Soldier Silhouettes on Our Front (1918)

William L. Stidger's World War I sketches collect vignettes of American soldiers, chaplains, hospitals, and daily life near the Western Front. (Open Library)

Watches

Ingersoll watch: Two American soldiers try to trade a four-dollar illuminated Ingersoll for a French soldier's jeweled Swiss-movement pocket watch.

Source text: The American soldiers had a four-dollar Ingersoll watch, and this illuminated time-piece had caught the eye of the French soldier. He, in turn, had an expensive, jewelled, Swiss-movement pocket-watch. (Project Gutenberg ebook 18078)