United States Army Signal Corps photograph album [graphic], 1917-1918.

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United States Army Signal Corps photograph album [graphic], 1917-1918.

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Photograph album taken by a photographer for the United States Army Signal Corps, probably Sgt. Maurice B. Hodge, during World War I, 1917-1918. Most of the photographs depicting battles in France, including U.S. soldiers, prisoners of war, dugouts and headquarters, canteens, airplanes and observation balloons, munitions, and gas warfare, among other wartime activities. There are also photographs depicting the effects of war on various French towns, as well as Red Cross medical treatment of soldiers. The last part of the album contains photographs from the United States at the end of the war and include photographs of poetry, postcards, and letters; the hanging of an effigy of Kaiser Wilhelm in New York, N.Y.; and photos of an explosion in August 1918 at the T. A. Gillespie munitions plant in Morgan, New Jersey.

0.18 cubic feet (133 photographs and printed material in 1 volume).

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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