A young woman in the tailored uniform of a wartime women's service organization poses with a Vickers machine gun at a public exhibition of captured war matériel. Such displays, staged in armories, department stores, and exhibition halls across the United States and Britain after 1918, allowed civilians to see the weapons of the Great War firsthand while supporting Liberty and Victory Loan fundraising drives. The gun's identification tags and inventory marking ('R.E.') indicate it was catalogued as an exhibit piece rather than a weapon in active service. Project: 218708