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Britons! Your country needs you / Printed by Saunders & Cullingham, 2 ...

Poster showing map of British Isles behind text. Poster no. 23. Wt. 8936. 50M. 1632/12/14.

Acting Secretary of the navy principal speaker at Arlington Armistice ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Market, Wash. D.C., World War I period

Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.npco This glass negative might sh... More

Coup de main au clair de lune A. Grebel

Prints shows soldiers charging with bayonets in the moonlight. Edition of 25. Library has "1/25." Forms part of: Straight collection of French graphic art relating to World War I (Library of Congress). Accessi... More

Exterior Soissons Barracks - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows a barracks building in Soissons, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

At Chanconin [i.e., Chauconin-Neufmontiers]

Photograph shows a damaged building at Chauconin-Neufmontiers, France during World War I. In the background is St. Saturin church. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

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 the Dominican Republic and the United States.

Italians charging Austrian infantry

Photograph shows Italian soldiers charging up slope to engage the Austrian in combat. J206903 U.S. Copyright Office. Inscribed on negative: 117267 F.C. Inscribed on verso: 185202-117267 FC. Copyright September... More

Early automobiles - [Armored cars]

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1910s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Austrian monitor BODROG on the Save [i.e., Sava River]

Photograph shows the S.M.S. Bodrog, a submarine of the Austro-Hungarian Navy on the Sava River. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Germans in Russian Town - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows German soldiers walking with women in a Russian town during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

A Sauterelle - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows soldiers with a sauterelle (grenade launcher) during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Servian guns taken by Austrians

Photograph shows Serbian weapons captured by Austrian forces during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Corner of battlefield, Haelen - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Photograph shows dead soldiers and horses in a field 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 Comm... More

A silent protest - Drawing. Public domain image.

"The George Washington statue, Place D'Iena, Paris" on monument. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: New York Herald, Sept. 29, 1914, p. 14.

Frl. Dr. Koch and Assistants, Palestine

Photograph shows Dr. Koch with his medical staff outside a tent in Palestine during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons projecy, 2013)

Your king and country need you. Enlist now / H.W. & V. Ld.

Poster showing text with small armorial device of King George V, against a background of the British flag. Poster no. 5. W 3004 11/14.

A quiet moment in German trenches

Photograph shows German soldiers smoking and reading in a trench during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

New French Siege gun - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows horses pulling a gun during World War I, Paris, France. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Brussels--Germans on Boulevard Bolwerk

German soldiers on horse-drawn wagon. Photograph appears in The Illustrated War News, September 2, 1914, with caption "After the arrogant parade of the Germans in Brussels: leaving the capital for the front ag... More

The Worcesters going into action

Photograph shows British troops marching and waving their helmets in greeting. Printed on front: Official photograph; Crown copyright reserved; Daily Mail War Pictures, 33. In collection: British postcards, b... More

Belgian peasants showing pass to sentries

Photograph shows Belgian men in a horse-drawn cart, showing a pass to German soldiers during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative... More

German field gun in action - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

German soldiers firing field gun during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Belgian woman in field - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Belgian woman working in a field during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Turcos Examining War Booty at Neufmentiers

Photograph shows Algerian tirailleurs (infantry soldiers) at Chauconin-Neufmontiers, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

German aviator receiving orders

Photograph shows a German pilot in an airplane on the ground with an officer (?) handing him a paper, during World War I.

German air-plane displayed to the crowd at Salonika

Filed in: Greece General. No. 3824. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Early automobiles - Operating Ambulance, France

Photograph shows an ambulance in France during World War I.(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

British battleship towing destroyer

Photograph shows the British battleship HMS Royal Oak, towing a topedo boat destroyer during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and the Imperial War Museums website: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/... More

Belgian guide reg't i.e., regiment starting to front

Photograph shows Belgian soldiers in rail road car 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 Ba... More

Attention! ... Canadian Grenadier Guards now recruiting

Poster shows two soldiers, in profile, standing at attention. Public domain photograph related to army, military forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

British and French prisoners assorting mail

Photograph shows British and French soldiers who are prisoners of war, sorting mail during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Soissons--wrecked bridge - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows a damaged bridge near Soissons, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

French Zouaves getting a drink - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Photograph shows French Zoave soldiers drinking with ladles, during the beginning of World War I.

German Red Cross dog seeking wounded

Photograph shows German man with a Red Cross dog searching for wounded soldiers during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Chicken house in France used as a dwelling by Germans

Photograph shows German soldiers seated around chicken house during World War I.

Captured English autobus used by Germans in Belg. [i.e., Belgium]

Photograph shows German soldiers in a captured English bus in Market Square, Bruges, Belgium, during World War I. The statue in the background depicts Jan Breydel and Pieter de Coninck. (Source: Flickr Commons ... More

Valcartier camp - Grenadier guards off to target practice

Photograph shows soldiers 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 Expeditionary Force at the ... More

British at Etaples buying from natives

Photograph shows British troops at Étaples, France with women selling food, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Nous defendrons le precieux joyau de la liberte ... aiderons nous a ec...

Poster shows soldier standing at attention, framed by two Union Jacks. English language version: POS - Can .A01, no. 31.

German cross over French soldiers

Photograph shows German language cross over the grave of a French soldier during World War I.

Germans at Vise getting water - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Photograph shows German soldiers at Visé, Belgium during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Maggi Laboratory, Paris - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows a milk store of the Maggi Company, Rue Condorcet, Paris, France whihc was damaged by a mob, because of its German ownership, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Austrian big gun during World War I

Photograph shows soldiers gathered around and climbing on a large cannon or howitzer mounted to a base on the ground. J208923 U.S. Copyright Office. Inscribed on negative: H 3. Copyright Dec. 1, 1915.

General von Pluskow who took Lodz - Glass negative photogrpah. Public ...

Photograph shows German general Hermann Otto Hugo Ferdinand von Plüskow (1852-1925) who served during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the... More

19th & 28th Infantry Camp, Fort Crockett, Texas, 1914

J192819 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Medley & Blandford; May 9, 1914. Copyright claimant's address: Cheyenne, Wyo.

Allan Stoneham and wife at Etaples

Photograph shows English hotel owner, Allan Stoneham and his wife on horseback in Étaples, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

British autos with cannon in France

Photograph shows a truck with a sign "Landsdale & Adshead, Macclesfield Brewery" which is transporting a cannon during World War I in France. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by t... More

Dutch soldiers on Belgian Frontier

Photograph shows 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 (Library of... More

The Jews the world over love liberty, have fought for it & will fight ...

Poster shows a soldier cutting the bonds from a Jewish man, who strains to join a group of soldiers running in the distance and says, "You have cut my bonds and set me free - now let me help you set others free... More

4th & 7th Infantry Camp, Fort Crockett, Tesas [sic], 1914

J192814 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Medley & Blandford; May 9, 1914; DLC/PP-1914:44805. Copyright claimant's address: Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Naval recruits police, Paris - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Photograph shows French naval recruits with a police officer, Paris, France, at the beginning of World War I.

Germans in Russian church at Suwalki

Photograph shows German soldiers in a church at Suwalki, Poland during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

R.A.M.C. picking up wounded in a captured village

Photograph shows the Royal Army Medical Corps, with ambulances and wagons, collecting the wounded after a battle. Printed on front: Official photograph; Crown copyright reserved; Daily Mail War Pictures, 34. ... More

Assembling fuses--Frankford Arsenal, Frankford, Pennsylvania

Women working in arsenal. No. 35813. U.S. Army, Industrial Service Section photo.

Departure of "Landsturm" - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows women and a band standing outside railroad cars filled with German soldiers. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

[German machine gunners in a trench]

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.

Red Cross Transport in Forest of Laigle (i.e., Laigne)

Photograph shows a horse-driven ambulance carrying wounded soldiers in the Forest of Laigne, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Why don't they come? ... join the 148th Battalion

Poster shows soldier in battle with vignette of hockey game rising from his smoking rifle.

Poster - Heroes? past and present - Public domain lithograph

500 men wanted for the 237th Overseas Battalion, C.E.F.

Poster shows a soldier pointing upwards. Public domain scan of Canadian poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Heroic women of France toiling to produce food Are you doing your part...

U.S. Food Administration poster showing women in France pulling plows; includes quotes by Alonzo Taylor, Herbert Hoover, and Woodrow Wilson. Issued(?) by: United States Food Administration.

His Majesty's Army ... vacancies exist

Recruiting poster for British Army shows four Army units, Hussars, Highlanders, Infantry and the Army Service Corps. Drawings of soldiers in uniform by Ernest Ibbetson and John McNeill.

Turk soldiers, Gallipoli - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Ottoman soldiers during the Gallipoli campaign which took place on the Gallipoli Peninsula in the Ottoman Empire (now Gelibolu, Turkey) between April 1915 and January 1916 during World War I. (... More

Speed the "silver bullet." Buy the new government war loan - 4 1/2 per...

Poster is text only. Poster no. 3. Public domain reproduction of World War One war bonds advertisement propaganda poster, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Journé du Poilu. 25 et 26 décembre 1915. Organisée par le parlement

A poilu embracing a girl. Behind them is a sewing machine, and a tipped chair; a little dog is in the left-hand corner. Caption: Enfin seuls . . .! Alone at last . . .!

To skilled workmen. Give your strength and your skill to your country....

Poster is text only, with monogram and arms of George V at top.

Some women are sending their men. Some men are giving their lives. Wha...

No. 2. 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

German field bakery on march - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Photograph shows a German field bakery with soldiers marching during the Winter Battle of the Masurian Lakes in 1915 on the Eastern Front during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from da... More

Construction men, bushmen, sawmill men & chauffeurs wanted. Join the 2...

Poster showing a forester holding a pike, and a small night scene of men building a log bridge.

German Anti-Aircraft Gun - A black and white photo of a group of men

Photograph shows German soldiers with anti-aircraft weapons during World War I.

Serbian retreat near Rougovo = La Retraite Serbe à Rougovo

Photograph shows soldiers leading their houses across a snowy mountain landscape. In album: Commet les Serbes abandonnèrent leur patrie, vu par Sampson Tchernoff.

Austrians in the Tirol - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Austrian soldiers in the Tyrol during World War I.

Russian women hospital orderlies

Photograph shows Russian hospital workers with soldiers during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Granth... More

Am'n i.e., American Ambulance Field service in Woevre Forest, bell to ...

Photograph shows an American ambulance driving through the Woevre Forest, France during World War I. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collec... More

"Be honest with yourself. Be certain that your so-called reason is not...

Poster showing, in silhouette, soldiers with a cannon. Poster no. 127. W 8768/576.

Women in War-time, Berlin - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows women workers sweeping the street in Berlin, Germany during World War I.

Servia [i.e., Serbia] -- field gun drawn by oxen

Photograph shows field guns in Serbia during World War I. Public domain photograph - World War One artillery, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women workers, England, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows women working in a field with hay in England during World War I. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Co... More

[Two soldiers in no-man's land]

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0068). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

New British Army at Etaples, France, Feb. 1915

Photograph shows British soldiers at Étaples, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Put your back into it and help to give the final push. Sign the enlist...

Poster showing Allied soldiers, left, and German soldiers, each group struggling to push a huge red ball "Victory" over a peak. Warrant No. 6211-12000-H.M.S.O.

Exchanging French - English prisoners, Singen, Switz.

Photograph shows a prisoner exchange in Singen, Germany just north of the German/Swiss border during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

German soldier's "Auf Wiedersehen"

Photograph shows a German soldier saying goodbye to a woman, in front of the Gotha Carbonic Acid Plant, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

The key to the situation. Are you helping to turn it? / printed by Sea...

Poster showing a key labeled "Munitions, men, and money." Poster no. 116.

La Grande guerre - Glorieux tropheé

Print shows French soldiers seizing the battle flag from a German unit during a battle. Caption: Le premier drapeau pris a l'ennemi. In portfolio: La Grande Guerre. Paris : A. Tolmer et Cie, 1915, plate no. 4.

Belgian & Allies Aid League. Will you help these sufferers from the wa...

Poster showing Belgian refugees. Public domain reproduction of World War One war bonds advertisement propaganda poster, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mudros, Lemnos -- French embarking for Dardanelles

Photograph shows activities of French forces at Mudros (Moudros), Lemnos, Greece during the Gallipoli Campaign in Turkey during World War I. (Source: LOT 11176).

Daddy, what did you do in the great war? / designed and printed by Joh...

Poster showing a pensive man with his daughter on his lap, while a boy plays with toy soldiers at his feet. Poster no. 79.

More men and still more men required. Public meetings to further recru...

Public domain scan of performing arts poster, printed advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

War loan / printed by Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd. London, E.C.

Poster showing arms of George V above a quote, "The man, be he rich or poor, is little to be envied who at this supreme moment fails to bring forward his savings for the security of his country." - The Chancell... More

Irelands war map. 100,000 men still eligible. Ireland at the front loo...

Poster showing an outline map of Ireland, with detail maps showing locations of noted battles. Caption: The battles in which Irish regiments have received prominent notice are shewn above.

Cold-blooded murder! Remember... Enlist to-day / printed by Roberts & ...

Poster is text only, listing Germany's "crimes against God and man." Poster no. 97. W. 2464/446.

The Y.M.C.A. motor kitchen in France / Edgar Wright.

Poster showing a truck fitted out as a YMCA canteen, serving soldiers, with smoke rising from battlefields in the distance.

Recruits of 1st Snowshoe Battalion, Munich

Photograph shows German soldiers on snowshoes during World War I. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Enlisted for duration of the war. Help the national egg collection for...

Poster showing a chicken wearing a red leg band and a sash decorated with a crown.

124 cartridges for 15/6 and your money back with interest / printed by...

Poster is text only. Published by the National War Savings Committee, 18 & 19, Abingdon Street, Westminster, S.W. Poster no. 18. 20m. Wt. 5213/331. (7940).

War loan. Back the empire with your savings. Invest now / Printers, Si...

Poster showing a lion, symbol of the British Empire. Poster no. 21.

Why are you stopping here when your pals are out there? / H. & C. Grah...

Poster is text only. Poster no. 27. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lads, you're wanted: go and help / printed by David Allen & Sons Ld., ...

Poster showing soldiers charging over a hill, in silhouette. Poster no. 78.

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