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Red Cross nurses making surgical dressings at the Red Cross Surgical Dressings Headquarters on 8th floor of Wise, Smith & Company Store, Main Street, Hartford

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Musicians and flag bearers march in the WWI Welcome Home Parade in Thomaston on July 19, 1919.

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Theodora Talcott in Nurse's Uniform, Hartford, 1918

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The first two pages of the item are also discussing Ridgefield and the War, but the image had been damaged and is partially illegible.

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There was a basketball game between the Ridgefield team and the Danbury team which was referred to as "Germans".

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It is an account on the food plan leading into the war and in the event of war. It was published in the Ridgefield Press.

Weir Farm Historic Site Visitor Center
This is a building built to serve as the central piece to the site and help manage visitors.

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Women seated at table, inspecting 45 automatic pistol parts, at Colt's Patent Fire Arms Plant, Hartford, Connecticut.

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Portrait of Mary McConnell Borah. Before World War I in the U.S. Women wore luxurious dresses with long layered skirts over corsets accentuating their waists.

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Advertisement for sixteen different designs of sewing patterns of shirt waist design, by Boston pattern designer in 1906
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