Manning the Olympia
During the battle of Manila Bay in the Spanish American War, the USS Olympia was the Admiral Dewey's flagship. It also transported the body of the Unknown...
Map of the Saint Mihiel Operation
This annotated map illustrates the American and French offensive against the St. Mihiel Salient in France, September 12 and 13, 1918, during World War I.
Monster of the deep
This painting, made on one continuous piece of paper 21 feet 9 inches long, depicts the 1922-23 restoration of the ship that was advertised as “the largest ship in...
New York in flames?
Not really. The German air and submarine attack depicted by Joseph Pennell in this 1918 poster never actually took place. By evoking this potential threat, however,...
Prisoners of war
This photo, taken in 1914, shows a large French prisoner-of-war camp in Germany.
Real men fight
On Howard Chandler Christy’s World War I poster, a beautiful young woman in a marine sergeant’s uniform beckons volunteers to join the Marines. During World War...
Registration day
The three young men showing their registration cards were among the millions of men who registered for the draft after the United States entered World War I in 1917....