Browse Items · Iowa Heritage Digital Collections
Iowa Heritage Digital Collections
State Library of Iowa
Advanced Search

Browse Items (77 total) for Ankeny Historical Society World War I Collection

His Thanksgiving

His Thanksgiving

This painting by Harold Brett was on the cover of the November 1918 issue of Ladies Home Journal. It shows three soldiers in a trench in Europe during World War I. One is showing his buddies a picture of his mother, "His Thanksgiving"
I Swear to Avenge Your Father and Kicking Up the Dust on the Western Front

I Swear to Avenge Your Father and Kicking Up the Dust on the Western Front

This newspaper contains a World War I drawing and photograph and some advertisements.
Chicago Sunday Tribune Rotogravure Section showing a World War I scene

Chicago Sunday Tribune Rotogravure Section showing a World War I scene

The first page is a photograph of a British medical corpsman in Mesotptamia giving a wounded turk a cigarette.
European war scenes from the Boston Sunday Advertiser and American Pictorial Gravure Section

European war scenes from the Boston Sunday Advertiser and American Pictorial Gravure Section

The first page is an aerial view of the German and French trenches along the Soissons front and shows the damage that 5 French armored tanks have done to the German trenches. The second page shows Italian soldiers in the Alps the third page shows an…
President Woodrow Wilson returning home from Versailles

President Woodrow Wilson returning home from Versailles

This is a photograph of President Woodrow Wilson in New York returning from Versailles where peace negotiations were held following World War I.
The Wagon Transport at Camp Hancock During the Civil War

The Wagon Transport at Camp Hancock During the Civil War

THE WAGON TRANSPORT AT CAMP HANCOCK

::orne into his own. In the Civil War he was an unsung hero, and now again, despite airplanes, motor cars...
...to play in war transport, for there are things an American Army mule can do that no man-made…
U. S. Troops in Italy; Italians in Albania

U. S. Troops in Italy; Italians in Albania

This is a photograph of soldiers walking in Italy
A Typewriter Message to the Kaiser

A Typewriter Message to the Kaiser

American machine gunners are letting go a strip of "typewriter" bullets from a gun emplacement in the frontline trenches somewhere in France . In Yankee trench slang a machine gun is called a "typewriter" because of the likeness of the rhythm and…
Theodore Roosevelt and Officers of the Rough Riders

Theodore Roosevelt and Officers of the Rough Riders

This is a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt and Officers of the Rough Riders taken in San Antonio, Texas.
Unidentified Photos from World War I

Unidentified Photos from World War I

This 3 page paper from World War I shows photographs of actress Marie Doro, dancer Mademoiselle Dorsa, author Jane Cowl, President Woodrow Wilson, and photographs of British soldiers and scenes in World War I.