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A newspaper clipping that advertised bonds. It tells a short story of a young American veteran kissing women who bought bonds.

Patients and staff of the St. Louis City Insane Asylum sit in chairs or stand in doorways along a clean and neat hallway posing for the camera.
Originally called the St. Louis County Lunatic Asylum, the separation of the county and the City of St.…

Newspaper advertisement promoting all the jobs available within the Works Progress Administration

A recruitment poster for the USAAS during World War I

The Wreck of Old 97 at Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, Virginia, 1903. The photograph is believed to have been taken a few days after the occurrence of the wreck as the locomotive, Southern Railway 1102, which had overturned, has been righted.

The draft card for John J Mashburn

The diary of American flying ace Zenos Ramsey Miller. It reads:

"200
Friday, July 19, 1918

The destruction of a Fokker biplane by Lt. Z. R. Miller was reported today. This occurred near St. Remy Oulchy, altitude 2500 meters. Awaiting…