Lessons in tent pitching for the draftees at Fort Logan, Colorado [graphic] / photo by George L. Beam. 1918 Spring.

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Lessons in tent pitching for the draftees at Fort Logan, Colorado [graphic] / photo by George L. Beam. 1918 Spring.

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Members of the United States Army Infantry learn to pitch tents at Fort Logan (Denver County), Colorado. One soldier pulls on a rope to tighten a tent, another holds large hammer. An officer stands by and supervises the draftees.

1 photographic print ; 12 x 17 cm. (5 x 7 in.)

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Denver Public Library, Central Library

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United States. Army. Infantry

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Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935

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George L. Beam (1868-1935) was an American photographer for the Denver & Rio Grande railroad company. George L. Beam was born May 18, 1868 in New Paris, Ohio. At the age of five him and his family moved to Lawrence, Kansas where he grew up and saw the deaths of his mother and two siblings. When he was twenty-one years old he established himself as a used foreign and domestic postage stamps dealer. He and his father moved to Denver, Colorado around 1890. In Denver Mr....