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Flying School

Date: 05 1917
Description: A ground school conducted by Princeton University for students who wished to enlist in the Army Air Service. During World War I most American aviators were...
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Camp Custer, 85th Division Field Meeting

Date: 10 1917
Description: Panoramic view of the 8th Division Field Meeting at Camp Custer. Hundreds of soldiers in overcoats and hats with a wooden wall used for training visible in...
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Advanced Trench Digging

Date: 07 17 1917
Description: ROTC engineers, probably at Fort Sheridan, in training for trench construction. Victor Morris of Milwaukee, in whose wartime album this photograph appears,...
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World War I Training Camp

Date: 1918
Description: Colonel Joseph W. Jackson, formerly of Madison, Wisconsin, and Williston, North Dakota, salutes a woman in civilian dress at Camp Lewis. Jackson was an of...
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Cowboy Soldiers

Date: 1918
Description: Members of the U.S. Remount Service, all former cowboys, in training at Camp Lewis.
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Remount Service Pack Train

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of Camp Lewis, showing a pack train fitted out for a march.
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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.
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Camp Upton

Date: 1918
Description: An informal group portrait of soldiers standing near their barracks. On the right, a soldier holds a dog. The barracks and other military buildings stand i...
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Camp Bowie

Date: 1918
Description: A view of four men standing near a row of Army baking ovens at Camp Bowie, built in 1917.
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Camp Travis

Date: 1918
Description: A view of men baking bread in a number of outdoor ovens at Camp Travis, named in 1917. On the right, men stand by a table with many loaves of bread, and me...
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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.
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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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World War I Ambulance Man

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Description: Alvin J. Steinkopf, a member of Ambulance Company No. 125. A reporter for the "Evening Wisconsin," Steinkopf wrote stories about his experiences for that n...
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World War I Ambulance Company

Date: 1917
Description: Panoramic group portrait of the Wisconsin National Guard Ambulance Company No. 1 at Camp Douglas, together with its ambulances and motorcycles with sidecar...
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William Rubin and Son

Date: 1918
Description: William Rubin, Wisconsin political figure and labor leader, in civilian clothes, visiting his son Abner, in military uniform, at a military camp.
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French PoW's at Zossen

Date: 1914
Description: A group of French PoW's at the camp in Zossen under the direction of their own non-commissioned officers.
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Training Before Mobilizing

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Description: Mobilization. Heading for the training ground.
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Training Recruits

Date: 1914
Description: Wounded German officer training recruits who are still in civilian clothing.
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Volunteer Unit

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Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
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Volunteer Unit

Date: 1914
Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.

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