"Our Boys in Khaki" World War I
New Jersey, Maryland, Georgia: n/a, 1917.
Album. Oblong string tied tan cloth covered photograph album. Album measures approximately 7" x 11". Covers are lightly spotted. A few pictures have been removed. Three pictures are loose. One picture torn in half. The majority of pages are blank. Creator of the album is unknown.
Album consists of 38 photographs ranging in size from 3" x 2" and 4.25" x 2". 33 photographs are of soldiers in World War I training camps at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia and Camp Meade Maryland. The first three photographs include a scene of the Delaware River at Easton and the other 2 from New Jersey. Two more photographs include a 1916 view of Irvington, N.J. M.E. Church and Irvington High School football team. Several of the pictures have descriptions. Other scenes include soldiers in uniform. training exercises, camp life, trench photographs, a French officer in the distant, a soldier posing in front of a Chickamauga Battlefield monument, a solider on a motorcycle and a picture of soldiers digging (punishment for leaving camp without permission). A small color brochure of Insignia's laid inside the album. Good. Item #35193
Price: $75.00