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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Four photographs with handwritten captions. The photograph at top left is a group portrait with a caption that reads: "Soon after reaching Waco, the 1st Wi... |
| Date: | 08 1917 |
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| Description: | A visiting French officer instructs novice American pilots at Camp Mineola on the conditions that they can expect to find at the front. |
| Date: | 08 1917 |
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| Description: | A training ascension of a captive observation balloon. During their training, soldiers learned how to correctly estimate the effectiveness of artillery on ... |
| Date: | 05 1917 |
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| Description: | A ground school conducted by Princeton University for students who wished to enlist in the Army Air Service. During World War I most American aviators were... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | British-built Sopwith Camels at the American Expeditionary Force 2nd Aviation Instruction Center near Tours, France. The Sopwith Camel, manufactured by the... |
| Date: | 09 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 1917 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of the 8th Division Field Meeting at Camp Custer. Hundreds of soldiers in overcoats and hats with a wooden wall used for training visible in... |
| Date: | 07 1917 |
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| Description: | ROTC engineers at Fort Leavenworth learn about trench work, an important skill for World War I combat. |
| Date: | 07 02 1917 |
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| Description: | ROTC engineers, probably at Fort Sheridan, learn bridge building during their training at Fort Leavenworth. |
| Date: | 07 17 1917 |
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| Description: | ROTC engineers, probably at Fort Sheridan, in training for trench construction. Victor Morris of Milwaukee, in whose wartime album this photograph appears,... |
| Date: | 03 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I soldiers at Camp Custer seated on Winchester rifle crates. |
| Date: | 01 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I soldiers airing out their bunks at Camp Curtis. |
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| Description: | Barbed wire training under Lt. Johnson. An unusual nighttime photograph from the Victor Morris album, at Camp Custer. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Colonel Joseph W. Jackson, formerly of Madison, Wisconsin, and Williston, North Dakota, salutes a woman in civilian dress at Camp Lewis. Jackson was an of... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Members of the U.S. Remount Service, all former cowboys, in training at Camp Lewis. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Camp Lewis, showing a pack train fitted out for a march. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A recruit receives inoculations from two men on the left at Camp Travis, named in 1917 after William B. Travis. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Men pose with two fire engines parked outside the open doors of the fire station at Camp Travis, named in 1917 after William B. Travis. The station sign re... |
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