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Decorated Post Office

Date: 12 1918
Description: Post Office advertising the sale of War Savings Stamps. A sign above the entrance reads: "Do Your Christmas Shopping Here." Snow is on the ground.
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Camp Upton

Date: 1918
Description: Men stand outside the Post Exchange Store at Camp Upton, built in 1917.
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Company E

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Description: Elevated view of the assembled military men of Company E and the military band on a town street. Other people stand and observe behind the formation of sol...
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Friends of the Polish Companies in the U.S. Army

Date: 1918
Description: Group of women gathered at 2nd (now 7th St.) and Mitchell wearing light-colored dresses and hats. Each woman holds a U.S. flag. There is a sign to the righ...
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Hotel de Nemours

Date: 08 28 1944
Description: View across cobblestone street of a military jeep (marked "PRESS") is parked in front of the Hotel de Nemours, Rennes, France. Driving the jeep is Corporal...
Poster

Chemin de fer du nord Cambrai, Aprés le Départ de L'ennemi

Date: 1919
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...
Poster

Arras

Date: 1920
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...
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Bust of Hindenburg

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Description: A bust of Hindenburg has been erected and decorated at the restaurant in the City Park of Steglitz (suburban Berlin).
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Delivering Vegetables

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Description: Deliveries of vegetables in Berlin.
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Horse Soldier Reading News

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Description: Our Bavarians in the Vosges. A German soldier on horseback reading the newspaper with "Good News."
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Saales Bombarded by French

Date: 09 28 1914
Description: Town of Saales. Bombarded by the French on September 28.
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Berlin Medical Depot

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Description: The medical depot in Berlin. Preparation of field dressings.
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The Modern Kitchen Maid

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Description: Food delivery via automobile.
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Washing Clothes in Galicia

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Description: Soldiers washing their uniforms.
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Washing Clothes in Galicia

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Description: Austrian soldiers washing their uniforms.
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Turkish Troops at Rest

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Description: Troops resting in front of an inn in the Taurus Mountains.
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Habits and Customs of the Turks

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Description: Turkish men washing their footware at an outdoor fountain.
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Hotels in Riva

Date: 1915
Description: City of Riva in September 1915. This photograph suffices to convince the unbelieving that even in this part of the battlefront Italian successes are not pr...
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Hotel Lavarone in Lavarone

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Description: Formerly a mountain spa and now the center of violent fighting. The plateau of Lavarone was located along the pre-war boundary between Austria-Hungary and ...
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Downed Telephone Lines

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Description: Destroyed telephone lines in Serbia being repaired for use.

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