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• Pages From History A selection of historic film clips from the Pathe News collection, including "3rd July 1916: Battle of the Somme Begins" and "16th March 1917: Czar Abdicates".
  
• American Leaders Speak Sound recordings from World War I in the American Memory collection at the Library of Congress. Includes recordings of Pershing, Gerard and Gompers. RealAudio and WAV formats with text transcripts.
  
• The World War I Document Archive Photographs, links, articles, a biographical dictionary and related resources.
  
• WWI and pre-War Aircraft Drawings Technical drawings of a large range of early aircraft from Austro-Hungary, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and USA.
  
• WWI Photos Found in a family album, these photographs were taken during July and August 1918, around Soissons in France.
  
• The Cartoon Book Political cartoons and comics by 46 cartoonists published in 1918 to mobilize support for the third Liberty Loan campaign during World War I.
  
• Jack Turner's War Archive of photographs taken by Canadian Jack Turner during World War I, with related articles and an interview with Jack Turner (RealAudio format and text transcript).
  
• The German Peril Speech delivered by Former US Ambassador to Germany, James Gerard Watson, at the Ladies Aid Society of St. Mary's Hospital, New York City, on November 25, 1917. RealAudio and MP3 formats.
  
• Images of the Great War An illustrated history of World War I. Photo archive of contemporary images, and detailed information on World War I. Site is in English and German.
  
• The Great War in a Different Light A wide variety of accounts from contemporary books and magazines, including news reports, magazine covers, postcards and war art.
  
• WWI Another Look A collection of photographs from a found album tells the story of an American hospital unit: their training in the US, the boat trip to Europe and the hospital they set up in France in what used to be a hotel, probably in or around Moulin, in 1918.
  
• Address From France Speech delivered by General J.J. "Black Jack" Pershing, from Allied Headquarters, Chaumont, France, in April 1918, to the citizens of the US. RealAudio and MP3 formats with text transcript.
  
• First World War Images Photographs and other images from the US during World War I, including Spruce Squadrons, military insignia and postal history.
  
• Map Library, Dept of History, United States Military Academy A collection of maps, created by the USMA Dept of History for military training purposes, illustrating various stages of World War I.
  
• WWI Photographs Pictures of gassed soldiers, bomb craters, trench foot, and casualties. Graphic content.
  
• Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive Owen's war poetry manuscripts, interviews with war veterans (audio files), photographs, letters, video clips of contemporary film material.
  
• Film from the War Silent film documentation (Quicktime format) of World War I battles and prison camps (four scenes), accompanied by brief background notes.
  
• Photos of the Great War Online gallery of World War I photographs.
  
• Pictures of the Past: WW1 A collection of photographs (British and German) taken during World War I, showing life in the trenches, women at war, prisoners of war and other aspects of the war.
  
• Ro§bud's WWI Aviation Image Archive An archive of World War I aviation images covering aeroplanes, airships and kite balloons from 1914-1918. The author aims to make available images not found elsewhere.
  
• War Sites Photographs of many of the notable war cemeteries and memorials of World War I in France and Belgium.