Tank, Battlescape, Casualties: Digital Resources

09/04/2024
Collage of three images: Left image: computer rendering of a small WWI tank in a museum display. Middle image: computer rendering of a WWI nurse and soldier tending to an injured person inside a devastated stone building. Right image: computer rendering of a shell crater with holograms of soldiers and landscapes projected on the walls.

The Main Gallery upgrades continue! In the meantime, take advantage of these great resources that tell the stories of technology and the people who relied on it during the Great War.

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Videos:

These Museum Minute episodes include information about the Renault F-17 Tank, the 1917 Harley Davidson and the parts of a doughboy uniform.

 

 

 

 

Onsite:

Many artifacts like those in America Mobilizes can be found on the Lower Level in our newly opened Bergman Family Gallery. This Open Storage Center opened in May 2023 and contains an additional 1,500 collection items viewable on a coastline of glass shelving.

Learn more about the Bergman Family Gallery
Modern photograph of glass shelving stretching away from the viewer, filled with WWI artifacts

 

 

Lesson Plans and Articles:

These lesson plans and articles cover a variety of topics about technology, such as weaponry, medicine, and communication during WWI.

 

What Made WWI a Modern War? A Digital Investigation of WWI Technology
Photo of AEF soldiers leaving a trench with gas masks on, showing a man struggling to breathe, caption labeling it as fake

 

How WWI Changed America: Influenza Epidemic
Black and white photograph of masked Red Cross orderlies carrying a stretcher with a prone person on it to an automobile with the Red Cross logo on it.

 

Changing Technology, Changing Tactics
Black and white photograph of a group of soldiers in a trench looking over the far edge away from the viewer.

 

America’s First “Code Talkers”
Scan of a vintage piece of paper with black typewriter print on it: “Big Thunder, Robert / Full-Blood Wennebego Indian, Wounded in France, Over the top three times, also adopted the Indian code signal. / Now in U.S. Fort McHenry, Gen. Hospital, No.2, Ward 46. / Enlisted in Army. / FORMERLY STUDENT AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE, HAMPTON, VIRGINIA.”

 

 

Online:

Explore the Online Collections Database and Educator Resource Database. Both feature search and filter functions that will help you get the information that you need quickly!

 

Online Collections Database
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Educator Resource Database
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