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Trenches of war. soldiers with experimental? rifles. From Harris & Ewing Inc. collection, Washington DC, 1914-1919

Trenches of war. soldiers with experimental? rifles. From Harris & Ewi...

A soldier with a rifle crouches against a wall, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Har... More

Red Cross Siberian Commission - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Red Cross Siberian Commission - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Title and date attribution based on information and events depicted in series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is... More

Polish troops marching through Warsaw. The troops of Poland's new Army are very young and cheerful and are constantly singing Polish war songs as they march through the streets

Polish troops marching through Warsaw. The troops of Poland's new Army...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. 3-111. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Group title: Poland. Used in: Ex. Western Newspaper Union, indef. Gif... More

Courtyard of the Spielberg -- many Czechs were shot here by the Austrians in the Great War -- Brunn, Moravia, Czechoslovakia

Courtyard of the Spielberg -- many Czechs were shot here by the Austri...

J249846 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 24660; 61. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tales of the Great War. Two American Red Cross officers, Col. Edgar E. Hume of Frankfort, Ky. (right) and Maj. Harry T. Stuart of Chicago on an inspection trip in a Serbian mountain village. The question of local needs and possible means of relief are being discussed with two old women, both of whom were widowed by the war

Tales of the Great War. Two American Red Cross officers, Col. Edgar E....

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Group title: Per. Serbia. On caption card: 1/1495. Used in: Lak... More

German trenches on the Aisne - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

German trenches on the Aisne - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Photograph shows German soldiers in trenches along the Aisne River in France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms p... More

A French departure trench just before zero hour

A French departure trench just before zero hour

French soldiers in trenches during World War I. J13934 U.S. Copyright Office. No. W116.

The reverse side of the Richelieu Medal presented to the American Red Cross by the French Academy, in appreciation of the work done by the organization during the Great War

The reverse side of the Richelieu Medal presented to the American Red ...

Caption from negative sleeve: Medallion Richelieu donee a la Croix Rouge Ameire aine par l'Academie Francais, 1918. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original fro... More

Turkish soldiers under German command near the Dardanelles

Turkish soldiers under German command near the Dardanelles

Photograph shows Turkish soldiers with machine guns perched atop earthen bunkers. J205318 U.S. Copyright Office. Imprinted on photo: C-945. Copyright July 29, 1915.

Dressing a guards officer - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Dressing a guards officer - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Dr. Birkhead. Group Title: First Aid, France. Data: Mr. Harlan, Aug. 16/18, Mr. M... More

The battle of Usri [i.e. Ussuri], Siberia. Captain Konomi died in the battle, fighting

The battle of Usri [i.e. Ussuri], Siberia. Captain Konomi died in the ...

Captions in Japanese and English. Same title as no. 3, but different image. Forms part of: The Illustration of the Siberian War, no. 13.

Vintage bandstand, built as a war memorial after World War I, in Spillville, Iowa. Note the names of "Great War" battles engraved on the gazebo

Vintage bandstand, built as a war memorial after World War I, in Spill...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Burial of French Officer in German Prison camp

Burial of French Officer in German Prison camp

Photograph shows soldiers carrying dead French officer on a litter at a German prison camp during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Removing the dead from the trenches [World War I]

Removing the dead from the trenches [World War I]

J236827 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View CO. No. 18702. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Trench warfare; WWI France; War ... More

The blood-red world : map showing territory of the Earth directly affected by the Great War.

The blood-red world : map showing territory of the Earth directly affe...

"Supplement to the Watchman, November 1914." Includes statistical chart. Publisher information on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Entrée des troupes austro-hongroises a Tomacheff (Pologne Russe)

Entrée des troupes austro-hongroises a Tomacheff (Pologne Russe)

Print shows Austro-Hungarian forces marching into Tomacheff in Polish Russia.

Shell burst near British dressing station

Shell burst near British dressing station

Photograph shows a shell bursting near an advanced dressing station (54th Field Ambulance) at Heninel, Pas-de-Calais, France, May 27, 1917 during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and Imperial... More

British enter Lille, George Grantham Bain Collection

British enter Lille, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows British soldiers of the 8th Battalion (Liverpool Regiment) with a French boy, entering Lille, France on October 18, 1918 during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from da... More

Reims - Fort de la Pompelle - Drawing. Public domain image.

Reims - Fort de la Pompelle - Drawing. Public domain image.

Photograph shows an explosion from an artillery shell striking the ground near a trench, with soldiers taking cover. J236489 U.S. Copyright Office. Inscribed on lower right corner: Reims - Fort de la Pompelle.... More

A.R.C. Ambulance in shelled town on Italian Front

A.R.C. Ambulance in shelled town on Italian Front

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Rome. Italy. Group title: Ambulance. U.S. Italy. Used in: ms. 1447. Gift; ... More

The gas attack during World War I

The gas attack during World War I

Six U.S. soldiers, with five of them wearing gas masks and the other one holding his throat. Probably used for training purposes. American National Red Cross Collection (Library of Congress). No. RC-8603. Unpro... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A soldier with a rifle crouches against a wall, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington... More

Burial of the first sailor dead of the Great War at Arlington National Cemetery

Burial of the first sailor dead of the Great War at Arlington National...

National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph of military parade, army ceremony, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Womens part in the great war. Women are shown preparing to deliver various government packages. They are members of the National League for Women' Service, which is proving of great assistance to Uncle Sam in carrying on the Great War. Women are employed as drivers, ambulance drivers, messengers, etc. Captain A.B. Bayle is shown cranking the car, prior to making her rounds in New York

Womens part in the great war. Women are shown preparing to deliver var...

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: International Film Service. Group Title: U.S. Chapters, Motor Corps., Workers, Women. D... More

The brilliant exploit of the Noshido(?) Infantry Company destroyed rail road, going around the back of the ememy

The brilliant exploit of the Noshido(?) Infantry Company destroyed rai...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Parade, Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, D.C.

Parade, Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, D.C.

Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.go... More

Lockets a descriptive ballad of the Great War - and after
Lockets a descriptive ballad of the Great War - and after

Lockets a descriptive ballad of the Great War - and after

Picryl description: Public domain photo of musical notation for piano page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Great War Meeting at Washington, District of Columbia, August 6, 1862]

[Great War Meeting at Washington, District of Columbia, August 6, 1862...

Picryl description: Public domain American Civil War historical book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Great War Meeting at Washington, District of Columbia, August 6, 1862]

[Great War Meeting at Washington, District of Columbia, August 6, 1862...

Picryl description: Public domain American Civil War historical book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

German trenches on the Aisne - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

German trenches on the Aisne - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Photograph shows German soldiers in trenches along the Aisne River in France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

General Henri Gourand, who commanded American troops during the Great War, visiting the soldiers at Walter Reed

General Henri Gourand, who commanded American troops during the Great ...

A group of men standing next to each other, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gif... More

They acted like the G.A.R.'s 10,000 dollar drive for the Legion Allied Veterans of the Great War

They acted like the G.A.R.'s 10,000 dollar drive for the Legion Allied...

words by Walter Tobin ; music by Arthur Keefe. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Subtitle from caption: Ex-service men's number. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web si... More

They acted like the G.A.R.'s 10,000 dollar drive for the Legion Allied Veterans of the Great War

They acted like the G.A.R.'s 10,000 dollar drive for the Legion Allied...

words by Walter Tobin ; music by Arthur Keefe. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Subtitle from caption: Ex-service men's number. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web si... More

Drag off under fire #6. Showing fighting men carrying wounded comrades, still able to fight. As taught by W.E. Longfellow of the Red Cross

Drag off under fire #6. Showing fighting men carrying wounded comrades...

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Dr. Hunter, First Aid. Group Title: First Aid, U.S., Instruction. Date based on date of... More

U.S. Army in France - Ger. prisoners at St. Mihiel

U.S. Army in France - Ger. prisoners at St. Mihiel

Photo by USASC. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Trench warfare; W.W.I French front; W.W.I. Peace, surrender, treaty neg.; War Prisoners 1918; Shelf.

First line trench on the Piave - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

First line trench on the Piave - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Commission to Italy. Group title: Army, Italy. Data: Mr. Wharton, 8/30/18. Un... More

Drag off under fire #6. Showing fighting men carrying wounded comrades, still able to fight. As taught by W.E. Longfellow of the Red Cross

Drag off under fire #6. Showing fighting men carrying wounded comrades...

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Dr. Hunter, First Aid. Group Title: First Aid, U.S., Instruction. Date based on date of... More

Plenty of free water and air. But that is about all there is left in Sarajvo, the Bosnia town in which the Great War started. This is a scene in the poorest quarter, a Mohammedan mother and her little daughter filling their Turkish jugs with drinking water to sell on the streets, the American Red Cross directed the feeding of 5,000 under nourished children daily in Sarajevo. Types of those that received A.R.C. aid are shown in the background

Plenty of free water and air. But that is about all there is left in S...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Group title: Bosnia. On caption card: (11580) Used in: Ex. T.T.... More

Rosa Parks Papers: Books Owned by Parks, 1866-2001; Sweeney, W. Allison, History of the American Negro in the Great War, 1919
Lockets a descriptive ballad of the Great War - and after
Rosa Parks Papers: Books Owned by Parks, 1866-2001; Sweeney, W. Allison, History of the American Negro in the Great War, 1919
They acted like the G.A.R.'s 10,000 dollar drive for the Legion Allied Veterans of the Great War

They acted like the G.A.R.'s 10,000 dollar drive for the Legion Allied...

words by Walter Tobin ; music by Arthur Keefe. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Subtitle from caption: Ex-service men's number. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web si... More

Sterrett School - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Sterrett School - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from negative or negative sleeve. 9 A. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/l... More

General Henri Gourand, who commanded American troops during the Great War, visiting the soldiers at Walter Reed

General Henri Gourand, who commanded American troops during the Great ...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rosa Parks Papers: Books Owned by Parks, 1866-2001; Sweeney, W. Allison, History of the American Negro in the Great War, 1919
Lockets a descriptive ballad of the Great War - and after

Lockets a descriptive ballad of the Great War - and after

Picryl description: Public domain photo of musical notation for piano page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Richelieu Medal presented to the American Red Cross by the French Academy in recognition of the work done in France during the Great War

The Richelieu Medal presented to the American Red Cross by the French ...

Caption from negative sleeve: Medallion Richelieu donee a la Croix Rouge Ameire aine par l'Academie Francais, 1918. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original fro... More

Lockets a descriptive ballad of the Great War - and after

Lockets a descriptive ballad of the Great War - and after

Picryl description: Public domain photo of musical notation for piano page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

German shell bursting over Red Cross dressing station

German shell bursting over Red Cross dressing station

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, Underwood & Underwood (cop.) Group title: General, France. Date based on date of n... More

Burial of French Officer in German Prison camp

Burial of French Officer in German Prison camp

Photograph shows soldiers carrying dead French officer on a litter at a German prison camp during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the neg... More

Canteen at front for French poilus

Canteen at front for French poilus

No. 430. Title and notes from Red Cross caption card for same image: LC-A6199-430. Group title: Canteens at the Front. Plate to Secretary General. Print in album. Date based on date of negatives in same range. ... More

American Red Cross - Public domain scan / photograph

American Red Cross - Public domain scan / photograph

A group of soldiers walking down a street, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C... More

At the front E.L.S during World War I

At the front E.L.S during World War I

Photograph shows soldiers wearing gas masks, advancing through a cloud of gas; one soldier who is not wearing a mask grasps his throat as he falls to the ground; it is unclear if he is responding to the gas or ... More

Rosa Parks Papers: Books Owned by Parks, 1866-2001; Sweeney, W. Allison, History of the American Negro in the Great War, 1919
Rosa Parks Papers: Books Owned by Parks, 1866-2001; Sweeney, W. Allison, History of the American Negro in the Great War, 1919
Rosa Parks Papers: Books Owned by Parks, 1866-2001; Sweeney, W. Allison, History of the American Negro in the Great War, 1919
Red Cross Siberian Commission - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Red Cross Siberian Commission - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Title and date attribution based on information and events depicted in series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is... More

Finland News Service, IN A FINNISH ORPHAN HOME, Finnish girls who lost their parents in the Great War are learning the art of sewing in an orphan home in Viborg which is being helped to keep open by contributions from the Junior Red Cross of America

Finland News Service, IN A FINNISH ORPHAN HOME, Finnish girls who lost...

Title from negative or negative sleeve. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Photographed by the American Red Cross (Swift) Date based on date of negatives in same range... More

Rosa Parks Papers: Books Owned by Parks, 1866-2001; Sweeney, W. Allison, History of the American Negro in the Great War, 1919
Rosa Parks Papers: Books Owned by Parks, 1866-2001; Sweeney, W. Allison, History of the American Negro in the Great War, 1919
Rosa Parks Papers: Books Owned by Parks, 1866-2001; Sweeney, W. Allison, History of the American Negro in the Great War, 1919
Machine gun in front line trench

Machine gun in front line trench

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

End of war, American National Red Cross, 1919, wwi

End of war, American National Red Cross, 1919, wwi

Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov... More

The figure of a doughboy, an affectionate term for a U.S. soldier in World War I, raises his rifle on the Astoria, Oregon, Soldiers Monument, dedicated to those from Clatsop County who fought in the "Great War"

The figure of a doughboy, an affectionate term for a U.S. soldier in W...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-12) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

Rosa Parks Papers: Books Owned by Parks, 1866-2001; Sweeney, W. Allison, History of the American Negro in the Great War, 1919
Lockets a descriptive ballad of the Great War - and after

Lockets a descriptive ballad of the Great War - and after

Picryl description: Public domain photo of musical notation for piano page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Lockets a descriptive ballad of the Great War - and after

Lockets a descriptive ballad of the Great War - and after

Picryl description: Public domain photo of musical notation for piano page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Lockets a descriptive ballad of the Great War - and after

Lockets a descriptive ballad of the Great War - and after

Picryl description: Public domain photo of musical notation for piano page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

They acted like the G.A.R.'s 10,000 dollar drive for the Legion Allied Veterans of the Great War

They acted like the G.A.R.'s 10,000 dollar drive for the Legion Allied...

words by Walter Tobin ; music by Arthur Keefe. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Subtitle from caption: Ex-service men's number. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web si... More

Shell burst near British dressing station

Shell burst near British dressing station

Photograph shows a shell bursting near an advanced dressing station (54th Field Ambulance) at Heninel, Pas-de-Calais, France, May 27, 1917 during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and Imperial... More

In 1937, the people of Humphreys County, Mississippi, erected this memorial in downtown Belzoni that honors male soldiers who fought for the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War of the 1860s (right), women who supported the rebel cause in that war back home (left), and soldiers from the area who died in the "Great War," or World War I, (center)

In 1937, the people of Humphreys County, Mississippi, erected this mem...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More