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Window display of s women's shoe styles for the May 18th, 1918 Red Cross Parade

A window display with many war relief posters and items related to the war: gas masks, helmets and posters.

Assembly line workers craft Winchester rifles during the Great War

Photograph of the Winchester Repeating Firearms building in New Haven, Connecticut in the late 1910s to early 1920s. The poster for the Women's Suffrage Movement in the window indicates the likely timeframe.

William "Bill" Cummings is staring at the camera in uniform.

The article at the top has the American Flag logo which is typically placed at the top of any articles in the Ridgefield Press which have news about the war. Underneath it gives a short obituary to him pertaining his service during the war and life.

Little blurbs from people in Hartford who discuss Veterans day and how they feel about it

Advertisement trying to convince middle and upper class women to apply for war work at the U.S. Employment Bureau in Bridgeport, CT.

It is a transcript of the letter, which the original is in the Huntington Library in Sana Marina CA.