U.S. National Archives photos from the 1910s

Activity in the ranks of University of California unit. Photo shows California students inspection drill on the University Campus at Berkeley, California. International Film Service.

Airplanes - Accidents - A forced landing, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Photo Dept. Fort Sill, Okla

Military Administration - Military Police - PHOTO SHOWS TROOPS PATROLLING the railroad bridge over the Deerfield River at the Hoosac Tunnel, North Adams, Massachusetts

Navy - Recreation - U.S.S. Pennsylvania. Photo Shows curtain on stage built to give a minstrel show

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

Ceremonies - Alabama thru Connecticut - Red Cross parade, Waterbury, Conn., May 1918. Photo shows part of the Thomaston section in the parade

Ceremonies - Bastille Day, 1918 - Photo shows the inauguration of the Wilson Bridge and the American troops passing in parade over it. Lyon, France

Navy - Mascots - Photo shows U.S. Sailor with a ship's mascot, a parrot, on his shoulder

Drills - Civilian Bodies - Photo shows business men signing application blanks to take the military training course at Fort Totten, New York

Havoc of War - Refugees - Armenians, Belgians, English, French - Picture of the Armenian refugee Camp at Port Said in September, 1914. This flag was used on Gebal Moussa to attract the attention of the French man-of-war

Military Operations - At a height of 150 meters above the fighting line, the daring French photographer was able to get this rare photograph of French troops on the Somme front

Chemical Warfare Service - Drills With Clouds of Smoke- United States - Remarkable photo of National Army men facing gas attack--in training camp

Industries of War - Lumber - LOGGING CAMPS IN THE OREGON FOREST. A company street in the woods. The cloudy effect in picture is not due to clouds nor smoke, but to the almost everlasting "Oregon mist" or in plainer words, the fine drizzle of rain which is so common in the Pacific Northwest

Navy - Naval Operations - Surrender of Austrian Fleet - First photograph illustrating the surrender of the Austrian warships. The Austrian battleship "Erzherzog Friedrich Karl," the light cruiser "Novara" at Cattaro, after being seized by the Jugo-Slavs

Navy - Naval Operations - Sea Patrols - The American destroyers in the vigilant patrol of the high seas. This photograph shows the U.S.S. Shaw doing convoy duty through mined zones

111-SC-3046 - American Independence Day 1917, France. Crowd gathered at the tomb of Lafayette in Picpus Cemetery to honor his memory. General Pershing attended. The camera men taking his photograph.

Ceremonies - Bastille Day, 1918 - Celebration of the 14th of July. Photo shows the French and American flags, during the decoration of some heroes. Lyon, France

Medical Department - First Aid - Ambulance Service - Medical department ambulance and litter equipment. Photo Shows field litter carrier being hauled by two men

Airplanes - Types - Captured German Fokker. D-7. Philadelphia, PA. Phila. PA. War Photo Committee

Navy - Naval Operations - Surrender of Austrian Fleet - First photograph illustrating the surrender of the Austrian warships. The light cruiser "Heligoland" at Cattaro, after being seized by the Jugo-Slavs

American Red Cross - Warehouses - A.R.C. Warehouse at Bruges, Belgium, occupied by the Germans as a canteen until a few days before this photo was taken

Merchant Marine - Miscellaneous Training - LIFE BOATS AND LIFE RAFTS manufactured by the Tregoning Boat Co., Seattle, Wash. Photo shows a view of the company's plant

Food Administration - Anti-Waste Campaign - Food conservation. Photo shows method employed by the Food Administration to effect a national saving of fats. September 1917

Havoc of War - Ruins - France - Miscellaneous Ruins - INSIDE VIEW OF ONE OF THE CAVES occupied by refugees of the burned district of Salonika. There were two people in the cave when this picture was taken, a man and an old women. Both were protected by the elements by a small piece of burlap 5x5 fee

Medical Department - Rest Camps - "Taking Nurse's Picture" in the trellised porche of a big British Red Cross hospital at Newton Abbott, England, where a large number of American soldiers celebrated the signing of Armistice

Drills - Artillery - Field Miscellaneous - In the foreground are some artillerymen who are standing an examination on gun operation. Photo taken in a southern camp. 1917

Navy - Naval Operations - Sea Patrols - With American Destroyers in the vigilant patrol of the high seas. An interesting photograph released for publication by the censor showing an American Destroyer U.S.S. Cushing

Ceremonies - Ohio thru Wisconsin - Red Cross Drive for fudns, Cincinnati, O., May 1918. Photo shows women workers parade, May 21, 1918

Drills - Trench Warfare - Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kansas. "Wounded on the wire." This photo was taken to be used by the Liberty Loan Publicity Committee

Military Administration - Military Police - PHOTO SHOWS POLICE ON GUARD duty at Fort Hamilton, New York. 1917

Recruits with their mattresses tied to them to serve as life preservers. Photo taken at Newport Naval Training Station, Rhode Island. Underwood and Underwood., 04/1917

111-SC-1283 - Italian SIA Airplane - Photo taken at Aviation Experiment Station, Langley Field, Hampton, VA

Ceremonies - Italy (Milan) - American Red Cross directors in Italy. Photo shows American authorities of the American Red Cross Mission at Milan the Stock Exchange

Military Operations - Photograph made from an aeroplane shows the city of Rheims ablaze from the shells dropped into the city by the Germans. Incendiary shells can be seen falling into the city

Ceremonies - Michigan thru New Jersey - Patriotic Parade at Hannibal, Mo., April 14, 1918. Photo shows Red Cross contingent as they appeared in the parade

Drills - Infantry - Small Arms Practice - Targets - Tank corps men train on historical ground at Gettysburg. Photo shows the men advancing in a sham battle

Colleges and Universities - University of California - School of Military Aeronautics - Photo shows officers and men of the U.S. Aero School at the University of California, Berkeley, California

Airplanes - Types - Liberty Caproni, CA 5, Langley Field, Hampton, Virginia. Photo Detch. Langley Field, VA

Ceremonies - Siberia - First photo of American troops celebrating the signing of the Armistice at Vladivostok. American troops at Vladivostok celebrating the signing of the Armistice

Ceremonies - Bastille Day, 1918 - Photo shows the inauguration o fthe Wilson Bridge on the 14th of July, and the English troops passing over it. Lyon, France

Boy's Activities - Agriculture - Boy Scouts Harvest $8,000. Corn crop in Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. Photo shows one of the Boy Scout teams at work

Ceremonies - Michigan thru New Jersey - View of Patriotic Rally Parade at Hannibal, MO., April 14, 1918. Photo shows Red Cross workers on the march

Havoc of War - Atrocities and Deaths - Official photograph authorized by the Serbian Foreign Office and sent direct to Underwood & Underwood, via Consul General of Serbia in New York City, New York

111-SC-424 - Cartoon by Boernstein, a 1st Lt. with the Photo Division, Signal Corps, enroute to the Kaiser's portrait

Airplanes - Historical - How great "ACES" are trained. A remarkable photograph taken at a Canadian school of aerial gunnery and fighting. The future air "aces" are enjoying the morning air in this unique fashion

Military Operations - Convoys & Marches - Photo shows American Cavalry at a short rest somewhere between the Marne and Ourcq

Navy - Naval Operations - Surrender of the German Fleet - Ships - Groups - The surrender of the German high seas fleet. Thus ends the maritime aspirations of the German fleet. This British official photograph shows British battleships, led by the "Queen Elizabeth," the flagship escorting the German

Colleges and Universities - University of California - Activity in the ranks of University of California Unit. Photo shows California students inspection drill on the University Campus at Berkley, California

Colleges and Universities -West Point - Entrance day at West Point. Photo show the new cadets at West Point Military Academy, checking up, June 14, 1917

Balloons - In the Theatre of Operations - American dirigible in France. This photograph shows the nose of an American dirigible somewhere in France on which is mounted a Lewis Machine Gun used against enemy aviators

American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Miscellaneous - Photo of Tableau shown in the windows of the Gamm Drug Store. By the girls Auxiliary of the Watertown Red Cross Chapter

Havoc of War - Ruins - France - Cities - V - RUINS OF VAUX, FRANCE. Vaux, France, taken by U.S. Troops, July, 1918. The 9th and 23rd Infantry Advanced from railroad bridge (from which this picture was taken) and captured town after desperate hand to hand fight with Huns

Ceremonies - Illinois - Centennial Pageant at Evanston, Ill. The schools of the whole state of Illinois, this year elaborately celebrated the Illinois Centennial with patriotic pageants. Photo shows pageant with America in the center, France on one side, and Great Britain on the other and Belgium ap

Commissions - Japan - The photo shows the members of the Imperial Japanese Mission to U.S. viewing some of the scenic wonders of the continent at Glacier Point on the Yosemite

Ceremonies - Liberations - Memorial Day, 1918 - Photo shows young women who participated in Memorial Day exercises on the British warship "Warrior," inow in Washington, D.C. waters

Airplanes - Engines - Liberty Airplane Engine Test. Plane with Liberty engine in test flight from Dayton, Ohio to Detroit, Michigan. The photograph was taken at the arrival of the plane at the Detroit Fair Grounds. The plane made the flight back to Daytona

111-SC-2032 - National Army men at artillery practice, Camp Lewis, American Lake, Washington - photo taken during rainstorm

Airplanes - Miscellaneous - First photos taken by Government permission at the Army Aviation School at Mineola, L.I., N.Y., after the outbreak of the war. Photo shows Army officers observing students on test flights. Int. Film Ser

Drills - Infantry - Small Arms Practice - Targets - American soldiers receive rifle instruction in France. American officer lecturing on the rifle to a group of American men. British official photo

Drills - Infantry - Small Arms Practice - Targets - British sergeant instructs American soldiers. In France. A lesson on the rifle under the supervision of a British sergeant instructor. British official photo