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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of men, with a few women and children, gathered around a passenger train on a stop of the Union Pacific Nebraska Preparedness Special Campaign. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Large group of men, including railway workers, standing beside a locomotive. Original caption reads: "U.P. Nebraska Preparedness Special Campaign. Farm pre... |
| Date: | 05 05 1918 |
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| Description: | Send off for World War I recruits at the railroad station. The man leaning out of the train window is Ben Bergor, a professional magician and vaudeville pe... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Belgian refugees returning home to Antwerp after having fled to neutral Holland in the wake of the German invasion inn 1914. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people gathered on a road. There are railroad tracks alongside the road on the left. Our Bavarians in the Vosges. The welcome sutler wagon... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of the neutral train entering Merxen (Merskem), near Antwerp, bringing refugees from Holland. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Refugees passing through a line of soldiers. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | German soldiers and Dutch officials in front of a neutral train transporting refugees back to Belgium. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Belgian refugees gathering on train tracks on their way to return home. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Refugees from Antwerp awaiting the train that will take them home. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Refugees receiving their railway tickets in Bergen op Zoom for the trip to Merxen. Bergen op Zoom, the first large city on the Dutch side of the border was... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Refugees receiving their railway tickets in Bergen op Zoom for the trip to Merxen. Bergen op Zoom, the first large city on the Dutch side of the border was... |
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| Description: | Duties of the Turkish Landsturm (reservists). Train and depot guards. |
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| Description: | Turkish Landsturmann (reservist), holding a note in his hands, writing a letter home. |
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| Description: | An Arab leader greeting Djemal Pascha at the Railroad station in Damascus. |
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| Description: | The new Governor of Damascus, inspecting troops. Fahkriddine (or Fahkri) Pascha was an Ottoman general famous for his defense of the Medina against the Bri... |
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| Description: | Bosnian railway official examining the rail bed in Montenegro. |
| Date: | 06 18 1918 |
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| Description: | Captain Edwards (r) is standing at the train station with from left to right: W.A. Holt, Alfred or Donald Holt, and a woman, possibly Madeline Wood. In the... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A children's parade is marching down a street. In front are several boys dressed in overalls and carrying pitchforks and other farm implements. Behind them... |
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