Incredible to see such an handsome young man in high definition from 1918 in that condition. It makes then horror of WWI so much more relatable.

My grandmother was a nurse in the United States during WWI and after.

One of the stories she would tell is that she could not take the temperature of the wounded soldiers by sticking the thermometer in their mouth. The soldiers wanted to talk and would apparently just spit it out. So, the nurses would stick the thermometer in their armpits.

With handwriting like that, we're looking at a future doctor.

OK I'll start. I see "Dearest One" and "the same old fashioned."

Lewis Hine was engaged by the Red Cross to publicize the importance of relief work in post-war Europe. The organization used some in its publications, but otherwise kept his work until the end of the next World War, when the huge Red Cross archive of 50,000 items was donated to the Library of Congress. Incredibly, a confused filing system caused Hine's pictures to be "lost" amid all these photos. Historian Daile Kaplan managed to crack the code in the 1980s and publish the "Lost Photographs."