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Title: French Necessities Voucher
Date: unknown, 1934-02-04
Description: The voucher in this photo for the French people indicates that it is good for a kilo of bread, 12 kilos of coal, 4 kilos of potatoes, or 1/4 kilo of margarine. It can also be used for other basic necessities.

Title: Role in the Great War
Date: unknown, 1934-02-21
Description: This photo shows a small display on a brick wall acknowledging "Our Roll of Honour in the Great War". Around this small sign are flags and many pots of flowers. There are also some small signs recognizing military flight. There's a woman in a dress and long apron holding a small child who is pointing at the flowers, and another woman walks by with a woven bag.

Title: Ring Fortress of Przemysl
Date: unknown, 1934-02-01
Description: The Fort of Przemysl shown in this photograph is partially destroyed, and there are soldiers in the trenches leading up to the fort.

Title: Destruction of a French Town
Date: unknown, 1934-02-10
Description: This photo shows a soldier standing in the rubble of a French town. The buildings are collapsing down into the street. There are piles of stone and wood against the remainders of the buildings. The store signs still remain.

Title: Deceased and Their Belongings
Date: unknown, 1934-03-17
Description: This photo shows a line of battle casualties in various states of damage. Behind the line of men are small piles of clothing and other belongings. In the background of the photo, there are a small bunch of soldiers standing to the left of the line and there are larger, oddly shaped objects in the back right.

Title: Petition for the War Effort
Date: unknown, 1934-02-21
Description: This photograph shows a group of English women protesting to be allowed to participate in the war effort. They are carrying a sign that reads, "Italian Women Are Serving Their Country Why Can't We". It's raining in the photo, and women and children are marching down the street with a horse-drawn carriage to the right of them.

Title: Military Officers Boarding a Ship
Date: unknown, 1934-03-05
Description: This photo shows a group of military officers boarding a ship; the camera is on the other end of the boarding bridge, facing the officers as they walk toward the person operating the camera.

Title: Moving Supplies
Date: unknown, 1934-03-01
Description: In this photo, soldiers are attempting to pull and push pack mules and a donkey through a muddy field.

Title: National Filling Factory
Date: 1917-08, 1934-02-04
Description: Photograph from the National Filling Factory in Nottinghamshire. A small train is being driven across the factory floor. The train is filled with shells to be transported around the facility. There are "No Smoking" signs on the beams, and "FIRE" buckets on each of them.

Title: Officer Taking Fingerprints
Date: unknown, 1934-03-05
Description: This photo shows an officer with the badge number 659 taking the fingerprints of a man wearing a cap and round glasses.

Title: U.S. Secretary of War
Date: 1917-07, 1934-03-01
Description: This photograph shows the Secretary of War for the United States blindfolded as they draw the first number in the draft lottery. There are several other men surrounding the table, and behind all of them is a large board of numbers ranging into the 400s.

Title: War Horse Casualties
Date: unknown, 1934-03-14
Description: This photo shows an expansive field with deceased horses, saddles, bridles, and ammunition carts. Among the several horses is an overturned cart at the back of the photo.

Title: Women Mourning
Date: unknown, 1934-02-02
Description: This photo shows two women, wrapped in blankets and shawls for warmth, standing in the snow as they cry and mourn in front of a grave marker. Behind them are trees and other grave markers with others paying respects to other graves.

Title: Doctors on the Battlefield
Date: unknown, 1934-03-11
Description: In this photo, a military doctor is kneeling next to the stretchers of injured soldiers and talking to them as another soldier tends to them; others being carried away covered in a blanket.

Title: Battle Aftermath
Date: unknown, 1934-02-17
Description: In this war photo, there are deceased soldiers in the foreground and middle ground laying among the rocks and debris. In the background are partially destroyed buildings.

Title: British Cavalry
Date: unknown, 1937-11-7
Description: This photo shows "A column of Carden-Lloyd machine-gun carriers of the 2nd Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment.". Two tanks move alongside the horses and their riders.

Title: Battlefield Aftermath
Date: unknown, 1934-03-13
Description: This photo is of an empty, muddy battlefield that is void of any life. There are metal pieces sticking up from the muddy ground, and a large, damaged tank in the middle of the field. Towards the foreground is a puddle of opaque water and a metal ladder.

Title: Blessing of Soldiers
Date: unknown, 1934-02-01
Description: A clergymen in robes carrying a cross walks through a room of men laying on hay on a concrete floor. Women in white and aprons kneel near the men as they lay covered in blankets.

Title: Grinon-Graben Sign
Date: unknown, 1934-02-14
Description: This photograph is taken in a trench showing a sign on a tree that reads, "Grinon-Graben", with an arrow underneath it and more locational labels. There is a soldier walking over a bridge above the viewer, and there is a staircase on the right of the photo with a dirt wall to the left.

Title: Cannon Between the Rocks
Date: unknown, 1934-02-07
Description: In this photo, there is a cannon covered by a camouflage mesh between rock faces. In the background is an open field that leads to the forested area that covers the canon and other materials.

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