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Early automobiles - Boillot & Rigal

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Photograph shows race car drivers Georges Louis Frederic Boillot (1884-1916) and Victor Rigal with a Peugot automobile during their service in the French Army during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

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01/01/1914
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Bain News Service, publisher
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While they were waiting for the train the children were fed with bread and milk from the ARC Soldier's canteen

Village women from Dartford, near London, visit American soldiers in new hospital just opened by American army there. Few of the visitors come empty-handed. They bring little gifts of all kinds for the soldiers, and the Red Cross usually commandeer their services, also for the distribution of comfort bags and other Red Cross material to distant parts of the grounds. All these things are carried about in "hospital wagons", which are sometimes pilled by the young women visitors, and sometimes by the convalescent Americans

Dr. Baldwin. Physician in charge of the Children's Hospital, Nesle

Automobiles driving near Union Station, Washington, D.C.

Suzanne Schick, adopte. Address: 3 Rue Villedo, Paris. protege of: Detachment, Officer Base Censor, care of Captain B.A. Adams, American Expeditionary Forces

The last American wounded arriving from the front at the Salisbury Hospital, erected by the American Red Cross at Southampton, England. They are unloaded by the boys of the Kentucky unit now on duty at this base hospital

Palmyra. The desert of Palmyra. American colony in Jerusalem public domain photo.

[Picture story in 4 stereoscopic frames: boy & girl driving in country in 1914 Buick roadster]

Citation winner. Certificate winner, George Smolarek, employed in the Aircraft Engine Department, Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan, at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), following the White House ceremony

SHARP, WILLIAM GRAVES, AM. E.J.P. TO FRANCE, 1914-

A corridor in the Amer. Military Hospital No. 1 at Neuilly, which is supported by the A.R.C. Member of A.R.C. Home Communication Service writing a letter for an Amer. Soldier

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