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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Twelve piece brass band playing at a railroad station during the "Union Pacific Preparedness Special Campaign." |
| Date: | 05 25 1918 |
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| Description: | A crowd watching as drafted men leave Madison via the Chicago Northwestern railroad station. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of people and automobiles gathered around a train station at a stop of the "Union Pacific Nebraska Preparedness Special Campaign." |
| 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: | Group of men gathered with automobiles across the street from a hotel, small cafe and other town buildings. The men are gathering for an event associated w... |
| 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Men hold a sign that says "Car No. 1 Manure Secured by Y.M.C.A. for Eighth Ward War Gardens" while standing on top of a manure pile in a railroad yard. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration depicting the war-damaged town of Lens. There is rubble, including damaged steel parts and structures in the foreground, and ru... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of bombed out buildings, including the town hall, in Cambrai. This was part of a 1919 tourism campaign by the North Railroad to... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration depicting the war-damaged town of Arras, with ruins of large buildings. Text reads: "Arras. Edité par la Compagnie du Chemin de... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a British soldier sitting on a battlefield near a trench with barb wire among many destroyed trees at night. There are birds... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a soldier sitting on old military equipment among the stones of a ruined building on a hill overlooking a picturesque town, ... |
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| Description: | The hospital train of Count Karolyi being inspected by Freiherr Scheffer-Boyadel while being accompanied by Count Anton Karolyi. |
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| Description: | Skiernewize (Skierniewice). Arrival of Russian deserters. |
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| Description: | Group of children standing in front of a hospital train in Lodz listening to a gramophone set up to play music while the train was in the station. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad cars waiting for supplies to be loaded on board. |
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| Description: | Bavarian troops waving from a train leaving for the front. |
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| Description: | East Prussian refugees whose homes had been burned by Russian troops and who are living in railroad cars. |
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| Description: | East Prussian refugees whose homes had been burned by Russian troops and who are living in railroad cars. |
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