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4,600 Vickers Machine Guns were purchased from the Colt Manufacturing Company by the US government to arm the military.

An advertisement for the Colt 1911 which was used by the US Army during World War I.

Ammunition from a Vickers M1916 Machine Gun that was used by British forces in World War I.

A mass produced and circulated warning by the Daily Times warning the public of Connecticut to report anyone suspicious.

"Hearst's Newspapers and Magazines Not Sold Here
For the Period of the War
The New Mexico Council of Defense and the Country Council of Defense of this county have coninced us that Hearst's newspapers have been anti-Bitish, un-American and…

Outside rendition of Billings and Spencer armory in Hartford, Connecticut near the time of the Great War

Assembly line workers craft Winchester rifles during the Great War

Workers at the Landers, Frary, & Clark factory in 1919.