U.S. National Archives photos from the 1910s

College and Universities - University of Missouri - University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. - Photo shows students of the University Cadet Corps in hand-to-hand bayonet encounter in exercise of advanced course

Havoc of War - Atrocities and Deaths - Serbian soldiers of the 13th & 14th regiments taken prisoners and afterwards killed by the Germans. Photo taken August 12, 1914, near Chabatz

Drills - Infantry - Bayonet Assault - British Instructors train American troops in France. For the hot weather the "doughboys" have adopted the British "shorts" or knee breeches. British Official photo

Drills - Infantry - American machine gunners receiving instructions from a British officer in the art of handling machine guns. This photo was taken on the British Western Front in France

Ceremonies - England - Peace Celebrations in England. When the German delegates signed the armistice declaring that all hostilities be stopped at once, people celebrated throughout the Allied counties. This photo was taken in London

Ceremonies - Celebration of the 14th of July. Photo shows the inauguration of the Wilson bridge and the Italian soldiers passing over it. This bridge is named after our president. Lyon, France

American Red Cross - Groups - Winsted, Conn., exceeds Red Cross Quota. Photo shows Mrs. Kossuth Niles, (indicated by cross) chairman of the Winsted chapter, and other members

Drills - Trench Warfare - Wire entanglement cutting machine. Rear view of machine used for cutting enemy barbed wire entanglements. Photo taken while machine was being demonstrated in Washington

Navy - Naval Operations - Depth Bombs - With American U Boat chasers in foreign waters. Convoy of American ships being taken into a French port. At bottom of picture can be seen depth bombs set in place on back of boat for destruction of German submarines

Drills - Cavalry - Riding instruction. "Riding bronchos." The wooden horse is used in teaching soldiers the proper way to mount and ride a horse. Photo taken at Camp Darling, Framingham, Massachusetts

American Red Cross - Miscellaneous - American ambulance drivers anxious to get to front lines. Photo shows a group of American ambulance drivers volunteering their services for work at the front

Military Administration - In Service of the Interior - Supply Service - Rations - Camp Kitchens and Bakeries - Making coffee for the selectmen. Photo shows two members of the commissary department at Camp Upton, Yaphank, Long Island, preparing coffee for the men

Ceremonies - Universal Military Training - Universal Military Training Advocates parade in New York. Photo shows the supporters of universal military training marching through one of New York's streets

Drills - Trench Warfare - Scene at trailing camp at Plattsburg, New York. Photo shows one of the officers in a pit built by the men in training. Note the wire entanglements. 1917

Military Operations - Convoys - Railroads - Farewell Scenes - 47th Reg., N.Y.N.G. leaving Brooklyn for duty up-state. Photo shows the 47th Regt., N.Y.N.G., swinging down one of the streets in Brooklyn on their way to entrain for a point "somewhere in N.Y."

111-SC-2058 - Ward tent of Field Hospital of 91st Division, NA - Photo taken during military maneuvers in a rainstorm

Airplanes - Historical - Aviators trained at San Diego in flight. 212 aeroplanes rose over the city and maneuvering for two hours landed without mishap. All the aviators in the machines in this photograph were trained at Rockwell Field

Balloons - R - Type R, Army Kit Balloon. View of the balloon showing the patch construction. Photo taken at the Goodrich Tire and Rubber Co., Flying Field, Akron, Ohio

Ceremonies - Liberation of Alsace (Strassbourg) - Colman, Alsace, celebrated their liberation from the German tyranny by son and prayer. This photo shows Alsacian girls assembled in the village square singing the Marseillaise

Commissions - To Foreign Nations - Labor - British King received American Labor delegates. Photo shows American Labor delegates leaving Buckingham Palace after their interview with the King on their visit to London

Between Brenta and Piave at Pordenine. Reconstrution of a bridge

American Red Cross - Canteens - American soup kitchen in Italy. The Canteen Service of the American Red Cross gave a number of portable kitchen trucks to the Italian Government. Photo shows one of the new trucks in operation; Allied officers are being served by canteen workers. 1918

Havoc of War - Refugees - Italy - Group of Taormina inhabitants waiting for their midday meal outside American Red Cross soup kitchen in Italy

American Red Cross - Refugees - Child dressed in clothing furnished by the American Red Cross and fed at the Soup Kitchen at Bucharest, Roumania

Military Administration - In Service of the Interior - Supply Service - Rations and Rolling Kitchens - RUSSIAN SOUP KITCHEN, FORT Riley, Kansas

Military Administration - Theater of Operations - Supply Service - Rations - Rolling Kitchens - AMERICAN SOUP KITCHEN IN ITALY

Havoc of War - Refugees - Miscellaneous - Feeding refugees in Warsaw. At Camp Pvonski the Civil Administration serves 4000 meals daily at municipal soup kitchen at Poles, Russians and Germans and Austrians returning to their homes

American Red Cross - Canteens - An American Red Cross Soup Kitchen at Bucharest, Roumania, preparing a luncheon of American breakfast food from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Six stoves of this primitive pattern are used in this canteen which feeds 500 children daily

American Red Cross - "Second Aid" - American Red Cross soup kitchen in Venice thousands of wives and daughters of soldiers are fed here daily

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - A SECTION OF COMMONWEALTH ARMORY Boston, Used for Military Hospital during Spanish Influenza. Sept. Oct. Nov. 1918

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Fighting influenza in Seattle. Flu serum injection, Seattle, Washington

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Masks for protection against influenza. Girl clerks in New York at work with masks carefully tied about their faces

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - MASKS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST INFLUENZA. Elevator operator in New York City, N.Y., wearing mask

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Masks for protection against influenza. New York City conductorettes wearing masks

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Eberts Field, Lonoke, Arkansas. Convalescent Influenza patients, method of isolation due to overflow of hospital

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - PARTITIONS OUT OF OIL CLOTH hung the length of the tables at Ft. Thomas, Ky. During the influenza epidemic to prevent germs traveling across, in event of accidental sneezing, etc

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Love Field, Dallas, Texas. Preventive treatment against influenza, spraying the throat

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Influenza epidemic in United States. St. Louis, Missouri, Red Cross Motor Corps on duty

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Red Cross house used as influenza hospital. Interior of Red Cross House at United States General Hospital Number 16, New Haven, Connecticut, used for influenza victims during epidemic

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Red Cross Hospital and volunteer nurses during the influenza epidemic, Eureka, California

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Special hospital for influenza epidemic. Major's Headquarters, War Influenza Hospital, Emery Hill, Lawrence, Massachusetts

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - EBERTS FIELD, LONOKE, ARK. Hangar converted into Hospital Wards to care for influenza patients

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Policemen in Seattle, Washington, wearing masks made by the Seattle Chapter of the Red Cross, during the influenza epidemic

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Masks as protection against influenza. Street cleaner wearing the influenza mask

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Wear anti-influenza masks on streets. Soldiers passing through Cincinnati on furlough, bring their anti Spanish Influenza masks along from Camp Gordon

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - EBERTS FIELD, LONOKE, ARK. Bed clothes were aired daily during the epidemic

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - AMERICAN RED CROSS ACTIVITIES IN MIDDLETOWN, CONN. Emergency Hospital equipment being inspected by the committee of the Middlesex Chapter. This equipment was sent to Wesleyan University at the outbreak of the Influenza epidemic

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Masks for protection against influenza. 1700 of these masks were distributed by policemen to all police stations, to be used whenever duty calls

Funerals - Grave Scenes - Graves of American in the City Cemetery, Belfast, England. Most of the graves here are of soldiers who died during the influenza epidemic early in the autumn 1918. Several of the victims of the Otranto Disaster are also buried here in the "American Plot."

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Combatting influenza in Seattle. At work in the Red Cross rooms in Seattle, Washington, with influenza masks on faces

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - THE EPIDEMIC OF SPANISH INFLUENZA put a five weeks' stop to all Red Cross unit work in south Ohio, so many Red Cross workers toiled for the cause in their homes

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Spanish Influenza in army hospitals. Masks and cubicles used in United States of America General Hospital Number 4, Fort Porter, New York. Patients' beds are reversed, alternately so breath of one patient will not be directed toward the face of another

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Spanish influenza in army hospitals. Medical and quartermaster corps men in connection with the United States Army Hospital Number 4, Fort Porter, New York wore masks while at work around the hospital

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Masks for protection against influenza. Typist wearing her influenza mask. Aroused by hold that disease has taken in New York City, New York, practically every worker has muffled their faces in gauze masks as a protection against disease

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Spanish Influenza in army hospitals. In the hospital Number 4 at Fort Porter, New York, the epidemic was guarded against so closely that persons of the office force used masks at work. Showing dictation being giving through the masks

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Masks for protections against influenza. Young women wear masks on shopping expeditions

Colleges and Universities - University of California - University of California, Berkeley, California. Open air barber shop during influenza epidemic

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Influenza epidemic impedes war progress. Trolley car windows were kept open to prevent the spread of Spanish Influenza which did much to slow up war progress in this country. This photo was taken in Cincinnati. The practice of keeping windows open was n

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Police Court in open air- influenza prevention. Police Court Officials of San Francisco holding a session in the open, as a precaution against the spreading influenza epidemic

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Nurses at the Red Cross Hospital during the influenza epidemic, Eureka, California