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Merry Christmas

Date: 1918
Description: Holiday card with a young girl looking at herself in the mirror. She is wearing a white dress with a green sash, white stockings, black shoes and a militar...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
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...
Photograph

Crowds Welcome Soldiers Home

Date: 05 21 1919
Description: Elevated view of street entertainment, with crowds, dancing and band concert to welcome home Wisconsin National Guard, 3d Regiment, Company H, after servic...
Postcard

4th Liberty Loan Parade

Date: 09 29 1918
Description: A group of women wearing white nurses' uniforms are marching up a street in a parade. Some are carrying American flags, others are carrying signs and banne...
Postcard

4th Liberty Loan Parade

Date: 09 28 1918
Description: View towards a group of women marching up a street in a parade. Some are wearing nurse's uniforms, some are waving flags, and many are holding signs that r...
Poster

Comité Américain Pour les Régions Dévastées de France

Date: 1919
Description: Poster with an illustration of a woman holding a baby in her arms being presented a house by a woman on the American Committee for the Devastated Regions o...
Photograph

Horse Soldier Reading News

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Description: Our Bavarians in the Vosges. A German soldier on horseback reading the newspaper with "Good News."
Photograph

"In The Reading Room"

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Description: In the reading room.
Photograph

Suffering of Belgian Refugees

Date: 1914
Description: Refugees trying to get warm by the fire in a makeshift tent city.
Photograph

Belgian Refugees Brewing Coffee in the Morning

Date: 1914
Description: Refugees making coffee in the refugee camp every morning, with their children sitting on their laps.
Photograph

Refugee Suffering

Date: 1914
Description: Refugees posing in front of their hut as they are preparing for another long day.
Photograph

Belgian Refugees

Date: 1914
Description: Belgian refugees hanging up their clothes after the daily washing.
Photograph

Parade Float

Date: 10 20 1915
Description: View of a group of mostly women riding on a horse-drawn parade float. The letters "OW" and "WC" are written with flowers on the horse blankets. Several wom...
Photograph

The Tree Swing

Date: 07 1917
Description: During Word War I, a group of soldiers training at Fort Sheridan visited the home of W.A. Holt's parents. The Holt family entertained the soldiers. Lillian...

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