Theodore Roosevelt
[General Thomas Barry standing with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in front of a train car at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois. A group of unidentified men are standing around them. Camp Grant was opened just south of Rockford, Illinois in 1917 to train soldiers for WW1 but was deactivated in 1921, then turned over to the Illinois National Guard for use as a training center in 1924.]. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1917.

Soldiers at Camp Grant
Rockford, Illinois, Soldiers running on a field as they practice a double quick drill. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1917.

332nd Machine Gun Battalion
Lieutenant Morrice and soldiers from 332nd Machine Gun Battalion posing in front of the barracks at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1917.

Soldiers wrestling
Camp Grant, soldiers wrestling outside at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1918.

Soldiers boxing
[Two soldiers wearing boxing gloves and boxing in front of a group of soldiers at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois]. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1926.

Soldiers waving goodbye
Army Illinois Engineers, Company A, hanging out the windows of a train at a station and waving their caps. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1917. SUMMARY Image of U.S. Army Illinois Engineers, Company A, waving their caps and hanging out the windows of a Chicago Milwaukee Railroad train at a station in Chicago, Illinois. They are probably on their way to Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois

Soldiers standing at attention
Soldiers standing at attention at Camp Grant. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1926] SUMMARY Image of soldiers standing at attention in Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois. A soldier is sitting in a tank in the foreground on the right

333rd Field Artillery
Soldiers of 333rd Field Artillery practicing with dummy guns at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1917.

Captain Oscar Solbert
wearing a gas mask and holding a hand grenade, standing with unidentified soldier wearing a gas mask in a field. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1917.

343rd Infantry I
[Soldiers of the 343rd Infantry marching in a straight line in the snow at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois]. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1918. SUMMARY Image of the soldiers of the 343rd Infantry marching in a straight line in the snow at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois. The date stamped on the image reads: MAR -4 1918.

Throwing snow
[Soldiers of the 343rd Infantry throwing snow during a snow fight at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois]. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1918. SUMMARY Image of soldiers of the 343rd Infantry throwing snow during a snow fight at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois. Power lines and a long clapboard building are in the background.

Clearing the snow
Soldiers shoveling snow at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1918.

Soldiers charging
Soldiers with rifles charging over a wooden obstacle at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1917

149th
Soldiers, 1st Illinois Artillery, 149th, cooking on a mobile field stove and oven, probably at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois]. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1917.

Operating guns
[Second field artillery, soldiers operating guns on wheels in field, Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois]. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1921]

In the trenches
Soldiers standing in trenches aiming rifles at the rifle range at Camp Grant, view from behind and to the left of the soldiers. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1917.

344th Infantry
Soldiers, 344th Infantry, in winter uniforms firing a machine gun at Camp Grant, two partial shadows are visible in the foreground. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1918. SUMMARY Image of four soldiers of the 344th Infantry in winter uniforms firing a machine gun at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois. Two partial shadows are visible in the foreground.

Bayonet exercises
[Soldiers practicing during a bayonet drill at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois]. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1917.

Bayonet drills
Soldiers practicing during a bayonet drill at Camp Grant in Rockford. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1917.

Native American Soldiers
Native American recruits receiving instruction on how to properly salute from Lieutenant Ptacek at Camp Grant. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1917.

Soldier and his family
John Ogniewski, of 311th Engineers, Company B, sitting with his wife, two children and an unidentified family member at Camp Grant. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1917.

President Roosevelt
Citation winners. President Roosevelt, speaking with Daniel W. Mallett an employee at Mechanics Universal Joint Division, Borg-Warner Corporation, Rockford, Illinois, after presenting him a certificate. Palmer, Alfred T., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Dec.

After the flood
People sitting in automobiles on a road in Rockford, Illinois, after a flood, with furniture strapped to the roofs of the automobiles. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1926.

Boys marching
Boys wearing uniforms, carrying flags, marching on a street during a parade]. Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1928. SUMMARY Image of boys wearing uniforms and carrying flags and rifles marching on a street in Rockford, Illinois, during a parade in honor of Bishop Hoban. Crowds are watching from both sides of the street, and automobiles are parked along the curbs. Buildings are visible in the background. Text on a building sign reads: Ford.