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| Date: | 07 16 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the departure of the drafted soldiers at the Menomonie railroad station, with a crowd present to see them off. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman who worked at the Four Wheel Drive factory in Clintonville assembling trucks during World War I. She is wearing a special uniform fo... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | International Harvester branch house. Railroad tracks are near the building. A flag hangs in the window with a small cross shape, stars and "100%" printed ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of men, with a few women and children, gathered around a passenger train on a stop of the Union Pacific Nebraska Preparedness Special Campaign. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Large group of men, including railway workers, standing beside a locomotive. Original caption reads: "U.P. Nebraska Preparedness Special Campaign. Farm pre... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Men hold a sign that says "Car No. 1 Manure Secured by Y.M.C.A. for Eighth Ward War Gardens" while standing on top of a manure pile in a railroad yard. |
| Date: | 05 05 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Belgian refugees returning home to Antwerp after having fled to neutral Holland in the wake of the German invasion inn 1914. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A Serbian freight train with provisions that had been bombarded by the Austrians and later burned completely. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers repairing railroad tracks in Serbia during World War I. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian Soldiers detraining in the City of Ruma, located in the Province of Syrmien. These soldiers are massing for the invasion of Serbia in 1915. |
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| Description: | Requisitioned French oxen. Behind a gate in the background are railroad tracks, and on the far right is a railroad car. There is a steep, wooded hill in th... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people gathered on a road. There are railroad tracks alongside the road on the left. Our Bavarians in the Vosges. The welcome sutler wagon... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people gathered on a road. There are railroad tracks alongside the road on the left. Our Bavarians in the Vosges. The welcome sutler wagon... |
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| Description: | East Prussian Landsturm (reservists) marching. |
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| Description: | East Prussian refugees whose homes had been burned by Russian troops and who are living in railroad cars. |
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| Description: | East Prussian refugees whose homes had been burned by Russian troops and who are living in railroad cars. |
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