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An advertisement from the American Red Cross seeks aid from the people of Sangamon County for "Our boys at the front" during World War I.

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

This book details the efforts made during World War I to send reading materials to soldiers, sailors, and marines fighting overseas. The author, Theodore Wesley Koch, a librarian in the Library of Congress during World War I, assisted in the efforts…

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 advertisement calls on those who are not serving their country to fulfill their duty by purchasing War Saving Stamps.

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.

An advertisement from the U.S. government calls on women to preserve material and save money to help the country during World War I.

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

1st Illinois Cavalry, Troop L, in saber drill at Brownsville, Texas.

Soldiers onboard a transport ship.

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

Sailors undergo diving training.

Navy recruits form to create a live version of their base insignia and to celebrate reaching 100,000 recruits trained at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station during World War I.

Navy recruits learn to tie knots.

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