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E.M. House - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows American diplomat, politician and presidential advisor Edward Mandell House (1858-1938) also known as Colonel House. He was a foreign policy advisor to President Woodrow Wilson during World War... More

Adm. Hugh Rodman - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Admiral Hugh Rodman (1859-1940), who served as an officer in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War and World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Victomtess De Rancoigne, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows the Vicomtesse de Rancougne, born Giselle Bunau-Varilla, who was on tour of the United States to raise wartime relief funds for Paris artists affected by World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons p... More

Col. E.M. House - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Kiaotschau - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows a view of the town of Qingdao (Tsingtao) which was the administrative center of the German concession of Jiaozhou (Kiautschou), China. Japanese and British forces attacked the German-controlled... More

Lieut. Porte - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows British aviator Lieutenant Commander John Cyril Porte (1884-1919), who was a flying boat pioneer associated with the World War I Seaplane Experimental Station at Felixstowe, England. (Source: Flickr... More

General V. Mackensen, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Anton Ludwig August von Mackensen (1849-1945), was a German field marshal during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the neg... More

AUDACIOUS. Warship photograph collection

Photograph shows the H.M.S. Audacious warship of the Royal Navy which was sunk by a German mine off the coast of Ireland on October 27, 1914 during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Belgian Artillery - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Belgian artillery soldiers with field guns and spotter on ladder at left, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

GERMAN ROYAL FAMILY. THE CROWN PRINCE

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barricade on farm, Haelen - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows the aftermath of the Battle of Haelen which was fought by the German and Belgian armies on August 12, 1914 near Haelen, Belgium during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Barricade on Liege Rd. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Dr. R.S. Lee -- J. Etta Mullen -- Dr. C.A. Porter

Photograph shows Dr. R.S. Lee, with two members of the "First Harvard Unit" that worked with the Red Cross in France during World War I, Miss J. Etta Mullen and Dr. Charles Allen Porter (1867-1931). (Source: Fl... More

Chateau des Halles. Home for convalescent repatrie children at St. Foy...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Children's Work. Plate to Secretary General. Print in album. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red Cross ... More

Germans in Rus. i.e. Russian Poland

Photograph shows German soldiers during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Lib... More

General view of a refugee camp with headquarters of Red Cross nurses i...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Red Cross Mag. Classification: Disaster Relief. Date received: October 1920. Gift... More

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)

[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

Doctors & families going to war zone, 10/17/14, Dr. Mary Crawford

Photograph shows a group of American doctors including Dr. Mary Crawford of Brooklyn, who went to help at the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Peace Parade - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows the women's peace parade down Fifth Avenue in New York City on August 29, 1914, shortly after the start of World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

PAU, PAUL MARIE CESAR GERALL. GENERAL OF FRANCE

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. troops enter Vera Cruz - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

Photo shows American troops during the U.S. occupation of Veracruz, Mexico which took place during the Mexican Revolution. The U.S. troops entered the city on April 21, 1914 and stayed through November 1914. (... More

School colony for Belgian children in Seine Inferieure. Supplies reach...

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Belgian Pictures. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American ... More

The Clarisses (left) where the old people died like flies after bad tr...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Rapatries. Plate to Secretary General. Print in album. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 a... More

General Pau, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows French General Paul Marie Cesar Gerald Pau, (1848-1932), at the beginning of World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negativ... More

On LA LORRAINE, 8/5/14 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows a man kissing a woman at the French Line pier as he prepares to leave for Europe on the La Lorraine. The ship left New York City in August 1914 for its last transatlantic crossing before World ... More

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

Anne Morgan - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows Anne Morgan, sister of the president of J. P. Morgan & Company and a fundraiser for World War I relief as head of the American Committee For Devastated France. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 1914)

Proving identity -- Near Diest - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Photograph shows soldiers checking identies of people after the Battle of Haelen which was fought by the German and Belgian armies on August 12, 1914 near Haelen, Belgium during World War I. (Source: Flickr Com... More

COMMERCIAL ATTACHES: ALBERT H. BALDWIN, TO LONDON; V.L. HAVENS, TO SAN...

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Corp. J. Mant] in Canadian Hosp. [i.e., Hospital], Le Touquet

Photograph shows nurse bandaging head of a soldier at the Canadian base hospital in the Hotel du Golf, Le Touquet, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Ribecourt -- Dragoon & Spahi Patrols meet

Photograph shows a patrol of cuirassiers (left) (mounted cavalry soldiers) and the first Moroccan Spahis (right) at Ribecourt, France, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Vera Cruz -- house of sick woman guarded by our sailors

Photo shows American sailors with Mexican family during the U.S. occupation of Veracruz, Mexico which took place during the Mexican Revolution. The U.S. troops entered the city on April 21, 1914 and stayed thro... More

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)

Children at Chateau des Halles. A.R.C. Hospital for refugee and repatr...

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: M. Lachman (?) Group title: Children's Work. Date based on date range for negative seri... More

Paris -- Newsboys waiting for "Extras"

Photograph shows newsboys waiting for news during the beginning of World War I, Paris, France. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Algerian soldiers - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Algerian soldiers in Europe during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

French Dragoon patrol - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows French dragoon soldiers in street at the beginnng of World War I.

Austrian 15 cm. gun in action - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Photograph shows an Austrian army gun, probably during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

American Nurse, American ambulance, Paris

Photograph shows an American nurse with a patient in Paris, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Belgian relief shop -- N.Y. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

Photograph shows the Belgian Relief Shop, New York City during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Mexico - Presidio, Texas--Dr. Braden in charge of army Red Cross, dres...

J192552 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Emblemas de la libertad y de la humanidad La Cruz Roja, Madre de todas...

Poster showing two Red Cross nurses, one, a Madonna figure, cradling in her arms a wounded soldier(?) on a litter, between the flags of Panama and the United States.

Allenby's official entry with military review at Russian Compound. Bri...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

General Sir John French in Paris - Glass negative photogrpah. Public d...

Photograph shows British officer John Denton Pinkstone French, (1852-1925), who served as the the first Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force during World War I, in Paris, France. (Source: Flic... More

Last letter home before this American leave again for the trenches. Co...

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Military Hospitals. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the America... More

Paris -- Autos for Army transport

Photograph shows steam lorries (trucks) for use by French army during World War I in Paris, France. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

German Bridge over Maas at Dinant

Photograph shows a bridge over the Maas River in Dinant, Belgium during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Geor... More

American Red Cross Metropolitan Canteens Shower bath. Gare de Lyon. Sh...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Metropolitan canteens. Plate to Secretary General. Print in album. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red ... More

Invasion of Belgium by the "uncultured"

Drawing shows Uncle Sam carrying a basket labeled "Belgian Relief" and an armful of clothing labeled "From the Plain People", taking a large step into the midst of a destitute woman and several children, victim... More

Enfants adoptes, Edmonde Fillaire

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Miss Perrin. Group title: Adopted children. Plate in file. Date based on date range for... More

Unrecognizable - Drawing. Public domain image.

Cartoon shows a hairy ape-like figure wearing a German helmet (labeled "Military Barbarism"), crying "Hass! Hass! Hass!" (or Hate! Hate! Hate!), standing over the relaxed figure of a kindly looking professor (l... More

Chaque piéce d'or apporté á la banque avance d'une heure la victoire f...

Soldier with one hand on clock, the other holding a gold coin.

At Trilport near Meaux where German auto fell into river

Photograph shows the wreckage of an automobile on which two German officers died while attempting to cross a bridge that had previously been destroyed at Trilport, France. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Jean Piere Thomas (?) Born May 15, 1914; Henriette Maitile Thomas (?) ...

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Adopted children. Plate in file. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information abou... More

Uhlans advancing, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Uhlans (Polish light cavalry soldiers) during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Granth... More

Vaccination -- Valcartier Camp, Canada

Photograph shows Canadian soldier being vaccinated at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec. The camp was established in August 1914 as part of the mobilization of the Canadian Ex... More

German Army auto with wire cutter

Photograph shows a German Army automobile during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Soissons after bombardment - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows buildings in Soissons, France after bombardment by German forces during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Enfants adoptes, Marius Laurange (?)

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Adopted children. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American ... More

Refugees, Gare de Lyon, Paris - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Photograph shows refugees in Paris during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Peasant giving drink to French soldiers

Photograph shows a woman giving water to French soldiers at the beginning of World War I.

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.

Crowd outside Red Cross Headquarters, Paris, waiting to get a peep at ...

Cliche envoye le 29 Juin 18/au Secretaire General. Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Accidents and Scenes in Paris. On caption card: Print in album. No plate in file. Date based on date ... More

Wounded arrive at Chalons sur Marne

Photograph shows wounded soldiers on stretchers next to railroad cars at Chalons sur Marne (now Chalons-en-Champagne), France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Germany -- French prisoners singing

Photograph shows French prisoners singing while standing in group outside of buildings, possibly at Zossen prisoner of war camp, Wünsdorf, Zossen, Germany, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Emblemas de la libertad y de la humanidad La Cruz Roja, Madre de todas...

Poster showing two Red Cross nurses, one, a Madonna figure, cradling in her arms a wounded soldier(?) on a litter, between the flags of Bolivia and the United States.

Staff of Kaiserin's Hospital train -- Dr. Israels

Photograph shows staff of the hospital train of Kaiserin Augusta Victoria (wife of Wilhelm II of Germany), during World War I.

At Champigny -- giving wine to Algerian troops

Photograph shows people giving wine to Algerian soldiers at Champigny-sur-Marne, France, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negat... More

King Albert of Belg. [i.e., Belgium] in America

Photograph shows Albert I (1875-1934) King of the Belgians (1909- 1934). Photograph was taken by Belgian photographer Aime Dupont during his 1898 trip (when he was a Prince) to the United States, and copied lat... More

[Russia]. German & Austrian prisoners. [Russian men and women]. [Russi...

Titles from item and devised by Library staff. From disbound album of James Maxwell Pringle's business trip to Russia and Asia for First National City Bank of New York. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2010:041

Wounded Turcos in Paris - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows wounded Algerian tirailleurs (infantry soldiers) in Paris, France, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

At German Consulate -- New York

Photograph shows German Americans at the German Consulate in New York City as part of German mobilization before World War I.

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

General Joffre giving orders - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Photograph shows French general Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre (1852-1931) who served 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)

G. Marconi - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi (1874-937) wearing an Italian Army uniform during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Der Wahlsturm fegt durch's Land! Bayerisch-Weissblau gegen Russisch-Ro...

Poster shows a man in red running from a deluge of blue and white pieces of paper marked Bayerische Volkspartei. Text: The election storm is sweeping the land! Bavarian blue and white against Russian red! Bavar... 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.

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

French Officers at graves of comrades

Photograph shows French officers laying flowers on graves of soldiers during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Image copied b... More

Poster - Kriegsanleihe zeichnen! / LO. - Public domain lithograph

Text: Subscribe to the War Loan! Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik.

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.

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)

Zeichnet Kriegsanleihe! Wiener Bank-Verein / Rauch.

Poster shows a medieval drummer before a walled city. Text: Subscribe to the War Loan! Viennese Bank Association.

The Clarisses (left) where the old people died like flies after bad tr...

U.S. troops in France - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kaiser & Archduke Friedrich - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

Photograph shows Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (1859-1941) with Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen (1856-1936) Supreme Commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Deutsche Kriegsausstellung ... Ausstellungshallen am Zoo / Orlik.

Poster shows a German soldier standing guard(?) by a collection of military gear and weapons, including a helmet, sword, shield, armor, flag, cannon balls, and a cannon mounted on a caisson. Text announces a wa... More

[Soldier giving direction to a family, amid chaos and destruction of w...

Poster has no text. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Egyesult Erovel - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Creutz,O., copyright claimant. Portraits of Kaiser... More

Bomb wrecked houses, Yarmouth - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows homes in Great Yarmouth, England which were damaged by bombs dropped by the German Zeppelin L3 on January 19, 1915 during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data pro... More

A Y.M.C.A. cellar in Flanders / Wright., Flanders

Poster showing a YMCA facility for soldiers, including distribution of books and supplies, and men in uniform relaxing, reading, writing, and smoking. Illustration is by Edgar Wright.

Nurses on ST. LOUIS, 4/17/15 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Photograph shows nurses aboard the American liner the St. Louis. Nurses were accompanying a US Army field hospital being shipped to Europe for operation by the Red Cross during World War I. (Source: Flickr Com... More

Women workers, England - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows women workers in the street during World War I.

It is far better to face the bullets than to be killed at home by a bo...

Poster showing a dirigible in the night sky over London, illuminated by a searchlight.

(Mrs. H. Kinnicutt) Mrs. Fuller Potter -- Mrs. H.W. Howe

Photograph probably shows Helen Fidelia Hoffman (Mrs. William Kinnicutt Draper), a Red Cross volunteer involved in the March 1915 Red Cross Tea Room at the International Flower Show in New York City; and Mary B... More

German women making uniforms - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Public domain photograph of building interior, office, room, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Military Hospital Car, C.P.R'Y - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows the exterior of a military hospital car on the Canadian Pacific Railway during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negat... More

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