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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | World War I soldiers standing in front and on the back of an International truck with a recruiting poster. |
| Date: | 04 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Navy recruits at Newport, boarding a train destined for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The printed caption indicates that they had had only eight... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A recruit receives inoculations from two men on the left at Camp Travis, named in 1917 after William B. Travis. |
| 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Group of men from Washington County posed with flags leaving for Camp Grant and Army training for service in the first World War. |
| Date: | 05 06 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of 32 draftees pose on the steps of the Sauk County Courthouse before leaving Baraboo for Columbus Barracks in Ohio. There are paper tags attached ... |
| Date: | 05 27 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of more than 70 draftees poses on the steps of the Sauk County Courthouse on the day they left Baraboo for Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois. Most... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Men from Company "C" are lined up in a double row on a dirt town street. A soldier in uniform stands at the head of the line. In front are Ed Fryk (2nd fro... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | German propaganda photograph of a French PoW from West Africa taken at a military hospital in Brussels. The original German caption claimed that during his... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | German Army recruits, still in civilian clothing, taking a meal break. |
| Date: | 05 28 1917 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of a woman wearing a uniform and holding a rifle. Her helmet has a pin with the caduceus, as was used on the United States Army Medical D... |
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