Beautiful baby boy, 1917
Vogue magazine, January 1917
58th Infantry, 1917
Before going off to World War 1
Boy Scout band, Oklahoma
NYC Subway Guard, 1917
New Jersey wedding, 1917
Pennsylvania bride, 1917
Suffragette Doris Stevens
She spent 60 days in jail in 1917, protesting for the right to vote for women.
Subway worker
New York City, 1917
Red Cross burial packet, 1917
1917 First Communion, Chicago
Protesting the high cost of food
1917, East side New York. Today, we could protest the high cost of everything!
12 yr old Frances Moberg
Maxfield Parrish art, 1917
Cleopatra
Buy Liberty Bonds!
"Your forefathers died for liberty in 1776 - What will you do for it in 1917?"
Camp Pike, 1917
Kathryn Beckel, 1917
Class photo
1917 Tennessee
Oklahoma City bride, 1917
Indiana, 1917
Electricity and indoor plumbing were luxuries and everyone who could (including the middle class), had servants. Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Theda Bera were big movie stars in silent films. Jazz music was becoming popular (so scandalous!). Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman in the U.S. House of Representatives after Montana had given women the right to vote in 1914.
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