1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: How France Aided Her Fighters- Renault Tanks Going to the Front

This photograph is of tanks and soldiers marching. The tank was very efficient machinery.

GLC09584.179

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: French "Tanks" Which Saw Service, Parading Paris Streets

This photograph is of a man inside a tank on a parade in Paris, France. The photograph says that tanks were nicknamed "the caterpillar" because of their movements.

GLC09584.180

April 2, 1917

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Marshall Joffre, Vivani, Chocheprar and Fabry- French War Commission- With Gov. Lowden and State Officials at Tomb of Lincoln, Springfield, ILL.

Many men in uniform are gathered around Lincoln's tomb. There is an American flag.

GLC09584.182

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: For Five Hours New York's Citizen Army Poured by Reviewing Stand, Twenty Men Abreast

This photograph is of a parade of men who were drafted for WWI. The public was very excitied to go to war, and there were parades all across New York City.

GLC09584.183

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Looking Over Soldiers' Quarters- General Hospital in Distance, Camp Upton, N.Y

There are trees and buildings in the distance of this photograph. It is of Camp Upton, which, according to the photograph, is where many men trained before leaving to fight in WWI.

GLC09584.184

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Barracks at Camp Devens, Boys on Hillside Writing Letters, Ayer, Mass.

A scene at Camp Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts. In the background, there are barracks. In the foreground, soldiers sit on a hillside writing letters.

GLC09584.185

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Sunshine Keeps Our Soldiers Healthy. Daily Sunning of Equipment.

Soldiers sit on benches in a line at Camp Oglethorpe, Georgia. The sun basks upon the men and their equipment, which is being sunned to avoid the spreading of disease.

GLC09584.186

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Pack Inspection of 139th Regiment Infantry. American Army Camp, U. S. A.

American soldiers stand at attention in rows. Their army kits are laid out in front of them, ready for inspection.

GLC09584.187

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: The Heart of the Nation -- Every Mother's Son Ready to Do His Duty, Calisthenics in the Army.

At a military camp, lines of soldiers in a field do calisthenics in unison.

GLC09584.188

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Class of Officers Practicing "the Short Point Stab," American Army Camp, U. S. A.

At a military camp, a row of officers practice the "short point stab" with their bayonets on a line of punching bags while two of their superiors look on.

GLC09584.189

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Our Boys in France Learning to Correctly Use Gas Masks.

A row of American soldiers learn how to put on gas masks at a camp in France.

GLC09584.190

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Soldiers About to Enter Tear-Gas Trench, Camp Dix, N.J.

A group of American soldiers wearing gas masks enter a tear-gas trench for practice with chemical warfare at Camp Dix, NJ.

GLC09584.191

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Building Barbed Wire Entanglements -- Reserve Officers in Training Camp, Ft. Sheridan, Ill.

Soldiers at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, construct a barbed wire entanglement between two trees. Soldiers are seen in a field in the background.

GLC09584.192

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Preparing for the Firing Line -- Loading a 3-Inch Field Gun.

A six-man gun crew loads a 3-inch field gun on the outskirts of a battlefield.

GLC09584.193

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Our Answer to the Kaiser -- 3,000 of America's Millions Eager to FIght for Democracy.

Lines of American soldiers as far as the eye can see, in full uniform with their weapons by their sides.

GLC09584.194

1917

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Thousands Marching, Thousands Watching! Our National Army, Chicago, Aug. 4, 1917

Members of the American army march through the streets of Chicago as crowds cheer on the sidewalk just after the United States entered the war.

GLC09584.195

1917-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: One of New York's Greatest Military Spectacles The "Rainbow" Division Parading in Honor of Citizen Soldiers

The 42nd "Rainbow" Division of Citizen Soldiers parading through the streets of New York City. The sidewalks are filled with cheering onlookers.

GLC09584.196

1917-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Thousands of Uncle Sam's Sailors, Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill.

U.S. Navy Sailors line up in uniform, outside the Great Lakes Training Station.

GLC09584.198

1917-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: "Parade Rest"--Naval Training Station

U.S. Navy trainees line up holding rifles during a gun dril at a Naval Training Station.

GLC09584.199

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Projectile Weighing 1070 lbs.--Powder 325 lbs. One Load for the 12-inch Disappearing Gun, Fortress Monroe, Va.

An American soldier stands, grinning, beside an armor-piercing shell and the 325 lbs of gunpowder required to load it at a military fort in Virginia.

GLC09584.200

1917-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: A Sailor's Sewing Day Reminds Him Keenly of Home and Mother--Life on Board a Battleship.

A cluster of U.S. Navy sailors sit on the deck of a battleship. One is reading. One in the front is mending his uniform with a sewing machine.

GLC09584.201

1917-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Marines and Sailors Despersing after an Assembly Aft for Instructions--Life on Board a Battleship

A group of U.S. Navy Sailors mill about on the deck of the Battleship after morning inspection and assembly. Towards the back are a few Marines in dress uniform.

GLC09584.202

1917-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Bugler Calling Marines and Sailors to Assemble for Instruction--Life on Board a Battleship

A U.S. Navy sailor stands on the deck of a battleship blowing a bugle, calling those on board to asembly.

GLC09584.203

1917-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Gunners on Board U. S. Battleship New York Loading 6-inch Gun.

Three U.S. Navy Sailors load a gun below deck, while another, acting as the trainer, stands at the telescope sight.

GLC09584.204

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Deck of the U.S. Battleship Pennsylvania.

A view from the deck of the U.S.S. Pennsylvania, one of the most powerful battleships at the time.

GLC09584.205