Lieutenant Kingsmore, Signal Corps, took this photograph on July 2, 1918, at the Senate Building in Washington, It depicts Secretary Newton D. Baker drawing the first capsule from a bowl containing 1200 capsules. This event marked the beginning of the draft numbers for the selective service system during World War I.

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