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

Navy recruits form to create a live version of the American flag at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Chicago.

Sailors gather on deck for the abandon ship drill.

An advertisement from the American Library Association (ALA) encourages veterans to contact their hospital libraries for books on jobs.

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…

British soldiers at this permanent supply camp make bread to support fighting troops in France.

The American flag flutters above the captured German stronghold at the Castle of Ehrenbreitstein.

The National Jewish Welfare Board was formed after the United States declared war on Germany in 1917. The board mainly sought support for U.S. Jewish soldiers who fought for their country during World War I.

A World War I poster extols the dedication of African American soldiers.

Cardinal Archbishop of Mechelen, Desire Joseph Mercier, speaks to a crowd at Dinant, Belgium.

Soldiers stand guard over an airship. Airships like this one were used during World War I for scouting enemy positions and gathering other military intelligence.

Sailors undergo diving training.

A World War I poster depicts a soldier leaving to fulfill his duty to his country.

French colonial cavalry parades down the street.

Colonial French horses struggle against the currents of the Ming River.

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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…

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

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