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| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of the inside of a shipping manufacturer, with men working near a ship in drydock. Text at bottom reads: "On The Job For V... |
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| Description: | A view of soldiers digging trenches, some holding shovels or pickaxes, at Camp Travis, named in 1917. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I poster featuring women glass blowers working in a factory with large tongs. Two men are standing by the window in the background, one dressed i... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of several men working in a shipyard. In the background is an American flag. The text at the bottom reads: "United States Ship... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a man riveting a ship in a shipyard. Text at bottom reads: "United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoon panels. In the one on the left, an oversized man is getting ready to swing a sledgehammer, which is labeled "Misunderstanding," get... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a cartoon panel showing a man with a sledgehammer standing on a terrace labeled: "American Industries." At his feet is a piece of paper ti... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Two German soldiers shaping axe handles at a field carpentry shop. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers with a small forge during World War I. One of the men is smoking a pipe. There is a wagon in the background. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | British poster featuring an illustration of a warship under construction. Text reads: "Every Pound Invested in National War Bonds Means More Ships More Foo... |
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| Description: | At a "cannon hospital" on the Carpathian front. Even the best constructed artillery pieces must be refurbished from time to time. That is why the introduc... |
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| Description: | Austrian sailors, who have completed their service and for whom no other military need was pressing, are being sent to dig trenches. |
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| Description: | Loading camels with provisions and entrenching tools. |
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| Description: | Loading camels with provisions and entrenching tools. |
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| Description: | Our Bavarians in the Vosges. A farrier at work on a horse. |
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| Description: | Our Bavarians in the Vosges. Collecting grass for a horse. |
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| Description: | Our Bavarians in the Vosges. Grilling sausages over an open fire. |
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