Military personnel; Women; War work; Entertaining; National Jewish Welfare Board
Activities and events at the Jewish Welfare Board for soldiers. Images include men sleeping on cots, dances and entertainment in an auditorium, soldiers sitting with young women, soldiers standing around a desk with an older woman, and soldiers and...
World War, 1914-1918; Soldiers; Military life; Military uniforms; Bathing; Hygiene
André Jeunet, center, and fellow French soldiers appear to be clowning around as they take a break to wash up outdoors. Jeunet is wearing the jacket of a higher-ranking soldier and the other two have towels.
World War, 1914-1918--France; Soldiers; Military training; Writing; Classrooms; Mourning clothing & dress
André Jeunet's close friend, Godet, and another soldier sit in a classroom writing letters home. The number of their military unit, France's 139e Régiment d'Infanterie, is clearly visible on the collar of Godet's uniform. The second soldier, also...
World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Eastern Front; Women; Veils; Children; Soldiers; Villages; Dirt roads
Balkan women, wearing dark veils, are accompanied by children as they walk toward unidentified buildings in a village. Soldiers are standing behind the women and at the side of the road and almost everyone is facing in the direction the women are...
United States. Army--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Confederate States of America. Army; Soldiers--Kentucky--Psychology--History--19th century; Soldiers--Kentucky--Attitudes--History--19th century
Beginning with Bell Irvin Wiley's 1943 The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy, historians have produced many works describing the motivations for soldiers to enlist and serve during the Civil War. However, because they often...
World War, 1914-1918; Children; Children playing soldiers; Military uniforms
Children, wearing World War I military helmets and holding soldiers' weapons and other tools, stand at the side of a tree-lined dirt road. One is waving a flag.
Monuments & memorials; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Monuments
Confederate Soldiers' Monument located on Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky, erected in 1895. Monument reads: "Our Confederate Dead, 1851-1885." Handwritten on bottom of mounted print: "3rd & Brandeis. Was carved in Florence,...
Monuments & memorials; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Monuments
Confederate Soldiers' Monument located on Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky, erected in 1895. Monument reads: "Our Confederate Dead, 1851-1885." Handwritten on bottom of mounted print: "3rd & Brandeis. Was carved in Florence,...
World War, 1914-1918--France; Military vehicles; Soldiers; Newspapers; Reading; Wooden buildings
Four soldiers read "L'Echo de Paris," a Paris newspaper as they stand on a dirt road or parking area during World War I. Insignia on one collar indicates they are part of the 139e Régiment d'Infanterie. Wooden barn, other buildings, and...
World War, 1914-1918--France; Soldiers; Military training; Barbed wire; Wire obstacles; Fences
French soldier, leaning on his rifle, appears to be using his foot to test tension on a barbed-wire fence as other soldiers look on. Believed to have been taken during the photographer's field training at Autun, France in 1915.
World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Eastern Front; Soldiers; Cobblestone streets; Buildings; Villages; Cities & towns; Ox teams
French soldiers approach man with yoke of oxen on cobblestone road in a town that is believed to be in the Balkans. The soldiers are probably part of France's 34e Colonial Regiment.
