A vintage photograph shows a large military tank on a city street with onlookers, including children and adults in early 20th-century attire. Buildings with signs are visible in the background.

A float reproducing a British Mark series tank rolls down Canal Street during the Fourth Liberty Loan Parade on Saturday, September 28, 1918. Photograph from the scrapbook of Henry Groffman HNOC, gift of Arthur R. Bedient, 91-11-L.1

At Home and at War

New Orleans, 1914–1919

World War I and its effects on the lives and culture of the people of New Orleans

At Home and at War

New Orleans, 1914–1919

World War I and its effects on the lives and culture of the people of New Orleans

December 9, 2015 to May 7, 2016

Williams Research Center

410 Chartres Street

With the onset of hostilities in the summer of 1914, Europe hurled itself into a conflict of enormous proportions, the ripple effects of which were quickly felt in New Orleans. Nearly three years later, on April 6, 1917, the United States officially entered World War I when the House of Representatives voted in support of a declaration of war against Germany.

Using collections of letters, scrapbooks, photographs, and other sources, At Home and at War: New Orleans, 1914–1919 explored the many contributions made by New Orleans service people abroad, as well as the various impacts WWI had on daily life in New Orleans, from the spring of 1914 through the celebrations of peace and victory in 1919.