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Convict Labor During World War I

Date: 09 1917
Description: South Carolina convicts building a road at Camp Wadsworth near Spartenberg in preparation for the camp's use as a National Guard training camp. The prisone...
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Regimental Street

Date: 1918
Description: A view down Regimental Street, a dirt road at Camp Logan, shows a man in a horse-drawn vehicle, with a fence on the right, and many identical buildings on ...
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Company E

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Description: Elevated view of the assembled military men of Company E and the military band on a town street. Other people stand and observe behind the formation of sol...
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Armistice Day Street Parade

Date: 11 11 1918
Description: Elevated view from building of informal Armistice Day street parade at an intersection of the downtown area. They are celebrating the conclusion of the fir...
Poster

Order Coal Now

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with an illustration of a team of two horses drawing a coal wagon, with a man in the back of the tipped wagon unloading coal with a shovel.
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First Day of Mobilization in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: Crowds in front of the Royal Palace in Berlin on the first day of mobilization, August 2, 1914, after Germany had made the decision to declare war.
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Ruined Church in Sabac, Serbia

Date: 1914
Description: A man is driving a team of two horses pulling a wagon on a street in front of a ruined church. Rubble is piled in front of another building on the right.
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Customs Building in Sabac

Date: 1914
Description: Slightly elevated view of soldiers and civilians near the damaged Customs Building. Broken furniture and rubble is piled in front of the building. There ar...
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Horse-Drawn Wagon Bringing Supplies to the Front

Date: 1914
Description: View from side of street towards a boy sitting on top of a pile of supplies driving a horse-drawn wagon heading to the Front. A person is watching from the...
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Horse-Drawn Wagon Bringing Supplies to the Front

Date: 1914
Description: Men are standing on a city street near wagons carrying supplies to the front.
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Serbian School Building Transformed into Telephone Station

Date: 1914
Description: A Serbian schoolhouse is being transformed into a telephone station during the war.
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Passport Control

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Description: Passport control on the Swiss border.
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Flour Supply

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Description: Flour supply wagons in a semi-desert region.
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Turkish Soldier

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Description: Turkish soldier in front of a carriage.
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Transporting Sheep

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Description: Transporting sheep near Jerusalem.
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Delivering Flour

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Description: Delivering flour to Berlin on barges.
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Delivering Bread

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Description: A common sight in wartime. Delivery of loaves of bread on large freight wagons.
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Delivering Vegetables

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Description: Deliveries of vegetables in Berlin.
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Bavarian Troops in the Vosges

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Description: Our Bavarians in the Vosges. A medical doctor in a carriage asking for directions.
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Bavarian Supply Wagons

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Description: Our Bavarians in the Vosges. The supply wagons on parade.

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