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Loading an Ambulance

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Description: Medical personnel load a wounded Prussian into an ambulance. Captioned: "A wounded Prussian being loaded in my car for evacuation. He was shot just under h...
Photograph

The Kaiser, Hindenburg, and Ludendorff planning "The Final Drive"

Date: 1916
Description: Kaiser Wilhelm II with Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, commanders on the World War I western front, planning military strategy.
Photograph

Registration of Enemy Aliens

Date: 05 23 1917
Description: Unnaturalized Germans registering as enemy aliens at the New York Federal Building. Registration was necessary for them to be able to travel within the va...
Map or Atlas

Sedition Map

Date: 1918
Description: Removed from the "New York Sun," March 21, 1918. Shows "where disloyalty in Wisconsin chiefly centres." Shaded areas indicate regions of suspected pro-Germ...
Photograph

Retreating Germans

Date: 11 20 1918
Description: Victor Morris took this photograph of German troops leaving Ham, a French village on the Somme, nine days after the armistice. In accompanying notes, Morri...
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

Prince Eitel's Trench

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: A trench dedicated to Prince Eitel of Prussia who was the son of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany.
Poster

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...
Poster

Hun Or Home

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a young woman clutching an infant and turning to look at a German soldier, who is rising out of the shadows. The soldie...
Photograph

Downed German Plane

Date: 10 04 1918
Description: German plane shot down between Montfaucon and Cierges, France.
Poster

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...
Poster

Pour la France Versez Votre or L'Or Combat Pour La Victoire

Date: 1915
Description: Poster with an illustration of a large gold French coin, with the image French rooster and the words: "Liberte • Egalite • Fraternite 1915," crushing a Ger...
Photograph

Wounded on a Train

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Description: Wounded German soldier leaning out a train window reaching for a drink being held up by an Austrian colleague standing on the ground near the railroad car.
Photograph

Buying Refreshments from a Young Girl

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Description: German soldiers standing on a platform near a stopped troop train buying refreshments from a young girl.
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Medical Unit

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Description: German medical unit column passing through a village. Snow-covered mountains are in the background.
Photograph

Soldiers and Field Artillery Wagons

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Description: German soldiers conversing with their Austrian brothers-in-arms in front of a roadside calvary.
Photograph

"A Difficult Passage"

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Description: German troops crossing a log bridge.
Photograph

German Troops Entering Skiernewize

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Description: Residents of Skiernewize (Skierniewice) decorate their houses with garlands to welcome the arrival of German troops.
Postcard

Roll of Slackers, Monroe

Date: 1917
Description: A sign outside a building reads "Slackers" and includes a list of names: David Englehardt of Browntown, and John Hoffmeister of Jords. The sign is credited...
Photograph

Field Marshal Baron Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf

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Description: Field Marshal Baron Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf was the Chief of Staff of the Austro-Hungarian army from 1910 to 1917.

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