Exhibit explores life during World War I (25 PICS)

By Jennifer Cruz

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)“Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I” opened this week in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. The exhibit, which will run through January 2019 and rotate hundreds of historical items, coincides with the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entry into conflict. It is open to the general public and admission is free.
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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)

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