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The Evolution of a Soldier

Date: 1917
Description: Four photographs with handwritten captions. The photograph at top left is a group portrait with a caption that reads: "Soon after reaching Waco, the 1st Wi...
Photograph

Flying School

Date: 08 1917
Description: A visiting French officer instructs novice American pilots at Camp Mineola on the conditions that they can expect to find at the front.
Photograph

Protective Gear for Mosquitos

Date: 07 30 1917
Description: For these World War I recruits seen at an unidentified training camp on Long Island, the enemy was not the Germans, but ferocious "Jersey mosquitos" and th...
Photograph

Panoramic View of Unidentified Army Camp

Date: 
Description: Panoramic view of an unidentified WWI army camp.
Photograph

Advanced Trench Digging

Date: 07 17 1917
Description: ROTC engineers, probably at Fort Sheridan, in training for trench construction. Victor Morris of Milwaukee, in whose wartime album this photograph appears,...
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World War I Training Camp

Date: 1918
Description: Colonel Joseph W. Jackson, formerly of Madison, Wisconsin, and Williston, North Dakota, salutes a woman in civilian dress at Camp Lewis. Jackson was an of...
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Cowboy Soldiers

Date: 1918
Description: Members of the U.S. Remount Service, all former cowboys, in training at Camp Lewis.
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Remount Service Pack Train

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of Camp Lewis, showing a pack train fitted out for a march.
Photograph

Camp Travis

Date: 1918
Description: A recruit receives inoculations from two men on the left at Camp Travis, named in 1917 after William B. Travis.
Photograph

Buildings and Marching Field

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of buildings and soldiers marching in a field. Automobiles are parked on the lower right.
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Camp Travis

Date: 1918
Description: Men pose with two fire engines parked outside the open doors of the fire station at Camp Travis, named in 1917 after William B. Travis. The station sign re...
Photograph

Regimental Street

Date: 1918
Description: A view down Regimental Street, a dirt road at Camp Logan, shows a man in a horse-drawn vehicle, with a fence on the right, and many identical buildings on ...
Photograph

Regimental Street

Date: 1918
Description: A view down Regimental Street, a dirt road at Camp Logan, with a bridge leading from the street to buildings on the right. Small buildings also line the le...
Photograph

Regimental Street

Date: 1918
Description: A view of two automobiles driving down Regimental Street, a dirt road at Camp Logan, where a man is standing by one of many buildings on the left. The road...
Photograph

A Company Street

Date: 1918
Description: Men in uniform walk down a dirt road with tents on either side, surrounded by trees.
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Camp Logan

Date: 1918
Description: A view of a man in uniform standing near a row of tents in a wooded area at Camp Logan.
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Camp Upton

Date: 1918
Description: A row of soldiers at Camp Upton, created in 1917. Men observe the formation of soldiers from the windows behind them and an automobile is in the background...
Photograph

Camp Upton

Date: 1918
Description: An informal group portrait of soldiers standing near their barracks. On the right, a soldier holds a dog. The barracks and other military buildings stand i...
Photograph

Camp Logan

Date: 1918
Description: Four solders stand before two flags and their tents. The soldier on the left holds a rifle.
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Camp Bowie

Date: 1918
Description: Army soldiers stand at attention near the United States flag and their tents at Camp Bowie. Military buildings are visible in the background.

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