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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. Title from item.

Zeichnet 7. Kriegsanleihe / Alfred Offner.

Poster shows soldiers and their weapons behind a barricade of Austrian coins. Text: Subscribe to the 7th War Loan, Vienna Commercial Bank. Title from item.

First call I need you in the Navy this minute! Our country will always...

Recruiting poster showing Uncle Sam.

DCM 0479: V. Kohlert's Söhne One-Handed Flute in C, for the left hand

See DCM 478. This is made in reverse for a performer missing the right hand and/or arm. Instrument type: One-Handed Flute in C, for the left hand Medium: Grenadilla(?), nickel silver keys and ferrules.; 67.55 ... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.

Raising Honor Flag of 3d Liberty Loan on Treasury

Liberty Loan tank

German -- Captured French Plane -- Morane Sport type

Aldershot - recruits on practice hike

Photograph shows British soldiers at Aldershot army camp 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... More

Ocean liners: Rev. H.R. Salisbury

Photograph shows Rev. Homer Russell Salisbury (1870-1915), administrator and Superintendent of the Seventh Day Adventists for India, who died during the sinking of the SS Persia by German torpedoes on December ... More

Maharaja of Bikaner, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows General Sir Ganga Singh (1880-1943), the Maharaja of the state of Bikaner, India. He served in the British Imperial War Cabinet during World War I as its only non-Anglo member. (Source: Flickr ... More

ANDREA DORIA, Italy, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows the Italian battleship Andrea Doria which served in World War I and II. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: ... More

Gen. von Gallwitz, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows German general Max Karl Wilhelm von Gallwitz (1852- 1937) who served in World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Fo... More

Gen. Neidenoff, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Bulgarian General Kalin Neidenoff (1865-1925), who served as Minister of Defense of Bulgaria during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data provided by the Bain News... More

Gen. Mackensen, George Grantham Bain Collection

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

Liberty Loan poster

German Caddies

Col. E.M. House

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

British armored autos in France

Photograph shows British soldiers and cars 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 ... More

ANDREA DORIA, Italy

Photograph shows the Italian battleship Andrea Doria which served in World War I and II. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

German Military aviator starting

Gen. Fieldmarshall von der Goltz

Photograph shows Wilhelm Leopold Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843-1916), a Prussian Field Marshal who served in World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News S... More

Crown Prince -- Germ. i.e., Germany

Photograph shows German Crown Prince Wilhelm (1882-1951) with two other soldiers during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. For... More

Gen. Litzmann

Photograph shows Karl Litzmann (1850-1936), German World War I infantry general and later a Nazi official. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Kaiserin gives roses to departing officers

Photograph shows Augusta Viktoria of Schlewig-Holstein (1858-1921) last German Empress and Queen of Prussia with German soldiers. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Mrs. Wynne in Western Trenches

Photograph shows Hilda Wynne of the British Red Cross with soldiers during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: G... More

Gen. Ivanoff

Photograph shows Nikolay Iudovich Ivanov (1851-1919) who served as a general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

German & Austrian prisoners in Russia

Photograph shows German and Austrian prisoners in Russia 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 Grant... More

Kaiser & sons

Photograph shows the sons of Kaiser Wilhelm II: Wilhelm, German Crown Prince; Prince Eitel Friedrich, Prince Adalbert, Prince August Wilhelm, Prince Oskar, and Prince Joachim. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

French Aviator Burri

Photo shows Swiss aviator Ernest Burri who flew for the French in World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Gen. Von Reckowski i.e., Rekowski

Photograph shows General Otto Gynz von Rekowski (1850-1915) who served in the German Army during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the nega... More

Mme. J.J. Jusserand

Photograph shows Elise Richards Jusserand, born in Paris, France to American parents, who became the wife of Jean Jules Jusserand, French ambassador to the United States during World War I. (Source: Flickr Comm... More

Capt. Meyer-Waldeck

Photograph shows Alfred Wilhelm Moritz Meyer (1864-1928), a Navy captain and Governor of the German controlled port of Tsingtau (now Quingdao), China during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Lt. Von Mucke in Berlin

Photograph shows Lieutenant Hellmuth von Mucke (1881-1957), a German Marine officer who served aboard the Emden in World War I; taken May 1915, possibly later. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from ... More

Gen. Sir H. Smith-Dorrien

Photograph shows General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien (1858- 1930), who served during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Gen. Sir Beauchamp Duff

Photograph shows General Sir Beauchamp Duff (1855-1918) who served in the British Indian Army in World War I as Commander in Chief. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Gen. Sir. I. Hamilton

Photograph shows General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton (1853- 1947) who led the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title... More

Count von Bernstorff of Germany /

Medium close shot of Count Johann von Bernstorff, German Ambassador to the U.S. (1908-1917), sitting and talking with an unidentified man in a car.

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

German hospital train

Liberty Loan group, Hotel Gordon

Liberty Loan Poster

Virginia Mackay-Smith, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Virginia Mackay-Smith, daughter of the Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania Alexander Mackay-Smith. In 1921 she married Karl Boy-Ed (1872-1930), who had served as naval attaché to the German Ambass... More

Joffre & Kitchener, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows French general Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre (1852-1931) with British Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916). Both men served in World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)... More

Gen. V. Mudra, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Karl Bruno Julius von Mudra (1851-1931), who was a Saxon General of Infantry in World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the nega... More

Col. E.M. House, George Grantham Bain Collection

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, George Grantham Bain Collection

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) Title from data provi... More

German Army - Balloon corps

German "Arrow" aeroplane -- Ziegler type

Melanie Kurt

Photograph shows German soprano opera singer Melanie Kurt (1880-1941), who debuted with the Metropolitan Opera in 1915. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Volunteer of 15, from Brandenburg

Photograph shows a 15 year old soldier on horseback, from Brandenburg, Germany during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Print... More

Gen. Fieldmarshall von der Goltz

Photograph shows Wilhelm Leopold Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843-1916), a Prussian Field Marshal who served in World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Prince Louis of Battenberg

Photograph shows Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (1854-1921), a German prince. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Mrs. Catherine Boyle, 908 Young St., New Castle, Del.

Summary: Full-length studio portrait of Catherine Boyle, New Castle, Delaware, holding a tricolor suffrage flag and wearing a two-piece outfit with a locket or pocket watch pinned below her left shoulder, stand... More

German Trench Telephone Station

Brussels -- German Music class in Assembly Hall

Liberty Loan. Bureau of Engraving

Zeppellen L II [i.e., zeppelin]

Photo shows the German zeppelin naval airship, L II, (also known as LZ 18) which later exploded outside of Berlin on October 17, 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010 and New York Times, Oct. 18, 1913)

Crown Princess Cecilie [and] Duchess Brunswick

Photograph shows Crown Princess Cecilie Auguste Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886-1954), wife of German Crown Prince William (left) wearing her Dragoon regiment uniform and Victoria Louise of Prussia (the Duc... More

Gen. Sir W.G. Nicholson

Photograph shows Field Marshal William Gustavus Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson (1845-1918), a British Army officer who served in India and during the Boer War and World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, ... More

Brig. Gen. E.C. Bethune

Photograph shows Sir Edward Cecil Bethune (1855-1930) who served in the British Army in the Boer Wars and World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on... More

Leopold of Bavaria

Photograph shows Leopold Maximilian Joseph Maria Arnulf, Prinz von Bayern (1846-1930) who served as a commander in the German and Austro-Hungarian forces during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Gen. Polivanoff, War Minister of Russia

Photograph shows Alexei Andreyevich Polivanov (1855-1920), a Russian military officer who as Minister of War during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data provided by the Bain News ... More

Nicholaus i.e., Nicholas Ahlern

Photograph shows Nicholas Emil Harman Ahlers, a German diplomat of English background, who was tried in England for treason during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by... More

Neufmentier i.e., Chauconin-Neufmontiers -- French & German wounded in...

Photograph shows French and German wounded soldiers in a church, in Chauconin-Neufmontiers, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on... More

Prof. Julius Petersen, Wilhelm Benignus

Photograph shows German literary scholar Julius Petersen (1878-1941), who was a professor at Yale University in 1912 and German author Wilhelm Benignus (1861-1930). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

War Minister -- Wild V. Hohenborn

Photograph shows Heinrich Adolf Wild von Hohenborn (1860-1925), the German Lieutenant General who replaced Falkenhayn as Prussian War Minister from Jan. 1915 to Oct. 1916 during World War I. (Source: Flickr Com... More

Virginia Mackay-Smith

Photograph shows Virginia Mackay-Smith, daughter of the Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania Alexander Mackay-Smith. In 1921 she married Karl Boy-Ed (1872-1930), who had served as naval attaché to the German Ambass... More

Princess Viktoria Luise and Crown Princess of Germany

Photograph shows Crown Princess Cecilie Auguste Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886-1954), wife of German Crown Prince William (left) wearing her Dragoon regiment uniform and Victoria Louise of Prussia (the Duc... More

Crown Princess of Germ. [i.e. Germany] & son

Duchess Cecilie Auguste Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886-1954), wife of German Crown Prince William, probably with her son Prince Friedrich (b. 1911). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Gen. von Scheffer Boyadel

Photograph shows German general Reinhard Freiherr von Scheffer Boyadel (1851-1925), who was appointed governor of Warsaw in 1915 during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provid... More

Victomtess De Rancoigne

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

[German ambulance]

German balloon corps

German Kaiser at review

Woman's Liberty Loan Committee

Grp. at Hotel Gordon. Liberty Loan speaking

Liberty Loan Poster

Liberty Loan poster

Liberty Loan Poster

Woman's Liberty Loan Committee

Liberty Loan poster

Woman's Liberty Loan Committee

Liberty Loan Poster

Liberty Loan poster

Liberty Loan poster

Woman's Liberty Loan Committee

Mrs. Wilson's Liberty Loan card

[Woman's Liberty Loan Committee]

World War I Vet. Parade

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

Foch, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Marshal Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch (1851-1929), a French general who served as the Allied Supreme Allied Commander during the last year of World War I, with others. Title from data provided by t... More

Joffre sailing, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows French general Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre (1852-1931) who served during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.... More

Davis Elkins, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Davis Elkins (1876-1959) who served in the U.S. Army during World War I and later became a senator from West Virginia. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bai... More

Joffre in Tokyo, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows French general Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre (1852-1931) who served during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.... More

German prisoners with machine guns & wounded