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This Christmas card featuring a little girl waving the flags of Allied nations in World War I was sent to someone's "Grandma."

This art supplement and its companion article for the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign appeared in the Chicago Herald & Examiner.

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

This home card advertising the U.S. Food Administration has a note written on its back that reads, "This card was put up in July 1917 and was one of the first, if not the first, to appear in a Hyde Park window, Chicago, Illinois."

Students of the Students' Army Training Corps (S.A.T.C.) in the mess hall at Knox College.

Military barracks on the Knox College campus.

Barracks for the S.A.T.C. were constructed on the Knox College campus south of the gym.

Knox's gym served as the headquarters for "Camp Knox: Students' Army Training Corps U.S.A."

The S.A.T.C. at Knox created an obstacle course as a drilling ground for Knox students who were to serve in World War I.

Imitations of shell holes were created on Willard Field as part of the S.A.T.C.'s drilling ground behind Old Main on Willard Field. Old Main is visible on the left side of the photograph.

Willard Field was turned into a drilling ground during World War I. Old Main is visible on the left side of the photograph.

The S.A.T.C. created a drilling ground on Willard Field. This is the bayonet run.

Students' belongings are neatly arranged inside the school's barracks. The barracks were dismantled in 1919.

The S.A.T.C. band stands with their instruments on Willard Field outside the auxiliary gymnasium.

This commemorative page from a Knox publication revisited Knox students' desire to "lick the Kaiser and 'make the world safe for Democracy.'"