Exhibit explores life during World War I (25 PICS)

American 155 mm artillery cooperating with the 29th Div. in position on road just taken from the Germans. Bat[tery] A 324th artillery, 158[th] Brig[ade] in France / Signal Corps. (Photo: Library of Congress)

Officers and crew, U.S.S. Mount Vernon, October 30, 1918. J.C. Crosby, Prints and Photographs Division. (Photo: Library of Congress)

U.S. Army Infantry troops, African American unit, marching northwest of Verdun, France, in World War I. U.S. Army Signal Corps. (Photo: Library of Congress)

Brothers Paul (left) and Robert Rugh. Paul served two four-year enlistments in the Marines from 1903 to 1912, then joined a third time to protect his younger brother. However, Paul was left severely shell-shocked, disabled, discharged, and sent home, while his younger brother, Robert, toured Toul, Second Marne, Chemin des Dames, and St. Mihiel. (Photo: Library of Congress)

Line of men next to Bahnsen & Roeloffs grocery store in New York City, waiting to register for the draft during World War I. (Photo: Library of Congress)

Woodrow Wilson’s 1919 Nobel Peace Prize. (Photo: Library of Congress)

Dogtag belonging to Charles Hamilton. William Lepre Houston Papers. (Photo: Library of Congress)

War poster with the famous phrase “I want you for U. S. Army.” James Montgomery Flagg. (Photo: Library of Congress)

Territory of Hawaii Registration, July 31. Color lithograph poster, 1917. (Photo: Library of Congress)

Make Fourth of July Americanization Day. New York: National Americanization Day Committee [1915–1919]. Woodrow Wilson Papers. (Photo: Library of Congress)

Get Behind the Girl He Left Behind Him. New York: The American Lithographic Company, ca. 1918. (Photo: Library of Congress)

Enlist by Fred Spear. New York: Sackett & Wilhelms Corporation, 1915 or 1916. (Photo: Library of Congress)

American Library Association poster. Burton Egbert Stevenson Papers. (Photo: Library of Congress)

Lest Liberty Perish from the Face of the Earth—Buy Bonds. Watercolor and crayon drawing by Joseph Pennel, 1918. (Photo: Library of Congress)

Major Augustus P. Warfield’s Field Artillery diary. Veterans History Project. (Photo: Library of Congress)

Diary of Vincent Reed, Company K, 358th Infantry, 90th Division, Army of Occupation, American Expedition Forces, 1918. Vincent Cornelius Reed Collection, Veterans History Project. (Photo: Library of Congress)

“Over There” sheet music by George M. Cohan. New York: Leo. Feist, Inc, 1917. (Photo: Library of Congress)

“Over There” manuscript sketch by George M. Cohan. (Photo: Library of Congress)

John J. Pershing’s Diary Entry, Sept 26, 1918. John J. Pershing Papers. (Photo: Library of Congress)

Letter from Lester Westcott to his mother on YMCA stationery, November 14, 1918. Lester Westcott Collection, Veterans History Project. (Photo: Library of Congress)

Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points Address draft, page 2. Woodrow Wilson papers. (Photo: Library of Congress)

Letter of sympathy from Rudyard Kipling to Theodore Roosevelt, in reference to Roosevelt’s son, Quentin. July 18, 1918. Kermit Roosevelt Papers. (Photo: Library of Congress)