Santa Fe R.R. locomotive shops, Topeka, Kansas
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School children, half of Polish and half of Italian descent, at a fest...
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[Horses charging over battlefield]
Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0056). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Group of American congressman on visit to the Western Front. Near Fric...
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Putting a puppy into a baseball bag. In England
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Turkish soldiers passing through Baghdad under British escort during t...
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The assault on La Boisselle. 7-1-1916
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King George chatting with U.S Officials during Independence Day exerci...
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Australians off up to the trenches to take up their position
Soldiers standing on a muddy track...[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON THE FRONT IN FRANCE. - AUSTRALIANS OFF UP TO THE TRENCHES TO TAKE UP THEIR POSITION.']..digital.nls.uk/74546828 ( http://dig... More
Packing for Christmas Ship - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Photograph shows people packing Christmas gifts for the U.S.S. Jason which sailed from New York on November 14, 1914 carrying about 6 million gifts for the children of Europe who were affected by World War I.... More
Italian Battleship. Warship photograph collection
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German gun emplacement, near Roye, France
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Desolation at Chaulnes, Flanders
This shows the devastation in Chaulnes. Although difficult to make out, a small group of soldiers relax at the side of the road beside a line of horse-drawn carts. The buildings behind them are mere shells and ... More
American troops resting by the roadside. Watten, France. 5-19-1918
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W.A.A.C. cooks in France watching a British soldier doing a juggling t...
W.A.A.C. members watching a juggler, France, during World War I. The people in this image are standing in a tight, cosy circle, although the women are standing to the right and the gents to the left. They are f... More
Feeding a British gun in concealed shelter
Photograph shows British soldiers loading a cannon or howitzer in a camouflaged bunker. J202142 U.S. Copyright Office. Inscribed on negative: 93305 FCS. Copyright April 21, 1915.
Paris -- Red Cross - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Photograph shows women working for the Red Cross in Paris, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Wash day near Boesinghe. 1-28-1918
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He is getting our country's signal - are you? Join the Navy.
U.S. Navy recruitment poster showing sailor with signal flag. Poster caption continues: For information apply at your nearest recruiting station or Navy League Headquarters.
Woodrow Wilson and American Flags
Local Accession Number: PC 140..Description: Patriotic postcard from World War I...Photographer: Unknown..Source: Carole Nelson..Size: 3x5..Medium: Print, Color..Date: c. 1918
Brief spell duing the bombardment for Zonnebeke, Flanders
Gun crew taking a break during the advance to Zonnebeke, Belgium, 1917. A large gun is sitting at a crazy angle in the midst of heaps of sticky mud and jumbled debris. The gun is pointing off to the right and i... More
View of Moislaine which we have just taken with the ridge beyond
Badly damaged buildings at Moislaine, France. It is difficult to tell what these buildings were once used for. The large building on the right, possibly a factory, has a car parked in front of it. Nearby there ... More
Panoramic view of Ypres, World War One 1914-1918
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A fete day during the Salonika Campaign
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Ruins at Peronne, France, World War One 1914-1918
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Scene at a school of instruction for officers, Flanders
Officers being trained in bayonet practice. Most Corps developed training schools in France, to which officers could be sent to learn how to train their own troops. This became increasingly necessary as the war... More
Volunteers for Zeebrugge from one ship's company
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Blown up bridge at Nesle which town the British captured
The remains of a wooden bridge that once traversed this canal can be seen stacked up in the background. As a temporary replacement, a makeshift bridge of wood and corrugated iron has been constructed. A group o... More
Paris Printer's, wrecked by aviator's bomb
Photograph shows bomb damage in Paris, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Prince of Siam visits the British front. 9-20-1917
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Dominion journalists visit messenger dog depot in France
The value of war photography is not restricted to capturing the conditions and consequences of battles; it also records the more curious or obscure details of life during wartime. This is one such detail, a fie... More
Meteren as it appeared after capture by the British, Flanders
The destruction at Meteren, France, during World War I. A long, open-fronted shed runs along the left side of the picture. It has a corrugated iron roof and supporting struts spaced to the width of the tank hav... More
Russian Cossacks - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Photograph shows Russian cossacks during World War I. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Thousands of German prisoners in a cage
This photograph shows German prisoners in the background in wire-fenced compounds. It is not clear if the two lines of Germans alongside the road in the foreground are also fenced in, or if they are waiting the... More
Scene in British bakery, Dieppe, France; 2/10/1918
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Street outside the Cathedral, Arras, Flanders
At the front of a narrow, curving street of tall houses a load of rubble has obscured the entrance. The end house has collapsed in and the rest have no roofs. A very square passage has been cleared into the rub... More
Scene at the American submarine chaser headquaters in the Mediterranea...
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U.S.S. "Scorpion" interned for duration of the war in Turkish waters
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Members of the Workmen and Soldiers' Committee entering the Reichstag
Men, some in military uniform, entering a door in a large building identified in the original caption as the Reichstag or German parliament building. A military car and what appears to be a gun limber, are park... More
Tommies playing with their little pet, Flanders
Two uniformed men with a small dog. The two men are sitting outside on a pile of sandbags. The man on the left holds the front paws of the dog as it stands on its hind legs. There is another man sitting on the ... More
Australians returning from the trenches with their mascot. Contay, Fra...
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On board a hospital barge, Flanders
Four nurses and a uniformed man on board a hospital barge. It is a relaxed and informal scene with three of them looking into the camera and smiling. To the left of the group there is an empty deckchair with a ... More
Taking up ammunition along the very muddy roads, Flanders
Members of the cavalry transporting ammunition. This image shows members of the cavalry, with their horses, wading through an extremely muddy and slippery field. The horses are laden down with ammunition, and t... More
British Cavalry crossing a bridge thrown across a trench. Near Neuve E...
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Big gun raising the dust as it is fired, Flanders
A heavy gun has just been fired. One of the crew has his hands over his ears because of the noise. The psychological effect of the constant noise of shelling caused severe stress often resulting in shellshock. ... More
German prisoners being taken to the rear. Near Heilly, France
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Showing one of the ovens with trays of newly baked bread
Men, some local civilians, some probably members of the Army Service Corps, stand beside the big wooden stretchers full of loaves they have just taken from the ovens in the background. The logistics of feeding ... More
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig with H.R.H. The Prince of Wales
All the major members of the royal family visited the Western Front during the conflict, and this photograph captures The Prince of Wales on one of his visits. Field Marshall Haig is the bareheaded gentleman on... More
Horses at watering place. Near Prise, France
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Scene outside the Mayor's house at Nesle which the British captured
This image shows a busy street scene in the French town of Nesle. It has been taken outside the Mayor's house, situated on the corner of 'PLACE D'ARMES' and 'RUE DE LA MONNAIT'. A number of soldiers and officer... More
General view of the dance during World War I
South Africans, from the S.A.N.L.C., performing a traditional dance. Most of the dancers are wearing lengths of material wrapped round their waist - cleverly combined with what is very probably parts of their u... More
American troops marching through London, England
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[US Participation in World War I, French Battlefields]
[US Participation in World War I, French Battlefields] - [FRA-8342 through FRA-8379]
Constructing a road through Bucquoy, France. 1917
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Field ambulance station, Italian Campaign
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Wrecked Turkish wireless station at Baghdad
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Highlanders at work making fascines for road building, Flanders
Two Highlanders have a chain wrapped around the brushwood bundle or fascine and each is pressing down on a lever handle to tighten the chain so that the bundle can be tied. This photograph is by John Warwick Br... More
Officers in a concealed communication trench, Flanders
Four officers are crouched next to a structure made of wood and chicken wire. According to the original caption, it forms part of a concealed communications trench - long branches are being used to camouflage i... More
All in one with the Irish Canadian Rangers 199th Overseas Battalion
Poster shows a map of Ireland and the battalion insignia. Public domain scan of Canadian poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fourth of July ceremonies at Houthem. 7-4-1918
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WAAC's bedroom at Rouen, France
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Zeppelin shed used as an aeroplane factory during the latter part of t...
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The happy man today is the man at the front. Royal Highlanders of Cana...
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Resting in a shell hole in newly captured ground near Wytschaete
Soldiers huddle around their rifles, which are propped up in a stook-like formation. There are billycans dotted around the scene, and most of the men appear to be eating. Behind them, a trench runs through a de... More
Field kitchen on the roadside, Flanders
Cooking on the Front, Western Front, during World War I. A row of field kitchens mounted on wagons are drawn up alongside a road, sheltered by a high bank. In the foreground a soldier is sorting boxes of suppli... More
Good friends, Flanders during World War I
A soldier, identified in the caption as a driver from the Royal Regiment of Artillery, is lying in the grass reading. His horse is lying resting on the grass beside him. This peaceful scene is testament to the ... More
Tommy on the ice, Flanders during World War I
Soldiers walking through the snow, France. This image shows a group of soldiers walking in single file through snow. It is a happy and relaxed scene, with many of the soldiers laughing and sliding through the s... More
Choisy Au Bac -- Houses burned by Germans
Photograph shows a street with houses in Choisy-au-Bac, France which were damaged by German forces during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Attack on the Hindenburg Line. Near Bellicourt-France. 9-29-1918
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Men wanted for the army / Michael P. Whelan.
U.S. Army recruiting poster showing an officer standing with a soldier, seated on a horse, blowing a bugle. Form no. 404. A.G.O.
British guns in action at Contalmaison, France. July 1916
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With the American Navy in wartime. Bridge of a U.S. Destroyer at sea
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Indian sappers bridging a river during the Mesopotamian Campaign
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Chinese Laborers, Caestre, Belgium. 7-14-1917
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German army in WWI - Prisoners during World War I
A wide dry-dirt road cuts diagonally across the picture. It is bound on either side by flat fields and a small farmstead is visible in the background. It is a very pretty rural scene with hay ricks in the field... More
American delegates visit shipyards in Scotland. Mr. Wilson, Secretary ...
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Ruins at Ypres, Belgium; 111/1916
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Horse laden with trench boots on the Somme Front, Flanders
Horse and soldier transporting boots. A soldier is leading a small horse along a boggy path. The path is inches deep in wet mud discernable by the deep imprint round the soldiers boot and the fact that the hors... More
Ruins at Bapaume, France. 3-17-1917
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Engineers wiring a road, Flanders
Engineers constructing a barbed wire entanglement. It is positioned across the entire width of a road running through open countryside. Although the frame for this particular entanglement is made from wood, man... More
Kaiser giving iron cross to aviators
Photograph shows Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (1859-1941) giving iron cross medal to aviators during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the ... More
British soldier giving a starving Turkish soldier a biscuit during the...
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Marshal Haig and General Singh, Montreuil - France
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Sergt. McDonnel and Private McDonald, American Pioneers, captured by t...
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Visit of American congressmen to the western front. Near Fricourt, Fra...
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King George of England watch[es] the sighting of a 14" railway gun. 8-...
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Looking down the Rue Sadi-Carnet at Bethune
Two British soldiers walking through the shell-damaged streets of Bethune, France, during World War I. With shell-damaged buildings all around them, these two British soldiers make their way through the Picardi... More
Highlanders at rest. Mametz Wood. 1916
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Ludendorff-Spende für Kriegsbeschädigte
Postcard shows a one-armed war veteran at a table with carpentry tools. Behind him, an angel, and multitudes of hands raised in the air. Caption: Wir alle wollen helfen. Printed on back: Künstlerpostkarte nr... More
In a new trench, Flanders during World War I
Taken from above, this image shows a group of soldiers walking along a narrow trench in single file. All of the men are wearing steel helmets and carrying rifles with bayonets. The walls of the trench are high,... More
Spectators at a Divisional Horse Show. Cavillon. 7-18-1917
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Troops billeted in basin of canal. Near Moeuvres, France. 9-28-1918
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American congressman visit ordnance works. Calais, France
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How Fritz barricaded himself at Serre, with iron girders, Flanders
A bleak and depressing landscape, Serre, France, during World War I. The ground is muddy and water-logged. There are a few planks of wood in the foreground, possibly the remains of a walkway. To the left of thi... More
American and British officers near Moulle, France. 5-22-1918
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Scene along road from Vendelles to Vermand. Trees and telegraph poles ...
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Two officers study a map sitting on a captured big mortar
Although the picture is taken in the countryside the landscape looks fairly chaotic and unnatural. There is a ridge of shale running around the left side of the photograph. The rest of the ridge is not visible ... More
Main street, Bapaume, France, immediately after its capture from the G...
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Disinfecting clothing of Russian prisoners
Photograph shows soldiers disinfecting clothing at a prisoner of war camp at Döberitz (now Dallgow-Döberitz), Germany during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013 and similar Bain negative: LC-B2-3459-16).
A chance shot This is a chance photograph of a chance shot at a "sub" ...
U.S. Navy recruitment poster showing scene aboard ship of sailors loading artillery. Poster caption continues: There is a chance for you too; to build up your body, to learn or perfect a trade, to see the world... More