Highlights : Military : World War I

Subcategory World War I contains 13 item(s).

	Red Cross Volunteers 1917-1918 1996.12.2859 This photograph of two female Red Cross volunteers in front of a war fund booth reminded Americans during World War I that support for the war effort at home as well as abroad was key to achieving allied victory.
	Thomas Williams Ashley (1894-1918) 1917-1918 1958.15.01 When Thomas Ashley of Deerfield, Massachusetts, was killed in World War I, the whole town mourned his loss.
	"Allies, Arise!" 1918 L00.076 With a distinct patriotic theme, this sheet music cover was for a song that was popular at the time of World War I, after the United States had entered the war.
	WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett Apr 29, 1918 L01.010 This letter of April 29, 1918, from Edward Roswell Wirt (1891-1942) to his fiancee, Emily Gladys Bartlett, tells of his enlistment in the army during the last year of World War I.
	WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett Jul 23, 1918 L01.015 Wirt's division was disbanded after several weeks and its troops dispersed. He wrote this letter in southern France while awaiting assignment to another unit. The Allies were reluctant to use U.S. units at all, but the war's events forced them to.
	WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett Mar 30, 1919 L01.020 Wirt's unit remained in garrison in France as the peace conference continued. Wirt again worries about the League of Nations concept, worries that many other Americans shared.
	WWI Message to Edward Roswell Wirt 1918 L01.022 In April 1918, King George V of Great Britain issued a welcome and a thanks to the soldiers of the United States who were fighting for human freedom.
	WWI Cartoons 1917-1919 L01.024 Frank Hines clipped this panel of cartoons from a Camp Devon, Massachusetts, newspaper during World War I.
	"Keep them smiling"- WWI broadside c. 1918 L01.081 This World War I poster helped raise funds for troops overseas.
	World War I Encampment 1918-1919 1996.12.2589 Their first days in the army: soldiers of Greenfield, Massachusetts, in a temporary Army camp during World War I, August, 1917.