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American Red Cross - Groups - Colored Auxiliary of Bakersfield Chapter, Bakersfield, California

Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special StaffsSeries: American Unofficial Collection of World War I PhotographsFile Unit: American Red Cross - Groups

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Mother’s Day Telegram

Record Group 18: Records of the Army Air ForcesSeries: General CorrespondenceFile Unit: Morale Officers

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Victory Parade, New York, N.Y. Camp Merritt, Colored Overseas Casual Replacements

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal OfficerSeries: Photographs of American Military Activities

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Boxing default won by T. Gherity, championship tournament held at the Cirque de Paris, April 25, 1919. Paris, Seine, France

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal OfficerSeries: Photographs of American Military Activities

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Application for Headstone for Looking Back Isaac

Record Group 92: Records of the Office of the Quartermaster GeneralSeries: Applications for Headstones

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Letter from Bess Wallace to Harry S. Truman

Collection HST-BWT: Bess W. Truman PapersSeries: Harry S. Truman Correspondence FilesFile Unit: March 16, 1919

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Colored Troops - Buffaloes, 367th Infantry, Colored, Return Colors to Union League Club

Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special StaffsSeries: American Unofficial Collection of World War I PhotographsFile Unit: Colored Troops

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Funerals - Grave Scenes - Graves of U.S. Soldiers Who Died of Influenza, Devon, England.

Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special StaffsSeries: American Unofficial Collection of World War I PhotographsFile Unit: Funerals - Grave Scenes

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Photograph of Girl Scouts Standing Outside the Surgeon General’s Office

Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special StaffsSeries: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs

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Colored Jazz Band and Leader back with Colored 15th New York

Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special StaffsSeries: American Unofficial Collection of World War I PhotographsFile Unit: Colored Troops

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G.I.S.D. Laboratory, Camp Hospital No. 44, near Gievre, Loie et Cher, France

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal OfficerSeries: Photographs of American Military Activities

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Awaiting the Decision from Paris

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection

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The New Peril

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection

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Miner, Cpl. George, a Winnebago from Tomah, Wisconsin; standing, with rifle, on guard duty, Niederahren, Germany

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal OfficerSeries: Photographs of American Military Activities

Black and white photograph shows a Native American soldier standing by a tree.  He wears a winter uniform and holds a rifle.  Two signs in English and German are nailed to the tree.

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Colonel George E. Stewart, commanding American forces in Northern Russia, passing by convoy through village of Chamova on his return from Dwina River front at Toulgas to Archangel.

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal OfficerSeries: Photographs of American Military Activities

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