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[Six World War I photograph albums]
Six photograph albums with approximately 525 images of the 88th Aero Squadron during World War I.
GLC09672
1918-1920
Various
[Scrapbook belonging to synagogues in New York and Georgia, 1918-1920]
One scrapbook of 46 bulletins belonging to three synagogues dated 1918-1920. Flyers were printed by the Synagogue of Flushing, New York; the Free Synagogue of Washington Heights, New York; and Congregation B'nai Israel of Athens, Georgia. Contains...
GLC09675
1 June 1919
Lejeune, John A.
A Message From the Skies by Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune Commanding Second Division, A.E.F.
It begins, "1. One year ago, the enemy was at the high tide of success. His great offensives of March and April in Picardy and Belgium had with difficulty been checked..." With 2 other bullet points. With Native American chief's face within a star...
GLC09519
1918
Beneker, Gerrit A.
Concrete Ammunition / Second - Line - Defense
With printed text on back.
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Beneker, Gerritt A.
Work As You Would Fight
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United States Food Administration.
Food will win the war
Color poster by Charles E. Chambers of people standing on a boat or shoreline at New York Harbor. They appear to be European immigrants. In the foreground, a man appears to be pleading with a woman holding a basket of food. In the background can be...
GLC09522
circa 1917
The H.C. Miner Litho. Co
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.
GLC09523
circa 1919
Our Colored Soldiers in Action
A chromolithographic poster depicting African American soldiers fighting in World War I. In the poster an American bombers are flying overhead and an American soldier is boyoneting an enemy soldier. Featured prominently in towards the middle of the...
GLC09563
1917-1918
War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities
Camp Songs of the United States Army Ambulance Corps
Collected by Kenneth S. Clark representing the War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities. World War I song sheet with printed lyrics for 10 songs including "Battle Hymn of the Republic," "Kaiser Bill," and "When Sammy Comes Driving Home."
GLC09572
1914-1918
Keystone View Company
[World War I stereocards] [Decimalized .001-.297]
298 World War I stereocards published by Keystone Viewing Company with lengthy descriptions on the back.
GLC09584
Serajevo, Yugoslavia -- Scene of Murder of Crown Prince which Started Flame that Engulfed All Europe
Shows landscape of houses, buildings, bridges, and scenery in Sarajevo, Bosnia during its occupation by the Austro-Hungarian empire.
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Parade of Cuirassier Guards Marching to the Parade Ground, Berlin, Germany.
Shows ranks of Prussian soldiers, mounted and on foot, marching towards a parade in Germany.
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Helmeted German Soldiers Lined Up for Review
Side view of lines of German soldiers in full uniform standing at attention for review.
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A Bristling Forest of Bayonets. Russian Troops on Review
Crowd of Russian troops stretching to horizon with two officers in foreground on horseback.
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French Colonial (Morocco) Cavalry in Paris.
French Moroccan troops in white turbans and cloaks ride on horseback through the streets of Paris.
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The 48th Highlanders of Toronto
Parade of uniformed Canadian soldiers marching in ranks on a field.
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Vise, Belgium, Scene of the First Conflict of the War
View of buildings and their reflections in the Meuse River after the first clash of World War I.
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A Warm Reception Awaiting the Enemy, on Belgium's Defence Line Near Antwerp
Belgian soldiers in a turnip field crouch behind a trench fashioned from a log, aiming their rifles towards the off-camera German army.
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Trenches of the Allies Among the Dunes and Brambles on the Coast of Flanders
Allied soldiers position their weapons while crouching behind a trench next to the coast of Belgium.
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Skoda Works, Pilsen, Bohemia, Where the Famous Skoda Mortars Were Made.
Men and women stand next to a Skoda howitzer at an artillery factory in Bohemia.
GLC09584.010
1914
At Longwy, France--Ruins Around Main Gateway
Three German soldiers sit in front of piles of rubble with the remains of two bombed buildings behind them.
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"Mur Tschoffen" Wall in Dinant before which Germans Shot Many Loyal Belgians
A Belgian family stand in front of the memorial at the wall at Dinant where invading German soldiers executed a number of Belgian citizens after the invasion in August 1914.
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Altar of Malines Cathedral. Wrecked by German Shells.
A priest sits beside the destroyed altar at the Cathedral of St. Rombaut in Malines, Belgium, a town bombarded several times over the course of the war.
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Cardinal Mercier, Renowned Belgian Prelate, Speaking at Dinant, Belgium
Cardinal Mercier speaks to a crowd at the cathedral in Dinant, Belgium, a town that suffered a massacre of Belgian civilians when the Germans invaded in 1914. Mercier was known for speaking out passionately against German atocities in Beglium...
GLC09584.014
French Refugees Fleeing Into Amines From the Somme District
A group of French refugees and their belongings piled onto a cart leading them into Amiens after the German invasion of the Somme District in 1918
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Belgian Refugees Housed in Alexandria Palace, London
A group of Belgian refugees, mostly women and children, sit amongst row of beds inside Alexandria Palace, on the outskirts of London.
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Awaiting Enemy in French Trenches with Rifle and Mitrailleuse.
French soldiers crouch behind a trench constructed of sandbags, brandishing rifles and machine guns.
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French Cavalry Ready to Follow an Infantry Attack.
Mounted French soldiers brandishing swords gather, awaiting orders to follow an impending infantry attack.
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French Cavalry Horses Swimming River in Northern France
A group of French cavalry horses swim neck-deep across a river in Northern France while soldiers in the background are transported across on a simple ferry.
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Tangled Ruins of Marne Bridge Blown Up by Germans and Red Cross Train Wreck.
The battered remains of the Marne Bridge and railroad, including a wrecked Red Cross train. The Germans deployed this explosion to destroy as much as possible in the wake of their retreat.
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National Road Bridge over the Marne, Blown up to Prevent German Advance.
The ruins of a bridge in Lagny, France, extending over the Marne River on the national highway. The British destroyed this, and many bridges like it, to prevent the Germans from gaining ground.
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Cannon Abandoned by Germans in Retreat at Acy, France
Two men stand in a field on either side of an abandoned German 77-mm. field gun, left from the first battle of the Marne.
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French Reserves from U.S.A. -- Some of the Two Million Fighters in the Battle of the Marne
Many Frenchmen who had been residing in the United States returned to Europe to fight. Here, a group of them sit on a field looking at the camera.
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Inspecting a Nearly Completed Pontoon Bridge in the French Sector of the West Front
On a river in France, inspecting officers walk across a constructed pontoon bridge flanked by pontoon boats each carrying three soldiers.
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French Troops Crossing the Marne by Pontoon Bridge
French troops after their victory at the first battle of the Marne following the retreating Germans across a pontoon bridge, made by laying a series of floating barges, as the permanent bridge had been destroyed. Several onlookers watch from the near...
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Battle of the Aisne, French Infantry, Transferring to Left Wing
French troops, still wearing the pre-war French Army uniform, on the march to extend the French lines north from the Aisne River and turn the right flank of the German Army
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Battle of the Aisne--Ammunition Wagons Shifting to a New Position
A group of French soldiers, charged with bringing ammunitions to the front by wagon. A few soldiers sit atop horses or on the wagon itself, while the rest are standing beside it.
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Decorating, Medaille Militaire, adjt. Dambrine. Severely Wonded, at Ablain St. Nazaire, France.
A ceremony of decoration for a French soldier who lies wounded, but alert, in the foreground. Behind him, French troops with bayonets stand at attention.
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The Highland Regiment of the British Army Marching Through Boulogne
The British Highland Regiment, a regiment of Scotsman, marching through the city of Boulogne, on the first day that British troops arrived in France.
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Canadian Artillery Proceeding to the Front
A group of Canadian artillery soldiers manning cannons at the front.
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Marshal Haig and General Antoine at Review of French First Division
Sir Douglas Haig, Commander of the British armies in France during the war, stands left, speaking with General Antoine of the 1st Division of the French Army.
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Ypres Cathedral in Ruins, British Lory in Foreground
The battered ruins of the Cathedral of St. Martin's in Ypres, Belgium from German artillery fire. Its conspicuous height made it a target.
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Shell Bursting in the Grand' Place, Ypres, Belgium
An explosion goes off in the central plaza of destroyed Ypres, Belgium, surrounded by ruins of crumbling buildings.
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Trenches Bitterly Contested in Battle in Once Peaceful Village near Ypres
A deep trench runs through the village of Ypres amongst the battered and crumbling houses.
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Creeping on the Enemy Over the Sand Dumes, British Contingent in Belgium
Allied soldiers take advantage of natural cover provided by brush growing on sand dunes in coastal Belgium.
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British Royal Engineers Constructing Second Line Trenches in Flanders
British Royal Engineers, who were part of the army troops, dig trenches outside of Flanders, Belgium.
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"And the Trench Was a Reeking Shambles," German Dead in the La Bassee Area.
German soldiers lie dead and dying behind a trench in La Basse, part of the Battle of Flanders.
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1917
Strong Concrete German Position and Victims after the Battle of Menin Road
Dead German soldiers lie behind the damaged fortification of a trench in Flanders, Belgium at the Battle of Menin Road.
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British Soldiers Gleaning in the Fields of War, Menin Road.
A British soldier uses a long plank to move a piece of wood aside on a ravaged battlefield at Menin Road, likely to pick up a valuable left behind by a fallen German.
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Where Hell Was Loosed; War's Indescribable Desolation and Unburied Victims, Lens.
A desolate, ravaged battlefield with the bodies of dead soldiers in Lens, France.
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