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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: 1914-1918 Pagination: 1 stereocard ; 8.7 x 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.

Mayor Mitchel
Boyce (captain), fl. 1914

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