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WLA Training School Poster.jpg
The WLA had a camp in Ridgefield which organized women to take over the traditionally male role of providing food for the family through farming and harvesting crops. Ridgefield had thirty women (mostly students) who came to Ridgefield to work theā€¦

State Library - Enfield.pdf
This souvenir program shows that the Enfield Liberty Chorus performed at this Veterans celebrations.

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The Thomaston Equal Franchise League put on a play, "Suppose it Should Happen," at the Opera House on May 5, 1916. After the production, the audience was invited to sing The Suffragists' "America." Words appear on the back of the program.

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Thomaston Fire House decorated for WWI Welcome Home Parade on July 19, 1919.

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Photograph of Thomaston men in the Connecticut Home Guard, which prepared in case of America's entry into WWI.

Opera House in Welcome Home Parade.png
Thomaston Opera House decorated for WWI Welcome Home Parade on July 19, 1919.

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Program of Thomaston's Welcome Home Celebration on July 19, 1919.
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