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Austrian Soldiers on a Railroad Car

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Description: Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina during the war.
Photograph

U.S. Government and War Exposition

Date: 09 1918
Description: Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition grounds at Grant Park.
Poster

Arras

Date: 1920
Description: Poster with an illustration depicting the war-damaged town of Arras, with ruins of large buildings. Text reads: "Arras. Edité par la Compagnie du Chemin de...
Map or Atlas

Henrico Co., Virginia, With Additions, Showing the Defensive Lines and Works of Richmond

Date: 1864
Description: This map created during the Civil War indicates Confederate fortifications, houses, names of residents, towns, roads, railroads, relief by hachures, draina...
Poster

Lens

Date: 1920
Description: Poster with an illustration depicting the war-damaged town of Lens. There is rubble, including damaged steel parts and structures in the foreground, and ru...
Photograph

Railroad Guards

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Description: German railroad guards on the eastern border.
Photograph

Soldiers Returning Home

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Description: Elevated view of a large crowd gathered to welcome the 1st Regiment home from the Spanish-American war.
Photograph

Defending a Railway Line

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Description: Defending a railway line on the front.
Photograph

Railroad Guards

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Description: German railroad guards on the eastern border.
Photograph

Russian Deserters

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Description: Skiernewize (Skierniewice). Arrival of Russian deserters.
Photograph

Guarding Railways

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Description: Railway track guard. On guard with a rifle.
Photograph

On the Road to Antivari (Bar)

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Description: Civilians working on improving the railroad track bed.
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...
Manuscript

First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Roster

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Description: Commemorative Civil War roster of First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, Wisconsin Hussars Squadron "G." Depicts "Our Country as it was in 1860" with ...
Book or Pamphlet

Wilson's Raid Map

Date: 1909
Description: Map showing operations in Virginia during Wilson's Raid.
Photograph

Turkish Landsturm (Reservists)

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Description: Duties of the Turkish Landsturm (reservists). Guarding a bridge in Adana.
Photograph

Turkish Reservists

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Description: Turkish Landsturmleute (reservists) being detailed to improve rail and road beds.
Map or Atlas

War Telegram Marking Map

Date: 1862
Description: This map of eastern Virginia and Maryland shows rivers, roads and railroads from Hagerstown, Maryland, south to Suffolk, Virginia, and west to Staunton, Vi...
Poster

St. Mihiel. Edité par la Compagnie du Chemins de Fer de l'est

Date: 1919
Description: Poster with an illustration of a soldier sitting on old military equipment among the stones of a ruined building on a hill overlooking a picturesque town, ...
Photograph

Bavarian Troops

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Description: Bavarian troops waving from a train leaving for the front.

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