Living Insignia Group Portraits. 1925-1947.

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Living Insignia Group Portraits. 1925-1947.

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For the Living Insignia Group Portraits, the soldiers of a particular division were posed so as to form a representation of the division's insignia when seen from the vantage point of a tower built for the occasion. There are 11 different insignias represented in the collection, ranging in size from 1,300 soldiers at Kelly Field to almost 22,000 at Lackland Air Force Base. The participating units were stationed in Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, New York, and Hawaii, among other places. In general, the materials include plans in pencil and/or ink, blueprints, glass, safety and nitrate negatives, and both vintage gelatin silver and modern prints, although the types of materials present for each insignia vary. The nitrate negatives are either in banquet or panoramic format. (Some of the panoramic nitrate negatives were acquired by Goldbeck from Charles B. Roper.) While there are prints of some of the banquet negatives, prints of the panoramic negatives are not available.

267 items (photographic prints, negatives, plans, transparency) ; 78 x 101 cm. or smaller.

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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