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…
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."
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.
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 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).