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do you guys have any hidden photos of Wonder Woman in your archives?
Maybe not *the* Wonder Woman, but there were many wonder women in World War I, including this squad:
Women’s machine gun squad police reserves, New York City
Learn more about women’s involvement and homefront activities during WWI: https://www.archives.gov/topics/wwi/homefront
AnswerTime! Ask an Archivist about World War I
Join the National Archives’ Mitch Yockelson for a World War I-themed Tumblr Answer Time here at @todaysdocument on Wednesday, October 4 from 12pm - 1pm ET (9am- 10am PT) !
Ask your questions now at http://todaysdocument.tumblr.com/ask →
October 4 is #AskAnArchivist Day and as we’re in the midst of the World War I Centennial, we’ve invited World War I expert Mitch Yockelson to join us for a Tumblr Answer Time. Bring all your questions about World War I including:
How can I research an ancestor who fought in the war?
What World War I resources does the National Archives have?
What prominent personalities emerged out of the war?
How did African Americans serve during the war?
What roles did women fill?
Mitchell Yockelson is an investigative archivist with the National Archives Archival Recovery Program. He has also written two books on World War I, including Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing’s Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I.
AnswerTime! Ask an Archivist about World War I
Join the National Archives’ Mitch Yockelson for a World War I-themed Tumblr Answer Time here at @todaysdocument on Wednesday, October 4 from 12pm - 1pm ET (9am- 10am PT) !
See all the Questions and Answers from our AnswerTime!
October 4 is #AskAnArchivist Day and as we’re in the midst of the World War I Centennial, we’ve invited World War I expert Mitch Yockelson to join us for a Tumblr Answer Time. Bring all your questions about World War I including:
How can I research an ancestor who fought in the war?
What World War I resources does the National Archives have?
What prominent personalities emerged out of the war?
How did African Americans serve during the war?
What roles did women fill?
Mitchell Yockelson is an investigative archivist with the National Archives Archival Recovery Program. He has also written two books on World War I, including Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing’s Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I.
What's the oddest thing you've come across in your work at the National Archives? Excluding the stuff hushed up, of course.
This isn’t WWI, but it is still very odd. A widow sent a dead mole to prove her husband served in the Civil War.
Mole in a Civil War pension file:
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2010/12/21/mole-in-place-at-the-archives/
Buzz Over to our World War I AnswerTime!
Bring your World War I questions to our Tumblr Answer Time tomorrow, October 4 at 12pm ET! National Archives World War I expert Mitch Yockelson will be here to answer all your questions for #AskAnArchivist Day.
Ask your questions now at http://todaysdocument.tumblr.com/ask →
Now I'm really curious on How did women influence this war?
Women played a significant role during the war, especially on the Western Front as nurses, Salvation Army workers and telephone operators (Hello Girls). On the homefront, women worked in war production factories and other important civilian jobs.
Unwritten Record blog posts:
https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2016/03/22/women-in-world-war-i-in-photographs/
https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2017/01/26/hidden-women-update-wwi-camouflage-in-action/
Homefront Activities
https://www.archives.gov/topics/wwi/homefront
“Girl war farmers win praise of farmer who employs them”
How many photographs are there in the archive and how can we find these? (I find war photography to be amazingly interesting)
The National Archives recently digitized more than 110,000 photographs and nearly 300 reels of film related to the Great War. You can learn more about these photos and how to research them in this Unwritten Record blog post:
https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2017/04/05/accessing-world-war-i-photos-in-the-digital-age/
Original Caption: “Gobs” and Guns. A scene aboard the U.S.S. Texas, just back from foreign waters, showing the “gobs” enjoying a little fun on the big guns. Local Identifier: 165-WW-322D-43
Many of these photographs are featured on our WWI Timeline and they provide an interesting look at the war and as well as life on the homefront.
https://www.archives.gov/topics/wwi#event-/timeline/item/just-out-of-the-trenches
How many World War One Draft Registration Cards do you have in archives and what was the average age of men who registered to join in the Great War?
By the end of the war roughly 24 million men registered for the draft and about 3 million of them were inducted. I’m a afraid I don’t know the average age of those who registered.
As an example, here’s Babe Ruth’s Draft Registration Card:
World War I Draft Registration Card for George Herman “Babe” Ruth
Find more Draft Registration Cards in the National Archives Catalog.
More background on Draft Registration Cards
