan Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Advertising poster of World War I veteran returning home to family, farm and new Titan 10-20 tractor. The caption on the poster reads: "Look what dad bough...
Photograph

Farm Family in Living Room

Date: 1900
Description: A farm family posing in their living room. Sitting from left to right is John Dietrich (1874-1947), Grace Bowman (1879-1964), and Mrs. Lizzie Macke Dietric...
Photograph

Harrison Street Community Garden

Date: 04 1917
Description: Children working in an urban community garden. Original caption reads: "Scene in Harrison Street Community Garden showing each plot staked off. Up to 1917 ...
Photograph

Howard Miner Receiving Poppy

Date: 09 20 1934
Description: Howard Miner, disabled World War I veteran, receiving Forget-me-not flower from Florence Palz, ladies auxiliary chairman, marking the opening of the forget...
Photograph

Women Volunteering for World War I Work

Date: 1917
Description: Volunteers signing up at the Red Cross office in New York to do hospital or other volunteer work. The woman in the white smock and dark hat is Mrs. Belmont...
Photograph

World War I War Work

Date: 1917
Description: Red Cross volunteers preparing bandages at a Red Cross office in New York City. The woman standing on the right, who is supervising the work, is Mrs. Belmo...
Photograph

Mrs. Herman P. Clark and Infant Son

Date: 02 10 1945
Description: Mrs. Herman Paul Clark (Hazel Margaret Smith) and her infant son, Herman D. Clark. Her husband is in the United States Army, World War II.
Postcard

World War I Soldier and Woman

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a woman seated in a chair, and a soldier dressed in a First World War uniform sitting on the arm of the chair. They are posi...
Photograph

World War I Mess Hall

Date: 04 1918
Description: Company D Mess Hall at Camp Curtis.
Photograph

Rolling Kitchen in France

Date: 09 16 1918
Description: Food being prepared on a moving kitchen for soldiers fighting in Sainte-Mihiel, France.
Photograph

Camp Travis

Date: 1918
Description: A recruit receives inoculations from two men on the left at Camp Travis, named in 1917 after William B. Travis.
Photograph

Camp Travis

Date: 1918
Description: A view of a motor truck train at Camp Travis, named in 1917. The driver sits in the first truck while another man stands beside him.
Photograph

Company E

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Description: Elevated view of the assembled military men of Company E and the military band on a town street. Other people stand and observe behind the formation of sol...
Photograph

Group Gathered at 4-H Lecture

Date: 1917
Description: Group of women gathered at a church for a lecture regarding 4-H Clubs. The lecture was held in conjunction with the Union Pacific Nebraska Farm Preparednes...
Print

Xmas * Fatherless Children of France * 1917

Date: 1917
Description: Holiday card of three French orphan children, two boys and a girl, herding three geese. The youngest boy holds a switch. A meadow, trees and a house are vi...
Postcard

Avec Vous Place Dans Votre Coeur Pour Nous?

Date: 1918
Description: Holiday postcard of a girl seated on stones, with a boy resting his head on her lap. Burned-out buildings along a street can be seen behind them. The image...
Print

Joyeux Noel!

Date: 1918
Description: Holiday card with a soldier walking while carrying a child who is waving an American flag. The soldier is wearing a uniform and a campaign hat. Two childre...
Photograph

Group of Children in Garden

Date: 1918
Description: A group of children and women standing in what is probably a "war garden" in an urban area. Several commercial buildings are in the background, one painted...
Photograph

Inspection of Ambulance Company No 1

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Description: Inspection of Ambulance Company No 1, of which Alvin Steinkopf of Milwaukee was a member, in training at Camp Macarthur. It is not clear which arrow points...

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