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Jan Svagera in the uniform of a lieutenant of the Czechoslovak Legion. The uniform is similiar to French uniforms of the time as the legion was supplied mostly by the French.

This is a photograph of Jan Svagera in civilian dress. Jan Svagera was C.J. Svagera's great grandfather; he arrived in the United States from Moravia in 1912.

Future president of Czechoslovakia and leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement seen greeting French Marshal Ferdinand Foch. The picture is likely a post card or other commemorative souvenir photo.

Wedding announcement declaring that Anna Karel, daughter of Václav and Anna Karel, married Emil Kozel on April 21, 1903.

Anna Karel's obituary. She died at the home of her daughter on April 7, 1925 at the age of 81.

Photograph of a woman, a soldier in a military uniform, and another of a soldier posing near a barrel. These are all images of Raymond Musil's ancestors.

Baptismal certificate of Anna Kodým and her father. According to this certificate, Anna Kodým was born in 1843 and her father Mr. Kodým in 1818.

An obituary describing sudden and unexpected death of James Karel, Václav Karel's son. James Karel died at this home on January 1, 1918 at the age of 33.

Václav Karel asked for invalid pension on September 13, 1897 at the age of 58 due to rheumatism and disease of the digestive organs, lungs, liver, and kidneys.

After the Civil War the Pension Bureau grew quickly and created bureaucratic…

Anna Karel declared that she had been widowed in order to collect her husband's pension in 1920 at the age of 77. In the middle to late nineteenth century, the U.S. Pension Bureau had grown large compared to its pre-Civil War size. It created…