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Delegation of War Widow

Date: 1916
Description: Delegation of war-widow, war-orphans, and maimed war-heroes at the White House, Washington, D.C., appealing to President Wilson for an "embargo on all war ...
Photograph

Stretcher-Bearers Carrying an Injured Soldier

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Two soldiers carrying an injured man through the trenches. Caption reads: "Brancardiers [stretcher-bearers] carrying in a wounded pirla."
Poster

If I Fail He Dies

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring two nurses in white gowns and hats. One of the women is behind a table preparing bandages, and the other woman is cradling a w...
Poster

Blood or Bread

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a man holding up a wounded soldier, with an artillery cannon in the background. Text reads: "Blood or Bread. Others are giv...
Poster

Can You Drive A Car? Will You Drive One In France? Immediate Service At The Front! American Field Service

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of Columbia, personification of the United States, standing at the rear of an ambulance. She is blocking a ragged skeleton (the...
Poster

Soldier's Memorial, The War of 1917. Company A [First and Third Wisconsin], 128th Infantry, [National Guard], United States Army

Date: 1918
Description: Memorial poster for the members of Company A, First and Third Wisconsin, 128th Infantry. Poster includes a banner with the Statue of Liberty between a sold...
Poster

Come On!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of an American soldier standing over the body of a German soldier. The soldier is facing the viewer, clutching his bayonet...
Poster

Pvt. Treptow's Pledge

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a soldier, lying dead. Poster text reads: "Straight from the Trenches. Originated and produced for the Liberty Loan Com...
Photograph

A Traveling Field Hospital

Date: 
Description: A traveling field hospital assisting soldiers on the battlefield. One man in the center is handing out canes.
Photograph

Soldier Praying Over a Mass Grave

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Description: German soldier kneeling on the ground at a mass grave site to say a prayer in honor of his fallen comrades.
Photograph

Wounded Soldiers in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: The first returned wounded soldiers in Berlin drinking coffee at tables outside of the hospital.
Photograph

Lt. Harry Humphreys Entertaining Soldiers

Date: 10 08 1918
Description: Lieutenant Harry Humphreys, A.R.C. entertaining wounded men in Ward K of American Evacuation Hospital #114, Fleury-sur-Aire, France. Miss Grace Van Wormer,...
Photograph

Hospital in Ruins of Church

Date: 1918
Description: View of a hospital for U.S. wounded set up in the ruins of a church in Neuville, France.
Poster

If you can't go across with a gun, come across with your part of the Red Cross war fund

Date: 1917
Description: Poster depicts wounded man in a sling gesturing to a red cross sign. Woman with a scarf on her head and small boy also shown. Broken wagon wheel, gun with ...
Poster

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

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a man wearing a kilt with his arm in a sling. Soldiers are standing around him. There is a map and a broken window in t...
Poster

Almanaque de la Guerra 1919

Date: 1919
Description: Poster depicting a soldier holding a rifle with a bayonet. A fallen soldier lies next to him. A plane flies above. Smoke rising in the distance and from so...
Poster

Le Beau Régiment (No. 1)

Date: 1914
Description: Poster with an illustration depicting rows of German soldiers marching forward. One officer is sitting on a toy horse on wheels that is being pulled by a s...
Photograph

"Loyal Fraternal Brotherhood"

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Description: German medics in Galicia carrying a wounded Austrian soldier on a litter through deep snow.
Photograph

German Soldiers Carrying Wounded Soldier

Date: 1915
Description: German soldiers are carrying a wounded Austrian soldier over a narrow bridge in Galicia.
Poster

Ask for Cook's Programme of Tours to the Battlefields, Thiepval

Date: 1919
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...

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