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Keystone View Company For Five Hours New York's Citizen Army Poured by Reviewing Stand, Twenty Men Abreast

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.183 Author/Creator: Keystone View Company Place Written: New York, New York Type: Stereocard Date: 1914 Pagination: 1 stereocard Height: 8.7 cm, Width: 17.7 cm Order a Copy

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.

Mitchel, John Purroy, 1879-1918
Boyce (captain), fl. 1914

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