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Title: History of the Northern War; Commencing in 1812, To The Congress At Vinna In 1815
Date: 1815
Description: An Account Of The City Of Moscow, A Description Of The Cossacks, And A Variety Of Anecdotes Of The Emperors And Generals Connected With The History

Title: Impartial History of the Late Revolution in France
Date: 1794-07-17
Description: From Its Commencement to the Death of the Queen, and the Execution of the Deputies of the Gironde Party. Volumes 1 & 2 (bound into 1).

Title: Ruines de guerre : Ligne Hindenburg, Soissons, Verdun, Arras
Date: 1919, 1919

Title: Speech of William H. Seward on the Claims of American Merchants
Date: 1851-01-21
Description: Speech to the President of the Senate Delivered in the Senate of the United States

Title: Americans Landing in France
Date: 1917, 1964-08-12
Description: "The Yanks Came/Eighty-one days after the United States declared war on Germany, the first regiments of the American Expeditionary Force landed in France, June 26, 1917. Here Yanks from the first convoy line up after debarking at St. Nazaire. The 14 vessels of the convoy carried about 14,500 troops. By the end of World War I Nov. 11, 1918, the Americans had 1.4 million men in France and had

Title: German Armistice of 1940
Date: 1940-06-21, 1940-07-20
Description: "This picture shows history repeating itself in reverse. It depicts German leaders laying down armistice terms to French officials in the rail car June 21 at Compiegne, France, where Marshal Foch dictated the armistice of 1918 to Germany./Shown around the table (left to right) are: Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, Field Marshal Hermann Goering, Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, Col. Gen. Wilhelm Keitel (standing

Title: Gas Mask Drill
Date: 1918-05-25
Description: "These Marines in France are learning to adjust their gas masks quickly. It takes only a few seconds to get the mask in place. When the siren blows every mask is put on as speedily as possible as a second of delay might be serious. The Germans are reported to be perfuming their gas so as to deceive the Americans in the trenches but few of them have been gassed as yet."

Title: French Emissaries Entering Car
Date: 1918, 1940-06-22
Description: "Compiegne Forest, France, June 21 - Four French emissaries are shown about to enter the 1918 armistice care here today, where they heard Hitler give his terms for peace. Entering the car is a German officer who acted as escort. Several feet behind him is Gen. Charles Huntzinger of France, and in the center of the photo, behind the post, is Leon Noel of France. Toward the right are Gen. Jean

Title: French Citizens Greeting American Soldiers
Date: 1944-08-06
Description: "Two venerable citizens of La Belle France have warm greetings for a couple of American doughboys who have just moved into their town."

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: Debris of War
Date: 1944-08-06
Description: "Unrecognizable heaps of rubble and empty skeletons of buildings greeted U.S. infantrymen who marched into Septsarges on the Meuse River after the town was wrested from the Germans in the First World War."

Title: Demolished Neighborhood
Date: unknown, 1934-02-10
Description: This photo shows a demolished French neighborhood with still standing buildings in the background. The ones in the foreground are gutted, and almost entirely broken down.

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: Marines Digging Trench in France
Date: 1918-06-24
Description: This photo shows a small group of Marines as they dig trenches in open fields of dirt and grass.

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: 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: Allied Military Leaders
Date: 1967-03-16
Description: "With the Yanks in France in World War I, Americans learned the names - and nicknames - of Allied military leaders, along with their own. Here, somewhere in France, are four of the top men: Left to right, Gen. Joseph Joffre - Papa Joffre - idol of the French poilu; Gen. Ferdinand Foch, Allied commander-in-chief; unidentified officer (in back;) Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, the British Tommies' hero, and Gen. John J. - Black Jack - Pershing, commander of the AEF, the American Expeditionary Force."

Title: Ceremony of the Unknown Soldier
Date: unknown
Description: "From the four American cemeteries the bodies of four unidentified men were brought to Chalons sur Marne and from among those four one was chosen with the simplest of ceremonies as the "Unknown soldier" who is to rest for ever in Arlington National Cemetery. The choice from among the four bodies was made by Sergt. Edward Younger who walked slowly round the coffins and indicated his choice by placing his fingers on one of them. Photo shows the selected coffin laying in state guarded by six American and six French soldiers in the Chapel Ardent of the Chalons Town Hall."

Title: President Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference
Date: 1918, 1968-11-11
Description: "Beginning of Peace/President Woodrow Wilson himself traveled to Europe to attend the Paris peace conference at the end of World War I. Here, he addresses and reviews troops of the American Expeditionary Force at Chaumont, in France, on Christmas Day 1918." Next to President Wilson is General John J. Pershing.

Title: Youth of France
Date: unknown, 1934-02-04
Description: In this photo is a large crowd of young men and a headline reading "Youths of France Rally to Her Call!/Mere youths, the French class of '17 enthusiastically departs from Paris to take its place on the fighting lines." Many of the men are smiling or holding up signs.

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