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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I poster featuring a young woman sitting in a chair knitting. The symbol of the Red Cross is in the upper left corner. The poster reads: "You can... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster identifying substitute foods for civilians to use, to help the war effort. Substitutes listed are: 1. Wheat - use more corn 2. Meat - use more fish ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster in Polish with an illustration of Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish military leader who fought with the Americans during the Revolutionary War. This... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration imitating Archibald Willard's "The Spirit of '76," here with the three men carrying food. Text reads: "The World Cry, Food, Kee... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Charcoal drawing illustration of a soldier in a trench, holding a cup. Other soldiers are behind him. Text reads: "Feed a Fighter. Eat only what you need —... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | The first returned wounded soldiers in Berlin drinking coffee at tables outside of the hospital. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers are sitting on stools outdoors peeling potatoes near a large pot, with a cover resting in front on the ground. Another man is standing on the ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Two men in a muddy yard are bending over and holding onto a large pot while draining water out of it into a trench in the ground. Behind them is a bicycle ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Preparing mid-day meals for troops on a Serbian farmstead. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Soldiers are standing around while a cook is working at the outdoor field kitchen on the front during World War I. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Soldiers relaxing and eating around a man cooking over an outdoor fire. |
| Date: | 05 1918 |
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| Description: | An exhibit inside a building displaying examples of how to make meals for "a patriot's table," as well as the relative value of different foods. A handmade... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Text poster (typed and handwritten) reads: "Women's Institute Canning and Preserving. Let Nothing Go to Waste. Save Vegetables, Fruits and Left-Overs. Subj... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a woman standing and holding in her arms a small child wearing a nightgown. They are next to a bed with a doll resting on th... |
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| Description: | French prisoners in the German PoW camp in Zossen, Prussia, with steaming bowls of soup. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Unloading sacks of flour from train cars for an Austrian divisional field bakery. |
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| Description: | "A rip in the trousers is quickly repaired." |
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