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A German procession marches to the parade ground in Berlin.

American soldiers learn proper pack organization, for carelessness in one thing leads to carelessness in others.

Returning American troops receive treatment at Debarkation and Convalescent Hospital Number Five in New York City.

Sailors smile from atop American submarines stationed at San Diego Bay, California. With German submarines, called U-boats, reeking havoc on Allied Forces and merchant vessels at the beginning of World War I, the United States and other countries…

Sailors receive naval training.

Two gentleman practice aeroplane instruction on models at an unknown location.

A Navy recruit uses a jackknife to carve a piece for a model ship.

Two men look upon the ruins of the Church of Lucy-le-Bocage in France.

Italian General Armando Diaz, Lieutenant General Baron Jacques of Belgium, British Admiral David Beatty, American General John J. Pershing, and Vice President Calvin Coolidge gather for a photo op at the ground breaking ceremony for the construction…

An advertisement for women to attend the Summer Conference of the World Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) at College Camp, Lake Geneva, WI in 1918. Established in England in 1885 to advocate for social and economic improvement for women, the…

An American Committee for Relief in the Near East poster depicts a woman and child walking in a ruined city. The Near East was a nineteenth century term for much of the area comprising today's Middle East.

A World War I German propaganda poster shows a man holding a sword in one hand and his wife and child in the other: "War Loan Help the Protectors of Your Happiness."

A World War I advertisement details how Americans can "Help Our Brave Ally" by sending funds to the Italian War Relief Fund.

An advertisement for the twenty-third annual Illinois Farmers' Institute and Department of Household Science in Bloomington.

The cover of a supplement to Electrical World magazine depicts Lady Liberty standing in a large graveyard with her arms outstretched. Below the image are the last lines in the poem, "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae.

Remains of a fallen British soldier in no man's land near Chemin Des Dames, France.

A nurse cares for a seriously wounded Belgian man and many others in similar circumstances.

Likeness of Herbert Hoover, the thirty-first President of the United States (1929-1933). At the time of this stereograph's creation, Hoover was a rising star in the Republican party, serving as the head of the U.S. Food Administration during World…

An advertisement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture asks people to do their share and help feed themselves during World War I.

An advertisement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture offers valuable information on poultry raising in the fall and winter seasons.

An advertisement promoting pastor Paul Rader and his famous World War I address. Rader was an evangelist and Harvard graduate whose Chicago pastorates included, Moody Memorial Church (1915-1921), and Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (1922-1933).

Girls drum corps marches in formation while being reviewed by Navy personnel.

Nineteen hundred German prisoners of war stand in line and await their fate.

Soldiers in France learn to use gas masks, a device which became essential with the use of chemical warfare during World War I.

Dignitaries of the French War Commission visit Abraham Lincoln's Tomb in Springfield.