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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: Farmerettes in World War I
Date: 1967-03-16
Description: "Ladies Into Farmarettes/They were called ladies and wore long skirts or - for some activities - bloomers, but the female of the species kept the home fires burning in World War I. They marched in parades, boosted sales of Liberty Bonds, practiced Home Defense tactics, took up gardening in backyards and on golf courses. These farmerettes were students and faculty members of Western College at Oxford, Ohio."

Title: Electric Fence Around Radio Plant
Date: 1917-03-09
Description: "Barbed Wire Fence Charged With High Current Surrounds Country's Largest Radio Plant./Seven foot barbed wire fence which surrounds country's largest radio plant at Challos Heights near San Diego, Calif./Photo also shows U.S. soldier on guard, one of the detachment that patrols the grounds of the station day and night./The plant is the largest station in the United States. The towers are over 600 feet in height. Messages from this plant have been sent to Berlin and received from that city./Washington recently ordered that the station be carefully guarded and a barbed wire fence seven feet high was erected around the grounds. The wire is charged with 30,000 volts. In addition to this effective barrier the plant is guarded day and night by the U.S. Soldiers. No one is permitted entrance to the station or surrounding territory unless properly identified and vouched for."

Title: Dryden Trophy
Date: unknown
Description: "U.S. Infantry, Holder of the Dryden, Wingate and Sadler Trophies, to Defend Honors in Rifle Matches./The U.S, Infantry, now the present champions and holders of the Dryden, Wingate and Sadler Trophies, will defend their prizes at the New Jersey State Rifle Association meet at Camp Perry, Ohio. The Dryden trophy was presented by the late John F. Dryden, U.S. Senator of New Jersey. The Wingate trophy was presented by General Wingate for annual competition on off-shoulder shooting. The Sadler trophy was presented by General Wilbor F. Sadler, Jr. It is open to teams of eight from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, National guard, Civilian Teams, and School teams./Photo shows L.R. the Wingate, Dryden, and Sadler trophies which the U.S. Infantry team will defend in coming matches."

Title: England Memorial Day
Date: 1919-06-09
Description: "Memorial Day Observed in England, Honors Paid to Our Dead./Memorial Day was observed in England with fitting ceremonies at all cemeteries where American soldiers and sailors are buried. These photos were made at the Brookwodd Cemetery near London, the upper showing American soldiers, Y.M.C.A.; Red Cross and K.F.C. workers decorating graves and the lower firing the last salute over the graves of the dead Americans."

Title: Field Communication
Date: unknown
Description: Photograph of a portable communication machine in the field during the war. The machine is receiving service. There are many soldiers standing around the machine, and they're smoking cigarettes as they work on the mechanics.

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: Beginning of World War I
Date: 1914-06-28, 1944-07-14
Description: "The Spark That Touched Off World War I/The arrest of the Bosnian student, Princip, pictured here, followed the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria at Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The assassination was recognized by the Central Powers to be an adequate casus belli and it was followed by the presentation to Serbia of an ultimatum from Austria on July 23. Five days later

Title: Baking Bread
Date: unknown
Description: This photo shows a baker pushing a pan of unbaked bread into the oven, with three full pans of baked bread in the foreground of the photo. An officer is standing next to the oven.

Title: Body of the Unknown Soldier
Date: 1921
Description: "Body of the "Unknown Soldier" leaves Chalons France for America./Photo shows Taking the flag draped casket containing America's uknown hero from Hotel de Ville for shipment to America."

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: U.S. Calvary Officers to Represent Country at the Olympics
Date: 1924-03-10
Description: "Members of the U.S. Army Cavalry Team that will represent the country in the Olympic Games at Paris this summer, selected from troops at Fort Meyer, Va. Left to right: (Front row) Capt. E. W. Taubee, Capt. V. L. Padgett, Lieut. P. M. Robinett. (Back Row) Lieut. F. L. Carr., Major, C. P. Georges, Major J. A. Barry, Major S. Doak, Captain I. R. Underwood, and Captain U. T. Bauskett."

Title: Police Notice
Date: unknown, 1934-02-04
Description: This photo shows a police officer riding a bike with a sign hanging around his neck that reads, "Police Notice: Take Cover". He's wearing a police helmet that covers most of his face as he rides down a brick road.

Title: Horse-Drawn Carts Carrying Supplies
Date: 1964-07-16
Description: "Slow Road to Victory/With the slow motion of World War I, a convoy of horse-drawn carts carries French artillery over a road near Ypres in Flanders, Belgium, in August, 1917. The war had started three years earlier, with the German invasion of Belgium in violation of a treaty guaranteeing the country's neutrality. Britain, France and Russia came to their ally's support, and the four-year war was

Title: Little Miss America in Arlington, VA
Date: 1921-05-11
Description: "They Are Not Forgotten./Little Miss America decorates the graves of our heroes who sleep the long sleep in the National Cemetery in Arlington, VA."

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: Machine Gun Drills
Date: 1917
Description: This photo shows soldiers of the 6th Infantry completing Machine Gun drills in a fenced in area. There are men and women alike watching them complete the drill.

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