Gus Worke, a farmer who came from Germany 40 years ago, Southington, C...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[U.S. soldiers getting library books from truck, Kelly Field Library]
No. L.W.S.#28. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).
Your king & country need you. Another 100,000 men wanted. [...]
133,000, 8/14. Poster is text only. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
6th Cavalry Camp, mobilized at Texas City, Texas
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Women working in ordnance plants in World War I: spanner slotting fuse...
This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Arms & armament; Women War Work; WWI US; WWI Industry; Shelf.
[Abandoned British trench which was captured by the Germans; in backgr...
No. 7981 appears on photograph. Caption on back: Die Grosse Schlacht im Westen. Der Stab einer Infanterie-Division ... ueberscreiten einer genommenen engl. Stellung (176). Stamped: BUFA. Forms part of the Rehs... More
German troops en route to Russia
Photograph shows German soldiers seated on top of a railroad locomotive going to Russia, during World War I. (Source: Flicker Commons project, 2011)
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
Your king and country need you. Join the army until the war is over / ...
Poster is text only, with small armorial device of King George V. Poster no. 3. W. 7810. 11/14.
Spahis in camp at Arsy after battle
Photograph shows Moroccan French soldiers around a fire, probably in Ribecourt, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and Gallica Digital Library website)
Algerian soldiers - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Photograph shows Algerian soldiers in Europe during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Extra-territorial French troops, Dunkerque
Photograph shows soldiers next to train at Dunkerque, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Operating Ambulance, France, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows an ambulance in France during World War I.(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collectio... More
The Red Cross serves humanity Join now / / C.W. Anderson.
Red Cross recruitment poster showing a Red Cross nurse seated at a desk, with her left arm raised.
Waste not, want not - prepare for winter
Poster shows a young woman and an older woman standing before a table of fruits and vegetables, and some canned foods. The older woman holds up a jar and gestures toward the table. Additional text: Save perisha... More
S.O.S. Soldiers of the Soil - boys to the front
Poster shows a farmer on a horse leading two plow horses pointing and to vignette showing soldiers in battle. Text encourages boy between the ages of 15 and 19 to volunteer for the Soldiers of the Soil program.
Join the Canadian Grenadier Guards
Poster shows a Grenadier Guard; in background the Guard's Armoury and a vignette of soldiers in battle.
I'm doing my duty are you? Your Navy needs you this minute / / Clinton...
U.S. Navy recruitment poster showing a sailor holding a rifle. Issued by City of Boston Committee on Public Safety.
Germans at Berry-Au-Bac - A group of men sitting next to each other
Photograph shows German soldiers at Berry-Au-Bac, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)
Line up, boys! Enlist to-day / E. & S. Ltd.
Poster showing four men in kilts and uniforms, shouldering rifles. Poster no. 54.
If you cannot put the "I" into fight, you can put the "pay' into patri...
Poster showing a soldier, and a worker contributing to the Canadian Patriotic Fund.
Have you any women-folk worth defending? Remember the women of Belgium...
Poster showing a portrait of a woman wearing a shawl drawn over her head.
The Y.M.C.A. A dug-out in France / Edgar Wright.
Poster showing a sandbag shelter, a YMCA canteen, with soldiers relaxing out front with cups of coffee.
£1 for 15/6. If you cannot fight - lend your money. Go to the post off...
Poster showing a soldier with rifle, and a scene of a "Savings Bank" clerk helping customers at a post office.
Why aren't you in khaki? You'll be wanted. Enlist at once / printed by...
Poster is text only. Poster no. 65. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Men of London! Remember! We must have more men so join now and help to...
Poster showing the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, with flags of the Allies. Poster no. 50.
Oxfordshire [Red Cross] day, Saturday, June 5, for the British Red Cro...
Poster is text only. Public domain reproduction of World War One war bonds advertisement propaganda poster, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Exposition de tableaux de maîtres contemporains . . . vente au profit ...
A wounded soldier relaxing in an easy chair. Translation of title: Exhibition of paintings by contemporary masters . . . A sale on behalf of the association for relief to wounded or ailing soldiers. Galerie Ge... More
British wiring parties in rain - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...
Photograph shows British soldiers taking unbarbed concertina wire to the forward area, near Hamel, September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme in World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and Imperia... More
Le gala des marins de France . . . á la Comédie Française
A marine and a soldier standing on land with the sea in the background. Translation of title: Gala for French sailors . . . at the Comédie Française. Signed: Guy Arnoux 1916. Promotional goal: Fr. K700.J7. 191... More
Your country needs you now - The Navy, our first line of defense / Nuy...
Poster showing a sailor holding a rifle, and a harbor with many ships. Enlist at [blank]. No. 33017.
German prisoners lined up for examination
Photograph shows German prisoners taken during the Battle of Messines, June 8, 1917 during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project and Imperial War Museums website: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/... More
Teaching army cooks, Pratt Institute
Photograph shows men at stove with large pots, woman at table with bowls during a cooking course at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by th... More
Palestine - Jerusalem. General Allenby's entrance into Jerusalem - Fra...
Military procession entering Jerusalem through Jaffa Gate. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection.
La guerre et les humoristes. Exposition . . .
A caricature of a person, with pointed ears and wings, holding a large pair of scissors. Translation of title: The war and the humorists. Exhibition . . . Signed: M. Leroy. Exchange, Imperial War Museum, London... More
U.S. Marines "Soldiers of the sea" - For full information apply recrui...
Poster showing two Marines signaling from shore to ships at sea, surrounded by photographs of Marine life. Photograph captions: A Marine band ; An outdoor gymnasium ; A five-inch gun crew ; Baseball ; A barrack... More
Zeichnet die sechste Kriegsanleihe, 1914-1917 / M. Lenz.
Poster shows a knight on horseback, with the Austro-Hungarian banner behind him, slaying a dragon. Text: Subscribe to the 6th War Loan.
Landes-Kriegsfürsorge-Ausstellung / Sujan.
Poster shows a disabled veteran with a prosthetic arm using a scythe to harvest wheat. Text announces the National War Relief Exhibition in Pozsony.
Exposition des peintres de la mer . . . á la Ligue Navale française . ...
A large seagull flying over the water. Translation of title: Exhibition of painters of the sea . . . at the Ligue Navale fradçnais . . . to profit the Comités de Secours aux Marins Mobilisés. Signed: André Ver... More
Two unidentified sailors, African American and white
Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073) Purchased from: Orton and Pat Begner, Rochester, New York, via Civil War Collectables, Kendall, New York, February 2017.
National Service Women's Land Army. "God speed the plough and the woma...
Poster showing a woman using a plow pulled by a horse. "Apply for enrolment forms at your nearest post office or employment exchange". Series W9.
Marines Departing for France - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...
Photograph shows U.S. marines leaving for France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)
Knitting class Lafayette House, knitting class of wounded
Photograph shows woman teaching soldiers how to knit at Lafayette House, a convalescent home for veteran soldiers and sailors at 112 West 59th Street (Central Park South), New York City. It opened in October 19... More
British ambulance drivers, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows Elsie Knocker,the Baroness de T'Serclaes (1884-1978) and Mairi Chisholm (1896-1981) (left) in their ambulance driver uniforms and helmets at the window of their billet in Pervijze (Pervyse), We... More
Crush the Prussian--Buy a bond--3rd Liberty Loan
Poster showing a battle scene with trenches, a tank, and explosion. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
If you can't enlist--invest Buy Liberty bonds--See your bank today.
Poster showing the Statue of Liberty. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Official United States war films now being shown / The Hegeman Print N...
Poster showing a patrol boat, and an airplane shining a searchlight on the sea.
TR receiving Belgian envoys at Sagamore Hill [1917] /
TR entertains members of the Belgian Mission at Sagamore Hill, Aug. 22, 1917. The mission is headed by Baron Ludovic Moncheur, former Ambassador to the United States and includes General Mathieu Leclercq, Comma... More
His word of honor / C. D. Gibson.
Drawing shows German soldier making a promise on bended knee to a female symbol of Civilization as a female symbol of Belgium grieves in a graveyard. Title from Life magazine. Illus. in: Life, 1917 January 18, ... More
Your chums are fighting -- why aren't you?
Poster shows silhouette of soldiers, bayonets drawn, in battle. Public domain scan of silhouette drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
La Grande Guerre. L'effort et l'idéal de la Grande-Bretagne. Représent...
A foot soldier. Great Britain entered the war August 4, 1914 and by the end of the war over six million British soldiers had fought in the war. Of these, over seven hundred thousand had been killed by the war's... More
From the Liberty Theatre, Camp Sevier
J231457 U.S. Copyright Office Printed on image: "Copyrighted by J.R. Peden, Post Photographer, Greenville, S.C." Copyright deposit; J. R. Peden; October 4, 1918.
Pour le dernier quart d'heure . . aidez-moi! Les souscriptions á l'Emp...
Gen. Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929) overseeing his troops as they march across the battlefield. Foch was appointed commander in chief of the Allied armies in 1918. Translation of title: For the last quarter hour .... More
"Saving daylight!" Sign and mail one of these post cards to your congr...
Poster showing a man writing a postcard, with the U.S. Capitol in the background. To the left are samples of the free postcards that were distributed. United Cigar Stores Company. Saving daylight poster no. 3.
Poster - Sugar--save it - Public domain lithograph
Poster showing a list of ways to save sugar. Text continues: 1. none on fruits; 2. none in desserts; 3. less on cereals; 4. less in coffee and tea; 5. less in preserving; 6. less cake & candy; 7. use other swee... More
First Division First - last - and all the time.
Service Series poster promoting the First Division as a unit that works around the clock, showing half-length drawing of a soldier, holding rifle, on the face of a clock.
Sure! We'll finish the job Victory Liberty Loan / / Gerrit A. Beneker ...
Poster showing a man in hat and overalls reaching into his pocket; he wears buttons from previous Liberty Loan campaigns. No. 1-C. Duplicate on file.
Buy War Bonds. Pave the way to victory
Poster shows Canadian soldiers in trucks driving over a road paved with war bonds.
Tretet ein in den Grenzschutz Ost! Schütz die Heimat gegen Bolschewism...
Poster shows a village in flames with a large claw-like hand formed out of smoke posed over the buildings. Text encourages people to volunteer for the Eastern Border Protection Corps in order to protect against... More
Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif
12002-39. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More
Civil Air Patrol Base, Bar Harbor, Maine
Public domain photograph - aircraft, aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
War production workers at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5...
Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less
A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Ai...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Vultee [Aircraft Inc.], Nashvill...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Ven...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is ...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Montana
Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Workman is doing the prel...
Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a scul...
Public domain photograph of laboratory, science, research, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Elibia Siematter, working as a sweeper at the rou...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif
12002-39. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More
Libya: Popular mobile bath units in the Western Desert
Photograph shows a British soldier showering. Note on photograph front: Water is so scarce in the desert that often only a few drops are allowed to wash with. But Mobile Bath Units travel about, carrying their ... More
A cookery school in the Western Desert
Photograph shows soldiers receiving cooking instruction using ovens made from petrol tins and oil drums. Note on photograph front: A series of pictures taken at the Western Desert Cookery School where army cook... More
Save scrap for victory! Save metals, save paper, save rubber, save rag...
Poster for the Philadelphia Salvage Committee encouraging scrap drives to aid the war effort. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Approved and released by the Philadelphia Coun... More
Build for your Navy! Enlist! Carpenters, machinists, electricians etc....
Poster encouraging skilled laborers to join the Seabees as part of the war effort. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).
I pledge allegiance and silence about the war
Poster promoting patriotism and suggesting that careless communication may be harmful to the war effort, showing the American flag. Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43. Work Projects Administration Poster Collect... More
Residents of Japanese ancestry awaiting the bus at the Wartime Civil C...
Photo attributed to Dorothea Lange. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. A-92. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information... More
Oakland, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign reading "I am an American" pl...
Photograph shows the Wanto Co. store located at 401 - 403 Eighth and Franklin Streets in Oakland, California. The business was owned by the Matsuda family. Tatsuro Matsuda, a University of California graduate, ... More
Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill on portico of Russian Embassy in Tehe...
U.S. Signal Corps photo. No. S.C. 183218. Public domain photograph related to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Navy corpsman gives drink to wounded marine on Guam official U.S. Navy...
No. USN 475151. Public domain photograph related to US navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
All-American news. 1944-11, no. 2
All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, a... More
[Battersea incident, England, January 1945--A.W.V.S. canteen serves ho...
Women drinking coffee outside a building. Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress).
Crimean Conference--Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Frankl...
No. 199945-9. From the collections of Encyclopedia Britannica. Public domain photograph related to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
View of unidentified German concentration camp at time of liberation b...
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph. Public domain photograph related to World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Five starving men in German concentration camp at time of liberation b...
From United States Army Signal Corps. Public domain photograph related to World War Two, National Socialism, The Third Reich, Europe under Nazi occupation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl... More
Aerial view of Hiroshima after the bomb
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Official U.S. Army photo.
Destroy this mad brute Enlist - U.S. Army.
Propaganda poster shows a terrifying gorilla with a helmet labeled "militarism" holding a bloody club labeled "kultur" and a half-naked woman as he stomps onto the shore of America. 56004 (Class G) U.S. Copyrig... More
Help! The Woman's Land Army of America, New Jersey Division, State Hou...
Poster showing Uncle Sam shaking hands with a woman holding a hoe. Caption: Until the boys come back. Copyright by LIFE Pub. Co. Reprinted from LIFE of May 23, 1918. No. 4045. Exhibited: American Treasures of ... More
Night attack with phosphorous bombs, Gondrecourt, Aug. 15, 1918 Signal...
Photo shows the silhouette of a soldier in the foreground against the phosphorous streamers from bombs exploding in the background at Gondrecourt-le-Château, France, during World War I. Caption label from exhib... More
American Legion five million strong sheet music
words by J. H. Benson ; music by Harry Borowitz. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language)
Remember the lusitania - Public domain World War One sheet music
For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff notation. (language)
Sons of the U.S.A march song - Public domain World War One sheet music
words by Albert J. Skinner ; music by Henry Keefe. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Caption title. Manuscript in ink. Portion of envelope used for copyright submission laid in. Also available ... More
Tanforan totalizer (San Bruno, Calif.), May 15, 1942
Weekly Vol. I, no. 1 (May 15, 1942)-vol. 1, no. 19 (September 12, 1942). Collected in Japanese camp papers. Title from masthead. Also issued on microfilm from the Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service. ... More
Woodrow Wilson Papers: Series 8: Financial Material, 1864-1944; Subser...
Public domain document scan related to Paris Peace Conference, Woodrow Wilson, World War One, military conflict, diplomacy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Les belles villes gauloises d'entre Rhin et Moselle, lithographies ori...
Folder containing original lithograph showing a bird's-eye view of "Colmar" at the intersection of streets with a large building on the corner and a church behind, also shows activity on the streets, with remar... More
World War history : daily records and comments as appeared in American...
English and German. Chronologically arranged clippings of news articles, editorials and letters to the editor appearing in more than 100 American and Canadian newspapers.
Would you rather be a colonel with an eagle on your shoulder, or a pri...
Words by Sidney D. Mitchell ; music by Archie Gottler. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language) 4002-2 (music plate)
She's teaching me to parlez vous Francais (and I'm learning more and m...
This is a public-domain musical notation scan. There were many music publishers in the United States during the 1900s. Some of the most well-known ones include G. Schirmer, Inc., Boosey & Hawkes, and Hal Leonar... More
Stalingradskaia pereprava - Drawing. Public domain image.
Print shows Russian soldiers on river-bank, preparing to cross river at Stalingrad during World War II. Reproduction of painting by V.K. Dmitrievskiĭ.
The girl on the land serves the nation's need Apply Y.W.C.A. Land Serv...
Poster showing four young women carrying tools and a basket of produce, and leading a team of horses.