Now all roads lead to France and heavy is the tread
Of the living; but the dead returning lightly dance.
Edward Thomas, Roads

Friday, April 19, 2024

Twelve World War I Images I've Never Seen Before from the Library of Congress


From the Library of Congress



At Belleau Wood by Lucian Jonas (1918)




General Pershing Returns Home on USS Leviathan,
September 1919




 Night in Souchez (Artois)
by Théophile Steinlen (1917)




Vietnamese Drivers Assigned to Transport American Troops




Slaughterhouse of High Culture by Jan Sluijters (1916)




The First Stevedores to France for the Quartermaster
Corps Were in an All-Black Unit (1917)




Looking to America, Unknown (1915)




Women's March for Peace, NYC, 29 Aug 1914




Peace, Nelson Harding (1919)




Future Wartime Secretary of State
William Jennings Bryan in His Prime (1908)




War Profiteers and Angry Veterans, John C. Coacher (1919)





Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes Signs
the Washington Arms Agreement, February 1922


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