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For peace and security/buy bonds

WFD 67 - A. Government printing office # O-668763. Image by Linn Ball depicting the Three Wise Men (Three Kings of the Orient) in colorful garments ride camels toward the Christmas Star.

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Ours -- to fight for / freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear.

OWI No. 47. Government Printing Office O-511888. A large color poster of four Norman Rockwell paintings for the Saturday Evening Post that depict four American freedoms. In clockwise order, top to bottom, the images are: a man standing up to speak...

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O'er the ramparts we watch/United States Army Air Force

Image by Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer (1897-1982) depicting a young man with dark hair stands in the clouds, holding a large rocket-shaped bomb. He wears a brown leather bomber jacket and a silver I.D. bracelet. Small images of military airplanes fly in...

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Fuel fights!/Save your share

Government Printing Office # O-554712. Image of an eagle bearing label "Fight Waste!" on his back is at the right bottom corner of poster. Text reads: "Fuel fights! / save your share / 1. keep temperature at 65 F./2. don't heat unused rooms. /3...

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Charter of the United Nations

Government Printing Office O-673788. Publication 2472

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Strong in Strength of the Lord/we who fight in the People's cause/will never stop until that cause is won

Government Printing Office # O-488341. Full-color poster with a illustration of three hands holding a monkey wrench, a rifle, and a wrench. O.W.I. Poster No. 8, illustrated by David Stone Martin.
The quote is from a 1942 speech by U. S. Vice...

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Enlist in a proud profession!/Join the U.S. cadet nurse corps

Illustrated by Carolyn Moorhead Edmundson. Caption in blue box at bottom: "A lifetime education-- free! If you can qualify". "For information, go to your local hospital or write U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, Box 88, New York, N.Y."
Image of a woman in a...

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Attack Attack Attack/buy war bonds

WSS 697-B. O-497775. Government Printing Office. Illustrated by Ferdinand Warren.

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Till we meet again/buy war bonds

Wss 645-A. Government Printing Office No. O-491739. Illustrated by Joseph Hirsch depicting a smiling soldier in a khaki uniform and cap waves from a porthole. Approved with a stamp on the verso for distribution to schools by the Deputy...

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Housewives! Save waste fats for explosives!

Wartime conservation poster by Walter Richards. "SAVE WASTE FATS FOR EXPLOSIVES!." Left side of the poster shows fat pouring down from a kitchen skillet to an artillery piece manned by three helmeted soldiers. Blue and red lettering reads:...

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Save freedom of speech / buy war bonds.

OWI No. 44. Government Printing Office O-510257. From the Four Freedoms series. From an painting in the Saturday Evening Post by Norman Rockwell. A man stands to speak at a town meeting. A folded document is in his pocket. He wears a worn bomber...

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Ours... to fight for/freedom from want

OWI No. 45. Government Printing Office O-511886. Based on Norman Rockwell's painting "Thanksgiving Dinner" This poster features a painting of people at a dinner table. An older man and woman stand at the head of the table. The woman is putting a...

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The Atlantic Charter

All-lettered poster in black & white. Text of the Atlantic Charter of August 14, 1941, signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. Title and heading at top. Two columns of text below in italics.

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Don't fall for enemy propaganda

Color lithograph by artist Jack Betts. Warns of enemy propaganda against the U.S. Government, the Allies, Catholics, Jews and Protestants during World War II. Poster depicts the face of a man wearing a hat flanked by caricatures in green of Hitler...

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For gunpowder/save waste fats

Government Printing Office # O-533197.

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I'm Counting on You!

OWI No. 78. Government Printing Office # O-534057. Poster depicts Uncle Sam in stars and stripes top hat holds his finger to his mouth in a "hushing" gesture. Illustrated by Leon Helguera.

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Is your trip necessary?

OWI No. 73. Government Printing Office # O-533555. Black & white photograph of a bus or train car which is overcrowded with passengers. Many of the passengers are servicemen in uniform. The rest are civilian men, women, and children.

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For freedom's sake/buy war bonds

WSS 789-A. OWI - 35. Government Printing Office # O-514158. A small color poster by artist John Atherton (1900-1952) promoting war bonds. In the foreground is an image of the Concord Minute Man statue (a sculpture by Daniel Chester French in Concord...

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Where our men are fighting/our food is fighting

Government Printing Office # O-506016. In the foreground, a crate of food is dropping via parachute. In the background are parachuting men.

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Save freedom of worship/buy war bonds

OWI No. 43. Government Printing Office O-510256. From the Four Freedoms series. Based on a painting form the Saturday Evening Post by Norman Rockwell. Men and women of various races and faiths, including a woman with rosary beads, clasp hands...

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Back the attack/buy war bonds

WSS No. 829. Government Printing Office O-537864. Poster by Georges Schreiber (1904-1977 ) depicting a battle scene. A soldier lies on the ground and holds his military rifle in a ready position. Several parachutes can be seen the sky above and...

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Ours..to fight for/freedom from fear

OWI No. 46. Government Printing Office O-511887. Based on a painting from the Saturday Evening Post by Norman Rockwell. From the Four Freedoms series. Color poster of a mother and father tucking two children into bed. The father is holding glasses...

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Special civilian defense insignia

Government Printing Office O-484125

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Work As You Would Fight

With printed text on back.

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The Navy needs you! Don't read American history - Make it!

Poster by Flagg, James Montgomery (1870-1960) showing a sailor taking a man in a suit by the shoulder, and gesturing toward battleships at sea and a figure of Liberty waving the American flag.

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The Independent Reflector, [No. 30 (June 21 1753)]

One pamphlet published by the Independent Reflector dated June 21, 1753. A printing of an essay by Phileleutherus regarding oaths and blessings.

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[Collection of letters to George Driver][Decimalized .01-.34]

A collection of letters and quotations sent to George Driver by his family and friends. Most of the items are bible quotes or poems from his mother Susan and sister Susie. Possibly all sent to Driver during an expedition to Zanzibar that he...

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The Life of Abraham Lincoln

With inscription from Marcus A, Feinstein 1899-1971 born Tiflis, Russia "To my daughter on her 21st birthday He is why I came to America your father"

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[Collection of 13 broadsides regarding the re-election of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt] [Decimalized .01-.13]

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Saved more than a million homes

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Don't be fooled by figures

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Facts -- Mr. Business Man

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The farmer remembers longer than the elephant

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Our wealth of earth and water

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Farmers -- Make Your Choice

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Don't go back and backward with Republicans

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The truth about taxes

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Keeping the budget unbalanced...

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Through tariff walls

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"Let's Look at the Record"

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Your electric bill, 1936

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Liberty - A power among the nations. No. 4

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Et Afskedsquad til Emigranter

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The people's new ten commandments

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Why women should vote

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Why women want to vote

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Special Report of the Mountain Meadow Massacre

One report related to the Mountain Meadow Massacre printed in 1902. It contains the testimonial of J. H. Carleton's investigation of the Mountain Meadow Massacre which took place September 7 -11, 1857. He details the death of 120 people who were...

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Speech of Wa-o-wa-wa-na-onk, an Indian Chief.

One printed speech of Wa-o-wa-wa-na-onk also known as Peter Wilson to a committee at the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends on Indian Concerns, delieved on January 29, 1848. His speech expresses his concerns regarding the Treaty of 1838 and the...

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Old Folks at Home

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[Broadside and small ribbon] [Decimalized .01- .02]

Broadside and small ribbon with image of John Tyler.

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[John Tyler 1841-1845]

Small ribbon with image of John Tyler. Included with GLC09545.01.

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To all American soldiers leaving the Philippines

Letter to American soliders published in a Philippines newspaper. Written at the Malacanan Palace.

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[Past, Present, and Future]

Printed memo with facisimile signature from Colonel Cunningham, Headquarters, Fifth Air Force, Office of the A.C. of S., A-2, APO 710.

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[Arrival of Japanese peace party at IE Shima]

On front of print: "Shadow of C-54 falls upon Son of the (setting) Sun on arrival at IE SHIMA, 20 August 1945, enroute to Manila."

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Lt. Gen. Kawabe, leads Japanese peace party

Front of print: "Lt. Gen. KAWABE (at right), Vice-Chief of Staff of Imperial General Staff, leads Japanese peace party of 16 officials."

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US and Japanese photos of the attack on Pearl Harbor [Decimalized .01- .17]

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Log album US Navy Air Station Pearl Harbor [empty]

The album has a decorated suede upper cover and card lower cover, 5 printed leaves ("memory leaves," "my log and diary"), 28 blank leaves.

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[Hickam Field]

Inscription on back of photograph: "Hickam Field"

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Battleship Oklahoma's Deck Breaks Water

Label on front of photograph reads: (WX1) PEARL HARBOR, May 24-- BATTLESHIP OKLAHOMA'S DECK BREAKS WATER---Barnacled deck of the U.S. Battleship Oklahoma breaks water during salvage operations which returned to service 16 of 19 ships sunk by Japs in...

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[Ship damaged in Pearl Harbor attack]

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[Ships at Pearl Harbor]

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Side by side - Britannia! Britain's Day Dec. 7th 1918

Printed by American Lithographic Co. N.Y. Shows Uncle Sam arm in arm with the representative of Britain, Lady Liberty, closely followed by Britain's lion and the eagle of the US. The poster advertises December 7, 1918 as a special days of celebration...

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War gas attack -- self help

Instructions on how to prepare for and respond to a gas attack by Japanese forces. Chart of different kinds of gas, their smell, effects, and protection and first aid.

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Lutamos pela liberdade de todos [in Portuguese]

Printed by the Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Propaganda poster written in Portuguese showing a blue head with helmet trailing with red and white stripes. Part of effort to distribute news, films and broadcast radio to Latin America...

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Attack on Pearl Harbor: Japanese photographs, with naval strategy map and propagana material [Decimalized .01- .11]

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[Japanese report on the attack at Pearl Harbor]

Printed Japanese text with illustrations detailing bombing strategy of Pearl Harbor.

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[Burning aircraft carrier flying American flag]

Color image of a burning aircraft carrier flying American flag. Additional American vessel in foreground. Japanese text in caption on right hand side.

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[Vessel under attack with Japanese planes flying overhead]

Color image of a vessel under attack with Japanese planes flying overhead. Japanese text in caption on right hand side.

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General Map of Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere and Pacific Ocean

Map of territories included in the Japanese propaganda concept, the "Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere." The concept promoted the cultural and economic unity of the region by a self-sufficient bloc of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free...

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14 press photographs of the Doolittle Raid [Decimalized .01-.14]

A collection of 14 photographs of the Doolittle Raid.

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Planning details of the trip from "Shangri-La" to Tokyo

A black and white photograph of Captain Marc A. Mitscher, and Major General James H. Doolittle with airmen preparing for the raid on a flight deck of the USS Hornet . There is a press clipping attached to the back of the photograph with a stamp dated...

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B-25 bombers on flight deck of the USS Hornet

A black and white photograph of the USS Hornet's flight deck full of B-25 bombers preparing for the raid. Another ship is present in the background of the photograph. There is a press clipping attached to the back of the photograph with a stamp dated...

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They Took Off From Here to Head to Tokyo

A black and white photograph of the USS Hornet's flight deck full of B-25 bombers and airmen preparing for the raid. There is a press clipping attached to the back of the photograph with a stamp dated April 24, 1943.

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U.S Planes Roar Over Yokosuko Naval Base Near Yokohama

A black and white aerial photograph of Yokosuko Naval Base. There is a press clipping attached to the back of the photograph with a stamp dated April 21, 1943.

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Doolittle Leads the Raid on Tokyo

A black and white aerial photograph of Major General James H. Doolitle's B-25 taking off from the deck of the USS Hornet. There is a press clipping attached to the back of the photograph with a stamp dated April 20, 1943.

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Tokio Raider Gets Take-Off Signal at "Shangri-La"

A black and white photograph of a B-25 preparing to taking off from the deck of the USS Hornet. There is a press clipping attached to the back of the photograph. Romoved from an unknown mat.

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[Photograph of American soldier sitting next to the wing of a plane]

A black and white photograph of an American soldier sitting on a hill next to the wing of a B-25 bomber.

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Tokio Target as Seen From "Shangri-La" Raiders' Plane

A black and white aerial photograph of the Yokosuka Naval Base. There is a press clipping in the photograph and an block of the photo is obscured by a white bar. The back of the photograph is dated April 24, 1943.

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Tokyo Raider in Hands of Japanese

A black and white photograph of a blindfolded U.S. Army Air Corps officer being led from a plane by two Japanese soldiers. There is a press clipping in the photograph and an block of the photo is obscured by a white bar. The back of the photograph is...

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From Aerial Umbrella to Chinese Parasols

A black and white photograph of American and Chinese soldiers carrying parasols. A press clipping is a part of the photograph.

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Chinese Rescue Crashed Shangri-La Bombers

A black and white photograph of Chinese soldiers bringing a group of General Doolittle's raiders in a small village near where their bomber crashed. Featured in the photograph is Colonel John Hilger, who was injured in the crash. Attached to the back...

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Japanese Picture of Doolittle Fliers

A black and white photograph of U.S. Army Air Corps men in Japan following the Doolittle Raid. Two of the men in the photograph are believed to be Lieutenant Robert Hite and Lieutenant William Farrow. Attached to the back of the photograph is a...

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Raided Tokyo, Escaped Japanese by Hiding in Cave

A black and white photograph of U.S. Army Air Corps men outside a cave in Japan following the Doolittle Raid. Attached to the back of the photograph is a press clipping describing the photograph with the date April 22, 1943. Removed from an unknown...

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Gen. Doolittle's Men Hide in a Cave

A black and white photograph of U.S. Army Air Corps men outside a cave in Japan following the Doolittle Raid. Attached to the back of the photograph is a press clipping describing the photograph with the date April 22, 1943. This is a close up of...

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USS Intrepid journal of Charles King [Decimalized .01-.20]

40 pages. With: 2 medals, a photograph album and 4 press photos

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[Photograph album of Charles King]

Photograph album with attached tassel. No date. Cover illustration of Statue of Liberty, the US flag, and the Brazilian flag. 10 pages of photographs. Photographs include Charles King in Navy uniform with possible family and friends and photographs...

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[Diary of Charles P. King]

"Hands Off King, C. P. MM 3/c" written on cover. 46 written pages. Inside cover reads "Charles P King MM 3/c M. Div. USS InTrepid c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco Calif". Entries describe King's time on the USS Intrepid, including the movement of...

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[World War II Victory medal]

Victory medal, World War II. Rainbow ribbon with medal depicting allegorical female image of victory. Included with diary and photograph album of Charles P. King.

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[Asiatic Pacific Campaign medal]

Asiatic Pacific Campaign medal. Yellow ribbon with red, white and blue stripes with medal depicting a tropical landing scene with a battleship, aircraft carrier, submarine and an aircraft in the background with landing troops and palm trees. Includes...

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[Child in toy airplane]

Photograph of a child in a toy airplane outside.

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[Man standing on a post]

Man, labeled Harry, standing on a post outside.

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[Two men shaking hands in front of a car ]

Two men, labeled Chuck and Tony, shaking hands in front of a car

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[Portait photograph of a young man]

Portait photograph of a young man, labeled "Framin" on front. "Furman Tate, Hazelwood, N.C" on reverse.

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[Group of young soldiers with guns]

Group of soldiers, each labeled with a number and on the reverse are the names for each, labeled "My Gang, 1. Jenkins 2. Kaegor 3. Jhons 4. Jhonson 5. Paul King 6. Kerr 7. Jachoskie 8. Kiefer 9. Karafar 10. Sgt Hilton 11. Dick King 12. Bob King"

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[Two soldiers pose with guns]

Two soldiers pose guns, camp in background.

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[Three soldiers pose with equipment]

Three soldiers pose with equipment, camp in background.

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[Soldier poses with gun]

One soldier poses with gun, full length, camp in background. Reverse labeled with "R.E. King".

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[Soldier poses with gun]

One soldier poses with gun, full length profile, camp in background. Reverse is labeled with "Kaegor".

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[Two soldiers pose with guns]

Two soldiers pose with guns, camp in background. Reverse labeled with "Kerr" and "Jenkins".

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[Five young naval sailors in uniforms]

Five young naval sailors in uniforms pose together. Originally in a cardboard frame inscribed "N.T.C. Great Lakes".

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