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Homecoming Parade in Eau Claire

Date: 1918
Description: Uniformed soldiers marching in a World War I homecoming parade. Many men are carrying flags, and the street is heavily decorated with U.S. flags. The soldi...
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Victory Celebration

Date: 06 19 1919
Description: Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians and returned soldiers posing at the Victory celebration. Ira O. Isham, Chippewa interpreter, is in the foreground.
Poster

For Every Fighter a Woman Worker, Care For Her Through the YWCA

Date: 1918
Description: A female factory worker standing with her arms upraised, holding a miniature airplane in one hand and a bombshell in the other. In the background is the YW...
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War Departmental Trial

Date: 1918
Description: Captain Alexander E. Williams of the War Department testing the experimental truck that the Four Wheel Drive Company hoped to manufacture for the army. 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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Russian Prisoners

Date: 11 16 1918
Description: Released Russian prisoners near Stenay, France, shortly after the armistice.
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Returning Prisoners of War

Date: 11 25 1918
Description: Verdun-Etain Road, about two weeks after the armistice, showing returning prisoners of war. This photograph was probably taken by Victor Morris, in whose w...
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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.
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...
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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...
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Off to the Trenches

Date: 05 05 1918
Description: Send off for World War I recruits at the railroad station. The man leaning out of the train window is Ben Bergor, a professional magician and vaudeville pe...
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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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