Boston baseball player Babe Ruth, paper cutter Alphonse Capone, freelancer Norman Rockwell, professor Robert Frost, banker Joseph Patrick Kennedy, lawyer Fiorello Henry La Guardia, and actor Harry Houdini, whose middle name is listed as “Handcuff”, are just a few who registered for the WWI draft.

World War I Draft Registration Card for Louis Armstrong.
Credit: National Archives.

World War I Draft Registration Card for Frederick Austerlitz Astaire.
Credit: National Archives.

World War I Draft Registration Card for Irving Berlin.
Credit: Library of Congress.

World War I Draft Registration Card for Alphonse Capone.
Credit: National Archives.

World War I Draft Registration Card for Tyrus R. Cobb.
Credit: National Archives.

World War I Draft Registration Card for Robert Frost.
Credit: National Archives.

World War I Draft Registration Card for Harry Handcuff Houdini.
Credit: National Archives.

World War I Draft Registration Card for Joseph Patrick Kennedy.
Credit: National Archives.

World War I Draft Registration Card for Fiorello Henry La Guardia.
Credit: National archives.

World War I Draft Registration Card for Sinclair Lewis.
Credit: National Archives.

World War I Draft Registration Card for Norman Rockwell.
Credit: Library of Congress.

World War I Draft Registration Card for George Herman Ruth.
Credit: National Archives.

World War I Draft Registration Card for Charles August Sandburg.
Credit: National Archives.