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Pawling & Harnischfeger Co. Truck with Artillery Gun Mounted on Bed

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Description: A Pawling and Harnischfeger Company truck, with an artillery gun mounted on the bed, decorated with banners and flags. Two soldiers are standing on the bac...
Poster

20 at Home to 1 in the Trenches

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a cartoon panel that shows a crowd of men dressing a monumental soldier, who is sitting in a chair. The smaller men are bringing his hat, ...
Poster

Team Work Will Win the War!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a cartoon panel in which Uncle Sam is riding on a wagon pulled by two horses, with text that reads "— Over Here —, and on the right near s...
Poster

Our Three Lines of National Defense

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a cartoon illustration of a mass of soldiers with a flag and cannon, and behind them a large ship labeled: "USN" [United States Navy], and...
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Austrian Soldiers in a Destroyed Factory Building

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers clearing the rubble of a large factory in order to use bricks and stones for the repair of bad roadways.
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Soldiers Repairing Roads

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers are using the stones of a destroyed factory to repair and improve a roadbed. The walls of the destroyed factory are in the background.
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Loading Bricks for Use in Roadbuilding

Date: 1915
Description: Bricks from a destroyed factory building are being collected for use in the improvement of poor roadways in Serbia during World War I.
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Portable Military Camp Forge

Date: 1914
Description: Two soldiers with a small forge during World War I. One of the men is smoking a pipe. There is a wagon in the background.
Poster

Durch Arbeit Zum Sieg! Durch Sieg zum Frieden

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with an illustration of a German soldier and a factory worker shaking hands while a weapon is being produced. Text reads: "Durch Arbeit Zum Sieg! Du...
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Cooking Tinned Meat

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Description: Pressure kettles being used to cook tinned meat. In the background a kettle is being unloaded.
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Preparing Goulash Meat

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Description: Unloading carts full of sides of beef in the factory courtyard.
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Replacement Tires

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Description: Replacement automobile tires and inner tubes.
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On the Southwestern Battlefront

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Description: Both good and bad luck at the same time. While driving passed an artillery shell damaged section of a mountain road, a heavily loaded supply truck slid off...
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Road Repair on Mount Lovcen

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Description: Repair work on Mount Lovcen to repair roads. Austrian troops using a rock crusher.

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