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SCENES of LIFE

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Paris

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Degradation of Corp. Gruault

Photograph shows the great courtyard of the Ecole Militaire in Paris, France,

when Gruault, a French reservist was degraded

(stripped of his military insignia and paraded before troops)

for attempting to sell a plan of the Eiffel Tower wireless station to Germany.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and Sydney Morning Herald, Sept. 28, 1914)

1914

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Naval militia guard a N.Y. bridge

Photograph shows members of the New York Naval Militia guarding bridge from German sabotage during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

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1917 Feb. 5

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Naval militia guard a N.Y. bridge

Photograph shows members of the New York Naval Militia guarding bridge from German sabotage during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Bain News Service, publisher

1917 Feb. 5

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Naval militia guard a N.Y. bridge

Photograph shows members of the New York Naval Militia guarding bridge from German sabotage during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Bain News Service, publisher

1917 Feb. 5

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Searching a suspect at bridge

Photograph shows members of the New York Naval Militia guarding bridge from German sabotage during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Bain News Service, publisher

1917 Feb. 5

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Man buying The Evening Star from newsboy, Washington, D.C.

Headline reads "U.S. at War with Germany"

1917 April 7.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Heuvelland

Oostaverne wood

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Tommy writing home after battle

Photograph shows a British officer, lying on the ground in a captured German trench

in Oostaverne Wood, Belgium, writing a letter, during the Battle of Messines offensive,

during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and similar image on Imperial War Museums website)

1917 June 11

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Eating German ice cream

between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Berlin

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Gerard's good-bye to refugees in Berlin

Photograph shows James Watson Gerard (1867-1951),

the American ambassador to Germany from 1913 to 1917 at a train station in Berlin, Germany.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

1914 Sept. 8

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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American War Correspondent, Germany

Photo shows Wilbur H. Durborough, an American correspondent

who went to Germany in 1915 to shoot film footage of World War I.

between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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