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Georgia Finley's orders to travel to Ellis Island, New York for "mobilization with the nurses belonging to Base Hospital No. 32".

Georgia Finley, as a civilian employee, was given a travel pass to facilitate her work.

This special pass provided Georgia Finley with permission to travel way from Camp Hospital No. 91 in La Baule, France.

Six men sit inside a trench.

Barbed wire fortifies a trench.

Trenches are fortified with barbed wire.

A brief notice in the newspaper stating that two men from Galesburg, Harry Miller and Walter Shafer, are leaving soon to join John D. Bartlett's ambulance unit. The report goes on to say that the Miller family has nine men serving in the war, some…

Two soldiers pause in the entryway of a wooden building.

Georgia Finley's identification card provides basic details about her and includes an attached photograph.

This poster uses the slogan "Keep them smiling, This home is helping our boys over there" to promote the United War-Work Campaign. The organizations involved in the campaign are reflected in the logos embedded in the border: War Camp, Community…

Gym was compulsory for sophomore students, and it is noted in this article that outdoor sports, such as soccer, hockey, and tennis, were played in the back of the gym - but only when that space was not occupied by the college company.

Knox College students and Galesburg townspeople celebrated the end of the Great War with a parade.

These pictures from Knox men's military service show views of their service in the navy, the army, or the air force.

This poster promotes War Savings Stamps with the slogan "Over The Top." It depicts American soldiers with rifles and bayonets rising out of a trench to meet the enemy. One soldier carries an American flag. The "Torch of Liberty" emblem is in the…

The likeness of General John Pershing is used on this advertisement for War savings stamps (W.S.S.).