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From left to right: 1) unidentified (in background); 2) Emma J. Beckwith ; 3) D. F. Duvall; 4) unidentified (seated); 5) W.E. Swann; 6) unidentified (in background); 7) Thomas S. Cullen; 8) Max Brodel; 9) unidentified (in back); 10) Elizabeth Hurdon;…

Laura Brey’s poster calls on middle and upper class men (such as the students and faculty of Hopkins) to enlist. In it, a man in a suit stands in a shadowy room, pensively watching a bright and bold military display outside.

In the history of psychiatry, the First World War is often identified with the rise of the disorder of “shell shock.” Referred to at the time most often as “war neurosis,” the malady was characterized by tics, convulsions, muscle spasms, paralyses,…

Base Hospital No. 18 featured, among other departments, an Eye Clinic. This particular eye case was actually used in another base hospital. As these kits were fairly standard and issued by the AEF, it nonetheless illustrates the equipment that would…

Field Service Postcards were designed to allow soldiers to quickly send information home about their current situation, since they did not require review by censors. No additional information could be added to the postcard, though soldiers…

Field Service Postcards were designed to allow soldiers to quickly send information home about their current situation, since they did not require review by censors. No additional information could be added to the postcard, though soldiers…

Under the leadership of Clara Noyes, 1896 graduate of the Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses, the Red Cross enrolled nearly 24,000 nurses during the war. They served on active duty in the Army, Navy, U.S. Public Health Service, with the Red…

This poster makes the connection between frugal use of food (here, produce possibly homegrown in a Victory Garden) and success on the front lines of battle. Many government posters encouraged less waste and limited use of products like wheat, meat,…