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| Date: | 04 1917 |
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| Description: | Children working in an urban community garden. Original caption reads: "Scene in Harrison Street Community Garden showing each plot staked off. Up to 1917 ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Display in the window of John J. Blied & Sons promoting victory gardens and featuring seed packets, hoes, and watering cans. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a soldier walking while carrying a child who is waving an American flag. The soldier is wearing a uniform and a campaign hat. Two childre... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of children and women standing in what is probably a "war garden" in an urban area. Several commercial buildings are in the background, one painted... |
| Date: | 08 28 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Four women and three men standing or sitting near a desk and table that are labelled "Wisconsin." Two of the women appear to be doing paperwork, and the me... |
| Date: | 08 1918 |
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| Description: | Three women in nurse's uniforms are standing in a tent, where several children and women are seated on chairs. Displays of cribs, cloths (possibly diapers)... |
| Date: | 05 1918 |
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| Description: | An exhibit inside a building displaying examples of how to make meals for "a patriot's table," as well as the relative value of different foods. A handmade... |
| Date: | 08 18 1918 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a crowd in a public space. A man wearing a suit is standing on what may be a wagon, and he appears to be addressing the crowd. A ... |
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| Description: | Prisoners in the Zossen camp are lining up before the kitchen as they wait for their meals. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | German soldiers having a picnic outside of the "Kaisereck" convalescence home for wounded soldiers on Hartenbergstrasse 16 (Berlin). Soldiers having coffee... |
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| Description: | Feeding the needy in Friedenau-Wilmersdorf at the Kaiserplatz. |
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| Description: | Open air dining for civilians without money in the Friedenau-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin along the the Kaiserplatz. |
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| Description: | Red Cross soup kitchen with a crowd at the entrance. For 10 pfennigs one can obtain a hearty lunch. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Patriotic Berlin. "Hindenburg's victory, 80,000 Russian prisoners." |
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| Description: | East Prussian refugees in the Zoological Gardens. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | National Women's Service in Berlin. The indigent and also refugees from East Prussia receiving free shoes, clothing, and underwear. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Results of a direct hit from a German 180mm artillery shell in Antwerp. |
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