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These Will Be Guns of Victory and Turning Muscles into Steel Cords

These Will Be Guns of Victory and Turning Muscles into Steel Cords

The top photograph shows 1000 artillery men at Camp Hancock preparing for battle and the second picture shows soldiers doing exercises at Camp Hancock. in Augusta, Georgia. Camp Hancock was a military cantonment (temporary site) located on what was…
Familiar Fibs

Familiar Fibs

This is a newspaper cartoon of a German soldier during World War I proclaiming that his soldiers committed no atrocities
Back Up the Boys Cartoon

Back Up the Boys Cartoon

This is a cartoon from a newspaper article during World War I showing an American soldier threatening a German soldier with a bayonet
Boyd Spencer - World War I Soldier

Boyd Spencer - World War I Soldier

This photograph of soldier Boyd Spencer from Ankeny Iowa was taken in his uniform was taken in the early 1900's
Boyd Spencer - World War I Aviator

Boyd Spencer - World War I Aviator

This photograph of aviator Boyd Spencer from Ankeny, Iowa was taken in the early 1900's. The photograph was donated in November 2008
Ambulance No. 10: Personal Letters From the Front

Ambulance No. 10: Personal Letters From the Front

Liberty's victorious Conflict: A Photographic History of the War

Liberty's victorious Conflict: A Photographic History of the War

This book is a chronological photographic history of World War I
British Soldier and Wounded Turk

British Soldier and Wounded Turk

This is the photo of an officer from the British royal medical corps giving a wounded turk a cigarette and lighting it for him
Boston Sunday Advertiser and American Pictorial Gravure Section Pages 9-16 from Sunday, March 3, 1918.

Boston Sunday Advertiser and American Pictorial Gravure Section Pages 9-16 from Sunday, March 3, 1918.

This newspaper features 4 pages of life in 1918 including an article entitled "The Unexpected Hiding Place of a German "Sniper" ';
followed by photographs of Mr. Adolph Lewisohn's Town House, No. 881, Fifth Avenue, New York; and then an ad for…
Frame with Photograph, Pass, Troop Vilet and 2 Dog Tags Belonging to Ed A. Howard

Frame with Photograph, Pass, Troop Vilet and 2 Dog Tags Belonging to Ed A. Howard

This frame showing a photo of Ed A. Howard and his pass, troop billet and dog tags from World War I was donated in his memory by Karen Ballard Avey in September 2015
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