The Snapshots in Time Collection

Salvation Army Volunteers Serving Doughnuts to a Soldier and Sailor, WWI-Era Exposition Booth, Ohio, c. 1917-1918

Salvation Army Volunteers Serving Doughnuts to a Soldier and Sailor, WWI-Era Exposition Booth, Ohio, c. 1917-1918

In this posed publicity photograph from a WWI-era exposition, two Salvation Army volunteers present trays of doughnuts to a U.S. Army corporal and a Navy sailor. The image captures the human side of the Salvation Army's famed overseas canteen program, which brought fresh doughnuts, coffee, and a taste of home to American troops serving in France. Such photographs were widely used to publicize and fund the organization's war-relief efforts on the home front. Project: 218708