The Snapshots in Time Collection
Album Page with Three Photographs: Tent Camp Street, Group of Men in Civilian Clothes, and Soldier Portrait, U.S. Army Training Camp, WWI Era
This album page preserves three snapshots from an American training camp during the First World War: a company street lined with canvas wall tents, a group of young men in civilian dress likely photographed prior to uniform issue, and a formal portrait of a smiling soldier in wool service uniform and leather boots. Together they document the transformation of American civilians into soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1918. Project: 218653