First call I need you in the Navy this minute! Our country will always...
Recruiting poster showing Uncle Sam.
German trenches & screen
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C.P. Steinmetz
Photograph shows Charles Proteus Steinmetz, a German mathematician and electrical engineer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Wounded Austrian Officer on Patrol on Isonzo
Photograph shows a wounded Austrian officer near the Isonzo River which flows near the border of Slovenia and Italy, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the ... More
Turk negotiations with Arabs
Photo shows the official opening of Beersheba (Israel) by the Ottoman Turkish government before World War I. (Source: John D. Whiting Collection photographs: LOT 13833, no. 132 and no. 136)
Crn. Prince of German And wife at Oels
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John Barrett & Count Von Bernstorff
Photo shows diplomat John Barrett (1866-1938), Director General of the Pan American Union and German Ambassador Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff (1862-1939) at the Diplomatic Corps Reception at the Pan American B... More
A Landsturm Duet
Photograph shows men playing stringed instruments by the railroad tracks during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
[Women immersing bouchon assemblies for hand grenades in Vatudrip to p...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
POINCARE, RAYMOND PRESIDENT OF FRANCE, 1913 -
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War Crowd in Downing St., London
Photograph shows crowd of people in Whitehall Street, near the corner Downing Streets, London, England, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Com'r Hartigan and butcher
Photograph shows Commissioner Joseph Hartigan of the Bureau of Weights and Measures in a store, while investigating the prices of food in New York City at the beginning of World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons p... More
The Winter Palace, Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Russia
J2282388 U.S. Copyright Office. No copyright restriction per Photoduplication Service. Public domain image of 19th-century Saint Petersburg, Russia, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restriction... More
[Wood being loaded on wagons from canal boats on the Fontanka River, S...
J228060 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain image of 19th-century Saint Petersburg, Russia, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Enfants adoptes, Pierre Masse a Salles (D. Sevres) adopted child
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Adopted children. Date (year) based of date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about... More
German soldier's Christmas
Photograph shows German soldiers gathered around a Christmas tree, outside during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)
Road from Diest to Haelen
Photograph shows dead horses in a road 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 Commons project, 2... More
French mutile before being fitted with a mask by Mrs. Ladd
Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Date based on date range for negative series. On caption card: To go with #9283. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the Ameri... More
[Swiss soldiers entranched on the frontier]
George Grantham Bain Collection.
English women munition workers
Photograph shows a group portrait of English women who worked in munitions factories during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)
[Dr. Canaan and Dr. Nashat Bey, in the Russian Hospital, Jerusalem]
Photo shows Dr. Tawfiq Kan'an (sometimes spelled Kanaan or Canaan).
German River patrol -- France
Photograph shows German soldiers in France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)
Reservists at Gare de l'Est, Paris
Photograph shows reservists and crowd at the Gare de Paris-Est (train station), Paris during the beginning of World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Submarine "U-10" at full speed
Photograph shows the German U-10 submarine which served in World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Cacciali via! / U. Finozzi.
Poster shows a mother holding her child as a soldier, holding a dagger, rushes forward toward flames. Text: Drive them out!
High Church dignitaries of the Russian church who assembled at the Mon...
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He did his duty - will you? U.S. Marines - join for active service lan...
U.S. Marines recruitment poster showing half-length portrait of George Dewey. Poster caption continues: "No finer military organization than the Marine Corps exists in the world" George Dewey, Admiral of the Na... More
[German submarine U20, on Danish coast, said to be the one that sank t...
Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: WWI Sub. warfare; Submarines; Ships LUSITANIA.
The wasp, Movie Poster
Motion picture poster for "The Wasp" shows a man in a top hat confronting a seated man among a group of other men. "With Dick Little Secret Service operative." "A Selig Blue Flame Series detective drama."
"Get into khaki"; we are doing our bit / H.M. Burton.
Poster shows an Australian soldier with rifle in one hand gesturing toward other soldiers in battle.
Russian Barricade, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows a soldier behind a metal Russian barricade during World War I. The barricade has holes, through which the soldier can shoot. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. F... More
H.M.S. ANTRIM. Warship photograph collection
Photograph shows the HMS Antrim, an armoured cruiser of the British Royal Navy that served during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)
Substance and form. The guy that put the soul in soldier
Cartoon of a caveman with a club, standing beside a faceless military figure holding a rifle and a bayonet. The uniform is embellished with the words "Honor," "Patriotism," "Heroism," and "Bravery." Editorial ... More
Martinique -- Fort de France
Photograph shows an outdoor market in Fort-de-France, the capital of Martinique. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)
Soldats russes faits prisonniers en Galicie
Print shows a large group of Russian soldiers captured in Galicia.
Royal Naval Division at work & play / Stewart Browne ; distributed by ...
Poster showing sailors with rifles on a bank, and a launch headed out towards numerous ships offshore.
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.
Australia has promised Britain 50,000 more men; will you help us keep ...
Poster shows a kangaroo in front of number 50,000 and in background silhouette of soldiers in battle.
Gen. J. J. Pershing
Photograph shows John J. "Black Jack" Pershing (1860-1948),a general in the United States Army and head of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)
There are three types of men. Those who hear the call and obey, those ...
Poster is text only. Poster no. 103.
Journée du Poilu. 25 et 26 décembre 1915. Organisée par le parlement
A French soldier standing on a battlefield holding a rifle and about to throw a grenade. The use of the grenade was first introduced during WWI. Translation of title: Poilu Day. December 25 and 26, 1915. Organ... More
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. ARTIST WITH WWI POSTER
Photo shows poster artist Gerrit A. Beneker.
Travelling Kitchen to feed sixty men, attached to the Norton Harjes (A...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: M. Cordoza, ARC. Paris Office. Group title: ARC and Norton Harjes Ambulances. Rol... More
Colonial troops, German Gov't station, Ebolowa, Kamerun [i.e., Cameroo...
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Jerusalem Aķșā-Moschee: Mimbar (Predigtkanzel). In Aleppo 1168 angefer...
Plate 10 in portfolio: Bilder aus Palästina. Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai. Berlin : Dietrich Riemer, 1916. Letterpress caption in German. Translated title by Library staff.
Claire Rochester, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows actress Claire Rochester driving a Golden Flyer for the "Wake up America drive" to raise funds for Liberty War Bonds in April 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provid... More
Le 24 Août 1914, à Louvain, ramenant un prisonnier belge, la soldatesq...
Illustration shows an executed Belgian prisoner of war, with hands and legs bound, hung on a lamp off the side of a building; German soldiers proceed down the street and around the corner. German translation o... More
[Winston Churchill with Kaiser Wilhelm at German Army maneouvers. Both...
J210139 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood in 1916. Exhibited: Churchill and the Great Republic, Library of Congress, 2004, and other venues, 2004-2005. Caption card tracings... More
Le Secours de Guerre
Translation of title: Policemen, soldiers, and civilians standing outside the Ancien Séminaire St. Sulpice which houses Le Secours de Guerre (the relief agency for war victims). Signed: Maurice Romberg, 1916. P... More
Journée Serbe. 25 juin 1916
Serbians (both military and civilian personnel) crossing the River Drina into Albania or what is now Yugoslavia.
Five knitting machines were installed at N.Y. University. These machin...
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: Workrooms, New York. Data: International Film ... More
France - in a front line trench
Photograph shows British troops in a trench in France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)
Field kitchen & Tommies resting
Photograph shows field kitchens and British troops resting on the road between Neuville and Wancourt, France during the Battle of Arras, April 29, 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and similar image a... More
Norton-Harjes (AMERICAN RED CROSS) ambulance drivers watching an aeria...
Title from negative or negative sleeve. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: M. Cordoza. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the A... More
Unidentified African American soldier in uniform and overseas cap with...
Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073) Purchased from: Orton and Pat Begner, Rochester, New York, via Civil War Collectables, Kendall, New York, February 2017.
Headquarters of the Norton Harjes (American Red Cross Ambulance) Ambul...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Date received: August 2, 1917. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Commission to France. Group title: Hospital, F... More
If it's worth living under, it's worth fighting for--Enlist today / Gu...
Poster showing an American flag.
Field Kitchen, one of the feature of the Red Cross Parade in N.Y.C., O...
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: Field Kitchen. On caption card: 4 October. Dat... More
American wounded in base hospital, France
Photograph shows American soldiers with nurses in Ward 10, Base Hospital in Talence, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the ne... More
Service - Surgical dressings for war relief / Thomas Tryon.
Poster showing a nurse above the flags of the Allies. Border features medical supplies, labeled: drains, compresses, bath mitt, elbow rest, tampon, bed sock, bandages, fracture pillow.
Zeichnet 7. Kriegsanleihe / Th. Fasche.
Poster shows a woman, representing the Austro-Hungarian Empire, holding a flag.Text announces the seventh war bond drive.
Lest they perish Campaign for $30,000,000 - American Committee for Rel...
Poster showing a woman carrying a baby on her back among destroyed buildings.
WWI, American National Red Cross, 1918
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
These are all "Stars and Stripes" Children little French war orphans, ...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Comm. to France. Group title: Adopted children, France. Used in: Woman's M... More
General Baden-Powell and a detachment of his Boy Scouts furnish an aft...
Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Personnel, U.S. in England. On caption card: D-40. Data: New England. 11/18. Central Div. 11/18. Mt. Div. 11/18. Gulf Div. 11/18. Northern Di... More
Shell Shock. This soldier was hit in the head by a piece of eclat whic...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Commission to France. Group title: Hospitals, France. On caption card: 2818. ... More
American Red Cross man making friends with Belgian children at an Amer...
Red Cross at home with the Belgian babes Maison de Repos, 46 Rue de Dr. Blanche American Hostels for Refugees. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from cap... More
Refugees. Palestine
Title and date from Red Cross caption card. Used in: ms. 7012. Mrs. Bessie Brewer. 9/29/18. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photograph ... More
Photograph of mutile wearing mask made by Mrs. Ladd of the A.R.C., tak...
Caption from negative sleeve: Same man as in 3783, wearing the mask made for him by Mrs. Ladd of the A.R.C. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from captio... More
Signing the contract by which the American Red Cross agrees to build t...
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: Italian, Village Construction. Data: MS. 11... More
Am. hosp. military No. 1, Paris, wounded American soldiers with Red Cr...
Title from negative or negative sleeve. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the America... More
Refugees in two wars. This old couple Mr. and Mme. Leclaire, who will ...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Commission to France. Group title: Refugees, France. On caption card: 2723. D... More
Dressing a guards officer
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
Rome. The young Princess Virginia di San Faustino who works daily in t...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Italy. Group title: Food, Italy. Data: H.E. 24316, Ms. 1121, N.E.A. 13 Cop. G... More
Noontime at canteen--reading the Hog Island News
National Photo Company Collection. No. 4353. N18.
Red Cross parade, 1918
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Happy looking little French children but without any known ties in the...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Mr. Donalson, 6/18/18. Group title: Children's Work. Plate to Secretary General. ... More
French mutile before wearing the mask made by Mrs. Anna Coleman Ladd, ...
Caption from negative sleeve: Mutiles, Mrs. Ladd. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Colin [Joseph A. Collin](Rep.) ... More
U.S. locomotive assembled in France
Photograph shows the completion of a Baldwin locomotive at a U.S. assembling plant in France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons, May 2016). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the nega... More
Launching another victory ship United States Shipping Board, Emergency...
Poster showing a panoramic view of the launch of the ship "Lady Janet." Caption: Sidewise launching of the 3500 ton S.S. "Lady Janet" at the Great Lakes Engineering Co. yard, Ecorse, Michigan, July 4th, 1918.
Skin diseases
Caption from negative sleeve: Gas burns pictures. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Bissell. Gift; American Nationa... More
A.F.F.W. Drivers. Chauffeurs of the American Fund for French Wounded. ...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Women War Relief Corps and Other Auxiliary Associations. Gift;... More
Ward #4, Annex #7, American Hospital, Blois, France
Soldiers in hospital beds with nurses and other patients nearby.
Nitrous Oxide Machine
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] 21 April 1918. ARC. Paris Office. Group title: Nitrous Ox... More
Children knitting
Title from negative or negative sleeve. 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 colle... More
Col. Anderson, American Red Cross Commissioner to the Balkan States, w...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, Balkan Comm. Group title: Roumania, Personnel. On caption card: (Z-1110) Use... More
Verdun, France, 1919. Cityscape photograph
J251603 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; W. L. King; November 12, 1921. On front: "Photo by W. L. King, Millersberg, Ohio; by courtesy of Military Intelligence, General Staff, U.S. Army." No. 1.
Reims. One of the main streets of the town showing destruction done by...
Caption from negative or negative sleeve: Reims. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Guerin, A.R.C.; photo by the Ame... More
Dr. Kate Doherty, Dentist at work in Dental Dispensary of American Wom...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Group title: Hospital. France. Civilian. Used in: Ex. Miss Robinson. indef. ... More
Magaw Memorial Hospital, Foochow, China. Scene in childrens ward with ...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Nursing Department. Group title: China. Used in: Ex. indef. Miss Pickett. Gi... More
The greatest moment in history / exclusive photographs by Helen Johns ...
Dignitaries gathered in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles to sign the peace treaty ending World War I, June 28, 1919. Photomechanical reproductions of photographs. Illus. in: Leslie's photographic review of the... More
Toting dead and wounded into foreign concessions. Hinhore. Bringing in...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. 14th Div. Group title: 14th Division. China. On caption card: (471) Gift; Am... More
Paris, France. This picture shows the size of one of the heroes of the...
Caption from negative or negative sleeve: Srgt. Cardi group. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Colin [Joseph A. Col... More
Soup enough to float the "Leviathan." That is the quantity claimed to ...
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: Supplies, Roumania. On caption card: 12910. Used i... More
The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Infor...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Infor...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Georgia photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Inf...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Infor...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.