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Can You Drive A Car? Will You Drive One In France? Immediate Service At The Front! American Field Service

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of Columbia, personification of the United States, standing at the rear of an ambulance. She is blocking a ragged skeleton (the...
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Captain Cassin Young

Date: 1942
Description: Image of Captain Cassin Young after having received the Medal of Honor. Captain Young received the medal for his actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor,...
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Soldier's Memorial, The War of 1917. Company A [First and Third Wisconsin], 128th Infantry, [National Guard], United States Army

Date: 1918
Description: Memorial poster for the members of Company A, First and Third Wisconsin, 128th Infantry. Poster includes a banner with the Statue of Liberty between a sold...
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Let Us Highly Resolve That These Dead Shall Not Have Died In Vain

Date: 1918
Description: Poster memorializing the American casualties of the sinking of the Tuscania. Included are four photographs from the funerary procession. These are t...
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Come On!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of an American soldier standing over the body of a German soldier. The soldier is facing the viewer, clutching his bayonet...
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Pvt. Treptow's Pledge

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a soldier, lying dead. Poster text reads: "Straight from the Trenches. Originated and produced for the Liberty Loan Com...
Photograph

Bronze Star Award Ceremony

Date: 09 28 1967
Description: The bronze star is awarded posthumously to Private First Class Thomas E. Broome for bravery in action in Vietnam. Broome's father Stanley Broome is accepti...
Poster

CISPES Poster

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Description: Poster opposing aid to the military government of El Salvador. It features an image of a blood red dollar sign, and a bound and blindfolded body lying in a...
Photograph

A Traveling Field Hospital

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Description: A traveling field hospital assisting soldiers on the battlefield. One man in the center is handing out canes.
Photograph

Soldier Praying Over a Mass Grave

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Description: German soldier kneeling on the ground at a mass grave site to say a prayer in honor of his fallen comrades.
Photograph

Wounded Soldiers in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: The first returned wounded soldiers in Berlin drinking coffee at tables outside of the hospital.
Photograph

Operating a Rotax X-Ray Machine

Date: 1914
Description: Two men are are standing outdoors and operating a Rotax X-Ray machine on the leg of a man lying on top of a box. Behind them is the side of a building.
Poster

The Disabled Man Can Win

Date: 1918
Description: A man in a military uniform is covering his mouth with one hand and holding a crutch with the other. Poster text reads: "The disabled man can win. Your loc...
Photograph

Lt. Harry Humphreys Entertaining Soldiers

Date: 10 08 1918
Description: Lieutenant Harry Humphreys, A.R.C. entertaining wounded men in Ward K of American Evacuation Hospital #114, Fleury-sur-Aire, France. Miss Grace Van Wormer,...
Photograph

Hospital in Ruins of Church

Date: 1918
Description: View of a hospital for U.S. wounded set up in the ruins of a church in Neuville, France.
Poster

If you can't go across with a gun, come across with your part of the Red Cross war fund

Date: 1917
Description: Poster depicts wounded man in a sling gesturing to a red cross sign. Woman with a scarf on her head and small boy also shown. Broken wagon wheel, gun with ...
Photograph

Advanced Dressing Station

Date: 09 01 1918
Description: Soldiers adorning the grave of a fallen comrade at the advanced dressing station, the farthest point to which ambulances would travel. A sign on an ambulan...
Poster

The Greatest Mother in the World

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a monumental woman cradling a wounded man. She is wearing a Red Cross hat, and the Red Cross insignia behind her on the...
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Fighting In France For Freedom! — Are You Helping at Home?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a man wearing a kilt with his arm in a sling. Soldiers are standing around him. There is a map and a broken window in t...
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Almanaque de la Guerra 1919

Date: 1919
Description: Poster depicting a soldier holding a rifle with a bayonet. A fallen soldier lies next to him. A plane flies above. Smoke rising in the distance and from so...

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