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Identifier:PR-065-0761

Agricultural views and rural scenes: farms, including farm houses and yards, cattle, sheep, women feeding yard of chickens, children feeding a horse, haying, including views in the winter, hop pickers, a peddler at a farm house, group in decorated boat for harvest festival, a log cabin, agricultural implements at unidentified fair; includes sentimental views.

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Identifier:PR-065-0763

Animals: trained bear; buffalo: on a city street, herd of buffalo, and buffalo skulls; girl with cat and doll; dogs, including a dog in a hat, and with a cigar in his mouth; a fox; a frog; goats: children playing with a goat, child with goat cart; gorilla; monkeys in a bar scene, some with pipes, monkeys with musical instruments, monkeys in a domestic scene; birds: taxidermied arrangements of birds, duck and other game birds hanging from string, bittern, bird of paradise, quails, buzzards, grouse or prairie chicken; two examples of coral.

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Identifier:PR-065-0765

Views of the moon, most taken when full, including views made by H. Draper and L. M. Rutherford.

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Identifier:PR-065-0767

Botany: plants, flowers and vegetables, many hand-colored; floral arrangements, interior views of conservatories, gardens, a parsnip sculpted into the face of a man; arrangements made of leaf skeletons.

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Identifier:PR-065-0769

Man on horseback next to elephant and circus tent.

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Identifier:PR-065-0771

Civil War: painting of a battle; field telegraph station.

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Civil War stereographs have been digitized and are available online via New York Heritage.

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Identifier:PR-065-0773

Civil War camp life: general views of camps, including tents, forts, rough buildings; men eating, reading relaxing, playing, washing, arrayed in formation, and with horses; includes African Americans; one view shows man with wife and child in camp.

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Identifier:PR-065-0775

Hospitals: Frank L. Keyes, at home recuperating; Sanitary commission wagons and tents.

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Identifier:PR-065-0777

Portraits of civilians: Harper's Weekly artist; Godfor, a "battlefield vulture"; Jim Kerrigan, "The mollie squealer"; Major Pinkerton, and others, including Lincoln.

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Identifier:PR-065-0779

Portraits of officers, including studio portraits and men shown in the field: Anderson, Bates, Butler, Corcoran, Crawford, Custer, Custer with Lt. J.B. Washington, a Confederate prisoner who was his classmate at West Point; Dix, Duryea, Farragut, Ferroro, Gordon, Grant, Hancock, Kearney, McClellan, Marcy, Moseby, Ord, Pleasonton, Patrick, Robertson, Rogers, Sherman, Smith, Strang, Sweeney, Thomas, Wheeler, Worden and others; some are Confederate officers; one view of Custer shows him with his dog.

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Identifier:PR-065-0781

Railroads: railroads that have been destroyed, including a railroad bridge; soldiers in front of a Baltimore and Ohio relay house.

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Identifier:PR-065-0783

Washington, D.C. and vicinity: Gen. McClellan's HQ; views on the Potomac; Grand Review of returning soldiers, showing men on parade, and the reviewing stand with dignitaries.

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Identifier:PR-065-0785

Georgia: Fort McAllister and Fort Pulaski, including interiors of the fort, artillery pieces, trenches.

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Identifier:PR-065-0787

Maryland: soldiers seated above the Patapsco bridge outside Baltimore; ruins of Gen. M. Blair's home; crew of gun boat practicing; Sharpsburg: street, Lutheran church damaged by fire; pontoon bridge across the Potomac at Berlin, and ruins of bridge that it replaced.

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Identifier:PR-065-0789

The levee at Vicksburg, lined with steamboats.

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Identifier:PR-065-0791

Great union Meeting, Union Square, New York April 20, 1861: crowds filling the park and surrounding streets, and lining the roofs of nearby buildings, with flags flying overhead.

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Identifier:PR-065-0793

Gettysburg: breastworks, fences, woods and the battlefield; dead on the battlefield; Confederate prisoners standing by breastwork; Round Top; Sugar Loaf Mountain; African Americans with a donkey: "all the livestock on Mr. Gill's plantation"; Lee's headquarters; Gen. Meade's headquarters; gate to the cemetery; John L. Burns' cottage; "Farmers' Inn and hotel, Emmittsburg, where our special artist was captured, July 5th, 1863"; home of James Gettys, founder of Gettysburg.

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Identifier:PR-065-0795

Beaufort, S.C.: houses, some used as officers quarters, or military headquarters; streets; soldiers cemetery; 2nd U.S. Artillery, Colored with guns and tents; hospitals; boat landing; signal station, men on horseback below; store and post office; room decorated for ball; issuing stores to a group of Afican American people.

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Identifier:PR-065-0797

Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor, S.C.: view of interior of the fort, showing guns, the sallyport, cannonballs in stacks, looking out toward beach of Sullivan's Island.

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Identifier:PR-065-0799

Tennessee: views in Nashville; bridge over the Cumberland on the Louisville and Nashville R.R.; Knoxville R.R. depot at Chattanooga, group of rebel soldiers waiting transport north; Lookout Mountain; federal camp at Johnsonville.

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Identifier:PR-065-0801

Alexandria, Virginia: bridge construction corps at work; interior of a barn; railroad yard, and slave pen; slave pen with soldier standing inside of it; Marshall house.

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Identifier:PR-065-0803

Bull Run: views on the battlefield at Bull Run including remains of the dead and graves, soldiers on horseback and Sudley's Ford and church, Robinson's House, ruins of houses, Beauregard's headquarters (later McDowell's), a monument, men lounging by tents at a picket's station; Sherman's battery on its return from Bull Run; bridge at Bull Run built by McDowell's engineers; T.H. O'Sullivan and photographers wagon; painting of the battle.

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Identifier:PR-065-0805

City Point, Virginia, on the James River, supply point and headquarters of Union forces during the siege of Petersburg: wharves, sailing ships, barges, steamboats, General Grant's headquarters, portraits of General Grant, one with his wife and son, orderly with Grant's horse Cincinnati, Gen. Rawlins, wife and child, soldiers and winter quarters, soldiers serving out rations, army wagon going to Commissary, graves of soldiers near the hospital.

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Identifier:PR-065-0807

Fort Monroe and vicinity: views of the fort, including fortifications and moat, a large artillery piece; group portraits of men in camp; tents in Camp Hamilton, bridge destroyed at Hampton, near Fortress Monroe; Zouaves at Camp Butler.

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Identifier:PR-065-0809

Views along the James River, Virginia: camps, including the construction corps camp at Belle Plain, ; bridges, including pontoon bridges, destroyed Richmond and Petersburg R.R. bridge; Belle Plain landing and steamboats and other vessels; Aiken's landing a monitor class ship, and barges; signal tower; Dutch Gap and canal, including construction views, a view after the bank was blown out; water battery near Ft. Brady; Fort Brady; masked battery, fort Darling; obstructions in the river; sailing vessels at Westover landing; steamboat New York waiting for exchanged prisoners.

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Identifier:PR-065-0811

Views in and around Petersburg: mortars at battery; redoubts and soldiers; buildings and houses, including interior view, damaged in bombardment; tobacco warehouses used by rebels as prison; rebel dead in the trenches; Chevaux de frise obstructions; breastworks and confederate dug-out quarters; Petersburg railroad bridge; trestle-work bridge on the southside railroad; dam on the Appomattox River near Petersburg; log church built by the Engineers, with Corps of Engineers symbol over door; bomb-proofs, including quarters and kitchen; rebel encampment with tents and log quarters; men in tent during the "dog days"; Fort Abbott, occupied during the siege by Lincoln.

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Identifier:PR-065-0813

Spotsylvania, Virginia: dead and wounded at Mrs. Allsop's, near the Spotsylvania courthouse, where the barn was used as a field hospital, and the dead were buried.

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Identifier:PR-065-0815

Harpers Ferry, W.Va., during or directly after the Civil War: general views; ruins, including the railroad bridge; John Brown's "Fort"; camp.

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Identifier:PR-065-0817

Dakota Territory: views from Captain Fisk's expedition to Montana in 1866: wagon train on the plains; camp of wagons and tents on the Sand Hills; bluff near Fort Berthold; Fort Berthold, showing the block house and other buildings; White Earth River, D.T.; log buildings and tipis of trading post, Fort Union; interior of Fort Union, Mon. (sic) showing large wood frame building, man seated in middle ground; Col. Rankin and wife on horseback at Ft. Union trading post.

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Identifier:PR-065-0819

Views from the U.S. Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado River led by J. W. Powell and A. H. Thompson: canyons, rivers, rapids, waterfalls, rock formations, plateaus, boats, and members of the expedition including Powell, Thompson, and F.S. Dellenbaugh. On view shows a large format camera by the side of the river. Views are broken into series including "Views on the Green River," "Views on the Colorado River," with "Glen Canon," "Marble Canon," "Cataract Canon," and "Grand Canyon" sub-series', "Views on the Rio Virgen," "Views on Kanab Creek," "Views on the Sevier River," "Views on Vermillion Creek," and "Indians of the Colorado Valley." The last series includes Navajos members of several different Paiute bands, and views at Oraibi. Some of the views have manuscript annotations by expedition member, F. S. Dellenbaugh, including annotations correcting or amending the printed labels.

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Wheeler expedition of the 100th Meridian: views on the Colorado, including Mohave Indians watching the departure of the expedition's boats, canyons, including the Grand Canyon; man bathing in a spring; views in Utah, including a brick house with Mt. Baldy in the distance; Indian antiquities including Canyon de Chelle, and ruins near Pueblo San Juan; a Zuni girl with a water olla; Coyotero Apache Indian scouts; Cooley's ranch, Arizona; lakes in Colorado; Shoshone Falls on the Snake River; including views showing photographers at work.

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Identifier:PR-065-0823

Carriages, carts, coaches, a sleigh and buggies, some decorated for parades, one driven by a girl and one pictured on a small ferry; includes two views of trotting race horses.

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Identifier:PR-065-0825

Hunting and fishing: bear, deer, moose and bird hunting views, including men with prey, man shooting grouse, and including studio portraits of two men with guns and pelt; trappers, including view of man and woman in Indian garb, (southern, possibly Seminole); man with fishing pole and creel on porch; strings of fish; T.D. Robinson, Douglas Robinson and guide; men with hunting dogs.

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Identifier:PR-065-0827

Unidentified lighthouse, taken from a pier.

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Identifier:PR-065-0829

Man dissecting human corpse (possibly at Dartmouth College, see New York Public Library MFY Dennis coll. 91-F39).

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Identifier:PR-065-0831

Group of men, "Thimble riggers"; men outdoors, working with hammers and anvils; millers sitting among bags and baskets of grain and corn; man on the street with "fortune telling" birds; interior of printing shop.

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Identifier:PR-065-0833

Stereographs demonstrating various special effect techniques: hand-tinted tissue views, tissue views with slits to allow light through, double exposures made to create "spirit" photographs, photographs of dioramas, silhouette cut-outs set among ice to create the appearance of figures in a landscape; line stereographs, some used as example for salesmen; scenes depicted include people watching a puppet show, groups strolling in a park, group posing on a step ladder, children women and children with toys.

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Identifier:PR-065-0835

Portraits, A-C: Alexandra, Princess of Wales; P.T. Barnum; Mrs. Hannah Battersby, part of the Barnum Museum; Henry Ward Beecher; Josh Billings; J.G. Blaine and his running mate, John A. Logan; portrait of Wm. Jennings Bryan, and Bryan addressing the Christian Endeavor convention in San Francisco, 1897; William Cullens Bryant; B. F. Butler seated at his desk at Maplehurst in Hartsdale, N.Y.; wedding of Blanche Butler (daughter of Gen. B.F. Butler) and Adelbert Ames, including group portrait, and guests, including the general, at the wedding breakfast; P.K. Chandler at a desk writing, with friends smoking, including D.S. Williams; portraits of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain); President and Mrs. Cleveland, and Cleveland and his running mate, Stevenson.

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Identifier:PR-065-0837

Portraits, K-N: Li Hung Chang, Chinese Viceroy and diplomat in Tientsin, China; Mary Todd Lincoln; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, on his porch, and in front of his house; Alice Roosevelt (Longworth) on deck of Emperor Wilhelm's yacht with Prince Henry; Cardinal John McCloskey; Gov. E.D. Morgan, N.Y.; Professor Morse, wearing many medals.

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Identifier:PR-065-0839

Portraits, T-Z: William Howard Taft and family, and at his deck in the executive office; Dr. Todd in his study, Pittsfield; Theodore Thomas; Gov. Francis Train, William and Mrs. Turner, and others, all sitting on balconies at the Tremont House; Newton Vail, son of the photographer J.P. Vail, seated in a sled in the studio; a man, possibly H. Veeder; N. P. Willis; Brigham Young; Eliza Young, one of the wives of Brigham Young.

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Identifier:PR-065-0841

Lincoln assassination and funeral: memorial portraits of Lincoln, surrounded by skeleton leaves; crowd and procession at Baltimore depot; views in Philadelphia of procession and of mourners waiting; 24th Regiment Colored troops at Camp William Penn; State House at Indianapolis, and view of hearse; views in Springfield, Ill.: Lincoln's home, including interior views, the railroad depot, the church he attended, views on Washington Street looking toward courthouse, crowds on the street, in and atop buildings watching the arrival of the body at the state house, crowd, including African American man passing into the State house, the coffin lying in state, views at Oak Ridge cemetery, including general views, the vault, the crown approaching the vault, and soldiers outside the vault after the internment; copy photographs of the hanging of the Lincoln conspirators, portraits of the conspirators, reward posters, a poster for Ford's Theater, and New York Herald articles on the assassination.

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Identifier:PR-065-0843

Theodore Roosevelt, his wife and family: portraits, Roosevelt and others at Farmington, Conn., with Richard Harding Davis during the Spanish American War, campaigning in Noblesville, Ind., Athol, Mass., and Dover, N.H., with Prince Henry of Prussia, visiting the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition, in Yosemite, his inauguration, including parades and speeches, horseback riding in Colorado, operating a steam shovel at Culebra Cut, Panama Canal, with his family at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N.Y., with unidentified group on steps on cabin, interior view of his library, Sagamore Hill, Edith Roosevelt and her daughter Ethel Roosevelt.

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Identifier:PR-065-0845

Studio and outdoor portraits of children, including girl on tricycle, boys with hoop, children on a wagon, boy sitting on fence, children on road, children with small cart pulled by dogs.

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Identifier:PR-065-0847

Portraits of unidentified women.

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Identifier:PR-065-0849

Railroads: locomotives and cars, including interiors of Pullman's, one view with African American waiters in dining car; track, bridges, stations and yards, including children standing by train in a yard; mining railroads and inclined planes; Chinese workers and others on handcars; train wrecks.

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Identifier:PR-065-0851

View relating to religion: open Bibles, people attending camp meetings, interiors of churches and Sunday schools, a broadside of the Lord's Prayer, and an unidentified cemetery, and a group of boys on their way to Sunday school.

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Identifier:PR-065-0853

Domestic interiors, including parlors with pianos and other furniture, fireplaces, tables with floral arrangements or dishes, man seated in a library.

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Identifier:PR-065-0855

Sculpture, including Rogers groups: mostly sentimental and historic views, including sculptures of William the Conqueror, Lincoln, Grant, Havelock, Garibaldi, Florence Nightingale; Rogers groups include many referring to the Civil War, including soldiers and African Americans; religious sculptures include people at prayer and Biblical figures.

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Identifier:PR-065-0857

The steamship Great Eastern: views of the ships in Southampton and New York waters, at dock in New York, and officers, passengers and visitors, including Frederick Douglass, on deck.

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Identifier:PR-065-0859

Steamboats: views of steamboats on rivers, in ship yards, a launching of a small steamboat, and steamboats moored at docks.

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Identifier:PR-065-0861

Soda water apparatus manufactured by James W. Tufts and used at the Centennial Exhibition.

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Identifier:PR-065-0863

Views in Cuba: fort at sugar mill, Caracas; Cienfuegos: a block house, a camp of Spanish soldiers shortly before leaving for Spain, American soldiers and officers; fort at El Caney, Guantanamo; Havana, including El Morro, the wreck of the Merrimack, wreck of the Vizcaya, Royal Palm Gardens, Gen. Blanco's palace, Canal Albears which supplies the city with water, Maj. Gen. Brooke and the Gov. General of Cuba; blockhouse in Manaznillo; cavalry of Gen. Gomez in Remedios; views in Santiago, including streets, camp life, San Juan Hill, men wounded during charge on San Juan Hill, artillery moving on Santiago; group of Afro-Cubans in the trenches waiting for the Spanish advance; group of men, including Afro-Cubans, in a Cuban prison; camp scenes, including men eating and man writing letter home.

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Identifier:PR-065-0865

Embarkments: soldiers marching to boats, lounging on piers, kissing girls, having a meal, waiting by railroad cars, and Americans and Spanish leaving for home from Santiago; includes views of sailors and of Marines, as well as soldiers.

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Identifier:PR-065-0867

The Maine: views of the ship, the wreckage, including view of divers working in the wreck, hearses waiting for the dead, a line of hearses travelling through Havana, and the grave in Cuba, and coffins awaiting burial in their final resting place in Arlington National Cemetery; Captain, Sigsbee standing on deck.

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Identifier:PR-065-0869

Philippines in the Spanish American War: photograph of a painting of the battle of Manila; burnt deck of the Marie Teresa; American soldiers: wading the Norzararay River, 4th Infantry scouts with Philippine casualties, in trenches with Philippine dead after the battle of Malabon, in field shooting at Taquig, advancing on Malolos with a Hotchkiss Gun, entrenchment's at Zapote River and near Pasay; House of Congress on fire, Malolos; Santa Ana Church being used as a field hospital.

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Identifier:PR-065-0871

Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders: at Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, N.Y., chaplain preaching to regiment, in camp in Tampa, and packing to leave, leaving from Tampa for Cuba, in Camp on San Juan Hill, with their mascot, a small wildcat, filling belts with cartridges, trenches on San Juan hill occupied by the Rough Riders, Capt. Curry, Col. Roosevelt on horseback, Roosevelt with Maj. Gen. Wheeler and other officers.

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Identifier:PR-065-0873

Sports and games: a baseball team, beaches and swimming, including view of men at an indoor swimming pool, woman in bloomers on a safety bicycle, blind-man's-bluff, a boxing match between McGovern and Palmer, people boating on lakes and streams, including a view of a band in a boat, and a group of rowers with racing shells, people camping, people playing cards, croquet, women doing gymnastics out-of-doors, group with jump rope, minstrel group on a wagon, picnic groups, woman on a swing, women with tennis or other rackets, young women on teeter-totter, girls and women wading or sitting by streams, people watching a yacht race, man and woman playing unidentified game out of doors, groups relaxing on porches and in parks.

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Identifier:PR-065-0875

World War I: drawings depicting battles; view of Serajevo, Canadian troops leaving Canada; Indian troops in France; British troops in France, French soldiers, Scots soldiers, parade of German troops in Berlin, military leaders from various nations, including Pershing, Beatty and others, battlefields, including trenches with soldiers and with German dead, desolate No-Man's Land, artillery, grave of Quentin Roosevelt, buried where he fell, Poincare and Joffre visiting the Somme front, dirigibles, including a wrecked Zeppelin, artillery, armored tanking moving through smoke, observation plane, bridge over the Marne, both standing and blown-up, one view with Red Cross train wreck, wounded soldiers at a hospital in Belgium, cathedral at Rheims bombed by the Germans, Wilson addressing Senate, submarines in dry dock, 3000 American soldiers ready for France, soldiers marching in Chicago, sailors training at Great Lakes, soldiers learning to use gas masks, American soldiers in London, men in life-jackets awaiting abandon ship drill, the US. Transport Leviathan, formerly the Vaterland, American soldiers back home, holding up babies, Clemenceau, Wilson and Lloyd George after signing of the treaty or Versailles, victory day celebrations in Paris, July 14, 1919, casket of the American Unknown soldier arriving on the Olympia at Washington, D.C.

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