World War I: American Artists View the Great War
Special Presentation

World War I: American Experiences in Selected Photographs

This presentation highlights selected images from tens of thousands of World War I-related photographs in the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress.

Recruitment, Training, Volunteers: United States

Naval Recruiting Office Decorated with Posters

Emma Goldman on Streetcar with Uncle Sam Recruitment Poster in Background

Quartermaster Sergeant Neal C. Goodman Working as a Cartoonist for the U.S. Marine Corps

U.S. Soldiers Reading in Y.M.C.A. Library Hut in Fort Vancouver, Washington

U.S. Sailors Reading in a Segregated Rest Area in Red Cross Headquarters in New Orleans

Recruits in a Large Hall at a Military Training Camp

World War I Soldier with American Flag in Background

Maynard P. White in Uniform with Photograph of Unidentified Woman

Medical Corps Group at Allentown Camp in Pennsylvania

Workers of the Byhalia Colored Auxiliary of the American Red Cross in Northern Mississippi

Princeton Students Training for War Service

Officers and Crew of the U.S.S. Mount Vernon.
Photograph by J. C. Crosby

Flying Officers at Love Field in Dallas, Texas.
Photograph by Frederick W. Hellenberg

Naval Airmen Get High Scores in Aerial Target Practice

A National Guard Regiment on the Way to Training for War Service in France

Americans in Europe

U.S. Marines in France Digging Trenches

American Red Cross Canteen at Gare St. Lazare, Paris

Photojournalist Helen Johns Kirtland in a Snow-Covered Trench, with Gas Mask under One Arm

Heavy Field Artillery in Rest Camp on Hillside near Andelot, Haute Marne, France

American Field Artillery Assisting the Infantry in France

U.S. Army Infantry Troops, African American Unit, Marching Northwest of Verdun, France

First Pontoon Bridge Built by U.S. Engineers across the Marne in Lucy, France

American Red Cross Volunteer Gives an Injured War Correspondent a Cigarette in Souilly, France

A Doughboy Receives Word that He Will Soon Have Three Days Leave in Paris

Engineer Corps Repairing Road While Machine Gunners Head toward Battle, Argonne Forest, France

F5L Bombing Planes

Two 91st Aero Squadron Members Holding Aerial Camera Next to Biplane

Seicheprey, the Scene of the First American Battle, April 20, 1918

Picking Wounded Soldiers off Barbed Wire

American Red Cross Nurse Feeds an Injured Infantryman through a Tube

Members of the 314th Ammunition Train Receiving Mail, Six Days before the Armistice

Homefront: United States

Women Working in Chicago Ordnance Plant

Woman Operating a Venting Machine at the U.S. Cartridge Company in Lowell, Massachusetts

Women Working at Lincoln Motor Company in Detroit

More than 200 Women Gather Every Day in Madison Square to Knit for the Troops in the Trenches and at Sea

Knitting in Palm Beach, Florida, "Another Preparedness Measure That Society is Taking Up Seriously"

"Food Will Win the War" Sign on Municipal Building in Trenton, New Jersey

"The War-Bread Wagon," Staffed by Women of the New York City Food Aid Committee

Washington, D.C., Bakery is Closed for Not Following Food Administration’s Guidelines to Use Wheat Substitutes

Opera Singer Mabel Garrison Siemonn Digging in a Demonstration Garden to Help Recruit Seamen and Sell Liberty Bonds

Visitors Studying Gardening Notices in Demonstration Garden in Bryant Park, New York City.
Photograph by Frances B. Johnston

European War Scenes Viewed in the United States

French Infantry Firing from Trench

Birdseye View of a Battlefield on the Somme Front

The Wood Called Des Fermes in the Somme

A Formidable Weapon in Trench Warfare

View of Almost Totally Destroyed Town with Crude Sign Saying "This was Forges" (Possibly Forges-les-Eaux)

American Red Cross Photograph of Dead Soldiers Awaiting Burial

Austrian Army Auto Hauled by Six Horses

Training Women for Street Railroad Service in Berlin

Children of Soldiers at the Front in Berlin

No Man’s Land, Flanders Field.
Photograph by William Lester King

A French Woman Returns to Find Her Home a Heap of Ruins

Refugees in Gare de Lyon in Paris

End of War and Aftermath

"Germany Surrenders"
Photograph by W. L. Drummond

803rd Pioneer Infantry Battalion on the U.S.S. Philippine in Brest Harbor, France

803rd Pioneer Infantry Band Battalion on the U.S.S. Philippine in Brest Harbor, France

Red Cross Canteen in Le Mans, France, Serving U.S. Troops Soon Headed Home

Red Cross Chaplain Conducting Funeral Service of an American Soldier at Vichy Hospital Center

Business Goes on as Usual in Reims, France, Amid Destroyed Buildings

Digging for Homes in Ypres, Belgium

St. Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on Duty during Deadly Influenza Epidemic of 1918

Massachusetts Representative Edith Nourse Rogers Assists Disabled Veteran Carl Bronner, a Recent Law Graduate from the University of Maryland

Veterans at Walter Reed on an Outing to Chesapeake Beach, Maryland