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Hotel de Nemours

Date: 08 28 1944
Description: View across cobblestone street of a military jeep (marked "PRESS") is parked in front of the Hotel de Nemours, Rennes, France. Driving the jeep is Corporal...
Photograph

Luncheon for Returning Soldiers

Date: 1918
Description: Scene in a small city park showing a group of local women serving luncheon to soldiers recently returned from service in the first World War. Very possibly...
Poster

Halt the Hun!

Date: 1918
Description: United States government bonds poster in the Third Liberty Loan series. Depicts a German soldier holding a firearm is standing above a crouching woman crad...
Poster

Remember Belgium. Buy Bonds. Fourth Liberty Loan

Date: 1918
Description: United States government bonds poster in the Fourth Liberty Loan "B" series. Depicts in silhouette a German soldier running and dragging a girl against a b...
Poster

Be Ready! Join Now!

Date: 1915
Description: British recruitment poster commissioned by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London. Depicts a silhouette of a British soldier holding a rifle.
Poster

Beat Back The Hun with Liberty Bonds

Date: 1918
Description: United States Department of the Treasury Liberty bonds poster. Depicts a giant German soldier, with blood on his hands and rifle bayonet, leaning over the ...
Poster

Pour Le Suprême Effort. Emprunt National. Société Générale

Date: 1918
Description: French poster advertising loans for the war effort, sponsored by the Société Générale, a large French bank. Depicts a French soldier strangling the German ...
Poster

Souvenez-Vous!

Date: 10 1917
Description: Poster commissioned by the Rememberance League for an October, 1917, exhibition on German war crimes in France. Poster image shows a drawing of a German so...
Photograph

Camp Grant

Date: 1918
Description: Soldiers of Company I, Baraboo, Wisconsin, pose with their rifles at Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois. There are tents behind them and a wooded area in t...
Photograph

Allied Soldiers

Date: 1916
Description: Allied soldiers gathered near an entrance to an unknown establishment. A sign in French above the entrance is not legible, but there is an image of a crick...
Postcard

Four Wheel Drive

Date: 1914
Description: Slightly elevated view of the United States Military surveying four wheel drive (FWD) trucks, manufactured in Clintonvlle, carrying supply boxes. Caption r...
Postcard

Four Wheel Drive Doing Its Bit

Date: 1918
Description: Postcard with two photographs of four wheel drive (F.W.D.) trucks, which were manufactured in Clintonville, Wisconsin. They are carrying supplies and troop...
Photograph

Trench Warfare

Date: 1917
Description: Soldiers with their weapons in a trench.
Photograph

Man and Horse Wearing Gas Masks

Date: 10 27 1918
Description: Original caption reads, "Showing contrast in mask used for man and horse. The fact that horse never breathes thru his mouth makes a gas mask a simple objec...
Photograph

Carrier Pigeon with Message

Date: 11 05 1918
Description: A soldier in uniform holds a pigeon with a message on its leg at the 4th Corps Pigeon Loft, Essey, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
Manuscript

339th Regimental Combat Team New Year's Day Menu

Date: 01 01 1919
Description: Front and back sides of a one-page menu in the "Officers Mess" with an illustration of two soldiers in profile marching along a road towards a castle on th...
Photograph

Company "C"

Date: 1917
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...
Photograph

Company "K" Fourth Wisconsin Infantry

Date: 1917
Description: Panoramic group portrait of Company "K" Fourth Wisconsin Infantry. In the background is a rock formation, one of several in the area, with trees. The soldi...
Photograph

Man Holding Homing Pigeon

Date: 02 18 1919
Description: Outdoor photograph of a man holding a military homing pigeon in on hand, and a rolled up piece of paper in the other. There is a group of pigeons inside a ...
Photograph

Community Fair Address

Date: 09 19 1918
Description: Elevated view of a soldier with his arm in a sling standing on the back of a truck, addressing a crowd. Behind him are the shop windows for First National ...

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