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This poster depicts soldiers firing machine guns with a stream of War Savings Stamps forming a gun cartridge. Americans were encouraged to buy the stamps to help fund the US involvement in the war, and posters like this one both raised awareness of…

Lyda King (class of 1913) entered nursing school after the death of her husband Joseph King in 1910. These bandage scissors are among the personal items used by King during her wartime nursing service with the Johns Hopkins Base Hospital Unit No. 18…

Edith Cavell was a British nurse working in German-occupied Belgium who was executed in 1915 by the Germans for helping 200 Allied soldiers escape. Marie Depage was a Belgian nurse, and wife of Dr. Antoine Depage. She was killed on May 7, 1915 in the…

This memo officially appointed E. Emmet Reid as a Chemist at the American University Experiment Station in Washington, DC.

After her 1914-1915 service with the Red Cross Mercy Ship expedition in Pau, Alice Henderson remained in France serving with the American Fund for the French Wounded for which she was awarded service and recognition medals.
The Médaille de la…

French name for the medal is Médaille de la Reconnaissance Française. It was a French honor medal created on 13 July 1917 and solely awarded to civilians to express gratitude by the French government to all those who, without legal or military…

In the summer of 1917, Adolf Meyer became involved in a new war-related initiative: psychiatric screening. Thomas Salmon had succeeded in convincing the US Army to screen recruits to exclude from the military those who might be most susceptible to…

After her 1914-1915 service with the Red Cross Mercy Ship expedition in Pau, Alice Henderson remained in France serving with the American Fund for the French Wounded for which she was awarded service and recognition medals.
Croix de la Société…