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One of the centerpieces of the World War I exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. is the juxtaposition of two outfits: a female worker's clothing, representing women's mass entry into the industrial workforce and later political enfranchisement, and a male U.S. Army "doughboy" soldier's uniform with gas mask and rifle, representing the brutality, mechanisation and dehumanisation of the war.

Description
One of the centerpieces of the World War I exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. is the juxtaposition of two outfits: a female worker's clothing, representing women's mass entry into the industrial workforce and later political enfranchisement, and a male U.S. Army "doughboy" soldier's uniform with gas mask and rifle, representing the brutality, mechanisation and dehumanisation of the war.