File:The War of the Nations WW1 297 FRONT AND BACK AMERICAN INFANTRYMAN, TRAINING IN BAYONET WORK, SIGHTING A RIFLE.jpg

English: Equipment and Training of the Great Army That America Hastily Created.

(Left): FRONT AND BACK VIEW OF AN AMERICAN INFANTRYMAN, COMPLETELY EQUIPPED FROM HEAD TO FOOT AND READY FOR ACTION.

(Top Right): ALL MEMBERS OF THE INFANTRY DIVISIONS OF THE AMERICAN NATIONAL ARMY WERE REQUIRED TO UNDERGO AN ARDUOUS TRAINING IN BAYONET WORK. MASKS AND PADDED COATS PROTECTED FROM INJURY.

(Below Right): SIGHTING A RIFLE IN TRAINING AT PLATTSBURG WHERE THOUSANDS OF OFFICERS FOR THE RAPIDLY GROWING AMERICAN ARMY WERE QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY DEVELOPED.

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The war of the nations: portfolio in rotogravure etchings: compiled from the Mid-week pictorial. New York: New York Times, Co, 1919. Book. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/19013740/. (Accessed November 08, 2016.)

Images from "The War of the Nations : Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings : Compiled from the Mid-Week Pictorial" (New York : New York Times, Co., 1919)

Notes: Selected from "The War of the Nations: Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings," published by the New York Times shortly after the 1919 armistice. This portfolio compiled selected images from their "Mid-Week Pictorial" newspaper supplements of 1914-19. 528 p. : chiefly ill. ; 42 cm.; hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collgdc.gc000037

Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 --Pictorial works. New York--New York Format: Rotogravures --1910-1920.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on reproduction Repository: Library of Congress, Serials and Government Publications Division, Washington, D.C. 20540

Part Of: Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 (DLC) sgpwar 19191231

General information about the Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 digital collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collgdc.gc000037

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