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1918: A Year in the Collections

1918 was a difficult and transitional year with the world deep in World War I and a deadly flu pandemic at home. Armistice came in November, "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month," and the horrors of the "war to end all wars" began to abate. A new creative spirit flourished as modernism swept into art and design. For more stories about this time, including home front efforts to rally support with music, art from soldier artists, related exhibitions, and more, visit our World War I Centennial pages.


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That Liberty Shall Not Perish From the Earth. Buy Liberty Bonds.

American postcard from World War I

Auto-Graflex Camera in Underwater Housing

Hamilton Model 950 Pocket Watch

Portrait of John Masefield

Munyon's Homeopathic Home Remedies Counter Display

Georgia O'Keeffe

Charlie Chaplin

Great War Victory Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post, 1918, (painting)

Woman Applying Makeup

The Crisis Vol. 16 No. 2

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Fanny Brice

Karahashi at Seta, from the series Eight Views of Omi

Landscape with Snowcapped Mountains

"Allied Soldiers at Attention" dress silk, Mallinson's La Victoire series II

Cobalt blue

Refugees fleeing to Brussels for safety from Collier's photographic history of the European War.

Radio transmitter, BC-15A

Common Types of German Planes

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Clarence Seward Darrow

Autoped Motor Scooter, 1918

24c Curtiss Jenny inverted block of four

Winged Figure (The Angel)

John D. Rockefeller

Self-Portrait

The Union Jack, New York, April Morning

War Savings Service Button

"Armistice Silk," undyed; World War I

National Museum Closes for WWI Work

Louise Bryant

Red Guard

Struggle Gives Birth to Heroes

Hammer, Sickle, Cog, Floral Border


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