U.S. Official Pictures of the World War - Accession 1491

This collection consists of a 1920 published volume titled U.S. Official Pictures of the World War Showing America’s Participation: Selected from the Official Files of the War Department, with Unofficial Introductory Photographs by William Emmet Moore. The volume contains photographic documentation of the United States’ involvement in World War I. The book was owned by World War I U.S. Navy veteran John Henry Pierczynski (1903–1982) and was donated by Doris Pierczynski in honor of her husband and their son, John Bishop Pierczynski (1934–2013), a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War.