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1914-1918
Keystone View Company
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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1917
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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Turks Eager for War--Germany's Most Distant Ally Mobilizing Her Army.
A parade of Turks (possibly soldiers) march through the streets holding flags.
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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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1905
Underwood & Underwood
President Roosevelt praising the courage of the South in war and in peace.
President Roosevelt before a flag-draped podium on a wooden deck, with an American flag behind him. The picture is taken from the side; Roosevelt appears to have turned sideways, away from the audience and towards the camera. However, his audience...
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Trophies of War -- German Torpedo from S. S. "Emden" and Floating Mines, London.
A torpedo from the German S.S. Emden, an infamous commerce destroyer ship commanded by Capt. Von Mueller, on display at a war exposition in London.
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"The Dogs of War Let Loose Are Howling" -- French 320's in Action, near Reims.
A row of four French railroad guns used to defend the city of Reims, France.
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Dug-outs and Shelters-Cantonment in the Race Course at Flirey, France
Dug-outs and shelters used during trench warfare in Flirey, France. These dug-outs were better constructed than most were during the war. Flirey villlage was destroyed during the war. It was in No Man's land for four years before American occupation...
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July 1918
U.S. Committee on Public Information
"At the grave of Lt. Quentin Roosevelt."
Chaplain Francis P. Duffy conducts a service at the grave of Lt. Quentin Roosevelt, near Chamery, France. Lt. Roosevelt's plane was brought down back of the German lines, July 14, 1918. The American advance brought the spot within American lines a...
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Our Boys in France Learning to Correctly Use Gas Masks.
A row of American soldiers learn how to put on gas masks at a camp in France.
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