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Workers Load Wagon Components onto Railroad Car

Date: 04 17 1918
Description: Workers loading wooden crates containing components for wagons or possibly "machine gun carts" onto railroad cars at International Harvester's McCormick Wo...
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World War I Navy Recruits

Date: 04 1917
Description: Elevated view of Navy recruits at Newport, boarding a train destined for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The printed caption indicates that they had had only eight...
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Soldiers Off to Camp

Date: 08 01 1917
Description: National Guard troops unloading their supplies from New York Central railroad cars into a transport wagon to be taken to camp.
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Kissel War Workers

Date: 1918
Description: Workers leaving the Kissell Motor Car Company have their identification badges checked. The Hartford company was then building trucks of the Four Wheel Dr...
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Group at Nebraska Train Stop

Date: 1917
Description: Group of people and automobiles gathered around a train station at a stop of the "Union Pacific Nebraska Preparedness Special Campaign."
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Group of People Gathered Beside Train

Date: 1917
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.
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Children and Adults Gathered near Passenger Car

Date: 1917
Description: Group of youth gathered near a passenger car listening to a man identified as "Governor Howard." The man is most likely Edgar Howard, Lieutenant Governor o...
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Off to the Trenches

Date: 05 05 1918
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...
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"The Goodbye Kiss"

Date: 1914
Description: A German soldier is kissing a woman before boarding a train.
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Ruins of a Serbian Train Station

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers waiting along near railroad tracks in the ruins of a Serbian train station.
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Croatian Reservists Being Transported to the Front

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers from a Croatian "Landsturm" reservist unit posing in and around an open doorway of a railroad car during World War I. One of the men is p...
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Railway Station Guards in Ruma, Syrmien

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian Railway station guards standing next to a railroad car in the City of Ruma, Syrmien during World War I.
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Ruma Train Station

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian Soldiers detraining in the City of Ruma, located in the Province of Syrmien. These soldiers are massing for the invasion of Serbia in 1915.
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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.
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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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Box Car Ride to the Front

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Description: Austrian troops riding in a box car on their way to the front.
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Wounded Austrians

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Description: Wounded Austrian soldiers being loaded onto train cars.
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Wounded Austrians

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Description: Wounded Austrian soldiers being loaded onto train cars.
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Hospital Train of Count Karolyi

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Description: The hospital train of Count Karolyi. The Austrian foundation supported hospital train of County Anton Karolyi is being inspected by Freiherr Scheffer-Boyad...
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Senior Surgical Advisor Professor Borchardt

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Description: The senior surgical advisor Professor Borchardt inspecting the hospital train.

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