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A notice in Knox College's 1918 yearbook reads, "Knox Cadets, Attention! Get the rest of your meals where you like, but Morning, Noon and Night eat at Hiles Lunch Room."

The War department issued these pay vouchers to serving officers.

The first section of the Knox College yearbook is always dedicated to photographs of the buildings on campus, but an artist added sketches of, among other places, war-related locations and objects to the usual spread of pictures.

Newlon Tyner's debate topic, "The Price of Democracy," reveals what was on the mind of many Americans throughout the nation.

The topics the Ordnance department found particularly relevant in the midst of World War I, such as chemistry, education, industrial management, nitrates, and trench warfare).

This pamphlet, issued by the War Savings Committee for Illinois, describes how every American must get involved in the war effort by organizing and advertising War Savings Societies.

A cheerful soldier boy and nurse girl sing Christmas carols together on the front of this Christmas card.

Percy Johnson writes of the beauty of Camp Screven, his desire to get to France to see action, and to thank Dr. Simonds for "the rebate you so kindly sent on my tuition fee."

All of these young men were members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity at Knox College. Of these men, Price, Swope, and Spake were in the armed services at the time of publication.

These pages are dedicated to the members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at Knox College. Of these men, Arthur Lyon and Stewart Ross were in the military at the time of publication.

Soldiers set up a picket line while camping at Fort Sheridan.

Issued by the War Savings Committee for Illinois, a person could mark cards like this one in order to promise to purchase thrift stamps at certain intervals throughout the year and to get a specified number of other persons to purchase thrift stamps…

A smiling soldier poses for a photograph in front of a circular building.

Portrait of a soldier in uniform.

This is the front of a postcard - or "carte-lettre" - Georgia Finley sent home to Illinois from France. Georgia notes on the second page that "Everything is so quiet and peaceful here that we have to use our imagination to know that war is going on a…