Titled 'A Letter From Home' in the album's original handwriting, this 1917 photograph shows a young soldier reading mail outside his barracks at Camp Lewis, Washington. Established that same year near Tacoma, Camp Lewis was one of the U.S. Army's newly built cantonments training soldiers, including the 91st 'Wild West' Division, in the months following America's entry into World War I -- a quiet reminder of the personal connections soldiers maintained with home even as they prepared for war overseas. Project: 218654