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The Navy and the Road to France

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of sailors smiling and waving their caps from the back of a truck marked U.S. Navy. Poster text reads: "THE NAVY AND THE ROAD...
Photograph

Footwear for Troops

Date: 1914
Description: Men and children are standing around a cart which has a large pile of footwear on it for troops on the battlefield.
Poster

Fighting In France For Freedom. — Are You Helping at Home?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of a group of men, sailors and soldiers standing in the back of a truck in New York. Man of the men are dressed in suits. Tex...
Photograph

Emir Ali Pasha in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: Emir Ali Pascha was the Vice-President of the Turkish legislature. He visited Berlin in late 1914 or early 1915 on a goodwill trip. Here, accompanied by a...
Photograph

Red Cross Sisters

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Description: Red Cross sisters in front of the Reichstag building.
Photograph

First Day of Mobilization

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Description: In front of the (military) district headquarters in Berlin-Schoeneberg on the first day of mobilization.
Photograph

First Day of Mobilization

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Description: In front of the (military) district headquarters in Berlin-Schoeneberg on the first day of mobilization.
Photograph

Delivering Vegetables

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Description: Deliveries of vegetables in Berlin.
Photograph

East Prussian Refugees

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Description: East Prussian refugees in Berlin. On the way to the Dom (cathedral).
Photograph

Ortelsburg in East Prussia

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Description: Scene of destroyed and burned buildings. A man is walking across the street.
Photograph

Ortelsburg in East Prussia

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Description: Scene of destroyed and burned buildings. A man is walking across the street.
Photograph

Workshops in Spandau

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Description: In front of the workshops in Spandau. Thousands of people are employed here, making and preparing all sorts of things for the military.
Photograph

East Prussian Refugees in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: East Prussian refugees, who are in Berlin to be inducted in the military, receive free meals daily courtesy of a well-known restaurant (Weinstuben Haus Tra...
Photograph

Selling Patriotic Flags

Date: 1914
Description: Flag seller on Unter den Linden in Berlin.
Photograph

Wounded Soldiers in the Royal Palace

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Description: Wounded German soldiers in front of the Royal Palace in Berlin viewing captured Russian cannon.
Photograph

Belgian Nuns Returning Home from Holland

Date: 1914
Description: Belgian nuns returning home from camps in the Netherlands. They are welcomed by their families and friends.
Photograph

Return of Company M — 32nd Red Arrow Boys

Date: 05 16 1919
Description: View across lawn towards the parade down Main Street, celebrating the return of the 32nd Infantry Division, Company M after WWI. A car is in the parade, fo...
Postcard

Service Flag Dedication

Date: 11 01 1918
Description: Text on front reads: "Service Flag Dedication, Schleisingerville, Wis." The people of the town and uniformed nurses are watching as the soldiers are standi...
Postcard

U.S. Regulars Passing Thru

Date: 06 12 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "U.S. Regulars passing thru Shullsburg Wis. June 12th." Elevated view of a long line of uniformed soldiers, four abreast, marching dow...
Postcard

"Hammer the Hun" Parade

Date: 1917
Description: A children's parade is marching down a street. In front are several boys dressed in overalls and carrying pitchforks and other farm implements. Behind them...

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