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Poster

Every Pound Invested in National War Bonds

Date: 1918
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...
Poster

Let's All Work - Not Wait for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 11, "Grandma." The poster features a smiling older matronly woman in a worker's uniform with goggles on her head holding...
Poster

Four Years in the Fight

Date: 1918
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...
Poster

Fighting Men Need Fighting Metal! - Thousands More Miners Needed!

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Metal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience...
Poster

Coal Is "Fighting Power" - Thousands More Miners Needed!

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Coal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience ...
Photograph

Road Repair on Mount Lovcen

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Description: Repair work on Mount Lovcen to repair war damage. caused by the Montenegrans. Soldiers drilling into rock on the side of the mountains.
Photograph

Portable Military Camp Forge

Date: 1914
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.
Print

The War for the Union Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead featuring the seal of Wisconsin surrounded by clouds with the words: "The War for the Union" printed above it, and a banner that reads: "Wiscons...
Photograph

Blacksmith Shop on the Front

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Description: Field blacksmith shop.
Photograph

Loading Supplies Onto Camels

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Description: Loading camels with provisions and entrenching tools.
Photograph

Oxen

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Description: Requisitioned French oxen.
Photograph

Digging a Hole for a Telephone Pole

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Description: Digging in a telephone pole.
Poster

On The Job For Victory

Date: 1914
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...
Photograph

Field Carpentry Shop

Date: 1914
Description: Two German soldiers shaping axe handles at a field carpentry shop.
Photograph

Horse Grooming

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Description: Farrier shoeing a horse in the Taurus Mountains.
Photograph

On the Road to Antivari (Bar)

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

Loading Supplies Onto Camels

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Description: Loading camels with provisions and entrenching tools.
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Transporting Supplies Through the Taurus Mountains

Date: 1915
Description: Transporting entrenching tools through the Taurus Mountains.
Photograph

Butchers at Work

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Description: Butchers slaughtering beef on the Tirolian battlefront.
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Learning to Repair Radiators

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Description: View of a group of men in a workshop learning to repair radiators for a war training class.

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