New York State WWI Centennial Commission

The arrival of the New Rochelle contingent at Camp Upton, Yaphank. Library of Congress.

You--Buy a Liberty bond lest I perish. Library of Congress.

Soldier volunteers during World War I, New York City. Library of Congress.

Poster of war effort listing hundreds of recent American volunteers and the addresses of recruiting stations in Frank Leslie’s Weekly, circa 1917. Library of Congress.

New York Mayor John Purroy Mitchel boarding the U.S.S. Recruit, a fake battleship built in Union Square, New York City, by the Navy to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds during World War I, May 30, 1917. Library of Congress.

American soldiers on a boat, leaving Fort Slocum, a military post on Davids' Island, New Rochelle, New York, 1917. Fort Slocum served as a major recruiting station during World War I. Library of Congress.

Air Services School cadets training on radio equipment at Columbia University, c. 1917. Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Arthur J. Putnam (left), a Cornell University instructor from Deposit, N.Y., volunteered as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service in Paris, 1917. Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs.

Soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment stand at attention with French rifles and helmets, 1918. National Archives.

Red Cross recreation unit at Base Hospital #5 at Fort Ontario, Oswego, N.Y., circa 1918. Fort Ontario State Historic Site.

A class on engines at the aviation training school at Mineola Air Station, Long Island, N.Y., 1918. Library of Congress.

Army Nurse Corps Chief Nurse Beatrice Mary MacDonald. Serving in France after losing one eye when her hospital tent was bombarded by the Germans in August, 1917. MacDonald is the first woman awarded the Purple Heart. National Purple Heart Hall of Honor

Rally for the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign, Federal Hall, New York City in 1918 during World War I. The Four Minute Men was a public speaking organization of the Committee on Public Information. Library of Congress.

U.S. Army School of Military Aeronautics at Cornell University. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Newspaper clipping sent home by Basil Beebe Elmer, banker and World War I soldier, born in Ithaca, who served in the Company A, Intelligence Section of the United States Army 165th Infantry Regiment. New York State Library.

27th Division men, veterans of the Hindenburg Line & St.-Souplet engagements, lined up to receive comfort provisions at the Red Cross Depot, “Pictorial Record of the 27th Division,” Harper & Brothers, Publishers: New York: 1919. Courtesy of Stuart Lehman.

The 27th Division learns of the signing of the Armistice, “Pictorial Record of the 27th Division,” Harper & Brothers, Publishers: New York: 1919. Courtesy of Stuart Lehman.

Nurses of Base Hospital No. 2 in a parade for Anna Maxwell, founder of the Columbia School of Nursing. Archives & Special Collections, Columbia University Health Sciences Library.