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| Date: | 09 1917 |
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| Description: | South Carolina convicts building a road at Camp Wadsworth near Spartenberg in preparation for the camp's use as a National Guard training camp. The prisone... |
| Date: | 07 1917 |
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| Description: | ROTC engineers at Fort Leavenworth learn about trench work, an important skill for World War I combat. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Army engineers at Camp Curtiss, demonstrating zincographic equipment. Zincography was a form of printing for large maps using zinc plates. |
| Date: | 06 1918 |
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| Description: | Gravel screening and separating plant of the 310th Engineers in operation on a road near Camp Custer. All of the soldiers at work on this road construction... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three African American soldiers with a company of engineers somewhere in France. They are holding a shovel, pick, and sledgehammer. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Men hold a sign that says "Car No. 1 Manure Secured by Y.M.C.A. for Eighth Ward War Gardens" while standing on top of a manure pile in a railroad yard. |
| 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: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | View of a man standing near a small table in front of two ambulances. |
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| Description: | An Austrian soldier is getting his hair cut outdoors. |
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| Description: | Two German soldiers using the services of a field carpentry detachment to sharpen a saber using a hand cranked sharpening wheel outdoors next to a shed. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers are sitting on stools outdoors peeling potatoes near a large pot, with a cover resting in front on the ground. Another man is standing on the ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Two men in a muddy yard are bending over and holding onto a large pot while draining water out of it into a trench in the ground. Behind them is a bicycle ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A soldier is using a draw well in a yard and is drinking water from the bucket. Another man is standing nearby. It appears to be raining or snowing. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers are using the stones of a destroyed factory to repair and improve a roadbed. The walls of the destroyed factory are in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Bricks from a destroyed factory building are being collected for use in the improvement of poor roadways in Serbia during World War I. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers repairing railroad tracks in Serbia during World War I. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Soldiers repairing a road on the way to the front in World War I. Horse-drawn wagons are in the background. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Soldiers repairing railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Soldiers are standing around while a cook is working at the outdoor field kitchen on the front during World War I. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers slaughtering on a Serbian farm during World War I. |
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