U.S. National Archives photos from the 1910s

Enemy Activities - Officers - A new picture of Ludendorff. General Ludendorff, looking quite unlike his usual portraits, is here seen in company with Baron von Richthofen, who had been wounded in the head three days previously

Suffragists arrested for picketing the White House. Photo shows suffragist arrested in front.

Airplanes - Hangars - Manufacturing airplane hangars for the Government; Scott Omaha Tent and Awning Co., Omaha, Nebraska. Folding and finishing airplane hangars. Two are on the floor in picture

Commission - From Foreign Nations - Britain - Photo shows Arthur J. Balfour and Joseph H. Choate. May 1917

American Red Cross - A thru D - Theda Bara passing an autographed photograph to one of the convalescent soldiers at the Convalescent Home on Lake Ponchatrain, a few miles from New Orleans, LA

Comissions - To Foreign Nations - Russian - First photo of American Mission in Russian headed by Elihu Root and General Scott

Ceremonies - Liberations - Naturalization Ceremonies - Naturalization of aliens in United States Army. Photo shows Austrians taking oath of citezenship

Ceremonies - Liberations - Naturalization Ceremonies - Naturalization of aliens in United States Army. Photo shows Germans taking citizenship oath

Ceremonies - Liberations - Naturalization Ceremonies - Naturalization of aliens in United States Army. Photo shows Belgians taking citizenship oath

Chemical Warfare Service - Drills- Schools - Remarkable photo of National Army men facing gas attack in training camp

Ceremonies - Independence Day, 1918 - Amer. Misc. - Independence Day, Washington, D.C. The Jugo-Slavs raised their new flag of Freedom in the presence of thousands of interested inspectors. The photograph shows Peggy Baker at left of flag and her brother Jack at right, both children of Secretary of

Military Administration - Theater of Operations - Supply Service - Issuance of Rations at the Front - THIS PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN JUST back of the front line trenches in France, shows a supply station from which American soldiers in the trenches are being bed

Navy - Naval Operations - Depth Bombs - This photograph shows the actual destruction of a German submarine by an American Destroyer, was taken from a transport in the convoy which was attacked. The U-boat was destroyed by a depth bomb

Havoc of War - Refugees - France - Refugees in France. This picture was taken just outside the American Red Cross refugee hut at the Gare Du Nord in Paris just after the mother's arrival from the front with her child and a bundle of clothes

Military Administration - Military Police - PHOTO SHOWS ILLINOIS INFANTRY man guarding important water-works and bridge in Illinois. 1917

American Red Cross - A thru D - Mr. Davidson, Chairman of War Council, A.R.C. (Center of picture) and Col. Gibson, Commissioner for Europe, second from right, and other A.R.C. workers who have come to visit to wounded soldiers in American Military Hospital No. 7, St. Dennis, which was equipped by th

Drills - Civilian Bodies - State Guard - Photo shows 12th company, New York Guard; Francis H. Hessels, Captain

Liberty Bonds - Public Gatherings - New York - 3rd Campaign - Mary Pickford, the motion picture actress, speaking on the third Liberty Loan at the United States Sub-Treasury, New York

Medical Department - Restoration Work - Education and Rehab - Red Cross Institute where crippled soldiers will be taught trades. Photograph taken at the Red Cross Institute, New York City, for cripples and disabled man, showing class in mechanical drafting

Suffragists picket the White House. Photo shows suffragists, carrying banner, on picket duty.

Suffragists picket the White House. Photo shows crowd outside the White House, Washington.

Suffragists picket the White House. Photo shows women suffragists from several states on.

Ceremonies - Celebration of the 14th of July. Photo shows the French and American flags, in front of the principal booth. Lyon, France

Havoc of War - Ruins - Ruins of the Library at Louvain destroyed by the Germans in 1914. Photograph taken just after the departure of the Germans in 1918

Industries of War - Uniforms - Overalls - MAKING ARMY OVERALLS. This photograph illustrates the Reece buttonhole used in Lee Union-Alls. This button-hole is the kind used in the manufacture of high grade clothing. H.D. Lee Mercantile Co., Kansas City, MO

American Red Cross - Child Welfare Exhibition - American Red Cross official photograph. This center in Bethnal Green, a suburb of London, is fitted up in a building which used to a "Public house" or saloon

Navy - Naval Operations - Damaged Ships - With American destroyers in the vigilant patrol of the high seas. This photograph shows n American destroyer saved from the briny deep while patrolling the high seas

Camouflage - Artillery - 40th Division, Camp Kearney San Diego, California. Artillery gun pits camouflaged. Although photograph does not show guns or soldiers there were concealed within a radius of 200 feet, 17 gun pits, 8 field pieces, and over 300 men. Skillful camouflaging successfully conceals

Industries of War - Uniforms - Overalls - MAKING ARMY OVERALLS. This photograph shows the close woven fabric and the strength in the seams of Lee Union-Alls. Note the falled, triple stitched seams and the evenness of the work. H.D. Lee Mercantile Co., Kansas City, Mo

American Red Cross - Ambulances - American Ambulance drivers in Italy. Hundreds of American Red Cross ambulances helped to transport the wounded on the Italian front early in 1918. The photograph taken in front of the famous cathedral at Milan shows the American ambulance drivers lined up just befor

Medical Department - First Aid - In Theatre of Operations - American soldiers who have been gassed arriving at hospital at Jouy, France. The day before the photograph was taken, the Germans bombed it and killed some of the wounded

Medical Department - Restoration Work - Apparatus - The wounded man shown in the picture has a planter attached to the hand apparatus. He lives at a home in Paris kept by the Red Cross

Navy - Mascots - Photo shows Sailor with mascot of the U.S.S. New York, 1917

Airplanes - Hangars - A gigantic dirigible hangar. This hangar is designed to accommodate three dirigibles. The power plant at the left of the picture furnished power and light for the aviation camp and generates gas for the big bags of the dirigibles. Observe the lookout posted on the hangar

Navy - Mascots - Photo shows mascot of the U.S.S. Pennsylvania, amusing some of the sailors

Drills - Infantry - British instructors train American soldiers in France. Machine gun drill under British instructor. British official photo

Military Administration - Military Police - "SOMEWHERE IN MASSACHUSETTS" Photo shows members of the Ninth Regiment, Massachusetts V.M. doing guard duty

Medical Department - Sanitary Service - Laundries - Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas. Photo shows views of laundry wash room

Armistice - Armistice - French aeroplane carrying Germany Armistice delegate back to sea. This remarkable photograph shows a French plane with two white flags flying from its wings, carrying the German captain back to, the German headquarters, with the text of the Armistice terms

Balloons - In the Theatre of Operations - Airships that may be used for passenger service. British Royal Air Force Official photograph. Dirigible built in 1917 with duralumin girders, is 540 feet long and has been sleeping quarters for the crew

American Red Cross - Classes in Red Cross Work (workrooms and classes) - Photo shows men knitting for American Red Cross

Military Administration - Supply Service - GROOMING HORSES OF THE 3RD REGT. HEAVY FIELD ARTILLERY, N.Y.N.G. photo taken at Buffalo, N.Y

Motor Vehicles - Motor Trucks - Manufacturers - Warner Gear Company, Muncie, Indiana. Photo shows a southeast view of plant No. 1

Airplanes - Historical - Parade in Air for Liberty Loan. Airplanes from Gerstner Field visiting Lake Charles La. For the Liberty Loan Parade. Six planes can be seen in the picture

Medical Department - Rest Camps - Photo shows an old French peasant knitting socks for American Soldier billeted in her Farm House

Demobilization - Arrivals Home - Gasses gang on board the Cedric. A photograph of a group of soldiers on board the Transport Cedric just after she docked at her pier. Every1 of these men had been gassed in action

College and Universities - University of North Carolina - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. - Photo shows students at drill

College and Universities - University of North Carolina - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. - Photo shows students in training

Camouflage - Soldiers Training - A German "snow shoe patrol." The mountain fighting in which Germans are engaged has made it necessary to draw upon those Germans who are used to snow shoes. This photograph shows a patrol garbed in white clothes to make him invisible against the white background in t

Funerals - Grave Scenes - Funeral of British Red Cross Nurse Killed by the Germans in a Raid upon a Hospital in England. More German frightfulness. This British photograph shows the funeral of a Red Cross nurse who was killed when the Germans bombed a Red Cross Hospital in England

American Red Cross - Classes in Red Cross Work (workrooms and classes) - Red Cross women stop bandage making to make garments for needy. This photograph shows the surgical dressing unit of the Red Cross which has been ordered to give up work on bandages and who are now making garments for the French

American Red Cross - "Second Aid" - This photograph shows the great care being given American wounded in France and shows the wonderful attention given our soldiers by the American Red Cross. Many hospitals have been established throughout France where American troops are given all the attention pos

Havoc of War - Ruins - France - Cities - B - CHATEAU WRECKED. Chateau of Bazoches after American artillery finished with it. A bomb exploded in the chateau five minutes after the picture was taken

Havoc of War - Ruins - France - Cities - B - CHATEAU WRECKED. Chateau of Bazoches after American artillery finished bombardment. A bomb exploded in the chateau five minutes after the picture was taken

Food Administration - Education - Car loads of potatoes left to rot in Chicago railway yards. This photograph was made on one of the railroad storage tracks in Chicago and shows how food wasted in that city regardless of the Federal and State plea for conservation of food

Demobilization - Miscellaneous - Some of the old 69th Regiment on board the Sierra return to New York. This photograph shows the men who returned on the Sierra, which brought back some of the old 69th Regiment, now the 165th Infantry, boarding the ferry after leaving the ship

Drills - Infantry - Bayonet - Bayonet thrusts taught student officers at R.O.T.C. Plattsburg, New York. Photo shows "end of short thrust."

Havoc of War - Atrocities and Deaths - Prince Alexine's Serbian Commission photograph. Were it not for the camera we could not believe that young boys in full bloom would be slaughtered by the invading Germans but here is an actual photograph of boys clubbed to death by the Germans

Ceremonies and Parades - American troops in London, England. Photo shows American troops marhcing in Trafalgar Square London, England

Colleges and Universities - Cornell University - Cornell University. Photo shows Cornell undergraduates at the R.O.T.C. at Cornell, stacking arms, 1917